Bio

Background and Format: Drowned in Sound is a music website and community. It has an integrated forum and social board to allow for discussion and comments on interviews, news and reviews. It also includes a user-rated database of artists and bands, as well as details for most live music venues (big and small) in the UK. There is space for comments and areas for general and music-related discussion, as well as advertisements for those requiring bands or musicians. It features in depth articles and photo galleries and covers records, recommended records, albums of the year and festival coverage. It offers a newsletter email.  Audience and Readership: Music fans. Monthly Unique Users: Source: Publisher. Ad rates: Information on advertising can be found here.  Other information: There is no generic switchboard number as they prefer to be contacted by email - the vast majority of their staff work freelance, the content being mostly contributions from unpaid writers. It addresses can be obtained from editorial staff on request. They only commission a maximum of 15 album reviews a week, and receive 100+ releases each and every week, so may not have time to respond to all submitted. Singles must include a release date and a paragraph or so of information - no large file formats. It can be found on Google+, Tumblr and YouTube. An RSS feed can be found here. Alerts: Gorkana Alert: Wednesday 20 November 2013 Drowned in Sound, the music site with a community that's like ‘the indie music mumsnet’, has been redesigned. A number of changes have been made to the design of www.drownedinsound.com but the core critical analysis of albums, in-depth features and thorough coverage of alternative music remains the same. The site launched in 2000, and was one of the first music websites in the UK. DiS is now read by over half a million music fans each month and has had over 25million page views so far this year. The team can continue to be reached at press.releases@drownedinsound.com and can be found tweeting at www.twitter.com/drownedinsound Gorkana Alert: Thursday 4th September 2008 Online music magazine drownedinsound.com has ended its joint venture with BSkyB and as a result they were forced to make some redundancies. The site's founder, Sean Adams, returns as Editor and a new version of the site is imminent. Sean can be reached at sean@drownedinsound.com. drownedinsound.com has also moved address and is now located at 1 Junction Mews, Paddington, London, W2 1PN.