Drowned in Sound
This weekly podcast explores how culture, politics, and the climate crisis are reshaping music. From AI and activism to festival futures and the collapse of local scenes, we treat music as an ecosystem, not just entertainment. Guests include artists, changemakers, and organisers reimagining what music can be. Subscribe and join the conversation.
Hosted by Sean Adams, founder of Drowned in Sound
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
DiS007: AI, AI, AI! UK Government’s War on Copyrighted Music?! Beatles AI song! - Dr Hayleigh Bosher explains it all
Our series of conversations about Artificial Intelligence and music continues with a look at the ethics and legal implications of these new forms of technology that inhales creativity and spits out c…
DiS006: Women’s Equality in Music & Glastonbury’s pipeline with Vick Bain from The F List / ISM
In case it wasn't obvious, this a music podcast that hasn't had enough of experts and to mark International Women's Day 2023 we spoke to Vick Bain the founder of The F-List and President of ISM (the …
DiS005: How music can embrace the power of AI with ChatGPT expert David Boyle
“If you start out and it doesn't do something that you're very impressed by, your assumption should be that your prompt wasn't very good,” this summarises the advice from music industry veteran David…
DiS004: Tune in, AI Out - the co-founders of Endel on music’s potential futures
The robots are coming, and people are fearful and excited about the potential for AI and music to collide. It's hard to escape the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence, with various projects…
DiS003: TikTok, ”Authenticity” and Music with Eleanor from Crystal Fighters
TikTok is so important, but what on earth are you meant to be doing on it? Here at Drowned in Sound we have not had a enough of experts, so we found one who can help us and you get our heads around T…
DiS001: The trade unionist campaigning for fairer streaming - Naomi Pohl from Musicians’ Union
How do we "fix" music streaming? It's a question that has plagued the music industry and musicians for a decade and a half, whilst debating the pounds, pennies and slithers of a pence per stream... s…
DiS000: Prologue
If this is an "audio publication" then this episode is the editor's (voice) note, as Sean Adams introduces some of the topics, ideas and thinking this new phase of the Drowned in Sound podcast.
To b…
From the Archive: Mercury Prize judges help us ponder: What makes a truly great album?
Mercury Music Prize 2015 judges John Kennedy from Radio X and Kate Mossman from New Statesman/BBC Four, join DiS editor Sean Adams and podcast co-host Danielle Perry from Absolute Radio to discuss th…
From the Archive: Blogs that became labels with Toby L from Rockfeedback / Transgressive (2015)
Toby L who founded music website, concert promoter and TV show Rockfeedback, as well as the Transgressive label (home to releases by Foals, The Antlers, Regina Spektor, Alvvays, Songhoy Blues and man…