diskant began back in 1998 as a nice little hobby for me while I was between jobs and an opportunity to put content from the fanzines I’d previously written online. Little did I know I’d spend every waking moment [and some half-asleep ones as well] of the next four years updating and organising and thinking up new exciting things until I had my very own empire.

What we tried to do was bring together as much information about new and independent music as we could; to make it easy and cheap for bands, labels and fanzines to get their stuff online and help people to find out about what was happening in their local area and around the world.

We ended up hosting websites for a range of independently-minded labels, bands and fanzines such as Gringo Records, Errol Records, Escanna, Disoma, Cat On Form, Rockville, No Pictures and the Mogwai fansite Bright Light! but eventually gave up doing this so that we could concentrate on the writing side of diskant and give myself and the staff a bit of a break from the sometime never-ending toil of keeping diskant up to date.

The main focus of diskant is now the blog where we post our day to day writings and reviews. The other sections feature interviews with bands and labels, articles on independent music and culture and introductory profiles of up-and-coming new bands.

If you’d like to know more about the writers, click their names in the right sidebar.

We have featured many many bands, labels, zines, events and people over the years. These include …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Arab on Radar, Ash, Battles, bis, Boyracer, Brother Danielson, The Butterflies of Love, Cat on Form, data Panik, Eska, Explosions in the Sky, The Freed Unit, Ian Mackaye (Fugazi), Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Ganger, The Go! Team, Huggy Bear and Riot Girl, Icebreaker International, Kid 606, The Locust, Mogwai, Oxes, Red Monkey, Reynolds, Sonic Youth, Souvaris, The Strokes, Jim Thirlwell (Foetus), Mudhoney, Urusei Yatsura, Zoot Horn Rollo (The Magic Band), John Zorn, Antenna Records, Beautiful Pigeon, Digital Hardcore Recordings, Dischord Records, Dreamy Records, Earworm, Ferric Mordant, Guided Missile Recordings, Misplaced Music, Seriously Groovy, Shinkansen Recordings, Time-Lag Records, Wantage USA, Paul Cannell, Richard Kern, James Olsen, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Green Man, Audioscope, Instal,
beatismurder.com, Bearos Records, Brainlove Records, Catsup Plate, Cityscape, Collective Jyrk, Digitalis Industries, Distraction Records, Gizeh Recordings, Gringo Records, Harvest Time, Imvated, Kabukikore, Pickled Egg, Resonant, Scratch and Sniff Entertainment, Southern Lord, Static Caravan, Super Fi Records, Unpopular Records, White Denim, Ann Arbor, Big Joan, The Blitters, Charlottefield, Fell City Girl, Flying Matchstick Men, Foals, Fuzzy Lights, Grandscope, Guther, Help She Can’t Swim, Hex, Hey Colossus, Hookers Green No.1, Ivory Springer, Lords, Querelle, Sammo Hung, This Ain’t Vegas, The Young Knives, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Beard, The Blooding, Tasty.