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SUPERSONIC 2007

SUPERSONIC 2007

The diskant team report back from their fun day out at the Supersonic festival in Birmingham. Headlined by Sunn 0))), Mogwai, Om and Qui with sunshine, cake and films it really was the perfect festival experience. Read more >>

THE WALK OFF

THE WALK OFF

Simon Minter finds out more about The Walk Off from Oxford and their messier, noisier and more downright bizarre take on New Rave. Read more >>

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Archive for June, 2006

BIG BLACK reform!!!

Friday, June 30th, 2006

apologies for linking to another muic website but after reporting the Sleater-Kinney split I feel the need to even things up with some good news
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SLEATER-KINNEY SPLIT UP!

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

They’re doing a few more final U.S. dates and then calling it a day it seems.
End of era.

FABULOUS FOXES - Glaciers (Self-released CD)

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Leicester’s Fabulous Foxes return with this longer collection. As usual, it’s main-man Bob Cluley singing and playing guitar, accompanied by various folk on guitar, violin, sax and drums. Some of these songs surfaced on a demo a while back, and it’s a mark of their quality that songs like the triumphant Don’t Give Up and […]

Henry Thomas, timeless song of the railroad

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

This is an extract from a letter written to a friend, basically me freaking out about Henry Thomas. The dude who lent me his stuff also lent me the ENTIRE Charley Patton Revenant box set, Vol. 4 of Harry Smith’s epoch-ending/beginning Anthology of American Folk Music, Fred McDowell, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson. Noel, I […]

From the desk of the diskant Overlord - June 20th

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Yes, sorry, I have a brand new Nintendo DS Lite and I haven’t been doing much other than settle into my new Animal Crossing town, capture literally millions of escaped animals in Zoo Keeper (oh, the wasted hours) and do maths and sudoku under the kindly tutorings of Dr Kawashima. Thanks to the wonders of […]

Rather Ripped Off (aha ha ha etc.)

Friday, June 16th, 2006

So, what do we reckon to the new Sonic Youth album? I’m finding it lacking…..something. It seems to have gone straight to ‘comfortable’ after 2 or 3 listens without either the immediacy that has you obsessed for a week or the difficult, growing to like it period. It’s like I already know it well and […]

KEIJI HAINO & SITAAR TAH! - Animamima (aRCHIVE Recordings/Important Records)

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Having been seduced by nice packaging, the breathless recommendation of the record-store staff, and the loose purse-strings that payday always brings, however briefly, I took this album home wondering if I’d made a wise purchase. Having seen Haino perform at Glasgow’s Instal festival a couple of years ago, I knew that it would be […]

From the desk of the diskant Overlord - June 11th

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

It really is summer now and diskant is being neglected in quite a horrifying manner for which I can only apologise. But, you know, get off the internet and go and enjoy the sun. We are still plugging away at the overflowing Review Box and will hopefully bring it down a little once I stop […]

FIREWORKS NIGHT - When We Fell Through The Ice/Echo’s Swing (Organ Grinder)

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Anyone watching the new series of Doctor Who, then? If so, then maybe you’ve been tempted on more than one occasion to just mute the TV and turn on the subtitles, so you can make out what’s going on without being deafened by Murray Gold’s incidental music. I know I have. It […]

JENIFEREVER - Choose A Bright Morning (Drowned in Sound)

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

It is a curious thing that after three decades during which much of popular music has aspired to a posture of perfect cynicism, be it sneering (70s), aloof (80s), or bored (90s), that now in the mid-noughties (someone thyink of a better name for the decade, please!) a new breed of bands are making music […]