diskant is an independent music community based in Glasgow, Scotland and we have a whole team of people from all over the UK and beyond writing about independent music and culture, from interviews with new and established bands and labels to record and fanzine reviews and articles on art, festivals and politics.
Marceline Smith chats to the infamous founder of acidlogic.com about his new book, his music, his time at diskant and just how generally great it is to be Wil Forbis. Read more >>
Marceline Smith caught up with Oxford's finest electro-noise experimentalists as they prepared for diskant's ten year anniversary party. Read more >>
From the archives:
Sounding like a soup of Free Kitten crossed with Luscious Jackson with indie disco cheerleaders providing the vocals, JGram was keen to find out more about his favourite band of 2004.
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Maybe you thought we were joking about the whole indie tombola idea but no sir. I have been pestering everyone even vaguely connected to diskant and the prizes have been rolling in. You can go see them all here on Flickr.
There’s still a few more to turn up but so far you could literally be […]
(Originally posted July 2002)
SHIT. New column time comes steaming around again and here I am under intense pressure […]
(Originally posted May 2002)
So anyway.
My intention was to write loads on why the notion of punk rock is bullshit but Luke Younger told me he was writing a […]
(part 1)
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS.
This looked so much fun - an update of the classic SNES games with lots of cool and hilarious new stuff. It really really was fun too, up until the point I realised I still have some inbuilt FAIL at jumping. Now I remember why I spent literally hours on end […]
EDINBURGH ZINE FAIR
I think I may have to go to this as I have never actually been to a zine fair despite writing and buying zines for the last 15 years, or something. They promise “a celebration of underground, independent and small press publishing in all its forms be it art, comics literature, politics or […]
(Originally posted April 2002)
First ups, thank you for all the kind things people said about the first column and […]
Well, the votes have been added up for who WE THE FANS want to play at the new Triptych replacement event(s). Here are the results (complete with pie charts!!). As expected, it looks exactly like the average festival but without the experimental/local stuff of Triptych. Ho hum. I appreciate they’re trying to do something different […]
By crikey, I really like the Johnny Foreigner album. I know it’s been out a little while now, but I’ll reiterate what you can already read in many other places - get it, it’s great. Here’s some music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW6Bfy7K3Tc
This is getting old, our sniping at DiS, I KNOW, but damn they make it too easy.
I was over there to link up their interesting interview with wee Stuart Braithwaite about Young Team’s reissue. No hard feelings - promote what’s good and all that. While I’m there, I get a popup asking me to take […]
(Originally posted February 2002)
- Insignificance by Jim O’Rourke.
- Smog playing live in Leicester.
- Whatever, Mortal by Papa M and going all the way to Scotland to watch him play.
- Melt Banana.
- Screaming, “I’M A […]
It's diskant's 10 year anniversary this year! We had an awesome party and you can buy our celebratory zine right here for just £1
