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:
Chris Summerlin worked up the courage to interview Ian Mackaye as he loaded the van after Fugazi played Nottingham in 1999. They talk about the Instrument film and soundtrack amongst other things.
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You Tube Gold, having something of a nostalgia-trip today but how cracking are some of these tunes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9of3sefxY4
SCARCE - ALL SIDEWAYS
Love this song. The guitar is so bendy. I think I saw Scarce once but unfortunately my brain is shot through like Swiss Cheese and I can’t decide if I dreamt it or not. Phil Welding […]
(Originally posted August 2002)
Quick! I ran out of time to get a proper, well thought out, carefully structured and reasonably argued music column together, so I’ve instead thrown together a collection of quickly dashed off, barely thought through first impressions of a few CDs and records which have been passing through my crappy stereo of […]
What have YOU done this Summer? Well, Alistair Fitchett (he of the Tangents website and Unpopular label) has made not one, but two zines. Both issues of Don’t Forget To Dance come beautifully designed with tracing paper details and free badges, and of course packed full of great writing. Almost defiantly self-indulgent, Alistair writes about […]
(Originally posted July 2002)
This’ll be an interesting movie column if for no other reason than my complete lack of movie-watching action over the past month. But hey - don’t use this as a reason to hate me, or to follow me down the nearest dark alley in order to assault me whilst my mind is […]
Apparently a Dundee-based music magazine is getting ~£230,000 public funds to fund its digital expansion.
the company also produces most of its journalism in London, in words of O’Rourke, carrying out “the nuts and bolts” work on the magazine and the website in Dundee.
It is an approach that has brought them wide plaudits, winning several industry […]
(Originally posted July 2002)
It’s a real American sitcom thing to start a sentence with ‘So,’ don’t you think? As in ‘So, I was in the coffee […]
A quick mention of this album as it’s been on repeat here in my work room for the past week or so now, soundtracking my exciting world of designing, writing, computer gaming and sitting blankly staring at a monitor, without ever becoming tiresome or irritating. This is very subtle, very relaxing electronic music, meandering through […]
(Originally posted May 2002)
Mulholland Drive. The Devil’s Backbone. Storytelling. Bully. What do these films have in common? They’re all interesting-sounding […]
I nearly forgot about this at the CCA tonight. Plenty of unpronounceable but genius Finnish artists on Fönal Records are playing.
KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT & AXOLOTL
ES & FURSAXA
ISLAJA, BLEVIN BLECTUM & SAMARA LUBELSKI
DREAM TRIANGLE (TOMUTONTTU & SKATERS)
If this had happened 2 years ago I would’ve exploded with joy; now I’m just excited, in a tea and knitted […]
(Originally posted May 2002)
MY CHILDREN! Walk with me. Walk through the forest of popular (although some would say unpopular) music as I […]
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
