Gridrunner Revolution (PC)
Jeff Minter’s last game “Space Giraffe” alienated as many players as it enchanted thanks to a steep initial difficulty curve and psychedelic visuals that took some time to become accustomed to.  Those who put in the effort found a rich and addictive re-invention of “Tempest”, but they were sadly too few in number.  At first glance, “Gridrunner Revolution” appears to be a step too far the in the other direction.  The latest in his “Gridrunner” series of abstract top-down shooters which dates back to the venerable Commodore Vic-20, all 200 levels of “Revolution” can be blasted through in a few hours by a skilled player, but that would be missing the point.  Playing the game to completion is one thing, but the point is to play it well, milking its complex scoring mechanic for all its worth.  It’s a pity then, that beyond beating your own score there was very little indication of what “well” actually meant.  Thankfully, a recent update has added online high-score tables, making it a different prospect indeed.  If you own a reasonably modern PC and like to see things explode in pretty colours, you owe it to yourself to get over to llamasoft.co.uk and buy a copy.  (Alex McChesney)

Scrabble DS
I am in the unfortunate situation of being part of a family who are really, annoyingly, good at Scrabble, whereas I am just adequate. Playing with them is pretty much torture as they play all those stupid Scrabble words and never open up the triple word score spaces. Thus I have been enjoying Scrabble DS for two reasons – 1) I can play against ‘Arnold’, a slab-faced blockhead who probably can’t spell his own name correctly and will happily leave a triple word score open for two rounds, and 2) there are no penalties for attempting to play non-words, which means I have discovered a whole plethora of new, stupid, unbelievable words (and their definitions!) by just randomly trying out combinations when stuck. I only gave up playing this when I unlocked the final character and discovered it was a living Scrabble tile with a worrying expression. No way was I playing against that. (Marceline Smith)

Dead Rising (Xbox)
Haven’t done much of it this year, but thoroughly enjoyed my time with  Dead Rising on the Xbox. Admittedly I’m a latecomer to it, but it’s DAWN OF THE DEAD THE VIDEO GAME. They should just have put a big sticker with that on it all over the front and it’d have sold more copies. You can mow down zombies with lawnmowers and chainsaws and giant lipstick cases, and it judges the shambling, stupid but inevitably crushing waves of zombies really well. (Stuart Fowkes)

Guitar Hero
Once more my computer gaming experience did not get much further than Guitar Hero, the victorious culmination of which came during the recent ATP and while The Mars Volta were playing in the background I found myself rocking out to “Sunshine Of Your Love” on the arcade version. (JGRAM)

Saqqarah
Possibly that was my choice last year, too. (Simon Minter)

Canabalt
So simple. Only one key is used (space bar). The goal is to keep running as long as possible. You run on top of and through buildings while some giant alien robots chase you. It looks great, it sounds great. There really is nothing more to it. I can’t remember the last time I was so addicted to a game, let alone one played in a web browser. Just remember, you can always run farther. Link (Justin Snow)

Left For Dead
I am not one for computer games but the speed with which technology moves blew my mind earlier this year when up in Glasgow. After finishing a band practise, 2 of our troop parted with the words “I’ll speak to you in a bit” and I thought to myself, “wow, these guys are tight. They’re going to call each other up for a chat after practise!”. Nope. They meant they were going to strap on headsets and mics and blow living shit out of (quite racially suspect it has to be said) zombies in Left For Dead. Turns out most of the indie musicians in Scotland can be found doing the same after 11pm at night. Not for me though, I get motion sickness. (Chris Summerlin)

Moon
At once a beautiful (mostly) CGI-free homage to the thoughtful sci-fi of the Sixties and Seventies and a series of curveballs intended to keep aficionados of the same on their toes.  Duncan Jones has proven himself to be a talent to watch, and Sam Rockwell’s performance as a lonely lunar miner about to come to the end of his contract is a career best. (Alex McChesney)

Moon
I really enjoyed Duncan Jones’ Moon, a film less about science fiction than about loneliness and what it means to be a human being. (Chris Summerlin)

Zombieland
Judging by current Cinema, the two most popular movie monsters these days are vampires and zombies.  My distaste for vampires is well-known, but I’ve always had a certain deep-seated affection for the cannibalistic consumer of brains and flesh known as the zombie.  Perhaps it’s because I, stumbling aimlessly through life, often feel like a zombie.  Regardless, I’ve eagerly lapped up the cinema exploits of zombies for years, from George Romero’s classic ‘… Dead’ trilogy, to their reinvention in the hands of recently deceased director Dan O’Bannon’s ‘Return of the Living Dead’, to more modern interpretations such as the stupendous horror/farce ‘Shaun of the Dead’. In recent years, however, even I’ve gotten a little tired of zombies.  We all know the routine – some military experiment goes awry or some strange disease spreads across the land and pretty soon the dead are clawing their way out of the grave to rip open people’s bellies and chew on their entrails.  Because of this, I almost didn’t even bother to see ‘Zombieland’.  This would have been a great personal loss.  While I won’t go as far as a friend of mine who claimed it to be the greatest of all zombie movies, ‘Zombieland’ is pretty damn good.  Part of its success is the fact that it presumes its audience is familiar with the zombie mythos – it doesn’t even bother with setting up the zombie apocalypse; out of the gate we land right in the middle of the human/zombie battle sure to soon be raging on our streets.  From there the movie mixes together a clever combination of intriguing characters (Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘Columbus’ is like a young Woody Allen caught in a zombie Holocaust), snappy dialogue and plenty of blood and gore.  On top of all that, the female lead is my most recent cinema crush, Emma Stone.  Such enticing ingredients combined with a great cameo appearance by Bill Murray, are enough to make you forget all about those ‘Twilight’ vamps. (Wil Forbis)

The Hangover
Nothing stands out. The Hangover was good, childish fun though. (Simon Minter)

Shanghai Kiss
I rent DVDs from LoveFilm and they have always been awesome at sending me stuff from the top of my list but for some reason they’ve gone a bit mental lately and have sent me random things from way down. I was initially a bit unhappy about this but it turned out good as this is now one of my new favourite films. It’s basically a Lost in Translation for China but with half an American high school movie thrown in and Miles from LOST. I love teenage high school movies, I love China and I love Ken Leung so hurrah. It’s actually adorable – you should see it. (Marceline Smith)

The Dirty Three
I also heartily recommend the DVD documentary on the Dirty Three even though it came out some time ago. It’s a little heavily weighted towards recent footage (understandably because no one gave a shit enough to film them at the start) but it’s a wonderful tale. (Chris Summerlin)

Paranormal Activity
Among the constant flow of Hostel sequels and shitty Michael Bay remakes, a proper, old-school  – and excellent – horror. Hurrah for that. Paranormal Activity is basically the movie equivalent of a rollercoaster ride, and I’ve never seen a cinema audience so nervy watching a film. It’s expertly, artfully crafted, observing the conventions of the genre when it needs to, and subverting them when it feels like it. The pace is excellent, the characters wholly believable and it understands that the best horror always takes place off the screen. (Stuart Fowkes)

In The Loop
This has been an amazing year for movies but the one I have watched over and over has been In The Loop which also gives me the opportunity to crowbar some gushing about The Thick Of It into this entry. Basically I wish I was Malcolm Tucker, fearless and seemingly without conscience, a man so focused on his aims he appears to suffer no remorse at the hands of fools. If only I could be so single-minded. Even better though his language and swearing is a pure symphony of poetic bile. This was a movie and TV show that required much concentration to which the rewards felt almost infinite as an edutainment tool. Now just don’t get Toby and Olly mixed up. (JGRAM)

World’s Greatest Dad
You’ve seen Death To Smoochy, right? The last truly good Robin Williams movie? Well, I have good news. There’s a new black comedy starring Robin Williams and it’s a bazillion times better than Death To Smoochy. Crazy, I know. And even crazier is that it’s written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. It’s about Williams who plays a single father attempting to be a published author with a teenage son (played by Daryl Sabara, the curly haired redhead from those Spy Kids movies) who is into any and every kind of crazy ass fetish porn, and the two of them have some, to put it lightly, relationship issues. Actually, the problem is that they’re both huge ass holes. Watching Williams being such a prick is so entertaining. I honestly can’t remember the last time I laughed so long and hard (yup) when watching a movie. I literally had to rewind it a least a dozen times to catch new jokes that I missed while laughing at the old ones. There are some pretty serious parts, though. At times, it’s just fucking tragic. But I applaud the movie that makes me laugh my ass off at the most horribly depressing things. Which might be the reason World’s Greatest Dad slipped by relatively unnoticed. It is truly unique in it’s comedy darkness. My guess is not everyone can handle that sort of humor. But I’m sure most of you can. Especially since there weren’t too many truly fantastic movies this year (only Star Trek and Crank 2 immediately come to mind). And for one of them to have such a strong performance from an increasingly shitty actor makes me so happy. I can’t think of a single reason not to see this movie. (Justin Snow)

Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
A world in which Animal Collective get played on the radio and in trendy clothing stores may seem to be a bizarre, topsy-turvy one, but they’ve always had great tunes. It’s just now they’ve learned how to calibrate them to be heard by human ears. (Alex McChesney)

Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Predictable. But yeah, this’ll basically be the top of everyone’s album of the year charts, right? Since it’s obviously the best thing released this year and quite probably one of the best records of the decade. If you’ve not heard it, it’s bloody astonishingly brilliant. (Stuart Fowkes)

Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Oh I don’t know, it’s so difficult to remember, especially as my listening habits seem to ping between brand new releases and old records with no degree of logic, and my stringent listen-twice-then-file-for-now policy on records forces a certain lack of ongoing appreciation. I might suggest Sonic Youth’s The Eternal but only because it’s the first thing that springs to mind. I did enjoy the fact that it came on vinyl with another live album included for free, though. And the fact that it’s very good. (Simon Minter)

Boban Markovi? Orkestar – Boban & Marko: Balkan Brass Fest
Serbia’s finest gypsy brass ensemble with 14 arse-kicking tracks, stuffed with rich brass and silly melodies. Have a listen, go on… I know it’s very cool right now to like the Balkan stuff but this trend is justified! Just like Nu Rave. (Pascal Ansell)

The Jesus Lizard – reunion shows
If I’m honest the recordings that have given me most joy this year have been the Chunklet live recordings of The Jesus Lizard reunion shows. To date I believe there have been four including the first set at All Tomorrows Parties. This band’s return surpassed all expectations and absolutely nobody anywhere leads a band quite the way that David Yow does. He is the one remaining badass in rock music. Worship him while you still can (JGRAM)

The Organ – Thieves
The discovery that there was a whole extra EP by The Organ that I didn’t own was certainly an exciting day for me. I fell instantly in love with The Organ when my band supported them several aeons ago and was hugely disappointed by their break-up. This EP is somehow even better than their album, capturing everything good about their sound (and indeed, the entirety of late 80s indie) in six songs. From Katie’s soaring, melancholy vocals to the post-Smiths jangly guitars and warm retro keyboards, it would be a total delight, if it wasn’t so heart-wrenchingly sad. (Marceline Smith)

Dan Deacon – Bromst
I fell in love with Spiderman Of The Rings when it came out. I’m sure I’m not alone on that one. And I had a hard time believing Dan Deacon could make anything better. But holy shit Bromst is absolute euphoria. It came out in March and I still listen to it more than almost any other record that came out this year. Every time I listen to it, I almost expect to be slightly let down by it. I’ve put it so high up on a pedestal that when I actually take a minute and think about it, I’m like “There’s no way the Bromst in my head is anyway near as good as the real Bromst.” But it is. It fucking is. (Justin Snow)

Mos Def –  The Ecstatic
Get a tin, label it ‘The Ecstatic’ and you’ve got precisely that. An unbeatable album from Mos Def that ticks aaaaaall the boxes: ever lyric, beat and sample is top-notch. Mos Def chants those ‘sit-up and listen’ lines, very often so too real it evades instant gratification: “I speak it so clearly sometimes you don’t hear me“. Auditorium’ (featuring Slick Rick) remains the anthem to my insomnia, you can find it here. (Pascal Ansell)

Obits – I Blame You
Seeing Obits play to a room of 70 people this year threw up some interesting debates about the bizarre reformation-craze that is strangling the culture of a generation stone dead. If Rick Froberg had come through town with a reformed Drive Like Jehu there would have been 700 people there I am sure. That’s crazy: you’re making music that is relevant to you now and is honest to you now like you always did and people want you to go back 10, 20 years and play music from a different time and to deliver it with the honesty and integrity that you made it with and made those people like it in the first place. It’s almost like people are having some kind of collective panic attack as they hit the next decade of their lives and are seeking solace in the cultural reference points of a time pre-internet or when they lived with their parents and life was easier. I Blame You sounds fresh and exciting to my ears. It’s a blast of garagey rock and roll and trashy aesthetics and importantly it’s got some killer tunes on it. It taps into a rediscovered liking for simpler and more direct music to such a degree that, coming from someone who is in part responsible for many shitty math rock bands, it’s almost a political statement. If you like old long-gone bands and you like and trust the people involved then dig into what they do now, don’t sit at home wanting to recreate a time gone by because you’ll only want a reunion of what they do now in 10 years time because you missed it this time round. (Chris Summerlin)

I’m off gallivanting yet again, this time to Bangkok to visit my good friend Claire and escape the horrible weather forecast for the UK. However, thanks to the wonders of WordPress, there will be new content nearly every day of my absence, even if no-one else at diskant lifts a finger. It’s a bit like when the school holidays rolled round and the TV schedules were suddenly full of Why Don’t You? and terrible Australian dramas, only even better!

Wil Forbis’s Bargain Bin Culture
diskant will still bring you a fresh dose of Forbis every Tuesday and Friday around 10am, ready for your morning coffee break. Try not to spit it all over your computer screen.

diskant Summer Catch-up 2008
This was going to be an article but it got way out of hand so instead every day at 4pm you’ll get a new blog installment of what the diskant team have been enjoying this Summer, starting with records and continuing with books, films, video games, bands, television & radio, zines, places & events and websites. It all starts properly tomorrow but look out later today for a special introductory offering from the legendary Greg Kitten.

And that’s not all!
I also present the first Talentspotter interview in approximately 15 years; a chat with Stonehaven’s finest export, Copy Haho. You’ll be hearing lots more from them soon, I predict, so why not read up on them now and you can make yourself look cool. They’re quite amusing too. Go go go >>

– Our first interview of 2010 is up, as Pascal interviews no less than Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt. Hurrah! Read it here.

– We’re down to the last 10ish copies of the diskant 10 year anniversary zine so don’t miss out – get yours now! Once it sells out, I may consider doing a new diskant-related zine.

– For those of you who read the Christmas catch-up articles, I would like to say that the Al Burian zine/mini-book was indeed fantastic but just made me want a new proper long book. At least he has a blog too. Also that I never made it to the Yummy Fur reunion after managing to be ill from about December 4th to present. Bahhhhh. By all accounts, it was a nostalgia fest / Glasgow indie reunion of the highest order. Oh well.

– And finally, if you’re on Twitter, then you can follow the whole diskant team in one fell swoop by perusing the diskanteers list. Or, if you’re holding out from joining because it’s too “trendy” then you can RSS it instead and no-one will ever know. Enjoy!

As the diskant party approaches, everything is starting to come together. I now have fifty copies of the diskant zine, a 32 page photocopied jaunt through the last ten years of diskant. It’s basically lots of short bits of writing that caught my eye as I trawled the archives but makes for a fantastically good read.

Here’s the content line-up:

– Summer 2008 Catch-up by the diskant team (June 2008)
– Bargain Bin Culture by Wil Forbis (April 2002)
– Honey Is Funny by Chris Summerlin (April 2003)
– Mild Head Injury by Simon Minter (July 2002)
– Some Kind of Monster by Dave Stockwell (September 2004)
– Instal 05 by Marceline Smith (October 2005)
– The Owls Are Not What They Seem by Alex McChesney (July 2006)
– Magik Markers, twice by Joe Luna (May 2006)
– Liquid Blue by Fraser Campbell (June 2005)
– Super Quick Primavera Roundup by Ollie Simpson (June 2007)
– “Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him” by Ross McGivern (December 2003)
– Slint by Chris Summerlin (April 2005)

The unlinked items are columns which we will be re-posting at some point in the future. However, you can read them NOW (or in a few days anyway) by purchasing a copy right here in my shop for a mere £1. You can also buy copies at the diskant 08/08/08 party of course.

If you’re one of the people involved in the above works of genius, email me for your free copy.

Thanks to everyone who made the diskant party a success – you all rock!

‘TEN YEARS OF DISKANT’ ZINE

In celebration of our ten year anniversary, we put together a limited edition zine with 32 pages of writing on bands, records, festivals, films, gaming, politics, tv and books from the diskant team over the last ten years.

Here’s the content line-up:

– Summer 2008 Catch-up by the diskant team (June 2008)
– Bargain Bin Culture by Wil Forbis (April 2002)
– Honey Is Funny by Chris Summerlin (April 2003)
– Mild Head Injury by Simon Minter (July 2002)
– Some Kind of Monster by Dave Stockwell (September 2004)
– Instal 05 by Marceline Smith (October 2005)
– The Owls Are Not What They Seem by Alex McChesney (July 2006)
– Magik Markers, twice by Joe Luna (May 2006)
– Liquid Blue by Fraser Campbell (June 2005)
– Super Quick Primavera Roundup by Ollie Simpson (June 2007)
– “Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him” by Ross McGivern (December 2003)
– Slint by Chris Summerlin (April 2005)

You can buy a copy for just £1 right here. There are also diskant badge sets for extra fun.

DISKANT’S TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA

Our celebratory party took place at the CCA in Glasgow on 08/08/08 with FINDO GASK and SUNNYVALE NOISE SUB-ELEMENT.

We also had an indie tombola where many happy people won amazing prizes from Rock Action, Blood Red Shoes, Gringo Records, Unpopular Records, Miso Funky, Sailors, Highpoint Lowlife, Asking For Trouble, Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, t-boo, I Like, JGram and a few more. Read more about them here.

Photos
– Stu Fowkes
– Marceline Smith
– Emma Mykytyn
– Nicolette Smith

Video
– Peapods

Press
– The Spider Hill
– Asking For Trouble
– Earz Magazine
– The Pop Cop
– Winning Sperm Party
– Jockrock
– Beardblog
– Unpopular

TEN YEARS OLD, you say?

Yes, diskant was launched back in 1998 by Marceline Smith armed with a free hosting account, a car boot sale computer and a state-of-the-art 56K modem. Initially providing an online version of her print fanzines, it grew to a community of websites by independent zines, bands and labels. During our glory days, diskant hosted the Mogwai fansite Brightlight and worked with the BBC and Channel 4. Things have downsized these days for our own sanity and diskant now runs as a webzine, posting interviews, reviews, round-ups and nonsense about all our favourite bands, films and events.

Firmly based in Glasgow, we’ve always kept our distance from the London music scene to do things our way and promote our local areas. Our writers are mainly based in Glasgow, Nottingham and Oxford. Our writers have included Wil Forbis (author of ‘Acid Logic: a decade of humorous writing on pop culture, trash cinema and rebel music’), Conrad Keely (of …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead), Stewart Smith (Beard zine) and Chris Summerlin (of the bands Lords and Wolves of Greece!).

Over the last ten years we’ve interviewed everyone from established artists like Mogwai, Fugazi, Zoot Horn Rollo (The Magic Band), Ash, The Strokes, Explosions in the Sky and Foetus to the brightest new talents well before they hit the big time, such as The Young Knives, Foals, Battles, Gay Against You and Youthmovies. We may be getting old but we’re still dedicated to writing about new independent music and highlighting the best new bands in the UK. We hope you’ll help us celebrate!

Bands

– …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD by Marceline Smith
– ARAB ON RADAR by Luke Younger
– ASH by Marceline and Nicolette Smith
– BATTLES by Stu Fowkes
– BATTLES & CHARLOTTEFIELD by Tom Hammond
– BIS by Marceline and Nicolette Smith
– DISKANT GETS THE BLUES by Chris Summerlin
– BOYRACER ON BOYRACER by Alex Lincoln
– BROTHER DANIELSON by Chrxs Tipton
– THE BUTTERFLIES OF LOVE by Steve Potter
– CAT ON FORM by Xoë Kingsley
– DATA PANIK by Marceline Smith
– PHIL ELVERUM by Rob Fawkes
– ESKA by Marceline Smith
– EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY by David Stockwell
– FOUR TET by Stu Fowkes
– THE FREED UNIT by Simon Minter
– JOHN ‘DRUMBO’ FRENCH: THROUGH THE EYES OF MAGIC REVIEW AND INTERVIEW by Stephen Toman
– FUGAZI: IAN MACKAYE by Chris Summerlin
– FUGAZI: GUY PICCIOTTO by Chris Summerlin
– GANGER by Marceline Smith
– THE GO! TEAM by JGram
– ZACH HILL (HELLA) by Pascal Ansell
– HUGGY BEAR & RIOT GIRL by Marceline Smith
– ICEBREAKER INTERNATIONAL by Marceline Smith and Chris Haikney
– KID606 by Chrxs Tipton
– LIGHTNING BOLT by Pascal Ansell
– THE LOCUST by Luke Younger
– MOGWAI: STUART BRAITHWAITE by Marceline Smith
– MOGWAI by Marceline Smith and Carl Bradley
– MOGWAI IN ROTHESAY by Danny Cameron
– MY ADVENTURES WITH MOGWAI by Marceline Smith
– OXES EUROPEAN TOUR 2002 PHOTO DIARY by David Geraghty
– RED MONKEY by John Coburn
– REYNOLDS by Simon Minter
– REYNOLDS by Marceline Smith
– SONIC YOUTH by Chris Summerlin
– SOUVARIS EUROPEAN TOUR DIARY by David Stockwell
– THE STROKES by Marceline Smith
– JIM THIRLWELL (FOETUS) by Sandra Kay
– STEVE TURNER (MUDHONEY) by Stewart Smith
– URUSEI YATSURA by Marceline Smith and Alex Lincoln
– THE YOUNG KNIVES by Simon Minter
– ZOOT HORN ROLLO (THE MAGIC BAND) by Chris Summerlin
– JOHN ZORN by Hugues Mouton

Labels

– ANTENNA RECORDS by Steve Potter
– BEAUTIFUL PIGEON by Simon Minter
– DIGITAL HARDCORE RECORDINGS by Simon Minter
– DISCHORD RECORDS by Chris Summerlin
– DREAMY RECORDS by Simon Minter
– EARWORM by Simon Minter
– FERRIC MORDANT by Simon Minter
– GUIDED MISSILE RECORDINGS by Marceline Smith
– MISPLACED MUSIC by Simon Minter
– SERIOUSLY GROOVY by Simon Minter
– SHINKANSEN RECORDINGS by Alex Lincoln and Marceline Smith
– TIME-LAG RECORDS by David Stockwell
– WÄNTAGE USA by Simon Minter

Art & Culture

– PAUL CANNELL by Marceline Smith
– WIL FORBIS by Marceline Smith
– RICHARD KERN by Xoë Kingsley
– JAMES OLSEN by Wil Forbis
– OUTSIDER ART AND MUSIC by Danny Cameron
– RELATIVE WAYS VIDEO TREATMENT by Conrad Keely and James Olsen
– SONIC BOOM: THE ART OF SOUND by Chris Haikney
– THE ART OF STAR WARS by Marceline Smith

Events

– ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES 2008 by the diskant writers
– ATP: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2006 by the diskant writers
– ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES 2004 by the diskant writers
– ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES 2002 by the diskant writers
– ATP CD 1-2-3! by Ady Foley, JGram, Rob Strong and Stu Fowkes
– GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2005 by Chris Summerlin
– KIM DEAL: MY BEST MATE (FOR A DAY) by Kat Kitten
– KNOM by Simon Minter
– ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES 2000 by Marceline Smith
– AUDIOSCOPE 02 by Stu Fowkes
– AUDIOSCOPE 02 PHOTO DIARY by Marceline Smith
– AUDIOSCOPE 02 CD REVIEW by Chris Haikney
– HOSTILE AMBIENT TAKEOVER by Xoë Kingsley
– INSTAL 01 by Chris Haikney
– SUPERSONIC 2007 by the diskant staff

Round-ups

– SUMMER 2006 CATCH-UP by the diskant writers
– MORE FILMS OF 2006 by David Stockwell
– DISKANT’S TOP ALBUMS OF 2006 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP FILMS OF 2006 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP ALBUMS OF 2005 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP FILMS OF 2005 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP ALBUMS OF 2004 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP FILMS OF 2004 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP ALBUMS OF 2003 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP FILMS OF 2003 by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP ALBUMS OF 2002 – by the diskant writers
– DISKANT’S TOP FILMS OF 2002 by the diskant writers

Resources

– GOING IT ALONE: GETTING YOURSELF GIGS by David Stockwell
– GET CYCLING, OR HOW NOT TO BECOME TOMATO PASTE by Chris Haikney

Talentspotter

– See the Talentspotter section for profiles of new bands, labels and zines