Drowned in Norwich #1
The first in our local scene reports from Norwich by David Pye...»
In Depth
ATP Godspeed You! Black Emperor: the DiS review
This weekend last, Noel Gardner, Rory Gibb and Andrzej Lukowski descended upon Butlins, Minehead, and unanimously failed to see Boban Markovi?'s drooled over set. Ho hum: Emeralds were worth it. Here is what they did instead.»
ATP preview: Plan B mag meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor
In advance of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's return at ATP at the weekend, now seems like a good time to share Efrim's thoughts on the band's founding, in the 'transcript' of an 'interview' conducted for the late, great Plan B magazine.»
Label Focus #29: Constellation; part three - music
Okay, okay, so we left it to part three to get onto the 'music' section of a record label interview, but Constellation is a pretty special case. Here we bring the final part of the transcript of Andrzej Lukowski's interview with founders Don Wilkie and Ia»
Label Focus #29: Constellation; part two - politics
Welcome to part two of DiS's publication of Plan B's extensive interview transcripts with Don Wilkie and Ian Ilavsky, co-founders of Constellation records. Yesterday they discussed being 'of Montreal'; today the founders of the notoriously leftwing label »
Label Focus #29, part one: Constellation, the Plan B transcripts
In May this year, I conducted a series of email interviews with various key players from Montreal's uber-inspirational, ultra-independent Constellation record label. They were for a piece in the final Plan B magazine, which was a focus on the Constellatio»
Label Focus #18: Southern Records
The latest of our Label Focus articles directs its questions the way of Southern Records, both a label and distributor (Dischord, Ipecac, etc) of repute»
(Untitled)
With Godspeed You! Black Emperor on hiatus, said band’s lynchpin Efrim Menuck now has A Silver Mt Zion as his priority musical pursuit. DiS meets him ahead of the release of new LP 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons»
The Weekly DiScussion: when did post-rock jump the shark?
Post-rock's prefixing with 'much maligned' doesn't necessarily seem unfair in a climate of so many Mogwai rippers, but who is pushing the genre in new directions? And just when did post-rock 'jump the shark'? DiS has answers, and more questions»
The Weekly DiScussion: What the hell happened to Tom Vek? (And others artists we're missing...)
It’s always strange, and rather unsettling, when an artist turns up in a blaze of glory, garners a degree of popular and / or critical success and then disappears back into the ether. Gareth Dobson wonders where all our favourite missing bands are, and what the hell they're doing...»
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