So, the most loved/loathed (marmite) music magazine on the market has gone monthly, and gone into WHSmiths. Free CD this month, and a brilliant live review of CSS from Miss AMP (about boners and boys and freakyhott rock n roll parties). Anyone reading it? I love Plan B. For all it's faults, it's by far the best thing out there.
- Reviews: * Gomez at London Forum, Tue 02 Sep
- Reviews: * Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini
- Features: * Borrowed Time: How The Streets ripped it up to start again
- Features: * Vote for DiS and for your alternative Mercury prize winner
- Reviews: * Cats In Paris - Courtcase 2000
- Features: * Mixtape #14: The Walkmen
- Features: * A Month in Records: August 2008
- Features: * Half a week with The Hidden Cameras
- Reviews: * Nightmares on Wax - Thought So...
- Features: * The Weekly DiScussion: what's on your Summer '08 megamix?
- Reviews: * YACHT at London ICA, Thu 28 Aug
- Features: * Photo Diary: The National's Green Man snaps
- Features: * FAQs: Can I intern for DiS? Can I write for DiS? (Part 1)
- Features: * Win a Rock n Roll Weekender to Jack Daniel’s Birthday JD Set in Tennessee
- Features: * The Music: "We will not be away as long this time"
- * The Spinto Band @ Cambridge The Soul Tree, 8/09
- * Gemma Hayes @ London Union Chapel, 8/09
- * American Music Club @ Bristol Thekla Social, 9/09
- * Glasvegas @ Glasgow Barfly, 9/09
- * To The Bones @ London Notting Hill Arts Club, 10/09
- * Katy Perry @ London Monto Water Rats, 10/09
- * Crystal Castles @ Bristol Thekla Social, 10/09
- * Mark Kozelek @ Brighton Audio, 10/09
- * Bon Iver @ London Shepherds Bush Empire, 11/09
- * American Music Club @ London Bush Hall, 11/09
- * Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ London Borderline, 11/09
- * Plans and Apologies, Jeffrey Lewis, The Atoms @ Derby The Royal, 12/09
- * Guided Missile @ London Buffalo Bar, 13/09
- * Videocrash @ London Koko, 13/09
- * Jeffrey Lewis @ Sheffield Plug, 13/09
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- News: * Glasto 2009: Tickets on sale soon
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- News: * Kurt alert: Courtney signalled 'end of era' for Nirvana
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- News: * More acts line-up for Nail The Cross
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- News: * It's only rock and roll but I'll buy it: rare Bowie recording (and more) for sale
- News: * Ben Folds Five reunite for MySpace
- News: * Pulled Across The UK: Leeds rockers release debut single, hit the road
- News: * iForward, Russia! announce last show... for now?
- News: * Smashing Pumpkins release 'G.L.O.W.' via Guitar Hero
- News: * The end for London venue The End
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- Board_threads: * Mumford & Sons/Soko Gig
- Board_threads: * songs for the end of the world - let's list some
- Board_threads: * Guitarist & Bassist needed - Raveonettes, duke spirit, brmc, velvet underground
- Board_threads: * i always knew metallers were the kind ones
- Board_threads: * D'Angelo?
- Board_threads: * I'm selling all my CDs. Wanna buy some?
- Board_threads: * Guitarist & Bassist needed - Raveonettes, duke spirit, brmc, velvet underground
- Board_threads: * Drummer in London?! Think Biffy Clyro/Mineral/Appleseed Cast/My Vitriol
- Board_threads: * Noel Gallagher attacked onstage...
- Board_threads: * Wanna be FRONTMAN for hyped orc-step band?
- Board_threads: * Bandstocks
- Board_threads: * Ex-Maths Bassist Available
- Board_threads: * great bands with awful names
- Board_threads: * Paul Draper - 'Six' 10th Anniversary Blog
- Board_threads: * Manchester Drummers - I know you exist
It is good
I learn more about new bands of whom I wasn't previously aware, than I learn from anywhere else.
(Minor quibble is that some of the reviews look like they were written on the way home from the gig on a night bus, but that's not the regular writers, who are all fine.)
i like it. i like reading it a year later and discovering new bands
Neil Kulkarni <3
and the pictures are pretty
I saw one maybe a year ago I want to see it again. A male singersongerwriter, maybe M ward? Danielson? Papa M? or possibly not, his hands were cupped in the shape of a heart, it was BEEE UTIFUL. i want to see it again.
I buy it when I can
But since my subscription ran out it hasn't been that frequent.
I think it's ace though.
what is it?
i thought it was a person who sung songs.
I'm a huge fan
for all the good reasons above. And the CSS review was spot on.
...
its well good, the photography and writing is (usually) excellent and they arent too arsey about who/what they cover.
I like it.
Although it feels a little like hard work sometimes, and as long as there isn't too much self gratification by Everett True.
Then again it's much easier to get through then The Wire, which I also purchase on occasion.
I recently
got a subscription to Plan B, it's been rather wonderful so far.
my favourite magazine at the mo
always seems to have loads of bands in that i'v never heard of who i then hear months later. whoever/whatever it's writing about it seems to be entertaining and it doesn't matter if you've heard of the band or not. at the same time i can see why some people hate it as it doesn't write about music the way most magazines do. i'm pleased it's gone monthly but i'm not sure i have enough time to get through the issue in just a month :S the cd was good but maybe it would have been better if they'd let me hear some of the even more obscure bands they write about. but that's just me.
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I like it.
The writing is definitely quite hit and miss, but I generally enjoy reading it. The interviews are normally good too, espeically the one they had with the knife a while back.
Plus it's pretty. The design is great and the photography and illustrations are always really good.
how much
is it?
Excellent writing, graphic design & photography.
It covers an incredibly large selection of music in a reasonable about of detail, even bands I love that receive zero coverage elsewhere, like Thanksgiving.
It means I can read about the less well known bands I love without having to deal with the Wire's pretension and ridiculous elitism. And the quality of the journalism is streets ahead of most internet sites, Pitchfork and DiS included.
Overall its a totally ace magazine and I hope it continues to do well.
the
free cd with this issue is good.
makes me want to buy the electrelane and hawk and a hacksaw album now.
I like it
Bought the latest one today, in fact
I also like Clash magazine. Although they seem to rely on sticking a mainstream (and usually pretty shite) band on the cover to sell copies
I think I slightly prefer Clash to Plan B, overall
I ain't buying Clash
Because that flickering ad at the side of the page pissed me right off x 10. For ages.
I think Plan B is quite special and different from other music magazines. Precocious.
I ain't buying Clash
Because that flickering ad at the side of the page pissed me right off x 10. For ages.
I think Plan B is quite special and different from other music magazines. Precocious.
you can say that again....
I love it
I want to buy all the back issues. The writing's great, the design and photography are gorgeous, and the paper is lovely to the touch and smells nice!
My only criticism would be that they never seem to review anything they don't like! Although really this only annoys me as it makes me want to buy everything they write about...
I'll sell you mine
Arcade Fire, Feb 2005, only a pahhhnd!
I love it too
because it's the kind of magazine that believes in music and wants you to understand where they're coming from too, which is something that even with this Internet-enabled explosion in music writing is very hard to catch properly.
And possibly also because I know one of the feature writers.
utter wank...
where does the cunt get that stupid voice
.
He's a bit of a bellend to be fair.
Blad.