...The Breeders!
Also interviewed in this ish: Cadence Weapon, Autechre, Crystal Castles, Nick Cave, South Rakkas Crew, HEALTH, Hercules and Love Affair, Nick Cave, Be Yr Own Pet, Gutter Twins, George Pringle and Young Knives... MV+EE do the tour diary (in free verse), No Fun's Carlos Giffoni offers a playlist and there's a profile of the Language Of Stone label.
Reviews inc. Diamanda Galas, Silver Mt. Zion, Channel U, Benga, Foals, Kelis, The Teenagers, Kelley Polar, Peter Brotzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love & Mats Gustafsson, Snoleoparden, White Hinterland, Morrissey, Action Beat, Cowtown, Meg Baird (Live), Rolo Tomassi (LIve).
yay for (see above).
i choose
to believe that the lack of responses to this post is due to its readers scampering to the shops, three hundred and fifty pennies pooled in paws...
im going at luncheon
i do enjoy plan b but i wish they did more live reveiws rather than page upon page upon page of albums.... still very good mind
i might get it
i used to buy it each and every month
yeh
it woulda been better if they accepted my live review. i think i used a five-letter word though, way too simple.
..
On my doormat this morning.
IT RIPS.
welllll...
...the live section has expanded quite a lot recently - but it's true that's largely extra previews and interviews.
i'm never sure what people think of the Live section (i took over editing the reviews - but not the previews/interviews) a couple of months ago. have been tinkering with some new features (one being the Nights and Days with... column - essentially one writer's monthlong gig diary...but i'm encouraging writers to also talk about clubs they went to, the song they most obsessed over that month, winning purchases, etc etc).
huh!
more live reviews! - they do at least two double page photo spreads plus another two pages with smaller reviews. I think compared to anyone else that is a pretty high ratio. I am biased.
When
does it go on sale?
I'm getting a Plan B subscription for my birthday
which is tomorrow. Hurrah!
its not as good as
the nme.
It's no Artrocker
that's for sure.
or Terrorizer
whats wrong with terrorizer?
yes
it is not these things.
and shd be on sale everywhere, now.
a Plan B subscription is the ideal birthday present. because it conveniently runs out after a year, allowing the original gift-giver to merely repeat the process. IT ELIMINATES UNCERTAINTY.
I think DiS
should be sent four copies per month for allowing this sort of plugging ;o)
four copies..?
wd you read them in QUADVISION?
or Plan B
why has everett true
started putting his name on the cover all the time.
It started with Bjork where it was BJORK-Interviewed by Everett True.
This month its THE BREEDERS meet everett true.
it's just plain annoying....
and how many copies of our EP
do we need to send you to get a review?!?!?!?!
;-)
xx
Yes...
but i'm sure Diver meant FIVE copies to be sent to the office (i want one godammit!!)
;)
i'll send one every day until
someone wants to write anything about it.
as the days go by i'll start including gifts with them, starting with bricks of gold bullion, and ending with a rancid dog turd.
DO IT!
I think I
should be sent 4 copies per month, as I'm always plugging it to friends and people on the street.
darn it
i want to buy it for the byop interview if nothing else but it's a fair old mission to get to any town that sells it..
bulletpointresponseGO:
rosbeef:
i think in this case, Everett's name was there 'cause it was felt a meet-up between these noble survivors of nineties indie was part of the story. i don't think it'll happen often (and wasn't his idea, to be fair, this time).
worrier1:
just one, but it has to be good. this is where most go wrong (seriously, though, if you have sent one, pm me the name etc, and i'll see if i can find it) (and throw it in the bin) (disregard that last set of brackets - it's the first set of brackets' evil twin).
Lucyjay:
wrestle mike and take his..?
colonel:
i wd very much like a street team, but we cd only pay in hugs. VOODOO HUGS...did you feel it?
navajo:
i think you can order single issues from the site - www.planbmag.com - or, simply ask yr newsagent to order it in for you - he or she will want a deposit, but you'll get that back (or will you?) (yes, you will - sorry, evil twin got in there first, that time).
Ok...
but Mike ALWAYS wins in a wrestle - he cheats...
What i need to do is try and get my photos in Plan B (alas tis but a dream) and then i'll get my own comp copy...and then i shall allow Mike his triumph. One day...
thanks :)
okay
any idea when the new mag will be added to the site? you can buy single issues online but the most recent one online is last month's?
tut.
will go jolly the publisher along, conceivably with kidney punches. no, rabbit punches. they're jollier.
fair enough
i guess it also fits with everett's style- i love the fact that you put it wasn't his idea this time! had a little chuckle. He does love a little bit of a self reference- like when he reviewed end of the road and mentioned all of his performances as the legend, and then had his own tour diary!
ANd having heard the new album setting up a meeting between survivors of 90's indie is better than a byline reading "the breeders' we try and avoid talking about the pointless exercise that is mountain battles. It's awful!
i like
the way they did it so it looked like her t-shirt actually read 'Everett True'. the logical next step is to introduce thought bubbles saying things like "i hope kicking_k's got lots of stuff in this issue" etc.
as for 'mountain battles', i liked what i've heard. maybe it'll grow on you, or you just need to be in the right frame of mind (oh no! i've turned into a PR!)
fair enough
i reckon you should pitch that idea...
take it right back to being a fanzine....
in terms of mountain battles i've listened to it about 10 times - i really find it tough to listen to as a huge breeders fan. I really wish they hadn't bothered
that MV&EE tour diary is brilliant
Your magazine nearly bankrupts me each month, the amount of stuff it makes me want.
it
often puts us in fiancial peril, also.
Got mine
In da post dude.
yeah...
rosbeef:
in that case i'm not going to listen to the new album. we'll always have 'pod'.
thephotobooth:
MV&EE are on some elliptical orbit. i kept getting extra emails from them at deadline time, each further out than the last. originally, it was a kind of hyperdense soup - i had to break it up into prose poetry to make it readily comprehensible. the xiu xiu diary had some mannered depravity (as did the oxbow, now i think on) but this is the first time anyone's reported group sex. i was, like, whoah.
zampano:
an intern slaved (alongside our publisher) for several hours to get them out early this month. subscribers really shd recieve their before it hits the shops.
Everett was not at the Truck launch
so I DJed too long and my fingers, they got chills.
he only
wd have played the Grease Megamix, over and over. anyway.
...
...clapping every beat.
re-upping this
'cause, a mere eleven days into the month, you can now buy this direct from www.planbmag.com
or perhaps steal it, with yr HAXXOR skillz.
about the breeders thing
obviously you can make your own mind up- but for me it's jsut so dissapointing.
so many of the tracks you think- if this wasnt the breeders the label wouldnt have bothered to put it out. it just seems to be treading old water....
the songwriting seems to be fairly formula-driven and it just makes me sad-when they were one of my favourite pop bands.
and reading the interview-
another everett ' i used to drink with indie stars and you didn't' feature. i remember seeing him do a talk when the book came out and we realised we could play a peel-esque drinking game to his talk.
Mentioning introducing kurt and courtney (1 sip)
Mentioning the legend 2 sips
I used to get really drunk with .....(4 sips)
I used to drink the jesus lizard under the table (2 sips)
its daft.
eek.
i imagine the (now teetotal) Monsieur True wd find the idea of a drinking game based around his person quite agreeable - he's a contrary sort.
as for The Breeders record, you gave me the fear and i still haven't listened to it. know that Everett was passonate about it, at least, so that's what counted for that feature.
and, since i never did post up proper details of the current issue, and it's only still on sale for the next week-and-a-bit...
Plan B/March =
THE BREEDERS
For nearly two decades, The Breeders have run amok, spiking alt rock's angst with wry pop and bad behaviour and dipping in and out of the limelight. Plan B takes a ramble through their new album Mountain Battles in the company of front–sisters Kim and Kelley Deal
CRYSTAL CASTLES
An attempt to connect with 8-bit disco anarchists Crystal Castles
AUTECHRE
From their early, classic techno to new album Quaristice Autechre's 3D electronica continues to redraw sonic blueprints and map out new routes for intrepid navigators of space, time, distance and sound. Plan B gets geometric, talks wires, builds imaginary cities with Sean Booth and Rob Brown
PLUS: Cadence Weapon, South Rakkas Crew, HEALTH, Gutter Twins, George Pringle, Hercules And Love Affair, Carlos Giffoni, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, MV&EE, Young Knives, Be Your Own Pet, Language Of Stone, Stephen Malkmus
LIVE: Meg Baird, Art Brut, Lethal Bizzle, Gang Gang Dance, Morrissey, Rolo Tomassi, Okkervil River, Gogol Bordello, Le Weekend, Baby Dee, Portishead
ALBUMS: Diamanda Galas, Snöleoparden, White Hinterland, Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band, Angel, Artefact, Channel U Vol 2, Foals, Autechre, The Doubtful Guest, Stephen Malmus & The Jicks, Benga, Adam Green, Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Brötzmann, Paal–Nilssen–Love & Mats Gustafsson, Tusk, The Huguenots, The Teenagers, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Cass McCombs, The B–52's, Panther, Action Beat, Cowtown, Kelly Polar, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Supergrass, Volcano The Bear, Young Knives, Black Francis, Correcto, The Orb, No Kids
REISSUES: Kelis, Morrissey, Beck, The Better Beatles, Charles Wright And The Watts 103 Street Rhythm Band, Les Savy Fav, Jack Kerouac, The Durutti Column
MEDIA: Persepolis, Negativnights, Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely
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