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Order Issue 35


LOS CAMPESINOS!
It's sad that you think they're all just scenesters…Plan B thumbs a ride with serrated, self referential indiecore avengers Los Campesinos! for a roll down the US west coast. So you reckon limousines, Trent Reznor, and al fresco fellatio are twee? Really?

WILD BEASTS
Wild Beasts bare fangs and dangle from high wires, crafting a theatrical pop that rewrites history as oddball pantomime.

THE BUG
As The Bug, Kevin Martin wraps his mandibles round ragga and dubstep, lacing street sounds with industrial dread and dropping basslines like shockwaves. On new album London Zoo, Martin rolls deep, uniting MCs in one shared mission: to shake the city to the floor…

In Praxis: LEILA
For the first in Plan B's new series on music–making process, In Praxis, we step behind the mixing desk with Leila, bedsit auteur and Björk's mixing lieutenant, to talk the secret life of faders and the power of noise.

TIMES NEW VIKING
Intellectualise Ohio's Times New Viking at your peril: you'll find these dudes getting high on scuzz and powering effervescent melodies through the noxious fug of no–budget analogue recording.

PHILIP JECK
Philip Jeck uses vintage turntables and orphaned vinyl to unbottle forgotten memories and free lost souls.

PLUS: Lykke Li, Jay Reatard, Duchess Says, The Dodos, Lipspector, Datblygu, Jammer, Toddla T, Burning Star Core, Throats, Hercules And Love Affair, CSS, Emanem, Gonzales

LIVE: Ven Festival: Matmos, Fuck Buttons, Flying Lotus, MoHa!, Public Enemy, Le Weekend, Shellac, Chinchillafest, Of Montreal, Telepathe, Pissed Jeans

ALBUMS: Tricky, Mark Stewart, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Acid Mothers Temple, Atmosphere, Au, DJ Scotch Egg, Black Pus, Justice Yeldham And The Dynamic Ribbon Device, The Heads, High Places, Errors, Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, Faust, Nadja, Nachtmystium, Melvins, The Hold Steady, Stanley Brinks, Port O'Brien, Shit And Shine, Syclops, Martha Wainwright, Max Richter, Weezer, Windsor For The Derby

REISSUES: Mogwai, Chicha Libra, David Bowie, The Coup, Model 500, Derrick May, The Replacements, The Detroit Cobras

MEDIA: Peter Beste's True Norweigan Black Metal, Karen Constance, The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired By Sonic Youth, Holy Modal Rounders, The Hacker

May 2008



No Age, Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko, HEALTH, Zombie–Zombie, Envy, Booka Shade, Cobalt, Miss AMP, John And Jen, New Bloods, Monade, Underage Festival, Jamie Lidell, Lou Barlow, Rolo Tomassi, Lil' Wayne, Diamanda Galas, Whitehouse, Boredoms, Thalia Zedek, The Last Shadow Puppets, Erykah Badu… PLUS! FREE 13 TRACK CD FROM PLANET µ RECORDS


June 2008



Sparks, Shearwater, Effie Briest, Flying Lotus, Rudimentary Peni, Thank You, Daedelus, Sally Shapiro, Fleet Foxes, Evangelista, Micachu, Late Of The Pier, Cutting Pink With Knives, Aurora Borealis, Sebastien Tellier, The Chap, Atlas Sound, Ellen Allien, Laurie Anderson, Gonzales, Triptych, Björk, Old Time Relijun, Silver Jews, Ladytron, Matmos, Dennis Wilson…PLUS! FREE 15 TRACK CD IN ASSOCIATION WITH END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL 2008


March 2008



The Breeders, Autechre, Crystal Castles, Gutter Twins, South Rakkas Crew, HEALTH, George Pringle, Hercules And Love Affair, Carlos Giffoni, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Meg Baird, Art Brut, Lethal Bizzle, Gang Gang Dance, Morrissey, Rolo Tomassi, Diamanda Galas, Snöleoparden, White Hinterland, Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra–La–La Band


April 2008



Italians Do It Better, Glass Candy & Chromatics, Portishead, Wolves In The Throne Room, Benga, The Wave Pictures, Chipmunk, Gindrinker, MIT, A Silver Mt Zion, Operator Please, Ebony Bones, Instal Festival, Vialka, Times New Viking, Gossip, Rocket From The Crypt, Ellen Allien, Boredoms, The Black Keys, Blood Red Shoes, The Breeders PLUS! FREE 14 TRACK CD FROM ROCK ACTION RECORDS


January 2008



Dirty Projectors, David Thomas Broughton, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, These New Puritans, Santogold, Blood Red Shoes, Pyrelli, Nadja, Yeasayer, Pinch, One More Grain, T2, Belaire, Neon Neon, Rings, Crystal Castles, Xiu Xiu, Radio Golha...


February 2008



Earth, Foals, Dan Sartain,Kluster, Cluster and Harmonia, John Maus, Matt And Kim, Neon Neon, T2, Dan Deacon, Lovvers, Ray Rumours, New Age Steppers, St Vincent, Oslo DIY, Malcom Middleton, Hot Chip, Helen Love, Los Campesinos!, Pete And The Pirates, Baby Dee, Fuck Buttons


November 2007



Prinzhorn Dance School, Los Campesinos!, Flying Nun Records, Richard Youngs, Maceo Parker, DFA, PJ Harvey, David Thomas Broughton, Bishi, Thurston Moore, Fuck Buttons, PRE, High Places, Supersilent, Gallows, Lethal Bizzle, Babyshambles, Baroness, Cobalt, Xasthur, Portal, Mortualia, Skepta, Clockcleaner, Buck 65, Nas, T Rex, JSBX, Turbonegro


December 2007



Billy Childish, Om, Plus THE PLAN B REVIEW OF 2007, Marnie Stern, Herman Düne, Battles, Supersonic Festival, Bat For Lashes, Burial, Diamanda Galas, The Slits, The Royal We, Joan Jett, Parts & Labor, Holy Fuck, Electrelane, Durrty Goodz


September 2007



Bass Clef, Animal Collective, Vialka, Future Of The Left, Nista Nije Nista, Chrome Hoof, Effi Briest, In The Mix: Caribou, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Read The Label: Yaala! Yaala!, Singles Club, Music That Time Forgot: Amiga/ST music, Why I Hate ...Bill Hicks, Marnie Stern, Supersonic festival, Daniel Johnston, Pitchfork festival, Scout Niblett, The Go! Team, Bearsuit, Mekons, Monster Bobby, Old Time Relijun, PJ Harvey, Kano, Daft Punk's Electroma, Simpsons: The Movie, Plus! A free 15 track CD in association to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bella Union records.


October 2007



Scout Niblett, Robert Wyatt, Big Dada, Pete And The Pirates, Les Savy Fav, Cutting Pink With Knives, Yelle, Enon, Prefuse 73, Christy And Emily, torche, aPatT, Monster Bobby, Magik Markers, Hello Cuca, Cloe, Fiery Furnaces, Trim, Lou Reed, Green Man Festival, Robyn, Summer Antifolk Festival, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Palimpsest, Modest Mouse, Live Preview, Dillinger Escape Plan, Jeffrey Lewis, Sunburned Hand Of Man, Jakobinarina, Ethiopiques, Fire Engines, Photek, Susumu Yokota, Daniel Johnston, Control, Joy Division reissues, Raindance Film Festival roundup, Lynch, I'm A Cyborg But That's OK, Paranoid Park, EdinburghFilm Festival roundup, Plus! Free 15 track CD, Plan B is proud to present a selection of the fine folks making waves at the first ever Swn Festival


July 2007



Bonde Do Role, Björk; Riot Grrrl, Taken By Trees, Gogol Bordello, Gallows, Good Shoes, Why I Love Repetition, Shy Child, In The Mix: Don Cash, Strange Death Of Liberal England, Les Savy Fav, White Stripes, Los Campesinos!, Scout Niblett, Les Savy Fav, White Stripes, Los Campesinos!, Scout Niblett, Kindertotenlieder puts black metal on the stage; Pil and Galia Kollectiv report back from Montreal's art scene


August 2007



MIA, Super Furry Animals, Tall Pony, Dirty Projectsors, Municipal Waste, Marnie Stern, Dan Deacon, Das Wanderlust, Wild Beasts, Why I hate Dylanology, In The Mix: Lesbians on Ecstasy, Gui Boratto, Múm, Singles Club, Sa-Ra, Grinderman, Hadouken! Kimya Dawson, Boris, Oxbow, Kode9, Animal Collective, Architecture In Helsinki, Beach House.  PLEASE NOTE - THIS ISSUE ORIGINALLY CAME WITH A FREE CD, THESE ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE. SORRY!


May 2007



Battles, Frida Hyvönen, Chris Corsano, Daniel Miller, Gowns, Benga, Busdriver, Schla-la-las, The Blow, Aa, Motel Mozaïque Festival, Ill Ease, Celtic Frost, Grabba Grabba Tape, Kieron Hebden and Steve Reid, Björk, Patti Smith, The Detroit Cobras, Aardvark, The Eternals, Comedian Josie Long meets Jeffrey Lewis, Scott Walker in 30th Century Man, Luis Buñuel, Kurt Vonnegut 1923-2007


June 2007



Holly Golightly, Jutice, Wiley, Devo, No Age, Espers, The Rebel, Xiu Xiu, HTRK, Monarch, Mika Miko, Ghislain Poirier, Wolf Eyes, The Fall, The White Stripes, Tara Jane O'Neil, Frank Gehry, Scout Niblett


March 2007



Patrick Wolf, Grinderman, Misty's Big Adventure, Arthur Russell, Klashnekoff, Of Montreal, Bonnie'Prince' Billy, The Hospitals, Blood Red Shoes, Jamie T, Arcade Fire, Panda Bear, Good Shoes, The Locust, LCD Soundsystem, Neil Kulkarni on TV


April 2007



Electrelane, Under The Underground: Messthetics, The Hold Steady, CocoRosie, Infinite Livez, Robyn, Good Shoes, Ceephax, Kristin Hersh, XBXRX, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Roll Deep, El-P.


Dec 2006 / Jan 2007



Thurston Moore talks to The Stooges' Ron Asheton; Deerhoof; Navigating the noise continuum with Wolf Eyes; A secret history of UK dancehall; Subtle; and a free CD featuring Alexander Tucker, Bardo Pond, White Out w/ Jim O'Rouke & William Winant, Deerhoof, Fursaxa and Jackie O Motherfucker. PLUS: Mizz Beats, Grabba Grabba Tape, Simian Mobile Disco, John Robb meets Ian Svenonius, Hammer Horror heroines, Old Joy, David Lynch and loads of other good stuff.


February 2007



Herman Dune, The Monks, Joanna Newsom, Danielson, The Hold Steady, MRK1, Bass Clef, Klaxons, The Finches, Ying Yang Twins, Death Sentence: Panda!, The Topography Of Chance, Marissa Nadler,Jakobinarina, Tetine, Read The Label: Trikont,Kevin Blechdom & DAT Politics tour diary, plus a free Secretly Canadian / Jagjaguwar CD.


October 2006



Cansei de Ser Sexy, Outsider Music, Slayer, The Spinto Band, His Name Is Alive, Printed Circuit, Parenthetical Girls, Remote Viewer: Paris, When We Meet: new bands roundup, New Young Pony Club, Grizzly Bear, Zombi, Singles Club, Fluxblog playlist, Label Profile: Rune Grammofon, Christina Carter, Tour Diary: Circulus, Why I Love And Hate: C86, MF Grimm, Bonde Do Role, Team Shadetek, Neil Hegarty sets the record straight, plus a free 15 track CD featuring some of our favourite artists of the first two years of the magazine.


November 2006



Mastodon, Sunn O))) and Boris, Erase Errata, The Blow, Lupe Fiasco, Clark, Matthew Friedberger, Ghostface Killah, Sparks, Hidden Cameras, Instal Festival, You Say Party! We Say Die!, When We Meet: Dananananaykroyd, Sir Alice, Coin-Op Our Brother The Native, These New Puritans


August 2006



Silver Jews, Gogol Bordello, TV On The Radio, Can, New Flesh, Various, Mudhoney, Grizzy Bear, JME, Sonar, The Magik Markers, Death Cab For Cutie, Wet Dog, Animal Collective, Cat Power, Charalambides, Regina Spector and more


September 2006



The Gossip, Ronnie Spector, The Sound Of Osaka, Camera Obscura, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, James Holden Plus: Noisettes, Chromatics, Why I Love: XTC, Why I Hate: The Future, Crystal Castles, Awesome Color, Parts and Labor, Remote Viewer: Berlin, Uffie, Bobby McGees and the new wave of Antifolk, Mates Of State, Label Profile: Ecstatic Peace, The Unbridled Revenge of: Sparks.


June / July 2006



The Long Blondes, Final Fantasy, Mike Patton, Black Lips, The dubstep evolution, Matmos, The Coup, Pipettes, Park Attack, Alex Smoke and more


April / May 2005



Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Scatter, Aphex Twin, The Knife, Television Personalities, The Concretes, The Organ, Spank Rock, Battles, Jack Rose, Paul Gravette, Sonic Youth, Ellen Allien & Apparat, Quasi, Glissandro 70, Kano, Leopard Leg, The Streets, McClusky, and tonnes more.


Feb / March 2006



The Research, Dirty Three, Liars, C-Mone, Young Marble Giants, Nathan Fake, Earth, Jens Lekman, Belle & Sebastian, Tiga, Young People, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Neil Gaiman and lots, lots, more.


Dec 2005 / Jan 2006



Cat Power, Animal Collective, Daniel Johnston, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Panico, Baby Blue, Spoon, The Research, Instal, Ladyfest, and lots lots more.


October/November 2005


Black Dice, Devendra Banhart, A Female Response To Crunk, Franz Ferdinand, Sufjan Stevens, Vashti Bunyan, K-OS, The Microphones, Alexander Tucker, Sons & Daughters tour diary, Patti Smith, Yat-Kha, plus lots lots lots more.


August / September 2005


Sonic Youth, Oneida, Kevin Blechdom, Smog, Architecture In Helsinki, The Blow, Optimo, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, The Grates, Les Georges Leningrad, Clor, Sonar, Cocorosie, Bloc Party, Black Mountain, T Raumschmiere, Audion, and all the best in film, books, DVDs, art and comics.


June/July 2005


Afrirampo, Electrelane, Anthony & The Johnsons, Sleater-Kinney, Quasimoto, ESG, Gang Gang Dance, Martha Wainwright, Canadian bands, The White Stripes, Foreign Beggars, The Wedding Present, Art Brut, Roisin Murphy, JT Leroy. Plus: all the best in underground and cult film, DVDs, books, videogames, art and comics.


April / May 2005


Arcade Fire, Ellen Allien, M Ward, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nirvana, Lance Bangs, Hood, Prefuse 73, Slint, Sway Dasafo, Tracy & The Plastics, Alisdair Roberts, Glass Candy, Born Heller, M.I.A, Dinosaur Jr, White Magic, Electrelane, and all the best in underground and cult film, DVDs, books, videogames, art and comics.


December 2004


Magnetic Fields, John Peel, LCD Soundsystem, TV On The Radio, Avenue D, The Mae Shi, !!! & Spektrum, Rodney P & UK hip-hop, Nick Cave and much more


February 2005


Lydia Lunch, Roots Manuva, Comets On Fire, M Ward, Smoosh, Bright Eyes, Deerhoof, The Field Mice, Sons & Daughters, Jeans Team, The Gin Palace, Losoul, and much more.


June 2004


Chicks On Speed, Graham Coxon, The Von Bondies, OOIOO, The Mountain Goats, Electrelane, Lightning Bolt + Load Records, Gravy Train!!!, Kaito, The Pastels, Spektrum

Issue 0 - SOLD OUT
September / October 2004


Joanna Newsom, The 5678s, Shystie, Comets On Fire, Jack Rose, Marine Girls, David Cross, Benicassim, The Thermals, Dizzee Rascal, Ian Svenonius, The Bug, Le Tigre


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