Plan B
Issue 43 March 2009

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Stinking Lizaveta
Philidelphia's Stinking Lizaveta festoon doom's blackened heart with jazz licks and psychedelic wah-wah. They're not cool but they do rule.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Searching for a cure for the human condition: a tender hour, in a rented room, with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

DAF
Born out of the experimental flux of late Seventies Düsseldorf, DAF honed industrial heat and primitive electronics into a raw, brutalist dance music of sinewy physicality and heated provocation. On the eve of their first London show in 25 years, Plan B meets Robert Görl and Gabi Delgado-Lopez to talk contradiction, conflict and new directions.

BALTIMORE: DAN DEACON, RJYAN KIDWELL, PONYTAIL, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, SCENE AND HEARD AND K-SWIFT
Dan Deacon isn't a pied piper, or a cult leader – he's just a freakazoid savant, singing his heart out over starburst electronics and dancing blocks of colour (and if anyone gets inspired along the way, all the better). Take the square-wave assault course of the new album Bromst and learn how a united front of artists, pioneers and activists are dreaming the city of Baltimore towards a day-glo future.

THE VOID
Wavves, Syntheme, Blk Jks, Max Tundra, Holy Roar, Zu, Music That Time Forgot: Supersister, Cocknbullkid, Esser, Shuttle, Janelle Monae, Desperado, Talk Normal, Mitten, Jeremy Jay, Record Shop Stories, Read The Label: LeVillain Chien and The Blessed Revenge Of...Marianne Faithfull.

LIVE
Animal Collective, Afrirampo, US Girls, Babi-Chin, Ladyfest Goldsmiths, Wolves In The Throne Room, Club Transmediale.
LIVE PREVIEW
Instal, Frightened Rabbit

ALBUMS
PJ Harvey and John Parrish, Fever Ray, 1990's, Lily Allen, Mastodon, Arbouretum, Belbury Poly, Final, Extra Golden, Mike Bones, Wounded Knee, Dat Politics, Dark Was The Night, Julie Doiron, Bill Callahan, Under My Stylus: Telepathe, Anni Rossi, Soap and Skin, Swan Lake.
REISSUES
God Flesh, Sci-Fi Lo-Fi Volume III: Shoegazing 1985-2009, Issac Hayes, Death, Six Organs Of Admittance.

MEDIA
BOOKS: Virginie Despentes, Terry Moore, Rune Grammofon's Money Will Ruin Everything 2.
TV: Patrick McGoohan and The Prisioner.
GAMES: Ice-Pick Lodge: Russian Underground Gaming.


PLUS! Free with this month's issue is a cd from the Norwegian imprint dedicated to uncovering new forms of rock, jazz and electronica and features 11 of their favourite bands:
DRIVAN: Let your heart thaw before the party with chiming guitars fuzzy horns and lazy beats.
ARP Being in the company of Arp is always best to watch the sky and sea melt together after the thaw.
MEANDERTHALS: The ideal Fourth World soundtrack to the tropical beach party of yr dreams.
MUNGOLIAN JET SET Vs MARI BOINE: Rev it up a bit, starting slowly then beats working up with a swirl of ghostly voices.
LINDSTRÖM AND CHRISTABELLE: Keep it cranked up with this horned beast of a number that'll smash that spinning glitter ball.
DISKJOKKE: A little like Neu! If they had gone digital dancefloor...
TUSSLE: They soundtrack every move whilst you prowl the darkened streets of the fashionable districts.
NISSENENMONDAI: No-wave Japanese three-piece soaring with a garage take on Krautrock.
KXP: Are what Primal Scream wish they sounded like but whilst echoing through a howling void.
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN: Jangle and rattle to the spirit of campfire improv off into the distance.
TOY: A final fanfare from this UK/Norwegian duo to worm into your brain in a fanfare of radiophonics.