Month: October 2011

I Hate the Concept of Revolution. I Spit On It: Trey Spruance

Interview with Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle Fame on music and spirituality....

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David Lynch to curate Club Silencio, Paris

Not a bad idea here from Club Silencio, having David Lynch add his very personal touch to proceedings at their Paris club. Not that Lynch would ever be so predictable as to raid his own oeuvre so...

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Make Better Music 63: Simplicity vs Complexity

Sometimes I like to overload a song with overdubs and production tricks - if that is what suits it. More can be more in this case. Of course the opposite is also true, less intensely produced music...

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Head Cat – Live London 2011

Rock and Roll; graceless music for rebel outcasts, Head Cat called the sabbath crowd to disorder.   Lemmy (Motorhead), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B Harvey (Lonesome Spurs)...

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Sledding causes injuries. Ouch.

Ow. Child meets tree, at speed. Never the most auspicious of circumstances. Although Newtonian physics tell us that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it always seemed to me that the...

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Art, Money and Shredded Credit Cards at Frieze 2011

October is the shining pinnacle of the art world calendar, and you cannot have failed to notice that Frieze, the biggest beast of all art fairs, unveiled it’s glistening art delights this...

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Rome Wasn’t Burned In A Day: Wall Street 2011

Replacing Liberal Timidity With Leftist Passion Why is it that self-termed progressives are in full retreat (and have been for decades) from the witless army of angry clowns and hack illusionists of...

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First track of Paul Catten’s new album

As a follow-up to Trebuchet's review of the intriguing album Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics, it's nothing but a pleasure to direct you all to the exclusive stream of the...

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Flatulent oceanic microbes contributing to global warming

Much like teenage boys using their own gases to communicate amongst themselves, or perhaps even like the schoolkid's trick of burping the alphabet, it seems that oceanic microbes have been up to...

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Moodymanc Vs Jamie Finlay – People Circulate

Development Music make much of their artists' Manchester provenance in the promotional literature accompanying this release. Even the artist's name really wants to be sure you know where he...

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Johnny Foreigner put new album on the road

Johnny Foreigner announce two album launch shows plus special album pre-order New album Johnny Foreigner vs Everything released November 7th, Gigs in London and Birmingham on 12th and 13th...

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Maguett – Twilight EP

Brace yourselves, Moscow-based musical technician Maguett has been tricking about with a PowerMac between lectures and is about to unleash 'a brand new monument called IBM : Intelligent...

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Join Wall Street Petition

As the momentum of the Wall Street protest grows, Avaaz.org offers the opportunity to add your voice to the voices of those involved in the event. Dear friends, Thousands of Americans have taken over...

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Occupying the Heart of the Beast: Wall Street Protest 2011

Occupying the Heart of the Beast: Observations, Amid the Multitudes in Liberty Plaza where both the winged spirit of commitment and the rag and bone shop of the heart abide. The ongoing exercise in...

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Computer virus hits US Air Force aircraft

In another confidence-inspiring episode from the originators of the acronym 'snafu' and the phrase 'broken arrow', US military news informs us that their Predator and Reaper drone...

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Supersonic Festival Update October 2011

  Greetings one and all, As a reminder, the day line ups of music look like this: FRIDAY – APPAT/CLOAKS/DRUMCUNT/MIKE WATT/PART CHIMP/SCORN/SCOTCH EGG/SECRET CHIEFS 3/SLABDRAGGER/ SATURDAY...

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Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

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Burial and Massive Attack collaboration on release today

Burial might not be as aptly named as may initially appear. After a previous collaboration featuring Thom Yorke, and then providing the subject material for Context MC's 'Listening to...

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Make Better Music 62: Working Out Your Musical Muscles

Of course, if you are writing a song every day, it’s unlikely that you are going to be churning out a double album of SOLID GOLD CLASSICS each months, but on the flip side, it will do you a lot of...

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Kate Bush announces ‘Wild Man’

KATE BUSH ANNOUNCES “WILD MAN” The First Single to be taken from her Brand New Album “50 Words for Snow” Released via Fish People (through EMI) on 11th October 2011   The...

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Faith No More and evolutionary scientists proved right.

Aquatic fish jump into picture of evolutionary land invasion Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research...

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Nils Frahm – Felt

Pianists's fingers knurl and bulge with the same blunt mutantcy as freshly-dug jerusalem artichokes. Easy as it is to imagine the rigours on the hands of Prokofiev's yard-long keyboard...

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Coffee causes Cocaine Addiction?

Jonesing for java: Could caffeine use predict risk for cocaine abuse? Or.  I'm tense and nervous and  I can't relaxe. Get to the conclusion or distract me, a Columbian blend...

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Jim Stapley – 100 Club

It's great to be straight, oh yeah. Leftfield journalist experiences musical ennui in the face of lauded talent.  Peter Parker R&R Club are the loosest bunch of garage rock acolytes...

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Removal of restrictions decreases music piracy

New research from Rice and Duke challenges conventional wisdom that removal of restrictions would increase piracy levels. Researchers are still mulling over what, at least to most people, is a dead...

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Features and Speeches of Nigeria

“The matriculation ceremony really isn’t about the students,” David said, and boy, was he right.   The whole thing took around 3 hours and of that their part took about two and...

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Cass Mccombs to lay Robin Blue Egg on public.

“Robin Egg Blue” will be released as the first single from Cass McCombs’ forthcoming album, Humor Risk and will be available digitally (RUG436D) from 21st November. The promo...

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Nasa to probe space Hotties

Nasa probe to discover space hotties Nasa has recovened team-scorchio for  what has been informally dubbed 'project Icarus' in order to ascertain 'how hot is the sun exactly'....

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Real Estate – Days

Real Estate. Even the name is dull. Recently signed to Domino records, Real Estate's second album – Days – is something of an anomaly in a label roster which boasts the freeform...

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Rock’s Backpages Launches New eBooks Series

Rock's Backpages, the world's largest online library of rock journalism, announces the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, headed up by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. Backpages eBooks...

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