Month: January 2012

The Many-Faceted Beauty of the Flying Street Rat

Yeah, maybe they're cute, fluffy and of great scientific interest. Bet you wouldn't eat one though…. Your standard street pigeon might seem like a bore, but pigeon fanciers well know...

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Sturqen: Praga

Some artists have such an innovative and distinctive sound that they define a whole area of sonic activity. The recently mothballed Finnish duo Pan Sonic will always be associated with raw analogue...

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Matthew Bourne Performances Video

Matthew Bourne Performance Videos Released The clips were filmed just before Christmas at Leeds College of Music, and give a sense of Bourne's remarkable technique. The pieces include...

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Errors: Have Some Faith in Magic

'we had the idea to put vocals in the music a while ago but we always intended that they should be treated as another instrument. We’ve used them in a way that sits really...

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Graham Coxon Returns with new album A+E

Graham Coxon returns to Parlophone for his new album titled A+E, which will be released on 2nd April. A+E is Coxon’s first release since the acclaimed, acoustic-driven The Spinning Top. Coxon...

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Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...

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Avaaz SOPA petition – share this!

Hey Trebuchet readers. This is really important. You know this internet that you all love. Well a lot of it is memetic and based on pop culture. SOPA and PIPA will curtail the satire, the references...

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Meshuggah on tour 2012

Meshuggah are very special band for Trebuchet writers and indeed many of our readers.  The hyper rhythmic tour de force Meshuggah has become an institution and despite low record sales for...

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Anthrax joined by Diamond Plate for UK shows

Chicago thrashers DIAMOND PLATE have confirmed three UK shows, marking the first time ever that the band will have played outside of North America. DIAMOND PLATE are due to support thrash metal...

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Plaster: Platforms

Plaster is a duo of Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri and Giuseppe Carlini founded in Rome in 2008 with two previous album and EP releases on the Ukrainian label Kvitnu. The press release states that they...

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Abbey Road Studio to become Fairmont Hotel

So the Fairmont Hotels group is to open a hotel in the Abbey Road studios. Deny all you will the nefarious influences of filesharing and piracy on the fortunes of the music industry – and those...

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The Wedding Present announce new studio album and tour

The Wedding Present anounce new studio album – Valentina – and tour  The Wedding Present will be releasing their much-anticipated eighth studio album Valentina on March 19th,...

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S.C.U.M. Announce UK Tour Dates

S.C.U.M announce a series of UK dates, including Bush Hall in London on 24 February, their first in the UK since 2011’s NME Radar Tour.   UK TOUR DATES 21 Feb – Brighton, Green Door...

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English Wikipedia to turn off the lights in SOPA protest

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at WED 05:00 UTC.  In an unparalleled show of web solidarity...

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Trace Elements: Off Course

I used to live across the street from Hamburger University, where McDonalds teach staff the innermost secrets of the McMuffin, Happy Meals and Going Large. Unusually for a seat of learning, it was...

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Pulled Apart By Horses: New Single/Album

Bad jumpers, bubbles and blooded stumps. The video has a certain clunky charm at least. Pulled Apart By Horses are excited to announce the release of a brand new single, ‘V.E.N.O.M’ today...

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Double Hammer: The Scarlet Blade and The Brigand of Kandahar

Out today, making their world DVD premieres, are these two Hammer classics, The Scarlet Blade (1964) and The Brigand of Kandahar (1965). Both tales of conflict written and directed by John Gilling,...

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Loitered Lens: Motley Kunst [Pics]

Sometimes you just can’t help the hawtness of stereotypical gender roles, they constrain and oppress us all. Day in, day out. in. out. in. out. in… Anyway, Motley Kunst are an awesome All...

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Yayoi Kusama: An Explosion of Stickers

Installation views of The obliteration room 2011 as part of ‘ Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever’, Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art, 2011 ...

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Helmet – play ‘Meantime’

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic second album ‘Meantime’, the mighty Helmet will play the album in full, as well as other classics, on a UK tour next year including...

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Planets. How Many? 100 Billion?!

It seems like only days ago that we were all getting excited about the proof that there are other planets out there. NASA's Kepler mission proposed that there were at least two planets in other...

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Pirate Power Metal – Alestorm

Sometimes things just feel right.  In this case pirate shirts, pirate-based drinking and pirate-themed metal. It's salty and juvenile insert analogy here and could just be thing to blow away...

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Algae for your fuel tank

New process for producing biodiesel from microalgae oil The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The...

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Thieves Like Us stream their new track

Thieves Like Us return on 20th March with a new album on Captured Tracks. 'Marie Marie' is the first track to be heard. THIEVES LIKE US // Marie Marie by TheArtOf… Trebuchet MagazineThe...

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Fawlty Towers Syndrome

The melancholic experience of visiting a declining English hotel out of season reveals some suggestivaly ominous parallels with the current state of the nation. After almost forty years, John Cleese...

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Pelican – Custom Metal, April UK Tour

April 2012 will see Chicago’s post-metal quartet Pelican make a welcome return to the live circuit for their first full UK tour since 2008. Never content to remain static over the course of...

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Killing Joke –  UK tour 2012

Industrial Rock Weirdos Killing Joke – bring back the crazy.  Emerging from the late 70s as a formidable force of social unrest, political revolt and spiritual corruption Killing Joke have...

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Olafur Arnalds Scores For Hollywood

Acknowledgement of Arnalds' applicability to motion picture soundtracks...

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Trace Elements: Commercial Breakdown

A commercial break on Pick TV has just made me question the way that I’m living life. And not in a “It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting here on my own watching Pick TV”...

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