Month: February 2012

LS Lowry at Nottingham Lakeside

Shooting the White Elephant Like an understanding that only those of us affected would realise (viz., the changing tide and motion, moving beyond motive and motivation, holding kindness and...

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Legendary J.D. Wilkes: interview

The Legendary Shack Shakers never miss and have wowed the hardy fools of the hip underground over the course of six energetic punk blues albums. Inteview with JD Wilkes...

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Elvis Presley Returns: In Concert

If you've ever had difficulty spelling or pronouncing the word 'macabre', this is a wonderful opportunity to practise. Bet you can't get to the end of the press release without at...

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Dadub: Way to Moksha EP

Dadub is a duo of Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti, one of whose inspirations is Lee Scratch Perry. This dub sensibility helps them sculpt impressive new forms from techno and electronica...

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Researchers discover secrets of Chinese herbal remedy

2,000-year-old herb regulates autoimmunity and inflammation BOSTON, Mass. (February 12, 2012)—For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract,...

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Speech Debelle: Freedom of Speech

Calling upon Kwes to produce, Big Dada apply a sonic approach to Speech Debelle's return album that, even this early in the producer's career, tends towards formulaic. It's there right at...

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Loitered Lens: Steve Dior [Pics]

Sid Vicious's last bandmate standing, Steve Dior performs an intimate show, captured live by Trebuchet photographer Carl Batson.  Carl Byron BatsonPhotographer, published poet, former party...

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Spanish Kids Don’t Binge

Somehow, this one is slightly difficult to believe. 60 percent of Spanish adolescents state they do not take drugs and rarely drink alcohol Despite the clichés surrounding the habits of...

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The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

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Evile Confirm Neuborn Open Air Festival Date

EVILE have been confirmed for this year's edition of Neuborn Open Air festival, which takes place on 24th and 25th August in Wörrstadt, Germany. Lead guitarist OL DRAKE comments:...

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Spirits, Madness, and Love.

Life as lived in a late empire, in which one's humanity is deemed only worth its value in dollars to the corporate state. Wherein one's identity is flooded by the come-ons and emotional...

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Big Deal Video

Floppy forelocks, clangy guitars, fey femme vocal. You've heard it all before, right? We all have. Indiekids risen from some ever-tightening cyclical regurgitation of style and swagger, this time...

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Into the Unknown: Omar S

Omar S – 'Here’s your trance now dance' We’re here again and it’s another song of the month on dance music. I’m guessing about half have been that way over the...

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Veronica Falls Stream New Single

Recorded just last week, Veronica Falls follow up their eponymously titled album of 2011 with new single 'My Heart Beats'. The band will also be playing a series of live dates in March: 8...

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Ronin: Interview

Interview with OVO drummer Bruno Dorella about with dark folk group Ronin...

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Lady Antebellum Announce UK Tour

Yet another of Dave Grohl's favourites (although he did say that the music business would be just fine if every album was as good as Adele's 21, so let's not be too influenced), Lady...

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Trace Elements: Catch My Pitch

Picture this: An Oscar-winning super producer, a TV network super suit, their brand new Central London indie offices, and me in the hot seat (it’s still warm from the legendary actor...

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Graham Coxon Wants You To Dance in his New Vid

Graham Coxon, used to being surrounded by a bunch of visually underwhelming individuals whilst onstage, wants to shake things up in his new video, and put YOU in it. That's not the official press...

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Sepultura and Iced Earth on the Bill at Bloodstock

Sepultura and Iced Earth on the Bill at Bloodstock...

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Straylings: Interview

Vulpine and ragged, dropping effortlessly from the plaintive minors of her upper range down to throaty growlings all earthy and powerful, Straylings' Dana Zeera throws her voice around in ways...

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Fender release Johnny Marr Guitar

Whether you're a guitarist or not the Johnny Marr is a work of guitar geek awesome for the lovers of fine design… the specs look hot too.  Fender have released what looks like a...

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Artificial ‘Eyes’ Stop Mercedes Cars Squishing Pedestrians

Just as well really. You know why they say Mercedes indicator bulbs last so long? Well, when did you last see one being used? A team of German researchers, with the help of a lecturer at the...

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Loitered Lens: Bethia Beadman [Pics]

Bethia Beadman, A chanteuse in a strip club, g-string jokes don't get more apt than this, nor voices as sweet.   She has a great website you should investigate. All images Copyright Carl...

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Striking New Galaxy Image

We usually try to space out (groan) the astronomy items on Trebuchet a bit. After yesterday's news that a super-Earth had been discovered, and the item we ran on the story, we'd normally move...

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Hockney at the Royal Academy

How David Hockney’s work nearly got me laid There is only one option. Just walk in. I make it a mere metre inside the front door of the gallery and, “errrr-hummmm, excuse me, have you got...

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Sunn O))) Announce European Tour

Taking in Amsterdam´s Milk Bar, France´s Hellfest and London´s Koko, Sunn O))) today announced their early-summer European tour. Closing a loop of associated artists featured here...

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New Super-Earth Detected

An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth,...

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Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands: Muses and Bones

“Where's your will to be weird?” ― Jim Morrison Crystal it seems, holds a better hand than most when it comes to music, playing a bewildering amount of instruments; accordion,...

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Ruby Goe: Single, Video, Gig

Yes, it's pop. What of it? We can do that at Trebuchet – items about Ulcerate and Ruby Goe on the same day. It's not about genre, it's about excitement. The fact that she's...

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IMPRINT at the Serpentine Gallery 2012

The Fabelists – coming together to launch an event that crossed many boundaries.Serpentine Gallery’s Centre for Possible Studies, 21 Gloucester Place, 
London W1U 8HR...

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