September 2012 - Trebuchet

Nettle Cloth reveals Bronze-Age Trade Routes

30/09/2012

Strontium analysis of ancient nettle fibres reveal bronze age trade routes ...

Grieving for Greed. Welteschmerz Pt. 1

30/09/2012

If the end of the commercialist capitalist empire gets you down, the right thing to do is to grieve for it. Then move on....

Chocolate Makes Snails Smart

29/09/2012

Training snails is easier when you feed them chocolate. 'Fetch!' (waits...)...

Prison inmates overuse Ointment. Study asks why.

29/09/2012

The first study to report on the widespread misuse of topical antibiotics found that 59 percent of male and 40 percent of female maximum-security prison inmates are using over-the-counter ointments,...

Nico: The End [Reissue]

29/09/2012

A tragic end to a tragic life. Carl Batson on the life and career of Nico, in time for the reissue of her album, The End...

Fish Rapist Hooks Up

28/09/2012

A newly-discovered fish species in eastern Mexico overcomes female sexual resistance by evolving a four-hooked penis. Charming....

Bong [Album Reissue]

28/09/2012

Bong's self-titled debut album was always a pain to get hold of. Which is why they're re-releasing the doom metal classic on Ritual Productions...

Nazi Meteorite Statue Discovery!

27/09/2012

Ernst Schafer and his expedition of SS members must have believed they'd hit the quasi-spiritual cosmic jackpot when they discovered the Iron Man statue to the god Vaisravana in 1938. Particularly...

Dexys [Live]

27/09/2012

Taking to the stage under a cloak of near darkness, a simple piano plays the first bars of ‘Now’ before Rowland’s unmistakable voice cuts through like a razor, steeped in memories of anguish,...

Landing on Earth 2012: The Wapping Project

27/09/2012

The post-industrial Boiler Room of the Wapping Project offers the perfect platform for Ruhs’ gigantic installations made of found material like metal, rubber, ceramics and aluminium scrap, all...

NASA Deep Space Image

26/09/2012

Astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe....

Too Much Monkey Business

26/09/2012

Eleven defining cultural moments featuring gorillas. SWP reports on the City of London's Great Gorilla Run ...

Live Long and Whimper: Castration increases Longevity

25/09/2012

The chance of living beyond the age of 100 was up to 130 times greater for Korean eunuchs than it is for uncastrated men in developed countries...

Dum Dum Girls: End of Daze [EP]

25/09/2012

'one of the most brutally honest emotional floods in music', Dum Dum girls channel heartbreak into deftly crafted indie pop....

The Meteors: Doing the Lord’s Work

25/09/2012

Will The Meteors bring anything new to the Psychobilly genre? What if they bring samples and a cover version of 'Paranoid'. What then, flat-top?...

iBrawl: Foxconn Workers Lash Out

24/09/2012

Foxconn Technologies, famous already for the iPod suicides and the restaurant riots, splashes back across the headlines with a 2000-worker brawl at it's Taiyuan plant...

As I Lay Dying: Awakened

24/09/2012

Awakened lacks the complexity of an August Burns Red record, but also manages to avoid the overly commercial pitfalls of later-era Killswitch Engage material. What it does offer is a balanced...

Jurassic Bark: Return of the Prehistoric Forest

23/09/2012

Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return. aleomagentic analysis involves looking at how the Earth's magnetic field has...

Loitered Lens: Van Susans

23/09/2012

Strong vocals and elaborate melodies resulted from the groups' ingenious use of electric and acoustic guitars, with a touch of violin played by Holly McLatchie. Olly Andrews carries the whole...

[Listen] The Zolas

22/09/2012

It's feeling like Canada week at Trebuchet, what with Stuart Gadd's missive from the great wild north at Festival de Musiques Emergentes in Quebec, and Mode Moderne announcing their UK dates...

DJ Stingray: Psyops for Dummies EP

22/09/2012

'The Sadist' is edgy from the outset and a great scene-setter. Constantly intensifying cold textures coil around an atmospheric voice sample, discreetly hinting at various dark scenarios. As it...

Free Download: Nils Frahm

21/09/2012

Falling out of a bunkbed and smashing up a digit would be inconvenient for anyone. For a pianist though, it's disaster. Nevertheless, if Django Reindhardt could manage to relearn to play guitar after...

Theatre of the Mind

21/09/2012

JULIUS is a multi-screen film, in which Roman Emperor Julius Caesar triggers the protagonists’ obsessions. His world of thoughts is shared with the audience. Reality and dream worlds are presented...

Big Boys Gone Bananas* [Film]

20/09/2012

Back in 2009 director Frederik Gertten was scheduled to premiere his latest film at the LA Film Festival. Called simply Bananas, it dealt with alleged abuses suffered by Nicaraguan workers who worked...

Welfare Greed

19/09/2012

A Danish researcher has compared two of the most different welfare systems in the western world. Despite the differences, the research shows surprising similarities in the way in which people in the...

Festival de Musique Emergente, Quebec

19/09/2012

Held in Rouyn – Noranda and now in its tenth year Festival de Musique Emergente, otherwise known as Emerging Music Festival, itself emerged as an elegant solution to a local problem. Generous,...

King Mob: Interview

18/09/2012

Side effects of the full King Mob experience may include: drowsiness, delirium, radio poisoning, severe hair growth, waxy pallor, vitriol spray, flushing, unexpected time manipulation and space...

Sarah Lucas: Ordinary Things

18/09/2012

These forms act like vague memories of Lucasʼs former glories.The subject of art history and the idea of art as an object is referenced in them, Lucasʼs stance on the subject seemingly quite glib. ...

Inside Out: Anton Corbijn on film

17/09/2012

Inside Out attempts a look at who the man is, truly believing itself as presenting some insight. To a degree, yes, but the documentary is ultimately unfulfilling, choosing just one aspect of his...

Satan’s Wrath: Galloping Blasphemy

17/09/2012

it's fun, it's heavy, and the over the top Satanic lyrics are often hilarious. By no means should Satan's Wrath hang up their goat-skull helmets and battleaxes any time soon. It'd just be nice if...

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