Month: May 2011

Latitude Festival – Update! New Acts and Events

the welcoming daisy-adorned gates will open for the 6th edition of the magical and fantastical Latitude Festival....

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Make Better Music 45: Oh, The Possibilities!

Make Better Music 45: Oh, The Possibilities! Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Bloodstock Festival – Reveals Line Up and Fancy Dress Theme

Bloodstock Festival - Reveals Line Up and Fancy Dress Theme...

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Why Does Flu Trigger Asthma?

Study suggests new therapeutic targets for virally-induced asthma attacks. When children with asthma get the flu, they often land in the hospital gasping for air. Researchers at Children's...

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Eye Hear, Heart See 4: The way I feel inside

Nothing much could happen Nothing we can't shake Oh we're absolute beginners With nothing much at stake As long as you're still smiling There's nothing more I need I absolutely love...

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Running in the Dark

Having lived a drug-free life, I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out. Is there really an experience only a substance can provide? I'm standing in a field in the English countryside. I can...

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Mick Harvey to play XOYO June 5th

Here is the London show info… The London live show follows the release of a brand new solo album, Sketches From The Book Of The Dead, out on 2 May 2011, the follow up to Two Of Diamonds (2007)....

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Human Impacts of Rising Oceans will Extend Beyond Coasts

Identifying the human impact of rising sea levels is far more complex than just looking at coastal cities on a map. Rather, estimates that are based on current, static population data can greatly...

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Free Dance Download from Mind Plug Records – The First Anniversary!

This has been an exciting first year with some really great releases. Thanks to all who supported us! We would like to celebrate this first anniversary with a special free download for all our fans...

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Lenny Kravitz Announces UK Tour

Lenny Kravitz Announces UK Tour "Black and White America" NEW Album set to Debut on August 22nd Ex-North America and August 30 in the US  Debut single “Stand” impacts Radio...

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Arcade Fire announce extra tickets for their Hyde Park show.

Live Nation have announced extra tickets have been released for Arcade Fire’s sold out show in London’s Hyde Park on June 30th.   Due to unprecedented demand, additional production...

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Sublime Simplicity: Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku

Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku at the Wilkinson Gallery strips the world bare and celebrates the uncomplicated and beautiful. Another month, another First Thursday. Galleries on the surprisingly...

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Leaving The Church of Free Market Miracles

Where does one find succor and seeds of renewal in times such as these? Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the...

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Sixth June – Back for A Day 12”EP

Party like it’s 1982… It’s good to be reminded of how young you are sometimes. To any more mature readers of this article, I assure you this isn’t meant as a smug gloating...

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Metal Legends Cradle of Filth release Lilith Immaculate Video

Metal Legends Cradle of Flith release Lilith Immaculate Video The UK's extreme metal titans Cradle of Filth have completed work on their latest video for the track Lilith Immaculate, lifted from...

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The Naked and Famous Announce Tour

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS  “Pop perfection.” – NME “Fervent, infectious and highly hummable, this is a band armed with songs to fall in love with.” – The Fly...

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Sign Petition for a change in Tactics for the ‘War on Drugs’

Trebuchet supports Avaaz.org petition, Sign up and please share the news item, Trebuchet —————– In days, a group of powerful world leaders will ask the UN to end...

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Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a unique feuding double white dwarf star system where each star appears to have been stripped down to just its helium. We know of just over 50...

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Bonnie Prince Billy To Release Charity Single

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY     Bonnie 'Prince' Billy presents "There Is No God" b/w "God Is Love"  June 21, 2011 "There Is No God" b/w...

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Watch the Pretty Birdy: Sage Vaughn

Sage Vaughn’s press bio is a juxtaposition of culture and wildness, of knowing clichés and their subversion, bold phrases that beg repetition, and suggestions of a contemplative day trip...

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Science: To bluff, or not to bluff? That is the question

Economist Christopher Cotton from the University of Miami (UM), uses game theory to explore two of the most famous military bluffs in history. The findings are published in the current issue of the...

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Make Better Music 44: Polyrhythms….the hallmark of complexity!

Make Better Music 44: Polyrhythms….the hallmark of complexity! Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Inevitable End – The Oculus

One of the first words one might use to describe the second album from Sweden’s Inevitable End is schizophrenic.  However this is the wrong word. For something to be called schizophrenic...

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Eye Hear, Heart See 3: Please, please, please

In my mouth It sting my lips It's like eclipse As I'm in the crossword puzzle But I can't fill in the blank Cibo Matto – 'White Pepper Ice Cream' When the loving is fast...

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Anna Calvi, Grouplove, and Big Deal, ride with the NME

A mixed bag of sugar and saccharine, the NME Emerge tour closed on a high.  The NME Emerge tour is about bringing rising stars to new audiences. The cult of the Next Big Thing is alive and well...

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David Tort – Jack it Up

David Tort’s ‘Jack it Up’ promises ‘a tempestuous sea of dark synths’ but actually delivers ‘a turgid canal of muddy loops’. With pretensions to dancefloor...

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Lillian Bassman – Enter the Boutique

I don't go to boutiques. I don't check out fashion photography either. But this is something different. There's a world in here. Standing outside the Donna Karan boutique off Regent...

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Roger Waters Revives The Wall

Roger Waters’ 2011 production of The Wall takes a classic of anomie and updates it with startling and necessary results. Roger Water’s transmutation of The Wall, a personal investigation...

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“Crack makes me feel like Jesus ought to”

Drugged under one Crack nation - The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, empire, Jesus, and the death genes....

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Villagers win Ivor Novello Award

    Win Ivor Novello Award   We are thrilled to announce that Conor J O’Brien from Villagers has today won an Ivor Novello Award in the...

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