Month: February 2012

Cafe OTO Launch Record Label

Cafe OTO, Keiko and Hamish's Dalston emporium of Japanese snackery curates consistently-brilliant live music concerts, and pops up in Trebuchet's gig listings more often than just about any...

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Transition Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’

As we approach the end of February, the galleries of East London start buzzing in anticipation for the First Thursday of the month – the day it all happens. I talk to the Director of Transition...

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Summer Camp: New Single, St. Etienne Remix [Stream]

Summer Camp announce the release of their new single 'Losing My Mind' on March 19th. Nothing special about that, singles are annouced every day, glittery press photos and promo videos clog...

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Trace Elements: Trying it on

Picture a clothes shop: A customer walks in, eyes a garment, tries it on, says they love it, tells the assistant they’ll definitely be back tomorrow to buy. They’re never seen again....

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Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird to perform Maxinquaye

An incendiary pairing, in life as well as on record. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, and cash-in tours are becoming tedious, but hearing Martina Topley-Bird performing Maxinquaye with Tricky...

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Evy Jane: Sayso and Ohso (+Remixes)

I know the sexualisation of R&B has been overdone to a point where it has become sexually gratifying, big arses and jiggly tits sitting and dancing on Hummers, where the amount of fuel one can...

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Street drug ‘bath salts’ packs double punch

Government reaction to unregulated drugs still tends towards Anslinger-style scaremongering. It seems to be the default setting. Which can be counter-productive too. When a new drug becomes a...

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A rainbow in the palm of your hand

The wonders of science. A polymer that can simultaneously reflect all the visible wavelengths of light. Described as having applications thatcould include: 'biomedical imaging, including...

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End of Empire: Part 2

I ask you this, if the defining aspects of our existence were constructed of concrete, would not the world be made of the material of a prison? Moreover, is this not the building material and psychic...

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WOMAD Announce Lineup

Growing steadily since its first incarnation in 1982, WOMAD proves, year-in, year-out, that popular music is not simply a rundown of what happens to be shifting the most units on iTunes in any given...

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Forecast: Cloudy

A little while back, the results of a survey commissioned by the subscription online music store eMusic were released, and they were notable. The survey targeted people who buy music online. Among...

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Karnataka, Live: Bristol

The celtic progressive rock band Karnataka have had something of a turbulent history. They established a growing reputation in the early 00s with the albums The Storm and Delicate Flame of Desire,...

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Chess Players See Differently

Just as expert chess players scrutinize a board to calculate their next moves, UT Dallas cognitive neuroscientists are studying the way these players' brains work to better understand how visual...

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Tate Modern: Yayoi Kusama

A review of Yayoi Kusama 2011 Tate show by UK artist Nicola Anthony...

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Public Image Limited: New Material

Public Image Limited, ready to release. It's been a while coming, about twenty years in all, but PIL are now ready to release the work that they've been recording over the last year....

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Trace Elements: Can I Have A Word?

Several months back at an advertising agency I won’t mention (coughs Billington Cartmell) I was pitching potential straplines for a Panasonic camera campaign. Its artwork featured a suited City...

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Peaking Lights Announce Tour Dates

Floaty loops and rasping feedback, Wisconsin-based Peaking Lights (although they're originally Cali-Friscan) bring their live show to the UK this summer. Dates just announced: Saturday 2nd of...

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Formation-Flying Minibots

Watch the video, then think of the applications. Try not to get too paranoid. Cruise missiles used street mapping technology to pinpoint targets in the first Gulf War, which is a small solace for...

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Proxima: Formal Junction/Grunge

Is Proxima the real product of the lost generation of western European youth? The western Europe that, having drank 10 cans of Tennants Super, thinking it can take on the developing world as a fourth...

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Hangover? Might Be Better Than You Think

Alcoholic drinks aren't generally put into the category of health food, but in some cases they might be just the cure for nasty parasites. That's according to a study published online on February 16...

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Loitered Lens: Saxon [Pics]

One of the leading bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Saxon bring the denim and leather good-times once again!  Wikipedia, is a consensual tool where people build myths, there are...

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Organic Foods May Contain Arsenic

In yet another swingeing attack on the smug middle classes, it turns out that much of what was considered a healthy alternative to the chemical-infused pork-products and sugary beverages so beloved...

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A Journey To The End Of Empire: Pt. 1

It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black "When the poet stands at nadir the world must indeed be upside-down. If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself,...

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FaceBook Targets ‘Faggots’?

It appears that FaceBook consider the word 'faggot' to be an acceptable target word to use when homing their advertising in on gay users. FaceBook's use of a derogatory target keyword, as...

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The British Expeditionary Force: Interview

With scant weeks to go before the March release of their album Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu, The British Expeditionary force are at that tricky pre-publicity point in their album campaign. A spring...

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Nicola Anthony on Colourful Radio

Tune in quick to http://www.colourfulradio.com/weekday/ to catch Trebuchet art columnist Nicola Anthony as the subject of Silvia Krupinska's discussion of her work with the Edible Art Movement....

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Decapitation: An Academic in Africa

I’d like to share a story with you.  It comes from an online newspaper here. Suspected ritualists on Tuesday in Lagos beheaded an unidentified man and chopped off his manhood. Residents of...

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Hugh Laurie Announces Summer Dates

This summer sees Hugh Laurie and the Copper Bottom Band return to the UK to perform their biggest headline shows to date. These new dates are announced following the critical success of the small,...

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Testament to play Bloodstock 2012

Testament announced as special guests at Bloodstock for only UK show of 2012. ...

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Napalm Death Reissue SCUM

So why would Napalm Death want to re-release a record that was LESS loud than on its first outing? It's a relatively complicated subject, but we should welcome the band's entry into the...

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