November 2012 - Trebuchet

Creeping Ivies: Stay Wild

30/11/2012

Becca has a strong, more booming voice than the punk singers, at times reminiscent of PJ Harvey or Empress of Fur. Perhaps a bit of gravel or drawl would have added to the tone, but generally it was...

Leviathan: Matadero Theatre, Madrid

30/11/2012

without the progression of a story, or identification with a protagonist, the sequence of juxtaposed imagery and sound can alienate an audience and reduce the performance to circus turns...

Scott Kelly, Live

29/11/2012

Bringing some much-needed light to London's Black Heart next week, Kelly will play songs from both of his most recent albums: Songs of Townes Van Zandt and The Forgiven Ghost in Me....

The Zolas: Ancient Mars

29/11/2012

Piano/organ builds, picked guitar melodies, crunching riffs, and a lyrical approach that constructs vivid narratives using thematic language. It's funny, and fun, as well as being an almost perfect...

Invisibility: Somebody Else’s Problem

28/11/2012

A new UCLA psychology study shows that people often do not recall things they have seen — or at least walked by — hundreds of times....

Alexandra Ackerman: Interview

28/11/2012

Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty,...

Grapefruit Kills

27/11/2012

'Adverse effects include sudden death, acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, bone marrow suppression' Headsup on grapefruit/prescription drug combinations....

Sigha: Living with Ghosts

27/11/2012

'Keeping the toxic new-age cliches at bay entails a danger of entirely immersing yourself in self-conscious gloom', Sigha manages to avoid the pitfalls....

Alt-Fest Wants to Hear Your Voice

26/11/2012

Alt-Fest will feature five live music stages, presenting crucial Goth, Metal and Industrial acts, plus the ‘best-of-the-next’ on a newcomers stage, and the absolute ‘best-of-the-best’ on a...

Singapore’s Affordable Art

26/11/2012

I’ve been slowly unraveling the mazes of subtle complexities in the art world here, and one of the first events to land on Singaporean soil as I did was the Affordable Art Fair....

Dancing Swedish Girls are Happier

25/11/2012

Young girls can dance their way to better mental health. Symptoms like depression, stress, fatigue, and headaches are alleviated with regular dancing....

Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

25/11/2012

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

Smart Sellotape

24/11/2012

Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing "smart material."...

Zionist Heckles Answered

24/11/2012

Why should the neighbors of the Zionist state be forced to live on their knees and give perpetual penitence because of the crimes of the anti-Semites of Europe? ...

Sam Willis Remixed by Can member [Listen]

23/11/2012

Sam Willis follows up his Winterval album with a remix of 'Hello Wendy' by Drums Off Chaos - a percussion project featuring Can's Jaki Liebezeit and drummer Jens Uwe Beyer....

Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

Do Make Say Think. Live

22/11/2012

Constellation Records' staunchest post-rock allies Do Make Say Think open the label's 15th anniversary celebrations with a 27th November performance of their classic second album Goodbye Enemy...

House of Burlesque: Shipwrecked [Review]

22/11/2012

The questions here are, is Burlesque exploitative? Does it reinforce cultural and sexual attitudes that are complicit in sexual harassment or is this just a great medium of feminist expression and a...

Brown Sugar and Mustard-Glazed Bone-in Ham

21/11/2012

Well the holidays are indeed coming and as y’all know, a homemade baked ham is a southern holiday staple. ...

The Tribes of Britain

21/11/2012

To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. ...

Gary Numan UK Tour Dates

20/11/2012

These concerts will feature brand new songs from the forthcoming 'SPLINTER album (due in 2013), plus new versions of tracks from 2011's DEAD SON RISING album, which are currently being worked...

Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

Petition: For An Accountable BBC

19/11/2012

The recruitment of the BBC's next Director General must be a process in which the license-payer has influence...

Peter Gabriel Plays So

19/11/2012

The album upon which 'Red Rain', Don't Give Up' and the ubiquitous 'Sledgehammer' featured will be played in its entirety, along with a showcase of tracks spanning the artist's career...

Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

Naive Fish Make Easy Prey

18/11/2012

Big fish that have grown up in marine reserves don't seem to know enough to avoid fishers armed with spear guns waiting outside the reserve....

Loitered Lens: Nightwish

18/11/2012

‘this gig was really about the new vocalist. Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it....