Month: November 2012

The Raymen: Death’s Black Train EP

If you don’t buy it you will die, if you do buy it you will die. You may as well buy it and die happy....

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Panic Room: On Business

'exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We...

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Mayan Prophesy Fail

'soil loss could eventually have undercut the Maya's ability to grow food'. Ancient Mayans may have foretold our civilisation's doom, but they failed to foresee their own....

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Can ‘Khan’ Oral – Angels of Disguise

As a jumping-off point for facetious gasbagging of just about any moral, political, religious or personal viewpoint, pornography is a gift to the commentator in love with the sound of his or her own...

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Secret Garden Party reveals 2013 Theme

This year the Secret Garden will be asking all Gardeners to explore their affinity to the supernatural, the inexplicable and the irrational… to indulge the tussle between the left brain's sober...

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Stabbing a Dead Horse

"We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!". Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour....

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[Listen] Jessie Ware Remixes

Remixes of Jessie Ware's 'No To Love' available to stream...

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Let it Be [Theatre]

It should not be possible to make a Sgt Pepper's set look more like a Slade Christmas special...

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Crunching Genital Injury Stats

Women saw a five-fold increase in genital injuries between 2002 and 2008, and show no signs of slowing....

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The Vudu Experiment: Pt. 3

'logic has completely failed us - the Kingdom is in tatters. What have you got to lose?' SWP applies Voodoo thinking to the UK's political woes ...

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Dream Trippin’

What you dream reveals what you are. ...

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Loitered Lens: Zulu

A wall of guitar sound with nods to Sonic Youth style discord, eighties goth type melodies and some fast and furious new wave drumming....

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Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal

A 2 year voyage for this, the largest ever collection of Andy Warhol works in Asia, which will tour from Singapore to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing Tokyo. ...

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DELS: Black Salad [EP]

The 'puttin' a bitch on the corner from the time I wuz fourteen, chill wit' my niggas, emceed my way up from the gutters' narrative that still, incomprehensibly, provides mid-west cornfed WASPs with...

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Nightwish: Brixton Academy [Live]

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. Floor Jansen made a very strong impression,...

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Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Electric Ballroom [Live]

As they launch into the second song of the set, the filthy 'Celebrate Your Mother', members of the audience are already flinging themselves around and being dragged, sometimes minus footwear, over...

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Syd Arthur: Dorothy [Stream]

A scruffy bunch of Canterbury hair-farmers they may be, but Syd Arthur certainly nailed that awful hopelessness of pavement cafes and flimsy sundresses giving way to the slate-grey gloom of November....

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A Brave New World of Sugar and Caffeine

Sugar mouthwash makes you more motivated, caffeine improves your cognitive function, and fermented-sugar ethanol will convert the schoolrun into an environmentally friendly activity, wafting the...

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Panic Room: On Performance

'It's always a balancing act when you're drawing up a set list; I think people would be surprised to know how many hours we literally spend agonizing over it'. UK rock band Panic Room talk about live...

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Mitch Lucker Memorial Fund

The total amount of the collected money will go straight to the educational fund of Lucker's five-year-old daughter, Kenadee....

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The cookie crumbles beneath the foot of the dancer (Sam Pink)

'I didn’t write in high school. I barely talk about writing to most people in real life because no one cares and I kind of agree, I like not talking about it. ' Scott Laudati interviews author Sam...

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Better Beats

Cleared samples, loops, breaks and beats. Tons of them. Played by a master, Keith LeBlanc. One single dollar charge....

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Col. Jon’s Presidential Cookies

What could be better for an energy boost when you’re on the road? Well let me tell y’all, an all American Chocolate Chip Cookie, that’s what....

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Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphomas Köner is an audiovisual artist whose name is indelibly associated with the chilling sub-genre sometimes known as Arctic...

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Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay

Trebuchet reviews the atmospheric tribal militarism of Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay...

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Drunken Tweets Not Confined to Humans

'all the dead birds had become intoxicated on fermented berries, and that some of the injuries they had sustained were the result of mid-air collisions'. Drunken Birds....

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The Vudu Experiment: Pt. 2

'INTENT: to contact the Loa in order to gain advice/empowerment for dealing with the current, and worsening, crisis in the economy.' SWP consults the tarot for political inspiration...

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Sneaky Copulation for shy Macaques

'both males and females can harass copulating partners' Rude monkeys have to resort to 'sneaky copulation' to avoid being interrupted....

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Loitered Lens: Jim Jones Revue

A raucous night of leather-larynxed rock 'n' roll played to a crowd packed with music writers only too delighted to be blown away by a power act deserving of its hype. Jim Jones Revue....

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Lazarides: A Street Art Empire

“You either close up a shop and cry behind closed doors for the next five years or you have a go and see what you can do next.” Steve Lazarides refuses to be daunted by economic crisis....

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