Month: January 2013

Veronica Falls : Waiting For Something to Happen

Pulling the pace back from their 60s infused debut, the focus here is much more on the idiosyncrasies of British guitar music and they actually pull it off quite wonderfully....

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Dobie : We Will Not Harm You

It has everything from raw beats to polished electro. It makes you want to dance and just sit down and get stoned all at the same time. It’s got a swagger to it....

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Meshuggah and Devin Townsend headline Brixton show.

Meshuggah and The Devin Townsend Project co - headline show at O2 Academy Brixton 3rd May 2013...

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Mariko Mori : Royal Academy

What would happen if I sat in the same gallery space at the Royal Academy, gazing and pondering this work for a whole hour? Here’s how it went:...

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Loitered Lens: Andreya Triana

Photos of Andreya Triana supporting Macy Gray at KOKO, December 2012...

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Col’ Jon’s Home Style Breakfast [Recipe]

'momma used to prepare us Brains n’ Eggs for breakfast. Pappy used to make stupid Zombie jokes about it when he wasn’t telling us about Iwo Jima'...

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Freya Pocklington : Wolves Find Dogs Delicious

These were stories that would have been told if the Brothers Grimm had been two daschunds...

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Becoming Picasso : Courtauld Gallery

Picasso responded immediately to the art and culture that surrounded him in Paris – in the first part of 1901 he devoured the sights and excitement of the city and its artists. In the second part...

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Holy Motors [Film]

The truth, and the beauty of the film is that it is wide open to interpretation. ...

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The most surreal science article ever.

transposable elements, or jumping genes, which are largely idle in mammals...

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Cis or gender. What’s Your Privilege?

Transphobia is not about an academic term, it is about the reality of living in a country where you can’t even guarantee your doctor will speak to you like a human being, and where the risk of...

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Interview: Reptile Youth

'if you have a country where the same old guys have been in power for a long time then it’s going to be a shit country'...

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Martha Parsey: If 6 was 9

Parsey 's palette still has strongly sepia tonality and again dials into the mythic feminine figure, however there is a technical development in these works that we haven't seen before....

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Evolution of a Classic [Folk Music]

The sipsi is a small reedpipe, played using circular breathing, with a wild and thrilling sound. I was immediately captivated by the lumpy nine-time rhythms and mind-boggling technique....

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Matthew Houlding: Ceri Hand Gallery

Leaving the cold of snow-strewn January for one evening, to view far flung landscapes imbued with warm yellows, enhanced with rich sea blues and framed with complex shapes was a nice diversion....

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Tomahawk: Oddfellows

Is it a bad thing that we're given an album of the classic-era Patton that we've learned to revere? No way....

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Rapper Zay-Gee to Invade Lithuania

He quipped that if the Lithuanians didn’t give up without a shot being fired then he just might send the girls over to ‘work some shock and awe’....

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Joe Rogan ‘s Kale Shake Recipe

How to make Joe Rogan's Kale Shake, which blender is the best to use if you can't afford a BlendTec blender and you're in the UK and you're a beginner. ...

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Loitered Lens: Reptile Youth

Fired up, quite possibly by a pre-gig interview with Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett (in which they talked about the Arab Spring and the London riots) Reptile Youth went on to cane Hoxton silly(er)....

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Guns: America’s Addiction

America is addicted to guns and the politics of aggression, aimed entirely at the target audience of consumers, is exploited for commercial and artistic gain....

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Spaghetti Whores and Tasty Capers

Along with almost every highly-flavoured or highly-priced delicacy man has ever put to his lips, capers have been thought to have aphrodisiac properties...

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Perps and Papers: An Academic in Africa

A lot of unhappy rumbling, and us standing around trying to look as serious and threatening as we possibly could. ...

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Schultz: White Blood Cells

It's a cliché but this one really is strictly for the hardcore and it's all the better for that. ...

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Helloween; Straight Out of Hell

Helloween break an extended silence with the release of Straight Out Of Hell. New album due on January 18th...

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Rob Cottingham: Captain Blue

Parts of the album sound like a far lighter version of Touchstone, with the dual male-female harmony lead vocals recalling that band's early years when Cottingham handled a greater proportion of the...

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Hanging Offence: Arts Canteen

Arts Canteen is a new UK-based arts venture that explores intercultural artistic relationships between the Middle East and the UK. Trebuchet meets Kelvin De Veth, curator and link-maker....

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Loitered Lens: Macy Gray

A throatful of gravel and a bag of class, Macy Gray rules the pink feather boa onstage at Koko, London...

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The Benefits Cap: Four Things We Have Learned

The Conservatives’ only hope is an improvement in economic growth, and as their actions have cut rather than encouraged consumer spending, this grows ever more unlikely....

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You’re Kidding! Portuguese Goat Stew [Recipe]

Just taste it. A warming hug of a stew, but with all of the ornery attitude, cunning, fastidiousness and bravado of the animal that went into it....

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Charlotte Sometimes: Interview

After four albums, dropped deals, reality television, a rare jaw disease that almost crippled her singing career, and a few lost loves, Charlotte has proven there is no plan B. ...

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