March 2014 - Trebuchet

Dragons or Flies? The State Apparatus of Fear

31/03/2014

Meet your fears, look them in the eye, live among them for a time. Discern whether they consist of an insect buzzing at your windowpane or is a dragon on the roof...

A picture of Amund Maarud by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens: Big Boy Bloater

30/03/2014

Tight grooves, infectious melodies and the unique voice of Big Boy Bloater...

Secret Garden Party Announce Lineup

28/03/2014

The Secret Garden Party announces headliner and additional line up for 2014...

Slammed : Phone Companies Stealing Your Number

28/03/2014

Telephone companies can take, replace, steal or remove your number, leaving you with few options, little recourse to complain, and in the dark as to how this can happen...

Gotthard : Bang!

27/03/2014

It's tip-of-the-brain stuff, trying to list all the possible classic Hard Rock references for these songs, yet they stay on the right side of pastiche....

Mike Vallely : On Not Being Broken

26/03/2014

Action-sports megacorporations duly demonized, Vallely takes to the appropriately bleak and inhuman streets of Berlin....

Gallon Drunk : The Soul of the Hour

25/03/2014

Gallon Drunk have never sounded so together nor so accomplished. The result of such symbiosis is seven tracks of intense mood and impressive groove. ...

Rejecting Capitalism’s Putrefying Paradigm

24/03/2014

Late capitalism's putrefying paradigm has but one remedy for the devastation reaped by the system... insanely, more production and more consumerism....

Stop the sale of the land registry

23/03/2014

Stop the government selling the profitable Land Registry which generates £98 Million pounds to the public purse each year as well as having a satisfaction rating of over 90% from those that use the...

A picture of Boom Tales by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : Boom Tales

23/03/2014

Photos of Boom Tales by Carl Byron Batson...

Halo Blind : Occupying Forces

21/03/2014

Memorable but unconventional melodies, and some great use of atmospheric instrumental passages in place of conventional solos...

Roni Size / LTJ Bukem : Village Underground

20/03/2014

Chatting and dancing with people in crowd, it was obvious this was no Fabric...

Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

19/03/2014

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

War: The Exile and the Rock Limpet exhibited 1842

Late Turner : Painting Set Free

18/03/2014

Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. ...

A picture of Les Claypool's Duo De Twang album

Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang : Four Foot Shack

17/03/2014

There will be someone out there, bored by the usual, willing to listen to a bluegrass barn-dance inspired acoustic record that contains covers of the Bee Gees and Alice in Chains....

A picture of Prosperina by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : Prosperina

16/03/2014

Photos of Prosperina live at London's KOKO....

Women: Over-Strained, Under-Utilized

15/03/2014

Women have fought for the right to be equal but still struggle compared to men. We might as well be fed last if we are to be fed less....

The Rocket [Film]

14/03/2014

Here is a film that demands to be seen, particularly considering some lovely cinematography that complements and highlights a seemingly idyllic landscape quietly blighted by the unexploded bombs of...

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

13/03/2014

Although we have been graced with life - all its possibilities and abundance - it has become apparent, we have fallen in love with Extinction....

Conan : Blood Eagle

12/03/2014

Devastation bleeding from the speakers....

Def Leppard Interview (Part 2)

11/03/2014

I think a lot of that was down to “Mutt” Lange. He worked us so hard on those records to make it sound special. He didn’t want us to sound like a run of the mill rock band. ...

Dealing With Women in Art

10/03/2014

Women are undoubtedly still having to fight against our traditional patriarchal society, but surely the art world is one that can lead by example?...

A picture of Church of Misery by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : Church of Misery

09/03/2014

Doom-sludge metal at stratospheric volume. Photos of Church of Misery live at Koko, London...

Keel Her [Album]

07/03/2014

Mood music matching the most foul of moods...

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Anti Fracking Benefit (Asian Dub Foundation)

06/03/2014

“No Toxic for profit legacy for our children” : Asian Dub Foundation...

Caliban versus Slough Feg versus Nocturnal Breed

06/03/2014

It’s immature, it’s juvenile and it will never, ever grow up. ...

A poster for Shangaan Electro and The Bug at Koko

Shangaan Electro / The Bug : Koko

05/03/2014

KOKO London will transform into an eclectic cocktail of deep Bass music from The Bug, combined with rapid style rhythms and soulful vocal chorus’ from Nozinja aka Shangaan electro ...