October 2014 - Trebuchet

Dave Lombardo (Slayer, PHILM) : Interview [Part 2]

31/10/2014

My maximum beats per minute is between 200 and 210bpm, anything past that I feel doesn’t carry any feeling....

Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

30/10/2014

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe'en stems...

Raging Speedhorn : Interview

29/10/2014

Just the fact that so many people are so into us being back is awesome! Considering we're a shitty underground band from Corby, it's pretty amazing that so many people still care....

Trojan Horse : World Turned Upside Down

28/10/2014

Unlike lesser bands who attempt derivative pastiches of the sounds of 70s progressive rock or 80s post-punk, Trojan Horse actually capture the spirit of the things...

Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

27/10/2014

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. ...

Loitered Lens : Lux Lisbon

26/10/2014

Photos of Lux Lisbon live in concert...

Dave Lombardo (Slayer, PHILM) : Interview

24/10/2014

There is a time in the song where the drummer should let loose a little bit but then there are times when he should let the other members shine...

Damnation Festival : Preview

23/10/2014

Damnation have assembled themselves a blistering lineup for this year’s event, held on Saturday 1st November at Leeds Student Union...

Richard Dawkins to Guest on Heavy Metal Song

22/10/2014

Band reveals the famed evolutionary biologist and atheist writer/leader Richard Dawkins as a guest on their eighth studio album....

Uneri : Fluvial Benevolence of Womanity

22/10/2014

Art's ever-disputed purpose chokes, regurgitates and, eventually, masticates the fabric of society to emulsified pap, thus palatable to the prolish hordes....

Reflections on Gamergate

21/10/2014

There are valid points about censorship and freedom of expression to be made, but this fatally-tainted hashtag isn't an appropriate vehicle for it....

HHY & The Macumbas – Throat Permission Cut

20/10/2014

This collaboration, the first Macumbas vinyl release, is based around electric bass, brass, percussion and electronics....

Loitered Lens : UK Subs

19/10/2014

Photos of the UK Subs at the Watford Punk Collective....

The stone cold truth (The Graveltones)

18/10/2014

'not that our music is really ‘saying anything’, but lyrics have to have something in there that connects with people'. The Graveltones talk to Trebuchet...

Kyle Kouri : Interview

17/10/2014

'I mastered the eyebrows, smirk, handshake and nasal, drawling talk. The seductive and aggressive game of selling pictures. The whole thing was hilarious'...

Transatlantic : KaLIVEoscope

16/10/2014

For all the fabled self-indulgence of their sprawling studio albums, this recording gives a taste of just why Transatlantic are held in such high regard as a live act....

Dieter Meier [Yello] Interview

14/10/2014

'Conceptual art is pure rationalism. If there is an opposite to that, it’s music.' ...

The/Das : Sebright Arms

13/10/2014

Memorable melodies flow from their army of synths and infectious rhythm rips through from crunchy percussion and live drums....

Thunder in the Distant Past

13/10/2014

For my money, along with The Pistols and The Clash, The Heartbreakers were the only outfit to really ‘get it’, whatever ‘it’ was in 1977....

Loitered Lens : The Vaselines

12/10/2014

Kurt Cobain called The Vaselines' Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee his favourite songwriters....

Ebola : A Dog’s Life For Us All

11/10/2014

Destroying Excalibur the dog doesn’t bode well for how our governments will respond if there is a major Ebola outbreak outside of Africa....

U.K. Subs : The Flag, Watford

10/10/2014

Witness a man who has defied time and will surely rock till he drops. UK Subs at the Flag, Watford...

Haken : Restoration [EP]

10/10/2014

Haken have the instrumental virtuosity and musical scope of the best in progressive rock, but unlike some other bands they aren't content to create reverential pastiches of 70s greats....

Reeves Gabrels and his Imaginary Fr13nds [Live]

09/10/2014

Just someone else’s guitarist? Not a chance. Gabrels is every inch a worthy frontman. ...

Neil Cowley Trio at the Barbican

08/10/2014

The music is melodic and yet pays homage to the piano's percussive roots....

Niggas, Wiggas, Niggers, Wiggers. Language and the right to self-identify

07/10/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcap ow long you niggas ball? All day, nigga. How much time you spent at the mall? All day, nigga. – Kanye West In response to an...