Month: March 2015

BBC Radiophonic Workshop : Southbank Centre

Rare live shows from the original line up of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop...

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Searching for the Great American Album [JKutchma]

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is eternal credence in the idea of “the great American novel”. The essential capturing of American culture – its...

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Tilting trees for better biofuel

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”Y/dropcapou’re gonna BURN, you beech! Take 2: You’re gonna Burn, you birch! Why the willow wept…. Imperial researchers...

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Turbulent times : The Physics of Clouds

Being based in London, Trebuchet gets quite a lot of practise with clouds. Next up: The physics of black nose-crust/Tube bogies? In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of...

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The Man Who Brought Fantasy to the Masses [Terry Pratchett Eulogy]

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt is fitting that Terry Pratchett, who did so much with the written word, will now have acres upon acres of column inches dedicated...

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A band looking to the future rather than the past [Karnataka]

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt’s been more than two years since Karnataka last toured the UK. Fronted by their third lead singer (former Riverdance singer...

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Live longer by spending less time alone.

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”U/dropcaprr hur hurr. That’s a scientific euphemism, that is. ‘Spend less time alone’. They mean ‘shagging’,...

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The broho vigour of a shotgunned Pabst Blue Label (Attila)

Loitered Lens captures Attila at Electric Ballroom...

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Being laid off causes distrust for at least nine years

Job losses of the recent recession could lead to a worrying level of long-term distrust...

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Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. ...

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Breaking the Galactic Speed Record

The white dwarf is thought to have turned into a 'thermonuclear supernovae' and exploded...

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Denying the standard of musicianship (Neal Morse)

Neal Morse Band at Islington Assembly Hall, March 7...

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FFS! (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks)

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcapranz Ferdinand and Sparks. Together, Not just sharing a bill, but as a bona-fide Los Angeles/Lanarkshire supergroup! The mind...

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Allowing the innate weirdness of the musicians to shine : Primus live dates

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’The/dropcap gobstopping formula conjured by Claypool is to play the weird line very straight. This plays out with few of the...

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The Rezillos attack every fibre of your being

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”P/dropcapresented in glorious 3D THING-O-RAMA, a live stream of B-Movie horror was intercepted from outer space and beamed directly into The...

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A world of new beers! Raise a glass to the Finns

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapelsinki. Lakes. Rally drivers. Awkward silences. Prolonged awkward silences. That’s all we knew about Finland. But now...

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Wipe Your Pants Down, this is gonna get sticky

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphink of the applications! A paint that makes the coated object self-cleaning. Pure sci-fi. Wonder if you slopped it onto a vinyl if...

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Jackie Chan-loving metalcore Alaskans : 36 Crazyfists

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’With/dropcap the new album a cathartic cry from vocalist Brock Lindow, following the death of his mother… grief never sounded...

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Yes dear, have another biscuit. Some of us have jogging to do..

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcap he healthgiving power of sanctimonious smuggery – having a fit partner can make you fitter too. Although it’s probably...

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Gimmie Some Space! Tracking Pedestrian Movement

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”D/dropcapid we need a research project measuring a general law of how pedestrians interact? Surely the simple law is : extremely slowly,...

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Frankie had them both on the ground and bleeding in two hits.

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapn my junior year I saw thirty-five fist fights. They came like some pandemic no one had ever seen, and no one knew what to do. One...

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Avoiding the Zombie Apocalypse : Where to Hold Out

Zombie apocalypse. Yawn. Frankly, if the droning emo stumblemonkeys can detect brain activity on a turgid March Tuesday such as this one, they’ve earned it. Tuck in. A team of Cornell...

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The celebration of – and craze for – textiles and stitching

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapeart Space Studios is a lively and unusual gem in North Bristol with a variety of textile classes on offer. Peyote stitch beaded...

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Heavy, indulgently vulgar and bro-ho as Spring break in Cancun

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’Even/dropcap if you pretend to hate our music, you will love this album. It will be your guilty pleasure.’ – Fronz,...

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Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging...

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Ideological Fractals, Elite Conspiracies and Hard Rock. Starset UK dates

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt’s been a while since we’ve had a proper concept album. Startset look set to change that with Transmissions, exploring...

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Sane? That’s a Tough Goal in Insane Times

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapuman activity (since the advent of the oxymoron known as industrial civilization) has been defined by the exploitation of human...

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Dope to Tour UK with Coal Chamber [Industrial Metal]

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”E/dropcapxcited as we are about the chance to catch Dope live, there is also the irresistable urge to grunt ‘BIGTRUCK!’ at top...

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No pleading nor voodoo but only tight riffs and impassioned howls

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”L/dropcap ooking forward to the first proper metal of 2015, the line up of Shvpes, All Hail the Yeti and the incomparable 36 Crazyfists was...

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Quantifying how much urban travel is based on social activity

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”O/dropcaput. There. With the germs and the filth and the encrusted detritus of human interaction and People Who Hug. Massachusetts Institute...

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