July 2015 - Trebuchet

Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

30/07/2015

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

A Talent Show Without the Talent? X Factor Returns… Again

29/07/2015

Even after so many years of being served up candy floss, there are still so many people thinking, in all honesty, that it has something to do with musical talent, vocal prowess or even the nursing of...

Mick Harvey UK Summer Dates

28/07/2015

Starting at London’s Lexington on 30 July, the tour includes performances in Glasgow and Newcastle....

Thundering Underdogs and Bubblegum Cool (Skyforger Interview)

28/07/2015

When we write our songs, we don’t really care if the riff is heavy metal, thrash or death or black metal or whatever, we just care if it sounds good. Skyforger interview...

Facets of True Beauty: Chong-Il Woo

27/07/2015

Not only are Woo’s subjects physically striking, but the historical significance of their roles within Korean history demonstrates how integral one’s culture is to one’s essence of being....

Loitered Lens: Misterwives

26/07/2015

Pinned between the pre pubescent girls, horny dads and the PA system, Carl Byron Batson frames Misterwives at Islington O2...

New Strats and Teles : Reconditioning Guitars for Sound Lounge

25/07/2015

The idea that a loved but untouched instrument can find a new and noble home is one that warms the hearts of many musicians. As it did with Sound Lounge / Fair Frets founder Keiron Marshall when he...

If I ran the economy…

24/07/2015

The fact that our market is distorted enough that millions of working families now need state help to meet basic living costs is the problem. Not the ‘scroungers’ ...

Monthly Metal and Melancholy Menace : Cradle of Filth, Orchid….

23/07/2015

This is probably Cradle of Filth 's best album in a while, being neither immediately accessible (and so disposable) or opaquely impenetrable (and so rubbish)....

The Black Guy in the Middle: Skindred’s Benji Webbe

21/07/2015

‘Look, humour me, just try it. Do some dancehall stuff on top of the punk we do’. Next thing you know we’re called Dub War and we've got a record deal. - Benji Webb...

Finding the Child Inside : Kathy Curtis Cahill

20/07/2015

My main interest is still people and their inner selves hidden behind the public face. I am looking for ways to show that still vulnerable child inside....

Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy

19/07/2015

Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that....

Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate

18/07/2015

The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses....

Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

Reverend Horton Heat, Islington Academy.

16/07/2015

During a dusty warm front in old London town, Reverend Horton Heat and his punkabilly ensemble took to the stage at Islington Academy...

3 Weeks to Go! Countdown to Bloodstock!

15/07/2015

BLOODSTOCK HQ is a-buzz with activity with just over three weeks to go!...

Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

15/07/2015

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album's worth of music in seven or eight minutes....

Bass, Beats, Bumps and Bees. (Peru Boom)

14/07/2015

Bass, bleeps, beats and bumps from Peru's underground dance scene. What's that doing here, and can it revive a flagging bee found comotose in the reviewer's garden? Peru Boom 2015...

An Uncanny Phenomenon: Wild Kingdom (Clayton Campbell)

13/07/2015

Los Angeles media artist Clayton Campbell unveils a difference in perception between today’s society and past generations'...

Loitered Lens : Magenta

12/07/2015

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

11/07/2015

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

Moving glass, Bending Light. Linda Sue Price (Interview)

10/07/2015

Experience neon in a new way — not as a sign — rather as fluidly moving glass ...

Boys on parade (Beasts)

09/07/2015

It’s an unspoken thing really, whether we play to five people or a thousand, it just comes out naturally. As soon as we start playing it just happens for us....

No Ruinporn Here. Altstadt Echo Modern Cathedrals pt. 1 & 2

07/07/2015

Modern Cathedrals label founder Altstadt Echo steers between these two seductive poles, resisting the temptation to sonically contribute to the proliferation of Detroitian ruinporn ...

Loitered Lens : The Movielife

06/07/2015

Proving time hasn’t dampened the punk rock spirit or the sheer energy of The Movielife....

Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

05/07/2015

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub's technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats....

Flights of Fancy and an Unwanted Runway

04/07/2015

The UK has not built a full-length runway in the South East since World War 2. Should it?...

Let’s carry on from where we left off (The Movielife)

03/07/2015

For a band who most thought would never reunite (including the band themselves) this return to the stage was grasped with relish....

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

Duchamp, Cy Twombly and outrageous family (Chenhung Chen)

01/07/2015

If one wants to be an artist it’s because they need to be one. The desire must come from within. It’s not something I believe can be recommended to someone. Chenhung Chen...

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