Calling Dirtbags! Wheatus UK Tour (Playing Debut Album in Full)

At least one band from before the days of iTunes & Spotify have found a way forward. Wheatus tour....

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Septic September Metal Mania (The Sword, Cattle Decapitation, Ahab)

Album reviews whilst throwing a basket of kittens into an industrial shredder in the name of Hamas and Communism...

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Twisted Theory. Unravelling the Mechanics of Knots

New model predicts the force required to tie simple knots....

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Not in it to Win it – Calling Out The Bernie Sanders Bluff

The barriers that Sanders cannot overcome involve the manner in which the Democratic Party primary system is devised...

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They’re Floaty Light! Levitating Glowing Nanodiamonds

Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum ...

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Staying Classy Whilst Skirting the Edge of Cheese (Praying Mantis)

Praying Mantis play polished twin-guitar hard rock, more AOR than metal. It's a long way from NWOBHM, although they were always on the melodic side...

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On Thin Ice. What Will Polar Bears Eat After Global Warming?

Polar bears marooned on land might, where the conditions are right, stave off starvation by turning to alternate food sources....

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Painting the Broken American Dream (Louie Metz)

Scantily clad figures whose blank stares emit an aura of disillusionment. Louie Metz paints the seedy and the saddened. ...

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Sunshine on a Rainy Day : Splitting Water Molecules for Clean Energy

Rice University researchers demo solar water-splitting technology ...

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Many beats, no Spreadsheets. Pattern of Excel (Lee Bannon)

Pattern of Excel must qualify as Bannon’s most experimental venture yet....

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Energy for You, Energy for Your Car : Storing Fuel in Coffee Grounds

Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane...

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Loitered Lens: Mother’s Cake (Brixton Academy)

Photos from Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015....

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Even Sitting Still, Police are Prone to Injury

Police at risk of traffic injuries in stopped cars, as well as when speeding, study finds ...

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Acoustic Americana & My Nebraska (Warren Haynes)

Interview with Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers and Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes on Ashes & Dust...

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Are You Next? Fizzy Drinks and Cardiac Arrest : The Link

Carbonated drinks linked with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin ...

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Explora: Morose Dynamism for a Renewed Euphoria (Florian Kupfer)

In Explora, Florian Kupfer's stated influence from the bleak Berlin winter seems evident...

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Handmade, Limited, New. The Next Swans Album… in YOUR Hands

Swans handmade 2xLive CD, The Gate, Limited to 2500 Copies! Available now. ...

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Love, Fear and the Time Machine (Riverside)

Not only the best album of Riverside's career, but a strong contender for album of the year...

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Staging a Skyfall : How to Bring Down a Satellite

Controlled Skyfall - How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement ...

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Documenting The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris)

LA’s early hardcore punk, eighties hair metal and the gutter-punk scene, lovingly filmed by Penelope Spheeris...

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More Cash, Less Ash. Raising pay can reduce smoking rates

Raising pay can reduce smoking rates ...

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Loitered Lens: Limp Bizkit (Brixton Academy)

Photos from Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015....

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Want more Female IT Professionals? Make Computer Rooms Less Geeky

University of Washington set about working out how to make IT classrooms less daunting...

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UK Culture is Becoming a Dead Parrot. What do you want? Cash?

The Warwick report offers sensible guidelines for the future of UK Culture. But will anyone in power heed it?...

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More Women at Work, More Murders. Gender Equality and Homicide Increase

The greater a country's gender equality in employment, the higher its homicide rate ...

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They’re still here, but have they still got it? (Motörhead)

Motörhead : With their 22nd album Bad Magic, have the legends still got it?...

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An uncompromising sonic attack: Damnation Festival

2015 promises to be an 11th installment of Damnation Festival to remember. Leeds November 7th 2015...

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Pop a cap on your head. Limp Bizkit rock Brixton

Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015. ...

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We Can Predict that For You Wholesale? Murder Forecasting hits real life.

New knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide...

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Legends of music congregate for the faithful (Ramblin’ Man Fair 2015)

It was a weekend to wear your denim (double or triple) and not to care too deeply about musical fashions, time, or even bad behaviour. ...

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