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Headphone Def Culture

15/10/2012

The tobacco industry was, for many years, adept at concealing the health dangers of smoking. There may well be detailed research on the long term effects of self-determined, persistent, decibel...

Loitered Lens: Sleepy Sun

14/10/2012

'All eyes were on Sleepy Sun. They hypnotized, mesmerized, and with a click of a finger they were gone and an almighty surge began for the smoking area.'...

We Are Waltham Forest defeat the EDL

13/10/2012

The end of the Victoria line proved to be the end of the road for the EDL’s misguided aspirations to flaunt their imagined superiority....

Hanging Offence: Transition Gallery

12/10/2012

'We are always looking for new ideas and artists to show. There is no point in us doing what the big galleries do'. Transition Gallery's Cathy Lomax talks to Trebuchet ...

ADMX-71: Second System

11/10/2012

'increasingly powerful percussion that should wreak devastation played on a big system' ADMX-71's Second System ticks all the right boxes for Trebuchet's reviewer....

Foreign Invaders Cost Taxpayer £1.7bn

10/10/2012

An acceptable price to pay?...

Sankara: Guided By Degrees

10/10/2012

At an LP-length forty minutes it's a record that doesn't outstay it's welcome, and there's no room for much in the way of filler. ...

Loitered Lens: The London Punk Festival

09/10/2012

Punk is dead? Well no-one told the mass of sweating, heaving bodies, young, old (some maybe a little too old) who were dancing, sweating, singing and generally having a right old time at...

Hanging Offence: Charlotte Jansen [Art]

09/10/2012

Trebuchet: What do you dislike most about art? Charlotte Jansen: Pretentiousness....

Interview: Hey Colossus

08/10/2012

How do you think the current coalition government will end? "If you think we're a doom band I suppose our answer would be that everything ends eventually..."...

Mad Sin: 25 Years ‘Still Mad’

08/10/2012

Personally I’d rather see them live or listen to Burn and Rise, but this is an ideal Halloween present for any hardcore fan with a Mad Sin patch sewn onto their sleeveless denim jacket. And it’s...

Loitered Lens: Anneke Van Giersbergen

07/10/2012

Anneke Van Giersbergen brings it to London's Borderline. Photoessay....

Grieving for Greed Pt.2

06/10/2012

'Cell phones and bottled water were proffered to strangers. As night fell, candles flickered in public squares; there was the sound of sobbing and impromptu singing. The scene seemed like a cross...

The Man With the Neutron Gun

05/10/2012

'If you want to pull off this kind of high-wire surrealist polemic, you need to write with confidence and daring. Even if your daily existence off the page is fractured by neurotic behaviour...

One Mile an Hour [Album]

04/10/2012

Perhaps the music should be taken in the context of entertainment to fill six months of darkness with little more than cod heads, limpets and puffin broth for sensual pleasures. ...

Modern Day Mesmerism

04/10/2012

Many people are familiar with ‘Hypnotism’ in it’s various forms such as Stage Hypnosis and Hypno-therapies, and its modern hyper-packaged cousin ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming’....

Curiously, as they get older The Peacocks seem to mutate into a band that will appeal to a younger audience. The music may not be breaking any musical boundaries, but they retain their youthful anger...

Interview: Paul Hardcastle – 19 Below Zero

03/10/2012

'I do use technology a lot, I always have done'. Paul Hardcastle talks to Trebuchet about 'Nineteen', sampling, dance music, technology and his new album 19 Below Zero...

Missy Le Pink: London Crawlin’

02/10/2012

Now that the crossfire has died down, Col. Jon pokes his head up from behind the outhouse to review Viva Le Pink's London Crawlin' EP. Warning: Contains the word 'Psychobilly'. ...

Dylan Mondegreen [Album Review]

02/10/2012

A soft-voiced collection of slick popsongs in the fey, beta-male mode...

Loitered Lens: Howlin’ Rain

01/10/2012

They started firing shots from the guitar like armour piercing rounds, and with that you just knew this was going be jaw-droppingly brilliant. ...

Grieving for Greed. Welteschmerz Pt. 1

30/09/2012

If the end of the commercialist capitalist empire gets you down, the right thing to do is to grieve for it. Then move on....

Nico: The End [Reissue]

29/09/2012

A tragic end to a tragic life. Carl Batson on the life and career of Nico, in time for the reissue of her album, The End...

Bong [Album Reissue]

28/09/2012

Bong's self-titled debut album was always a pain to get hold of. Which is why they're re-releasing the doom metal classic on Ritual Productions...

Dexys [Live]

27/09/2012

Taking to the stage under a cloak of near darkness, a simple piano plays the first bars of ‘Now’ before Rowland’s unmistakable voice cuts through like a razor, steeped in memories of anguish,...

Landing on Earth 2012: The Wapping Project

27/09/2012

The post-industrial Boiler Room of the Wapping Project offers the perfect platform for Ruhs’ gigantic installations made of found material like metal, rubber, ceramics and aluminium scrap, all...

Too Much Monkey Business

26/09/2012

Eleven defining cultural moments featuring gorillas. SWP reports on the City of London's Great Gorilla Run ...

Dum Dum Girls: End of Daze [EP]

25/09/2012

'one of the most brutally honest emotional floods in music', Dum Dum girls channel heartbreak into deftly crafted indie pop....

The Meteors: Doing the Lord’s Work

25/09/2012

Will The Meteors bring anything new to the Psychobilly genre? What if they bring samples and a cover version of 'Paranoid'. What then, flat-top?...

As I Lay Dying: Awakened

24/09/2012

Awakened lacks the complexity of an August Burns Red record, but also manages to avoid the overly commercial pitfalls of later-era Killswitch Engage material. What it does offer is a balanced...

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