Neurosis and Godflesh to Play London Show

03/09/2012

Having recently divulged details of the brand new studio album, Honor Found In Decay by Neurosis and their ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival appearance, we can now proudly announce a very...

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Free Download: Sarin Smoke

03/09/2012

Sarin Smoke give away 'Upsound' in anticipation of the release of their album, Vent, on September 17th ...

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Declan Sinnott: I Love the Noise it Makes

03/09/2012

Adult Acoustic. A domain legendarily populated by the troubled, drunk, sex mad, violent and jail-prone stereotypes that rarely trouble the charts, but in Declan Sinnott they might be given a...

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Glass Half Full?

02/09/2012

The speed at which an alcoholic beverage is drunk will influence the level of intoxication experienced, and also the number of drinks consumed in a single drinking session. Therefore, slowing...

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Loitered Lens: Public Image Limited

02/09/2012

Bowie may have snubbed the closing ceremony, Fatboy Slim may have been caught miming by the second loop of the supposedly live soundtrack, and the faint strains of the Sex Pistols may well have been...

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Angry and Distracted Pt2

01/09/2012

There exists one requisite trait needed to face evil: The knowledge of one's own capacity for embodying the trait. Inseparable, treachery and redemption arrive together. The human heart, capable of...

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The ‘Buffy Effect’ and Violent Media

31/08/2012

"Positive depictions of women challenge negative stereotypes even when the content includes sexuality and violence. In this way Ferguson reminds us that viewers often process popular media portrayals...

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Making a Cult of Yourself: Hubbard Vs Crowley [Conclusion]

31/08/2012

The last years of Hubbard’s life saw him deposed as leader and reduced to a figurehead in a de facto coup, led by young scientologists who had actually been born into the cult. Their argument being...

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Richie Sambora Threatens UK Tour

30/08/2012

Richie Sambora, legendary rock musician and founding member of Bon Jovi, has confirmed a string of European tour dates including a show in Londonat O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on the 16th October....

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Newrising: The Half Moon, Putney

30/08/2012

Now call me old-fashioned but I do believe that some musical styles should not be combined. Reggae, funk and folk are all great genres of music, but like tequila, bourbon and cherry cola, some...

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UFOMammut release track 3 from Oro: Opus Alter

29/08/2012

The release of the second and final installment of UFOMAMMUT’s ORO album series, ORO: Opus Alter, is on the horizon, with a street date of September 17th via Neurot Recordings. In preparation for...

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Fringe, It’s Quatertastic!

29/08/2012

Insectoid Martian colonizers buried for millions of years under an East End tube station, hauntings by ghosts of extra-terrestrials, biological food vats that turn out to be alien life forms...

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Teengirl Fantasy Live Dates

28/08/2012

'a form of discourse between the band and their instruments'. Coo! Does it count if it's just the keyboardist shouting at the pitchbend wheel for being sticky? The rest of the description...

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Childishness and Cockroaches: An Academic in Africa

28/08/2012

Just as we were about to start, Andrew appeared on the other side of the fence, waxing wroth. Why had we broken into his field, who did we think we were, we had no permission to play there etc.,...

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Bagheera: Swift

27/08/2012

Kipling and Disney aside though, the name Bagheera is now being laid claim to by a Swiss groove metal band, whose debut album Drift will see release on Domino records on October 5th....

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Cambridge Rock Festival 2012

27/08/2012

You could criticise the festival bill for relying on unashamed nostalgia acts as headliners, and especially for the way more forward-looking acts like Maschine, Winter in Eden, Kyrbgrinder or Panic...

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King Krule/Rinse

26/08/2012

King Krule -the primary creative vessel for 17-year-old south east London-based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshall- is readying its latest release, a double A-side single featuring two...

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Loitered Lens: Drunken Balordi [Photos]

26/08/2012

'The night started with what appeared to be an Irish folk band taking the stage – Drunken Balordi comprised a singer/acoustic guitarist wearing an Irish pub t-shirt, bass guitarist, violinist,...

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Angry, and Distracted. Pt1

25/08/2012

Unless communal space can be reclaimed and our innate humanity re-established, to paraphrase Kafka: There is infinite hope but not for us. Exploitative social arrangements, throughout history, carry...

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Feed the Rhino: Hevy Fest

24/08/2012

In an age where (a little sadly) aesthetics are as important to the hardcore scene as musical ability, Feed The Rhino cover all of the bases – as one hipster said to another, “we’ve gotta catch...

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Hubbardites Vs Crowleyites Pt 3

24/08/2012

If the current management of the Church of Scientology were not so keen to airbrush all aspects of its founder’s life and work we would have a much clearer idea of his motives for infiltrating...

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Sexy Sea Slugs Take the Pain

23/08/2012

They keep having sex even when they don't need to for reproductive purposes. They keep on having sex despite the act being 'an extravagant ritual that involves a syringe-like penile appendage that...

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The Mercy House: Interview

23/08/2012

The genre obsessions have to stop, I guess something is going right when everyone becomes the great ‘opinionizer’, but I think that’s what can be exciting about music, take something out of the...

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[NSFW] John Palatinus: Vintage Male Physique

23/08/2012

“There was a whole group, a small community of dedicated people who wanted to show their progress. I think it is important when you are young and beautiful to be photographed so you can look back...

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BLOCatastrophe

22/08/2012

After what I experienced at Bloc I have to admit that I and thousands of others were completely taken in by the promise of a professionally-run event in an innovative new venue with an incredible...

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Anklepants (Reechard Farché)

22/08/2012

Anklepants is the electronic barrel organ of your Freudian nightmares . The nightmares where you are being psychoanalyzed by a traveling salesman with a penis for a face. It's a silly stuff that...

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Devil Sold His Soul [Live]

21/08/2012

Then, coming to the end of a great set, disaster strikes. “This is our last song”, announces Ed. We’re treated to the opening guitar line of what I suspect was ‘Darkness Prevails’, before...

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Turmeric: Virus Killer

21/08/2012

"I know this works. I know it works because I have seen it happen in real life," Narayanan says. "I eat it every day. I make it a point of adding it to vegetables I cook. Every single day."...

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Twitter Storms

21/08/2012

It’s dangerous, people are not who they seem on the internet. Inside those twitter storms (I’ve had a few) there are usually one or two who hang around for a week or so, its easy to pick up...

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Basinski/LCO [Live Review]

20/08/2012

The story of these Disintegration Loops already carries great emotional weight. Basinski completed the work of producing new originals from his damaged tapes on September 11th, 2001 and spent the...

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