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Steve Vai announces Tour/Album

06/08/2012

Virtuoso guitarist and visionary composer Steve Vai is set to release a new solo album of original material, on September 11th (in the UK) called ‘The Story Of Light’. the album does feature...

Playmates: How playfulness attracts partners

06/08/2012

playfulness may serve an evolutionary role in human mating preferences by signaling positive qualities to potential long-term mates. Just as birds display bright plumage or coloration, men may...

Oscar Mulero: Black Propaganda

06/08/2012

With Britain in the grip of near-compulsory enthusiasm for a militarised circus of corruption on an epic scale, there can hardly be a better time to be listening to an album entitled Black...

Araxie Kutchukian: Beyond

05/08/2012

Araxie likes to keep it fresh, sees her paintings as a platform, a stage for the contemporary and antique at the same time. Changing scales and working against the viewer’s expectations make her...

Beacons Festival

04/08/2012

The impressive line-up of music at Beacons will be joined by an equally innovative range of attractions. Guerilla theatrics, superior cuisine, real ale, leftfield party spaces and roaming...

In the Land of Never Was

04/08/2012

In the Land of Never Was: The Last, Desperate Hours of Climate Chaos Deniers‪ and Capitalist Rah-Rahs‬ Often, the world… forever unfolding, recombining, morphing, dying and transforming…...

The Sun Explodes: Emergence

03/08/2012

'this ballsy new convergence of metal/rock/prog/post-hardcore/electronica'...

Constellation des Carpates: Eglise de Seignosse le Penon [Live]

03/08/2012

Writing about live music on the Capbreton-Hossegor-Seignosse strip of South-Western France has the tendency to become a 'What I did On My Holidays' essay. An essay featuring more blonde-dreadlocked...

Metropolis; Hawks and Sparrows; Pigsty

03/08/2012

In a nice antidote to blockbuster season, there is much food for thought to be had in three of this week's DVD releases. (I doubt the debate surrounding the Batman shooting will last for long, and...

Spiritualized – London.

02/08/2012

“The thread that runs through all Spiritualized albums is that I am obsessed with music and the way we put it together. And if I have learned one thing in all the time I have been making music, it...

Crime and the City Solution tour!!

31/07/2012

One of key moments in anyone’s life has to be the moment they discover the amazing shimmering walls of noise that is a crime and the city solution album. or even THAT scene from Wings of Desire...

Two Fingers (Amon Tobin) announces new album

31/07/2012

Amon Tobin, the most uncompromising artist on an uncompromising record label, demands a dedicated listener. Brittle, beautiful, but always disappearing just out of easy cognition, Tobin’s music...

Korean Eye 2012: Saatchi Gallery

31/07/2012

This month there are many things inspiring me, but one that really catches the eye is the arrival of contemporary Korean art from 33 artists including Debbie Han, Seon Ghi Bahk, Ji Yen Lee and Myung...

Tickets on Sale for Cambridge Folk Festival 2013

30/07/2012

The eternal wheel just keeps turning. For some that may mean the hopes of transcendence to a higher plane of existence once they have parted this brief life. For others less hopeful, it is the grim...

The Dark Knight Deflates

30/07/2012

SPOILER WARNING: this review contains essential plot details of the film but it may save you from wasting three hours in air-conditioned semi-darkness. Ever since Frank Miller created the template...

Sleep Deprivation Makes Complex Tasks More Difficult

29/07/2012

Lack of sleep makes you slower and a bit useless at complex tasks? Doh! Anyone with a newborn can tell you that. The phenomenon is not universally accepted though, at least not amongst those whose...

Ben Young: Victory Gallery, Oregon

29/07/2012

Ben Young i think i’m free When I was given the role of art writer for Trebuchet magazine I knew instantly that I wanted to write about new and emerging artists to relay exhibitions that people...

An Olympic Damper: How Rubbish Humans Really Are at Sports

28/07/2012

Slower, Lower, Weaker. Well, we can’t use the proper Olympics motto in a Trebuchet news item, lest we get lynched by a team of predatory lawyers hellbent on protecting the copyright phrases and...

After the Fireworks: 4th July, Higgs Boson, and notions of independence

28/07/2012

On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year's perfunctory, Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN...

Writing with only your eyes

27/07/2012

“One can also imagine that, on the long term, eye movements can routinely be used in man-machine interactions”, and doubtless, Jean Lorenceau’s research into ways to improve the...

Americana International Festival 2012

27/07/2012

While wandering around my first ever festival, Reading 1989, I came across a stall selling a selection of badges, one of which portrayed a Confederate flag....

Energy drinks/alcohol in casual sex shocker

26/07/2012

'drinking Red Bull/vodka or Jagerbombs doesn't necessarily lead people to get drunk and become intimate with strangers, but it does increase the odds of doing so' There are times when the prim,...

Stopping binge-eating with food colouring

25/07/2012

Take some students, give them a tube of Pringles, put them in front of a tv screen. Apparently, they’ll eat less of the (actually brand-unspecified) potato chips if, at a regular interval,...

Invisible in London: Understanding Invisible Art

25/07/2012

Anyone living in London will have noticed that in preparation for the Olympic Games, a myriad of shiny new buildings, facades and artworks are materializing all over our City. This weekend I...

Velvet Underground and Nico Reissues

24/07/2012

One for the completists. Universal Records will be releasing a 45th Anniversary Edition of the seminal Velvet Underground & Nico, across 6 discs, on October 1st. A chance to revisit, or discover,...

Mod Wins Cycle Race

24/07/2012

Bradley Wiggins, the winner of the 2012 Tour de France, is known to favour the music of sixties ‘mod bands’ over what currently passes for popular music....

SeaFox: The Underwater Drone

23/07/2012

Rooftop-mounted misslile emplacements and high-altitude military drones have made UK headlines recently, and with good reason. Suspecting the ever-growing security presence surrounding the Olympic...

Peter Broderick: These Walls of Mine

23/07/2012

‘…composing and playing music is just a pretty sophisticated way to do those things we do, but why? Because we were separated in the big bang – and are now endlessly trying to find...

Stereotypes and Swiss Interns: An Academic in Africa

22/07/2012

You move to a country like Nigeria, and you instantly don’t want to conform to, or believe any of the stereotypes that your pinko-lefty-post-colonial-post-modern-feminist-queory-post-structuralist...