Bill Ward will not join Black Sabbath on tour

16/05/2012

This tour is cursed. Statement on Upcoming Black Sabbath Shows Dear Sabbath Fans and Fellow Musicians, I sincerely regret to inform you that after a final effort to participate in the upcoming...

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Mindless Self Indulgence to Tour

16/05/2012

The four-headed and many-limbed beast that is Mindless Self Indulgence has woken up after a three year slumber to ravage the UK with their ever unique brand of musical mayhem and stage-destroying...

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Theatre of Trolls – Masquerade Ball

16/05/2012

'The wretched, the beautiful, the horned-nosed and sweet-bosomed soon strutted and strolled before me.' Andrew Maitland Southern falls hard for a comely bust. It's not every day the...

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Sex and Death – Exhibition

15/05/2012

This spring, 20 Earlham Street will host a celebration of art and design, bringing their worlds together in a dynamic and holistic way to explore the historically recurring relationship between...

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Bloodstock

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion

15/05/2012

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion...

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Bad boys are more attractive when seen through ‘ovulation goggles’

15/05/2012

'Ovulation goggles'. You heard it here first. No, seriously. 'Ovulation goggles', in a proper, academic press release. Thanks to research conducted by Kristina Durante (assistant...

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Vengeance and the Panther Queen: EP Review

15/05/2012

Cramming in the pyrotechnic axe-wizardry of metal, the chundering drums of dance, and the infantile personal politics of punk. Vengeance and the Panther Queen sometimes get it right. Without even...

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Animal Collective announce new album

14/05/2012

Baltimore's Animal Collective announce release dates for their unpronounceable tenth album : Centipede Hz NEW ALBUM – CENTIPIDE Hz – Monday 3rd September 2012 (UK)/Tuesday 4th...

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Lizard spit helps you lose weight

14/05/2012

Could this be the germ of truth in the frog-kissing myth? Those princesses always look delightfully slim after all. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have uncovered a, seemingly obvious,...

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1234 – Action 01! : Richmix : Savages

14/05/2012

Tonight is one of four warm-up parties to 1234 Shoreditch festival at the Richmix on Bethnal Green Road : Featuring the Savages...

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US Army to compost surplus explosives

13/05/2012

But are your exploding vegetables organic? University of Arizona researchers are studying the environmental effects of insensitive munitions compounds, or IMCs, which are new, more stable explosives...

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Loitered Lens: Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers

13/05/2012

Legendary Shack Shakers - 04/23/12 London Underworld United Kingdom. ...

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Smartphones and human interaction

12/05/2012

Just remember the music industry maxim: 'nobody with a smartphone has the authority to write you a cheque'. With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging...

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The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos with the Hungry Ghosts of a Corporate State

12/05/2012

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural...

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Crime & the City Solution Gearing Up for Tour

11/05/2012

Crime and the City Solution and planning a tour. Oh great spirit this rarest of events has flashed the cloud crossed heavens with elation.  Crime and the city solution NEVER tour… ever....

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Art. A mirror to reflect society, or a hammer to shape it?

11/05/2012

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?               But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,...

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Icarus Line: You make your own L.A. reality: interview

11/05/2012

"You make your own L.A. reality "Trebuchet interviews Joe Cardamone, lead singer of The Icarus Line to talk through life and touring. ...

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Restricting wi-fi access can’t curb territorial customers

10/05/2012

Oh yeah, you know it. And they haven't even mentioned the wars that take place for control of the plug socket…. CHESTNUT HILL, MA (May 8, 2012) – Increasingly "plugged-in"...

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New Order

Loitered Lens: New Order [Photos]

10/05/2012

Photos of New Order...

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Viagra: Heartwarming alternative use

09/05/2012

A lovely story. Firstly because it gives us the opportunity to come up with gleeful screamer headlines about giving kids Viagra. Not going to deny it, that's a gift. More importantly though,...

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The Mercy House: Barfly, London.

09/05/2012

The Mercy House are getting a reputation for reinventing smartrock for a new generation. But will it blend?  The Mercy House have the right musical mixture for the times, simultaneously...

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Maximo Park: New Single/Video

08/05/2012

If you enjoyed This is England, you'll recognize Thomas Turgoose in this. Maximo Park's “Hips and Lips” single and “The National Health” LP out June 11 on V2/...

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A different kind of gas giant.

08/05/2012

What's that smell? Sauropod dinosaurs could have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet....

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The Pork Gene

08/05/2012

Pork chops, bacon, sausages, stew. Your mouth may be watering just from reading their names. Or perhaps it's gone bone-dry and you're trying desperately to rid your mind of the images....

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‘Offensive’, ‘Repugnant’: An Academic in Africa

08/05/2012

'the senators asked to vote on this bill must have been mystified', DR reports on the fight to make homosexuality in Nigeria even more illegal. I read an interesting story the other...

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Elvis Costello & The Imposters : The Revolver Tour DVD

07/05/2012

Elvis Costello: The Revolver Tour DVD is the quintessential live document – imperfect, improvised, unusual and reactive.   Rarely does a UK musician make his love of the Grateful Dead...

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Groof: Reality Fails

07/05/2012

'In the best tradition of Spanish minimal techno', Codex Europa reviews Roberto Gemelin's techno project Groof. Groof is veteran Spanish producer Roberto Gemelín a.k.a. Robert...

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Too Many Batgirls

06/05/2012

Shameful use of the word'batgirl' in the title, we'll admit. But it worked…. Early spring means more bat girls There must be something in the warm breeze. A study on bats by a...

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Band and Brand: The View from the Corporation

06/05/2012

Music and arts fans are used now to seeing the debate on artist sponsorship portrayed from the point of view of the artist. Sacha Taylor-Cox voices it from the brand's side. What is less...

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What’s your dog really thinking about?

05/05/2012

Do you really want to know what your dog is thinking? What if it's really cynical, fully aware that it can gull you into free food and shelter in return for some silly rolling around with its...

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