Beastie Boy – Adam Yauch 1964-2012 RIP

04/05/2012

It has been reported that Beastie Boy Adam Yauch lost his fight with cancer today. It's a sad day for partying, tibetan freedom and intelligent hip hop.  Rest in peace.1964 – 2012 BBC...

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City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch

04/05/2012

City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch. News work by challenging the edge of music. …  Cathy Lane – Tweed Cathy Lane – Hidden Lives Viv Corringham –...

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Remote Flying Spycams make Sci-Fi a Reality

04/05/2012

Flying robot cameras, once the preserve of sci-fi, enter final development stages. A recent viral YouTube video showed formation-flying quadrocopters with anti-collision technology and...

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Small Faces: Deluxe Editions

04/05/2012

A seminal collection of songs, in the word's true sense. Unfortunately, so abused is the adjective that we tend to read on, having taken it to mean some glib variation of 'good'. In...

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Vive le Punk’n’Roll: The Grits & Gypsy Hotel

03/05/2012

Vive Le Rock Magazine in association with Gypsy Hotel Proudly Presents: VIVE LE PUNK’N’ROLL! STARRING: THE GRIT – London’s premier Punk’N’Fuck”N”Roll...

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Head-exploding zombie ants

03/05/2012

Let's get this straight. There is a fungus. It attacks the brain of ants. OK. The fungus causes ants to march off to a mass ant grave. Cripes. Then the fungus spores explode out of the ants'...

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Mo Fox: Poems

03/05/2012

A Thousand Pockets Ah well, I remember you kissed weirdly because you used hold your big cat eyes open, watching me as we did it. I used close mine but opened them to watch you as we did it....

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Dopamine impacts your willingness to work

02/05/2012

If you're reading this on one of those slick, white pieces of computer technology that are designed by a company who take great pleasure in marketing themselves as the counterculture, ex-hippy,...

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De Profundis: The Emptiness Within

02/05/2012

'describing it as "extreme" is pushing things a little'. Trebuchet's Tim Hall takes issue with genre headings. The Emptiness Within is the third album by this British-based...

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Supersonic festival Celebrates 10 years

01/05/2012

Supersonic is one of Trebuchet's favourite festivals of the year.  It's so good that normally people are blown away by the music… there is just too much unmissable greatness. ...

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Trace Elements: Weakending

01/05/2012

As the week draws to its close, that trusty old question “What are you getting up to this weekend?” will doubtless be asked in workplaces across the land. Weekends are the pay-off after...

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Big girls Don’t Cry: Adolescent women resist negative body image

01/05/2012

So linked are the concepts of body-image and self-esteem in our minds that the premise of this news article prompts a double-take. In fact, there is no reason to assume that the two should be linked...

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UK ISPs Ordered to Block Pirate Bay

30/04/2012

UK internet service providers must block access to The Pirate Bay, a High Court ruling has pronounced today. Destined to be a very unpopular move with internet users, the ruling will nevertheless be...

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A berry-rich diet key to retaining memory skills

30/04/2012

A new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital found that certain berries may delay memory decline in older women. A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) finds that a...

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Black Sabbath announce intimate Birmingham show

30/04/2012

Trebuchet loves the Sabbath. So Much.  This is going to be very cool.  Read what our writers have had to say about Sabbath in the past.  Birmingham's loudest sons Black Sabbath...

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Acclaimed poet Brendan Cleary in cult magazine relaunch!

30/04/2012

Like the lust of my midnight phoenix bad poetry seems to die and be reborn every three years.    There'll be some event, movie, appointment that brings it into the public eye and...

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Slimey Guys and Cuddling Homophobes: An Academic in Africa

30/04/2012

'when she walked out she did so limping heavily and ostentatiously, when she’d walked in not limping at all'. Things get a bit 'domestic' in Nigeria. In other news, Julius has...

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Tricky, Maxinquaye: Live – Manchester

29/04/2012

“I drink ‘til I’m drunk”. Maybe we all have something in common. Warrington, I missed my stop. Luckily I met a nice pair of ladies in Lizzy and Jenni (note. A soft Scottish...

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Tackling Weight Problems with Hormonal Stimulants

29/04/2012

A drug that can make you skinny? Didn't we already have that one? Ask Iggy Pop…. New drug to tackle fat problems Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the...

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The Bermondsey Joyriders: Noise and Revolution

28/04/2012

The Bermondsey Joyriders’ Noise and Revolution is a detoured route through the cultural backroads of pre-revolutionary London. A journey that comes with a large dose of rootsy musical knowledge,...

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Onefest – The Coldest Festival of the Season

28/04/2012

Onefest.  First Festival of the Year, or Coldest Festival of the Year. The festival season kicks off in mid-April with Onefest, which claims to be the first festival of the year, or could be the...

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Living Beyond the ‘Folded Lie’: Part Two

28/04/2012

Wall Street is again flush with the electronic facsimile of the stuff once known as money. But this is a Botox Recovery Both economic depression and so-called psychological depression are engendered...

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Drop the big weights. Lower resistance leads to better muscle growth.

27/04/2012

Lifting less weight, more often, leads to better muscle growth. It's hardly the established approach, nor does it lend itself as well to the post-workout bragging sessions about how many kilos...

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Hannah Cohen: Child Bride

27/04/2012

Hannah Cohen’s debut album Child Bride seems a fitting April/May release for those of us that are struggling through transition of the awkward weather and mishaps of general life, but should you...

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Roadrunner Records to Close Europe Office?

26/04/2012

Industry sources say that seminal metal label Roadrunner is to close its Europe Offices.  Speaking to Trebuchet earlier today it was revealed that Roadrunner records is to close it's Europe...

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Location/existence of the g-spot scientifically confirmed

26/04/2012

It's a glacial process, for women, having the realities of their sexual health determined and documented. The mere existence of clitoris or orgasm have only been annotated by western physicians...

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Musicians from Isis and Deftones form new band – Palms

26/04/2012

Musicians from Isis and Deftones form new band - Palms...

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Tribalism is a luxury

26/04/2012

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize this very week, Lisa Ansell brings a very personal set of convictions to her writing. More than simple commentary, Ansell's own circumstances imbue her politics...

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Chocolate Beats Heart Disease

25/04/2012

Sweeeet! San Diego, CA— Chocolate, considered by some to be the "food of the gods," has been part of the human diet for at least 4,000 years; its origin thought to be in the region...

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Avaaz petition: Jeremy Hunt Must Go.

25/04/2012

As the Leveson inquiry continues, depressing a nation by holding a mirror up to it's own moribund fascinations with celebrity reproduction, new and startling revelations arise.  Sometimes...

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