Public Image Limited: New Material

Public Image Limited, ready to release. It's been a while coming, about twenty years in all, but PIL are now ready to release the work that they've been recording over the last year....

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Trace Elements: Can I Have A Word?

Several months back at an advertising agency I won’t mention (coughs Billington Cartmell) I was pitching potential straplines for a Panasonic camera campaign. Its artwork featured a suited City...

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Peaking Lights Announce Tour Dates

Floaty loops and rasping feedback, Wisconsin-based Peaking Lights (although they're originally Cali-Friscan) bring their live show to the UK this summer. Dates just announced: Saturday 2nd of...

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Formation-Flying Minibots

Watch the video, then think of the applications. Try not to get too paranoid. Cruise missiles used street mapping technology to pinpoint targets in the first Gulf War, which is a small solace for...

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Proxima: Formal Junction/Grunge

Is Proxima the real product of the lost generation of western European youth? The western Europe that, having drank 10 cans of Tennants Super, thinking it can take on the developing world as a fourth...

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Hangover? Might Be Better Than You Think

Alcoholic drinks aren't generally put into the category of health food, but in some cases they might be just the cure for nasty parasites. That's according to a study published online on February 16...

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Loitered Lens: Saxon [Pics]

One of the leading bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Saxon bring the denim and leather good-times once again!  Wikipedia, is a consensual tool where people build myths, there are...

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Organic Foods May Contain Arsenic

In yet another swingeing attack on the smug middle classes, it turns out that much of what was considered a healthy alternative to the chemical-infused pork-products and sugary beverages so beloved...

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A Journey To The End Of Empire: Pt. 1

It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black "When the poet stands at nadir the world must indeed be upside-down. If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself,...

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FaceBook Targets ‘Faggots’?

It appears that FaceBook consider the word 'faggot' to be an acceptable target word to use when homing their advertising in on gay users. FaceBook's use of a derogatory target keyword, as...

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The British Expeditionary Force: Interview

With scant weeks to go before the March release of their album Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu, The British Expeditionary force are at that tricky pre-publicity point in their album campaign. A spring...

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Nicola Anthony on Colourful Radio

Tune in quick to http://www.colourfulradio.com/weekday/ to catch Trebuchet art columnist Nicola Anthony as the subject of Silvia Krupinska's discussion of her work with the Edible Art Movement....

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Decapitation: An Academic in Africa

I’d like to share a story with you.  It comes from an online newspaper here. Suspected ritualists on Tuesday in Lagos beheaded an unidentified man and chopped off his manhood. Residents of...

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Hugh Laurie Announces Summer Dates

This summer sees Hugh Laurie and the Copper Bottom Band return to the UK to perform their biggest headline shows to date. These new dates are announced following the critical success of the small,...

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Testament to play Bloodstock 2012

Testament announced as special guests at Bloodstock for only UK show of 2012. ...

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Napalm Death Reissue SCUM

So why would Napalm Death want to re-release a record that was LESS loud than on its first outing? It's a relatively complicated subject, but we should welcome the band's entry into the...

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LS Lowry at Nottingham Lakeside

Shooting the White Elephant Like an understanding that only those of us affected would realise (viz., the changing tide and motion, moving beyond motive and motivation, holding kindness and...

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Legendary J.D. Wilkes: interview

The Legendary Shack Shakers never miss and have wowed the hardy fools of the hip underground over the course of six energetic punk blues albums. Inteview with JD Wilkes...

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Elvis Presley Returns: In Concert

If you've ever had difficulty spelling or pronouncing the word 'macabre', this is a wonderful opportunity to practise. Bet you can't get to the end of the press release without at...

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Dadub: Way to Moksha EP

Dadub is a duo of Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti, one of whose inspirations is Lee Scratch Perry. This dub sensibility helps them sculpt impressive new forms from techno and electronica...

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Researchers discover secrets of Chinese herbal remedy

2,000-year-old herb regulates autoimmunity and inflammation BOSTON, Mass. (February 12, 2012)—For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract,...

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Speech Debelle: Freedom of Speech

Calling upon Kwes to produce, Big Dada apply a sonic approach to Speech Debelle's return album that, even this early in the producer's career, tends towards formulaic. It's there right at...

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Loitered Lens: Steve Dior [Pics]

Sid Vicious's last bandmate standing, Steve Dior performs an intimate show, captured live by Trebuchet photographer Carl Batson. ...

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Spanish Kids Don’t Binge

Somehow, this one is slightly difficult to believe. 60 percent of Spanish adolescents state they do not take drugs and rarely drink alcohol Despite the clichés surrounding the habits of...

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The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

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Evile Confirm Neuborn Open Air Festival Date

EVILE have been confirmed for this year's edition of Neuborn Open Air festival, which takes place on 24th and 25th August in Wörrstadt, Germany. Lead guitarist OL DRAKE comments:...

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Spirits, Madness, and Love.

Life as lived in a late empire, in which one's humanity is deemed only worth its value in dollars to the corporate state. Wherein one's identity is flooded by the come-ons and emotional...

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Big Deal Video

Floppy forelocks, clangy guitars, fey femme vocal. You've heard it all before, right? We all have. Indiekids risen from some ever-tightening cyclical regurgitation of style and swagger, this time...

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Into the Unknown: Omar S

Omar S – 'Here’s your trance now dance' We’re here again and it’s another song of the month on dance music. I’m guessing about half have been that way over the...

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Veronica Falls Stream New Single

Recorded just last week, Veronica Falls follow up their eponymously titled album of 2011 with new single 'My Heart Beats'. The band will also be playing a series of live dates in March: 8...

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