Do you hear what I hear? Noise exposure surrounds us

Nine out of 10 city dwellers may have enough harmful noise exposure to risk hearing loss, and most of that exposure comes from leisure activities. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that...

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“By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It”: Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies

Regardless of the dissembling of corporate state propagandists, free market capitalism has always been a government subsidized, bubble-inflating, swindlers’ game, in which, psychopathic...

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What’s Your Poison?: Which Kills You Quicker – Wine or Beer?

Title of the press release: 'Are there differences in mortality among wine consumers and other alcoholic beverages?' Um, doubt it. Not unless Chateau Lafitte has spme hitherto undiscovered...

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Candytree: The Cathode Rain

Candytree have consistently released album for what seems like decades. They exist as something emblematic of persistence. The Cathode Rain is startling is so far as they sound completely rejuvenated...

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Yeah Boyeeeee! Language Learning through hip-hop

Well, there is a certain logic to this. Flava Flav's perennial cry of 'What time is it?' could be useful. Language learning through hip-hop music Listeners can learn new vocabulary...

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Astral Projection and Ableton: Mono/Poly Interview

Paramatma is about the supersoul.., I got it from a Vedic scripture and it talks (about) having the omnipresent god-spirit inside of you, that it’s (Paramatma) the observer and you’re the doer. -...

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First Earth-Sized Planets Found

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a Sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star...

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Fight! An Academic in Africa

I did not really understand about how he owed N20,000 to some sort of workers’ co-op on campus. ...

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Summer Camp Stream Their Christmas Single

Vrey quickly then, before it's all over your radio and driving you mentile…. Summer Camp (they of Welcome To Condale on Moshi Moshi) have just sent us this stream of their (well,...

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Trace Elements: Taboo

So it’s Tuesday morning and I’m writing copy from home for a tobacco firm. What makes it worse ethically and karmically is they’re global. Plus I’ve just noticed the words...

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Red Fang: Tour Dates

RED FANG announces European tour with Mastodon Having just wrapped up their highly successful North American run with Mastodon, RED FANG has confirmed that they will be heading to Europe this Winter...

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DJ Food: The Search Engine

This is the land, where nothing changes, the land of red buses & blue blooded babies, This is the place, where pensioners are raped, And the hearts are being cut, from the welfare state, Let the...

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If Only it Were So Simple: An Algorithm to Predict Hit Songs

Can science predict a hit song? Most people remember listening to the official UK top 40 singles chart and watching the countdown on Top of the Pops, but can science work out which songs are more...

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Loitered Lens: If [Pics]

Who are these men? Where do they come from? How do they keep going? Shut up and pass the gasoline.  A band comes together for so many reasons and after a while the purpose becomes unimportant....

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Physics meet Music, Music meet Physics

An internationally renowned composer and an award-winning violinist, are bringing particle physics to life through a series of classical compositions. The composer Edward Cowie is teaming up with...

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Dying Empire Bebop

Outside my apartment window, across a wind-blown courtyard, the crimson leaves of a white oak are falling into a swirling breeze, revealing the gnarled limbs and stark branches of the time-battered...

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Christopher Hitchens: RIP

Far from being the most popular of journalists within his lifetime (he supported the Iraq wars, intelligently and with erudition, but such taboo thoughts are not popular with the emotional masses),...

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Peter Wyeth: Humming New Time

Found sounds, field recordings, loops. Grabbing them, bringing them together and making music is only one part of the process. Creating a compelling musical narrative from the components is the...

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Nitin Sawhney Presents ‘Spin The Globe’ on BBC R2

Producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral composer Nitin Sawhney brings his eclecticism to BBC Radio 2 in January with a series exploring music from all cultures and...

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Bear Cavalry

No, not the Canadian reinforcement to the mounties. Bear Cavalry, it's a band. A bit math-rock in the guitar figure, a bit strop-rock in the vocal. Tipped by Tom Robinson, Edith Bowman and (a...

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American Classics UK [Pics]

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors,...

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fiN: Live

After touring arenas with Incubus, fiN are back 'on the circuit', in this case the intimate surroundings upstairs at north London's Garage. Energised and ferocious, they're beginning...

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Christmas Presents: Give Less, Impress More. Bargain!

Now this is a piece of psychological research that will come in handy. Adding little additional presents to one big gift not only makes you look dithering and a bit needy, but makes the whole package...

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Riots and Rods of Iron: An Academic in Africa

It is both a curse and a blessing that we don’t know what other people think of us. I am much better than I used to be, but I know that I still spend much of my time in conversation with an...

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Artists’ Families to Benefit from Resales

Interesting to see how this will be greeted by the bottom-feeders. In a follow-on to September's extension of music copyright law, a similar series of benefits have recently been applied to...

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Trace Elements: Twister

I’ve never been to Mumbai, but if their train journeys into work are less overcrowded than London’s, I may outsource myself soon. Plus a mutant insect flew into my mouth I guess I’d...

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Racism Makes You Miserable

See, all that time we'd been worrying about how it feels to be on the receiving end of a rascist or xenophobic rant, we should have been worrying about the frothing bigot instead. Flippancy aside...

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Islet: Illuminated People

Islet's Illumiminated People is awash with the self-indulgence of a band who have little to fear from the ignominy of failure. That's the official line at any rate. Famous now for not being...

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Four-tailed Galaxy Beast

Greedy galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy continues to devour its small neighboring dwarf galaxies, and the evidence is spread out across the sky. A team of astronomers led by Sergey Koposov and Vasily...

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NASA finds its first habitable planet

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface, on a planet close to a sun-like...

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