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Rashid Rana: NAE at Hyson Green

12/03/2012

Rashid Rana’s: Everything Is Happening At Once ...

Alcohol Reduces Stroke Risk

11/03/2012

Hooray! Booze can lessen the risk of women getting strokes. Stop sniggering at the back. Not that kind of stroke. According to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH),...

On Regaining a Spirit of Defiance: Part Two

11/03/2012

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T.S. Eliot The vehemence of the imagination motivates. It rages against oppression, as it, in equal...

In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. For example, the pitch of...

Polymath

10/03/2012

Polymath, 14th April 2012, GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U 6LY ....

Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival

09/03/2012

Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival 29/6 – 1/7 Gilberto Gil – everyone's favourite ex Minister for Culture comes to the UK for the London 2012 Festival. Exploring...

Decibels: The Lesser [single]

09/03/2012

There's a touch of the schoolboy band about Decibels, mainly from the promotional onesheet in which they describe themselves as '5 misfits, finding each other in the woods around...

NinjaTune: Free Tracks for International Women’s Day

08/03/2012

NinjaTune – spotlighting some of the women on their label with a free tracks giveaway. Make what you will of International Women's Day – a timely, albeit paltry acknowledgement of the...

Interview: Ian Jones (KARNATAKA)

08/03/2012

It is very common to hear people moaning about clichés, especially when it comes to our ‘soul feeder’ music. Even Rock music, which once was a controversial movement against the...

2:54 Announce Album and UK Tour

07/03/2012

Everyone's favourite punk, hard-rock, r 'n' b sister duo 2:54 announce the release of their eponymous debut album, 2:54. Maybe it's best not to mention that Collette and Hannah...

Columbus Circle: Blu-Ray Release

07/03/2012

Columbus Circle is one of those films that you find yourself entertained by, but you're not entirely sure if this might be because it's very good, or perhaps instead the kind of very bad...

Share the Pain: What Women Want From Men

06/03/2012

An early contender for the 'Still No Cure For Cancer' award for scientific research into things we all knew already, the American Psychological Association today release the findings of a...

Trace Elements: Romance

06/03/2012

When writing fictional characters, a basic rule is females say it, males show it. In the real world this reveals itself most dramatically when men and woman date, then stop. He’ll often just...

Swedish Band Lingua Call it Quits

05/03/2012

Trebuchet's interview with Lingua in November 2010 teased some lucid quotes from guitarist Misha Sedini, amongst them this psalm to the merits of self-motivation: On our first record, we leaned...

On Regaining a Spirit of Defiance: Part One

05/03/2012

'I'm Worried Now but I Won't Be Worried Long' The course of action taken by the present day U.S. political class in addressing the era's rising tide of economic hardship and...

Earthshine Reflects on the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life

04/03/2012

Some ideas just have a clear beauty of their own that satisfy something primal in us. This one is far from being the most complicated concept, but it does have a symmetrical allure to it that is...

Loitered Lens: Various Cruelties [PICS]

04/03/2012

Various Cruelties at the 100 Club. Photos of a sold-out gig...

Attractive Robotic Fish Developed

03/03/2012

This one is just screaming out for the 'fish 'n' chips' headline. Robotic fish, developed by researchers at NYU-Poly, prove successful at inducing natural fish to follow them. In the...

An Academic in Africa: Plagiarism

03/03/2012

Second week of term, and we start to acclimatise ourselves to having all of these damn students around. Although the first intake (ie. the 17 that have already done one term) have been pissing...

Guns and Roses UK Tour

02/03/2012

'where the grass is green and the girls are pretty' You KNOW Axl Rose was singing about Nottingham. Well now he's finally made it. Gigs in Nottingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow,...

Emma Sywyj, Photographer: Interview

02/03/2012

Photographer Emma Sywyj has a wry approach to her craft. Sean Keenan interviews Emma Sywyj about her photography and travelling in the UK. ...

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: Review

01/03/2012

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: A Sad Wandering Dreamer Trapped In Contemporary Memory Architectures Sometimes techno titles are totally irrelevant to the sounds and some producers even prefer simply to...

Cafe OTO Launch Record Label

29/02/2012

Cafe OTO, Keiko and Hamish's Dalston emporium of Japanese snackery curates consistently-brilliant live music concerts, and pops up in Trebuchet's gig listings more often than just about any...

Transition Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’

29/02/2012

As we approach the end of February, the galleries of East London start buzzing in anticipation for the First Thursday of the month – the day it all happens. I talk to the Director of Transition...

Summer Camp: New Single, St. Etienne Remix [Stream]

28/02/2012

Summer Camp announce the release of their new single 'Losing My Mind' on March 19th. Nothing special about that, singles are annouced every day, glittery press photos and promo videos clog...

Trace Elements: Trying it on

28/02/2012

Picture a clothes shop: A customer walks in, eyes a garment, tries it on, says they love it, tells the assistant they’ll definitely be back tomorrow to buy. They’re never seen again....

Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird to perform Maxinquaye

27/02/2012

An incendiary pairing, in life as well as on record. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, and cash-in tours are becoming tedious, but hearing Martina Topley-Bird performing Maxinquaye with Tricky...

Evy Jane: Sayso and Ohso (+Remixes)

27/02/2012

I know the sexualisation of R&B has been overdone to a point where it has become sexually gratifying, big arses and jiggly tits sitting and dancing on Hummers, where the amount of fuel one can...

Street drug ‘bath salts’ packs double punch

26/02/2012

Government reaction to unregulated drugs still tends towards Anslinger-style scaremongering. It seems to be the default setting. Which can be counter-productive too. When a new drug becomes a...

A rainbow in the palm of your hand

25/02/2012

The wonders of science. A polymer that can simultaneously reflect all the visible wavelengths of light. Described as having applications thatcould include: 'biomedical imaging, including...

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