Pulled Apart By Horses: New Single/Album

Bad jumpers, bubbles and blooded stumps. The video has a certain clunky charm at least. Pulled Apart By Horses are excited to announce the release of a brand new single, ‘V.E.N.O.M’ today...

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Double Hammer: The Scarlet Blade and The Brigand of Kandahar

Out today, making their world DVD premieres, are these two Hammer classics, The Scarlet Blade (1964) and The Brigand of Kandahar (1965). Both tales of conflict written and directed by John Gilling,...

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Loitered Lens: Motley Kunst [Pics]

Sometimes you just can’t help the hawtness of stereotypical gender roles, they constrain and oppress us all. Day in, day out. in. out. in. out. in… Anyway, Motley Kunst are an awesome All...

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Yayoi Kusama: An Explosion of Stickers

Installation views of The obliteration room 2011 as part of ‘ Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever’, Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art, 2011 ...

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Helmet – play ‘Meantime’

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic second album ‘Meantime’, the mighty Helmet will play the album in full, as well as other classics, on a UK tour next year including...

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Planets. How Many? 100 Billion?!

It seems like only days ago that we were all getting excited about the proof that there are other planets out there. NASA's Kepler mission proposed that there were at least two planets in other...

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Pirate Power Metal – Alestorm

Sometimes things just feel right.  In this case pirate shirts, pirate-based drinking and pirate-themed metal. It's salty and juvenile insert analogy here and could just be thing to blow away...

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Algae for your fuel tank

New process for producing biodiesel from microalgae oil The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The...

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Thieves Like Us stream their new track

Thieves Like Us return on 20th March with a new album on Captured Tracks. 'Marie Marie' is the first track to be heard. THIEVES LIKE US // Marie Marie by TheArtOf…...

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Fawlty Towers Syndrome

The melancholic experience of visiting a declining English hotel out of season reveals some suggestivaly ominous parallels with the current state of the nation. After almost forty years, John Cleese...

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Pelican – Custom Metal, April UK Tour

April 2012 will see Chicago’s post-metal quartet Pelican make a welcome return to the live circuit for their first full UK tour since 2008. Never content to remain static over the course of...

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Killing Joke –  UK tour 2012

Industrial Rock Weirdos Killing Joke – bring back the crazy.  Emerging from the late 70s as a formidable force of social unrest, political revolt and spiritual corruption Killing Joke have...

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Olafur Arnalds Scores For Hollywood

Acknowledgement of Arnalds' applicability to motion picture soundtracks...

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Trace Elements: Commercial Breakdown

A commercial break on Pick TV has just made me question the way that I’m living life. And not in a “It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting here on my own watching Pick TV”...

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Black Sabbath Guitarist Suffering from Lymphoma

Very little to go on here, but the breaking news on Black Sabbath's Facebook page is that Tony Iommi is suffering from 'lymphoma'. Whether or not this refers to the condition...

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Primus to play two special RAH shows.

After returning to the UK for the first time in 14 years in 2011, for 2 special sold out shows, the band will play 2 special nights, 2 different shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on April 4 +...

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Into the Unknown: Sharon Van Etten

As it’s the new year it seems right and proper to look forward, and how nice it is too. What’s even nicer is to get your teeth into some blood-bubbling new music. We look forward to...

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Dragonforce – intimate 100 club performance

Metal heroes Dragonforce have announced their first UK headline show with new singer Marc Hudson at London's 100 Club in Oxford Street on 16th Feb.  Get your tickets now for the power metal...

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Real-Life Laser Tricorder Developed

But will it work on green-blooded goblins? Star Trek Tricorder revisited: Toward a genre of medical scanners A hand-held scanner, reminiscent of the fictional Star Trek medical Tricorder, images...

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Loitered Lens: Joel Sarakula [Pics]

Hipster Folk and laid back dirt rave, gypsy funk with a grow-mo pomo comb-over…  Vicariously talented wunderkind Joel Sarakula has been a collectors item  for a number of years...

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Dillinger Escape Plan and Mastodon UK Tour

Seriously intense music is heading this way!  Mastodon have released wagon burning, World or Warcraft Psych-rock masterpiece after masterpiece! Dillinger Escape Plan are in a rare league of...

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Woods of Ypres frontman David Gold was tragically killed

Woods of Ypres frontman David Gold was tragically killed in a road traffic accident on 21st December, outside Barrie, in his home country of Canada.  In accordance with the wishes of David's...

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Lubomyr Melnyk’s Debut UK Performance

Continuing their eclectic and frankly fascinating programme of musical events, London's Cafe OTO hosts superfast 'continuous music' pioneer Lubomyr Melnyk in his debut UK performance. A...

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OWS 2012: Still Resisting

In my opinion, when people opine that the OWS movement is about — or should be about — the airing of this particular grievance or that it must bandy this or that particular demand —...

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Nano-Wires, Quantum Electrics

Quantum-scaled nano-cables.  Pretty nifty, no doubt whatsoever. But until someone figures out how to make a molecular plug, socket, or screwdriver, the applications are somewhat murky. Enough...

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The Free Music Mirage

Putting an End to a Persistent Illusion Steadily, over the course of the last 10 years, the idea that recorded music "has" to be free has been transformed from a radical stance taken by...

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Multitasking Bats

Driving whilst listening to a partner yelling instructions? Hardly ideal. Luckily, bats are pretty good at it. Although perhaps not the one in the video…. Washington, D.C. – Imagine...

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Cockroaches, Clubs and Clocks: An Academic in Africa

I have missed being here, and it is good to be back.  I think I have missed the life and the people rather than the place itself though.  The familiarity which has made it so easy to settle...

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Wobble and Levene Team up to perform Metal Box!

In perhaps the best news we've heard in a while it seems that P.I.L founder Jah Wobble and Keith Levene are teaming up to perform Metal Box in Dub in Tokyo.  For many this may mean close to...

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Trace Elements: Screamer

Back in the sixties, teenage girls in their thousands would cram into concerts given by The Beatles and scream hysterically from first note to last. The songs were seldom heard. Those teens could...

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