Occupy Wall Street Evictions – Live Feed

15/11/2011

Who knows how long this guy will be able to broadcast, but whilst he's still going, it's worth watching. The most lucid and least sensational of the #OWS footage so far: Free desktop...

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Make Better Music 66: Embrace the Chaos

15/11/2011

In the midst of a vast YouTube binge the other evening (I’ve got a thirst for seeking out to interviews with musicians I like, and seem to be hopeless at turning YouTube off), I happened to come...

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She Don’t Want No Scrub – Sexytime for Spiders

14/11/2011

How very pleasant. Female spiders, not only famous for killing and eating their hapless male counterparts after sexual congress, also demand payment for the pleasure. The better the present, the...

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Opeth – Live, Brixton Academy

14/11/2011

Sweden's Opeth have come a long way in the past twenty years. Starting out playing death metal with growling vocals on the heaviest songs, their ambitious music mixed light and shade from the...

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Photo Essay – Judith Scott at Museum of Everything

14/11/2011

Museum of Everything showcases outsider art and people not usually recognised as artists. I loved the Judith Scott exhibition, and especially intriguing were the x-rays of the...

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Killer Solar Flares (and no, it’s not another prog rock article)

13/11/2011

OK, is it just me, or does receiving a press release from NASA insisting that, no, absolutely not, there is NO chance that huge solar flares will rip the Earth to pieces and toast us all in a fiery...

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Loitered Lens: Healthy Junkies [Pics]

13/11/2011

Melodic French edge meets English grunt. Parisian Lead singer Nina Courson teamed up with British guitarist Phil Honey-Jones just over a year ago to set about writing and recording one song for a...

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Daylight Savings Time – Bad for your kids’ health?

12/11/2011

Clocks spring forward, then fall back. The mnemonic of choice for one of the least popular aspects of Autumn. Resetting clocks and losing an hours daylight in the evening, just so we can have an...

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Charlene Soraia – Moonchild

12/11/2011

Charlene Soraia's ability to split her voice into ultra-shrill harmonics is a talent. There was a chap a few years ago with an act entitled 'The Puppetry of the Penis' who was able to...

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Jimmy Gnecco – The Heart (X Edition)

11/11/2011

Any album by a band's vocalist going solo needs to justify its existence by revealing some sort of personal vision, some characteristic that wouldn't be found on work by the band. Searching...

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Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers

11/11/2011

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers by Mike Patton is out now on Ipecac...

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Sex, Anarchism, Politics and Pirates: London’s Theatres Collaborate

10/11/2011

This week saw the launch of a new collaborative project between 12 of London’s top theatre venues, who are changing the way Londoners find theatre....

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Heather Findlay and Chris Johnson – ‘Live at the Cafe 68’ – Review

10/11/2011

Recorded before an intimate audience of just thirty people, 'Live at the Café 68' is York singer-songwriter Heather Findlay's second release since leaving as lead singer of...

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Oh You Minx! Women, Roman Mosaics, and Stereotypes

09/11/2011

Stirring it. The cause of wars, famine, plague, pestilence, disease and just about everything else. Women, they're a terrible bunch. Stereotypes of women as troublemakers date back into the misty...

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Abdul’ll Fix It – An Academic in Africa

09/11/2011

For the last six weeks I have lived in Nigeria as an illegal immigrant.  My visa (which I don’t think ever technically allowed me to work here anyway) expired on the 6th of June, and no...

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Supersonic festival 2011 – review

08/11/2011

Begin transmission: Supersonic is the probably the greatest festival or true music lovers in the UK, perhaps further afield. Stop. 21st to 24th October. Attending Supersonic 2011 felt like being...

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Make Better Music 65: A Musical Process

08/11/2011

So this week, having been inspired by a particular piece of music, I’m going to focus on one particular kind of procedure - which doesn’t really have a name. I’ll just try to describe it....

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My Hummer Doesn’t Cause Climate Change – It’s Those Damned Jellyfish!

07/11/2011

This one looks like it came from the petrochemicals lobby. It's all a matter of perspective really. If you live on a low-lying island in the Tuamoto group and find that your ocean view has...

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FZV – Soundsump

07/11/2011

The shadowy producer known only as FZV is a long-term, low-profile participant in London's Pitchless Sound System and has often played at underground events in temporary spaces. Operating in the...

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Achy Breaky Heart? Not surprised. It’s rubbish for your ears AND your chances of survival.

06/11/2011

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. We all hope never to need it, or to have to apply it. However, in an emergency situation, just which song would you play on your iPod before leaning in and doing mouth...

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Loitered Lens: Grim Dylan [Pics]

06/11/2011

Photos of Grim Dylan 2011...

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ET forgets to turn off the lights

05/11/2011

Don't you just love scientists? It's a nice idea – to look for the lights of alien cities, but citing Galileo seems a touch grandiose for such a piece of schoolboy logic. And aren't...

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Why OWS Has Already Overcome

05/11/2011

Police Repression, Official Mendacity and Why OWS Has Already Overcome Until recent events proved otherwise, the hyper-commercialized surface of the corporate state gave the appearance of being too...

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GWAR Guitarist Found Dead

04/11/2011

Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus of GWAR has been found dead, aged 34. A member of GWAR since 2002, Smoot was found dead this morning as the band prepared to travel to their next tour date. No cause...

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Artists: what are we worth?

04/11/2011

The economic crisis has meant an economic armageddon for artists. What are we worth? was a panel discussion led by DACS and Artquest that considered how artists can create income in support of their...

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Controversy over reopening the ‘Sistine Chapel’ of Stone Age art

03/11/2011

A perennial topic in Spain – whether or not to allow the public access to fragile areas, which are nonetheless looked upon as part of the country's public patrimony. Plus there's the...

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Autumn – Cold Comfort

03/11/2011

Autumn tweak their heavy rock roots and embrace 'progressive musical genres and alternative approaches' Oo err! Cold Comfort is the Dutch six-piece Autumn's fifth full-length album. While...

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Celestial Pac-Man Grows Teeth

02/11/2011

Honestly, astrophysicists. They're a dry lot. Pac-Man, really? Theyr'e obviously blinded by familiarity with the true beauty of the cosmos. Clearly, it's actually a recumbent yellow...

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Servants, Scrapes and Situations – An Academic in Nigeria

02/11/2011

Deprived of cultural stimuli we appreciate every cultural artefact in a much more intense way.  Saturated with cultural stimuli that intensity, in one sense, is diminished. That’s not to...

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Orcas Need Holidays Too

01/11/2011

Winter's homing in, the nights are getting longer, and if you were a whale, a really clever whale, you'd be thinking about swimming up to the tropics right now. Well, maybe not right now,...

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