Archive - Trebuchet

Generation Genocide: John Sinclair (MC5)/ Bermondsey Joyriders

17/07/2011

Generation Genocide: Punk doesn’t nurture it preserves! The word ‘Punk’ must retire. Dispossessed from its ancient zeitgeist it bitterly refuses to die, refuses to compromise, and continues to...

Architects of Rage: Godflesh on Streetcleaner [Interview]

16/07/2011

Extreme music godfathers Godflesh reunite after 15 years to play the Streetcleaner album for the eager HMV Forum crowd in Kentish Town....

Chris Connelly Solo Album To See Release Via Relapse

15/07/2011

Relapse Records will release the brand new solo album from prolific musician and writer Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, The High Confessions). The new album, titled Artificial Madness, was...

Happy consumers are smarter consumers?

15/07/2011

Shop when you're happy: Positive feelings improve consumer decision-making abilities. Consumers who are in a positive mood make quicker and more consistent judgments than unhappy people,...

John Cale: UK Performance

15/07/2011

JOHN CALE Signs to Double Six Releases EP of new material on September 19th We are very proud to announce that John Cale has signed to Domino imprint, Double Six. Extra Playful, a five...

Size matters: Why do people eat less when they have big forks?

15/07/2011

Larger portion sizes usually mean we eat more food, but according to new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, bigger bites lead to eating less—in restaurant settings. "In this...

Make Better Music 51: Twenty Better Music Tips

13/07/2011

Your music is what it isn't. What it lacks will define it. Don't forget why you are writing it, don't get side-tracked by writing or recording it - you are making an experience for the listener....

Raffertie – Visual Acuity EP

12/07/2011

Raffertie’s compositional ambitions happen on a grand scale – at times his basslines have at the warping boom of pedal-timpany; at other times they use pitch-bend to underpin the melodies...

Veronica Falls Post New Track and Video!

07/07/2011

Veronica Falls have made new track Come On Over available for free download via veronicafalls.com. The song provides the first preview of what to expect from their eagerly anticipated...

Ex-Oasis Noel – Confirms Solo Album “Sour mash”

06/07/2011

NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS RELEASE THE ALBUM “NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS” THROUGH SOUR MASH RECORDS ON 17TH OCTOBER 2011 Noel Gallagher can confirm that...

Self Aware Monkeys Demand Compensation

06/07/2011

Rhesus monkeys have a form of self awareness not previously attributed to them Study results may shed light on apparent self-awareness deficits in humans In the first study of its kind in an...

Crystal Antlers – Two-Way Mirror

06/07/2011

Crystal Antlers find liberation in music's current chaos. Adaptation to the realities of the music market in 2011 is something of a Darwinian exercise. Freetards lurking in the comment feeds of...

Make Better Music 50: What Would Jesus Do?

05/07/2011

Make Better Music 50: What Would Jesus Do?. One of the beautiful things about music is that sounds don't lie - they are what they are. This means that when you hear a piece of music that you adore,...

Slum

04/07/2011

The university hostels back on to a slum. This is in the “Life Camp” area of Abuja. I have no idea why it’s called that, but apparently it’s where all the workers...

Patrolling the Edges of Panic Town

01/07/2011

An academic navigates the great and small encounters of Ex-Pat life in Nigeria. Yesterday, I loaned my car to Joy and Julius. She said it was her birthday, and it seemed like a good idea at the...

Self-image is the beginning and the end of living [Henry ‘Fonzie’ Winkler]

30/06/2011

Known to many around the globe as The Fonz from the US TV Sitcom Happy Days, Henry Winkler has struggled with dyslexia his whole life and was recently in London supporting the First News education...

Brilliant Colours – Again and Again

30/06/2011

Brilliant Colours teeter on the edge of the indie landfill. Knowing where homage ends and derivative starts is the responsibility of the band – in this case it would be very generous to give...

Cults – Cults

29/06/2011

Christ on a bike, this takes me back a bit. The inexplicable thing is, though, it takes me back to something I’ve never experienced. Weird, no? I’m not trying to instigate a protracted...

Mantis shrimp eye could improve high-definition CDs, DVDs

28/06/2011

The eye of the peacock mantis shrimp has led an international team of researchers to develop a two-part waveplate that could improve CD, DVD, blu-ray and holographic technology, creating even higher...

Guilfest 2011 shapes up nice.

28/06/2011

Guilfest 2011 shapes up nice. This year's Guilfest features a truly eclectic mix of old and new bands, including the legendary Public Image Limited and Roger Daltrey who are surely worth the...

Make Better Music 49: Accepting the New

28/06/2011

Make Better Music 49: Accepting the New. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Godflesh, D.R.I., and Goatsnake – HMV Forum

27/06/2011

Three bands, over 100 years of combined musical history, one night. Godflesh, D.R.I. and Goatsnake deliver. "Who the fuck are Goatsnake?" Screams a pot bellied Swiss chemist at the...

Adulterated cocaine causing serious skin reactions

27/06/2011

With up to 70 percent contaminated, doctors warn of potential public health epidemic Doctors warned of a potential public health epidemic in a recent report on patients in Los Angeles and New York...

Morta Skuld – Through the Eyes of Death – The Early Demos

26/06/2011

Morta Skuld's demos are a time capsule to a musical history which never happened. Difficult though it is for filesharing apologists to countenance, the pre-Napster period of the 1990s was a...

Science: Need a nap? Find yourself a hammock

26/06/2011

For grownups, drifting off for an afternoon snooze is often easier said than done. But many of us have probably experienced just how simple it can be to catch those zzz's in a gently rocking...

‘Quantum magic’ without any ‘spooky action at a distance’

25/06/2011

The quantum mechanical entanglement is at the heart of the famous quantum teleportation experiment and was referred to by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance". A team of...

Shifted – Control EP

25/06/2011

It would be easy to dismiss the tracks on this EP as uninspired minimal techno, droning morosely along, amassing texture by layering beats at nodal points and squirting atmospheric keyboard chords...

Science: unexpected function of dyslexia gene

24/06/2011

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a gene linked to dyslexia has a surprising biological function: it controls cilia, the antenna-like projections that cells use to...

The Loneliness of a Long Distance Academy

24/06/2011

The university is open, and the experience has been, somewhat predictably, a mixture of the shambolic, the absurd, the vaguely promising and the outright perplexing. We have a programme for the...