Sledding causes injuries. Ouch.

17/10/2011

Ow. Child meets tree, at speed. Never the most auspicious of circumstances. Although Newtonian physics tell us that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it always seemed to me that the...

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Art, Money and Shredded Credit Cards at Frieze 2011

17/10/2011

October is the shining pinnacle of the art world calendar, and you cannot have failed to notice that Frieze, the biggest beast of all art fairs, unveiled it’s glistening art delights this...

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Rome Wasn’t Burned In A Day: Wall Street 2011

16/10/2011

Replacing Liberal Timidity With Leftist Passion Why is it that self-termed progressives are in full retreat (and have been for decades) from the witless army of angry clowns and hack illusionists of...

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First track of Paul Catten’s new album

16/10/2011

As a follow-up to Trebuchet's review of the intriguing album Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics, it's nothing but a pleasure to direct you all to the exclusive stream of the...

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Flatulent oceanic microbes contributing to global warming

15/10/2011

Much like teenage boys using their own gases to communicate amongst themselves, or perhaps even like the schoolkid's trick of burping the alphabet, it seems that oceanic microbes have been up to...

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Moodymanc Vs Jamie Finlay – People Circulate

15/10/2011

Development Music make much of their artists' Manchester provenance in the promotional literature accompanying this release. Even the artist's name really wants to be sure you know where he...

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Johnny Foreigner put new album on the road

14/10/2011

Johnny Foreigner announce two album launch shows plus special album pre-order New album Johnny Foreigner vs Everything released November 7th, Gigs in London and Birmingham on 12th and 13th...

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Maguett – Twilight EP

14/10/2011

Brace yourselves, Moscow-based musical technician Maguett has been tricking about with a PowerMac between lectures and is about to unleash 'a brand new monument called IBM : Intelligent...

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Join Wall Street Petition

13/10/2011

As the momentum of the Wall Street protest grows, Avaaz.org offers the opportunity to add your voice to the voices of those involved in the event. Dear friends, Thousands of Americans have taken over...

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Occupying the Heart of the Beast: Wall Street Protest 2011

13/10/2011

Occupying the Heart of the Beast: Observations, Amid the Multitudes in Liberty Plaza where both the winged spirit of commitment and the rag and bone shop of the heart abide. The ongoing exercise in...

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Computer virus hits US Air Force aircraft

13/10/2011

In another confidence-inspiring episode from the originators of the acronym 'snafu' and the phrase 'broken arrow', US military news informs us that their Predator and Reaper drone...

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Supersonic Festival Update October 2011

12/10/2011

  Greetings one and all, As a reminder, the day line ups of music look like this: FRIDAY – APPAT/CLOAKS/DRUMCUNT/MIKE WATT/PART CHIMP/SCORN/SCOTCH EGG/SECRET CHIEFS 3/SLABDRAGGER/ SATURDAY...

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Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

12/10/2011

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

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Burial and Massive Attack collaboration on release today

11/10/2011

Burial might not be as aptly named as may initially appear. After a previous collaboration featuring Thom Yorke, and then providing the subject material for Context MC's 'Listening to...

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Make Better Music 62: Working Out Your Musical Muscles

11/10/2011

Of course, if you are writing a song every day, it’s unlikely that you are going to be churning out a double album of SOLID GOLD CLASSICS each months, but on the flip side, it will do you a lot of...

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Kate Bush announces ‘Wild Man’

10/10/2011

KATE BUSH ANNOUNCES “WILD MAN” The First Single to be taken from her Brand New Album “50 Words for Snow” Released via Fish People (through EMI) on 11th October 2011   The...

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Faith No More and evolutionary scientists proved right.

10/10/2011

Aquatic fish jump into picture of evolutionary land invasion Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research...

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Nils Frahm – Felt

10/10/2011

Pianists's fingers knurl and bulge with the same blunt mutantcy as freshly-dug jerusalem artichokes. Easy as it is to imagine the rigours on the hands of Prokofiev's yard-long keyboard...

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Coffee causes Cocaine Addiction?

09/10/2011

Jonesing for java: Could caffeine use predict risk for cocaine abuse? Or.  I'm tense and nervous and  I can't relaxe. Get to the conclusion or distract me, a Columbian blend...

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Jim Stapley – 100 Club

09/10/2011

It's great to be straight, oh yeah. Leftfield journalist experiences musical ennui in the face of lauded talent.  Peter Parker R&R Club are the loosest bunch of garage rock acolytes...

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Removal of restrictions decreases music piracy

08/10/2011

New research from Rice and Duke challenges conventional wisdom that removal of restrictions would increase piracy levels. Researchers are still mulling over what, at least to most people, is a dead...

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Features and Speeches of Nigeria

08/10/2011

“The matriculation ceremony really isn’t about the students,” David said, and boy, was he right.   The whole thing took around 3 hours and of that their part took about two and...

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Cass Mccombs to lay Robin Blue Egg on public.

07/10/2011

“Robin Egg Blue” will be released as the first single from Cass McCombs’ forthcoming album, Humor Risk and will be available digitally (RUG436D) from 21st November. The promo...

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Nasa to probe space Hotties

06/10/2011

Nasa probe to discover space hotties Nasa has recovened team-scorchio for  what has been informally dubbed 'project Icarus' in order to ascertain 'how hot is the sun exactly'....

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Real Estate – Days

06/10/2011

Real Estate. Even the name is dull. Recently signed to Domino records, Real Estate's second album – Days – is something of an anomaly in a label roster which boasts the freeform...

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Rock’s Backpages Launches New eBooks Series

05/10/2011

Rock's Backpages, the world's largest online library of rock journalism, announces the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, headed up by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. Backpages eBooks...

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Make Better Music 61: The Music Diet

05/10/2011

Every few months I feel like I need this kind of diet for my ears - I’ve either been over-indulging in one particular artist or genre, or I’ve been gluttonous and chowing down way too much of...

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Paul Catten – Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics

30/09/2011

Paul Catten - Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics...

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Fliers for Nigeria

29/09/2011

Last Saturday I was supposed to hand out fliers for my university to students taking their JAMB tests.   This is the Nigerian equivalent of SATs, and you have to take it to get into college....

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Oil: Edward Burtynsky’s Narrative of Society’s Fuel Source

28/09/2011

That one substance which is at once both everywhere and yet nowhere to be seen is the subject of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s most recent exhibition, entitled Oil. Through over 50...

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