Leaving The Church of Free Market Miracles

Where does one find succor and seeds of renewal in times such as these? Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the...

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Sixth June – Back for A Day 12”EP

Party like it’s 1982… It’s good to be reminded of how young you are sometimes. To any more mature readers of this article, I assure you this isn’t meant as a smug gloating...

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Metal Legends Cradle of Filth release Lilith Immaculate Video

Metal Legends Cradle of Flith release Lilith Immaculate Video The UK's extreme metal titans Cradle of Filth have completed work on their latest video for the track Lilith Immaculate, lifted from...

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The Naked and Famous Announce Tour

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS  “Pop perfection.” – NME “Fervent, infectious and highly hummable, this is a band armed with songs to fall in love with.” – The Fly...

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Sign Petition for a change in Tactics for the ‘War on Drugs’

Trebuchet supports Avaaz.org petition, Sign up and please share the news item, Trebuchet —————– In days, a group of powerful world leaders will ask the UN to end...

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Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a unique feuding double white dwarf star system where each star appears to have been stripped down to just its helium. We know of just over 50...

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Bonnie Prince Billy To Release Charity Single

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY     Bonnie 'Prince' Billy presents "There Is No God" b/w "God Is Love"  June 21, 2011 "There Is No God" b/w...

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Watch the Pretty Birdy: Sage Vaughn

Sage Vaughn’s press bio is a juxtaposition of culture and wildness, of knowing clichés and their subversion, bold phrases that beg repetition, and suggestions of a contemplative day trip...

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Science: To bluff, or not to bluff? That is the question

Economist Christopher Cotton from the University of Miami (UM), uses game theory to explore two of the most famous military bluffs in history. The findings are published in the current issue of the...

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Make Better Music 44: Polyrhythms….the hallmark of complexity!

Make Better Music 44: Polyrhythms….the hallmark of complexity! Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Inevitable End – The Oculus

One of the first words one might use to describe the second album from Sweden’s Inevitable End is schizophrenic.  However this is the wrong word. For something to be called schizophrenic...

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Eye Hear, Heart See 3: Please, please, please

In my mouth It sting my lips It's like eclipse As I'm in the crossword puzzle But I can't fill in the blank Cibo Matto – 'White Pepper Ice Cream' When the loving is fast...

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Anna Calvi, Grouplove, and Big Deal, ride with the NME

A mixed bag of sugar and saccharine, the NME Emerge tour closed on a high.  The NME Emerge tour is about bringing rising stars to new audiences. The cult of the Next Big Thing is alive and well...

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David Tort – Jack it Up

David Tort’s ‘Jack it Up’ promises ‘a tempestuous sea of dark synths’ but actually delivers ‘a turgid canal of muddy loops’. With pretensions to dancefloor...

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Lillian Bassman – Enter the Boutique

I don't go to boutiques. I don't check out fashion photography either. But this is something different. There's a world in here. Standing outside the Donna Karan boutique off Regent...

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Roger Waters Revives The Wall

Roger Waters’ 2011 production of The Wall takes a classic of anomie and updates it with startling and necessary results. Roger Water’s transmutation of The Wall, a personal investigation...

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“Crack makes me feel like Jesus ought to”

Drugged under one Crack nation - The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, empire, Jesus, and the death genes....

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Villagers win Ivor Novello Award

    Win Ivor Novello Award   We are thrilled to announce that Conor J O’Brien from Villagers has today won an Ivor Novello Award in the...

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Plans get under way for revolutionary new observatory!

Plans shape up for a revolutionary new observatory to explore black holes and the big bang. A new era in astronomy will come a step closer when scientists from across Europe present their design...

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Wave-Gotik-Treffen announces final line-up

Wave-Gotik-Treffen: 20 years of dark-romantic celebrations in Leipzig – Germany. The massively popular German festival is now 20 years old. Attracting people from all over the globe this years...

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Domino Records to run stall on Berwick St, London Saturday

 THE FOUNDERS OF THE UK’s GREATEST INDEPENDENT LABELS HIT BERWICK STREET TO SELL THEIR FRESH VINYL PRODUCE AT THIS VERY SPECIAL MARKET! http://independentlabelmarket.tumblr.com/ On 21st...

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Weekend Nachos – Worthless

Weekend Nachos - Worthless - Relapse Records 2011...

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Motorhead Frontman’s Side Project HEADCAT Release New Album.

HEADCAT -‘Walk The Walk, Talk The Talk’ Lemmy Kilmister: vocals, bass, harmonica Slim Jim Phantom: drums, percussion Danny B. Harvey: guitar, piano   Hear track ‘American...

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Hexstatic – Scan Me EP

Trailer Trax's 'Scan Me' EP wallows so deeply in the 1990s that it ought to be buried in a time capsule with a Sega Megadrive and a Blue Peter badge. 'The music business has...

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George Mitchell Commits $25 Million to Giant Magellan Telescope

George P. Mitchell, founder of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. and The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, has committed an unprecedented $25-million gift to the Giant Magellan Telescope...

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Domino Records Launches Radio Station

MISSION: In the spirit of such stand-alone broadcasting giants as Radio Caroline, The Peel Show, Rinse FM, The World Service and Woman’s Hour – and dispensing with such orthodoxies as...

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Supersonic Festival Announced! Oct 21-23

21st – 23rd October 2011 http://www.supersonicfestival.com   Limited number of early bird tickets on sale now via www.theticketsellers.co.uk   Supersonic Festival, now in it's...

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Into the Unknown: tUnE-yArDs – Bizness

This is what happens when you're blindsided by a song so great it should be hugely popular? I was not quite sure which way to go this month. I thought that by the time this went online this tune...

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Make Better Music 43: Has everything been done?

Make Better Music 43: Has everything been done? Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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NASA Puts Earth’s Nearest Neighbor, ‘The Moon’, Within Reach

NASA has created a new interactive web-based tool that incorporates observations from past and current lunar missions creating one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date. The Lunar...

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