Archive - Trebuchet

Eye Hear, Heart See 2: Optimo

16/05/2011

Every night's a different story It's a thirty car pile-up with you Everybody's getting younger It's the end of an era, it's true. – LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself...

Going Nowhere?

15/05/2011

Nowhere is an arts-based event inspired by the infamous Burning Man, but is Nowhere a quaint “Euro-taster” or an event in itself? For the last eight years the Spanish desert has been lit...

Scenes of Plenty: British Library

14/05/2011

'men seek after a better notion of riches and of the art of getting wealth than the mere acquisition of coin'. Essay on Wealth...

UK Astronomy Will Be Hit Hard By Budget Cuts

13/05/2011

Professor Roger Davies, President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), today backed a report published by MPs on the Science and Technology Select Committee that set out the risks to UK astronomy...

Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down

13/05/2011

Travelling through the past’s future: Sarah Jarosz cuts a timeless album of particular appeal. Singer-songwriter acoustic music is the bane of my existence. Plucked chords and soaring female...

Status Quo return, with first ever ‘QuoFest’.

13/05/2011

With over 50 years in the music industry, living legend Cliff Richard will head out on the road this October with The Soulicious Tour produced and directed by David Gest. Indisputably Britain's...

Interstates and States of Grief

13/05/2011

On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video, we meet confederate ghosts and demons of consumer emptiness. We travel down the highway, propelled by engines of...

Caretaker of the Curious: Leyland Kirby

12/05/2011

"I think everyone should take more risks constantly, not just musicians" James Leyland Kirby (latterly known as The Caretaker) is a mysterious figure in electronic music. Respected but...

Musical experience offsets some ageing effects

11/05/2011

Older musicians excel in memory and hearing speech in noise compared to non-musicians. EVANSTON, Ill. — A growing body of research finds musical training gives students learning advantages in...

Slugabed – Moonbeam Rider EP

11/05/2011

Can Slugabed's quirky beats and basslines inject new life into pre-packed dancefloor anthem hooks? Perhaps. Slugabed's Moonbeam Rider EP comes from the mind of a musician who has spent a lot...

Motorhead Announce UK Tour

10/05/2011

With support from Anti Nowhere League and UK Subs. Hard Rock legendsMotorhead have today announced that they will be returning to the UK for their annual tour this November. This year the band will...

Make Better Music 42: Being the Next Big Thing

10/05/2011

Make Better Music 42: Being the Next Big Thing. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Blank Dogs – Collected By Itself: 2006-2009

09/05/2011

The first steps are always the hardest… Some bands can take a while to focus their ideas. So it was with Brooklyn’s Blank Dogs. Nowadays, they are a spellbindingly opaque mix of...

Sir Cliff Richard girds himself for the ‘soulicious’ tour.

09/05/2011

London, 9th May 2011; The live tour and album concept conceived by television star and music producer David Gest, Sir Cliff Richard will duet with more than ten soul legends on a brand new album (and...

Toby Keith Confirms UK Dates

09/05/2011

Locked and Loaded Tour Kicks Off. Monday 9th May 2011 – Following the sell-out success of his first ever European shows in 2009, Country Music Superstar, Billboard...

Eye Hear, Heart See 1: Float On

09/05/2011

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence The empty-handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets This sky, too, is...

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50 years on, UK betting shops lure new breed of punters.

08/05/2011

Fifty years after legalisation, the UK's betting shops are attracting a new type of customer....

Austerlitz – Austerlitz

08/05/2011

How soon is too soon. Parisian indie rockers Austerlitz go for bronze. Austerlitz have rushed to release a record that with a couple of months worth of emphatic development would have been...

Austra present new video for ‘Lose It’ and announce UK dates

07/05/2011

Premiere new video for ‘Lose It’ and announce July UK & Irish live dates Austra have unveiled a video for their next single Lose It, which is released on May 9th. The video was filmed...

Computers sing to a better tune

07/05/2011

Now, Akio Watanabe and Hitoshi Iba have turned to evolution to help them devise a novel algorithm that compares the frequency curves from real human performances and uses them to home in on a more...

Tree rings tell a 1,100-year history of El Niño

07/05/2011

El Niño and its partner La Niña, the warm and cold phases in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific, play havoc with climate worldwide. Predicting El Niño events more...

Bloodiest – Descent

07/05/2011

How often when listening to a new metal band do you stick on the record, sit through it for the duration then ask yourself the question, “What the fuck?” For me that doesn’t happen...

The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

06/05/2011

Transmuting Lead into Gold: America's Politics Of Revenge And Submission. When the individual feels, the community reels Osama Bin Laden is dead. And so is the U.S. republic. We had to destroy...

Spirituality? More than 20% of atheist scientists are.

06/05/2011

Scientists think spirituality is congruent with scientific discovery, religion is not....

NASA Selects Investigations For Future Key Planetary Mission

06/05/2011

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on...

Outliers in Emotion: Enduser

06/05/2011

"I think Dubstep is something that just got out of hand creatively and now it's just a bunch of people ripping each other off" Trebuchet’s love affair with Breakcore continues...

Why Are Americans So Easily Conned?

06/05/2011

Our blind optimism allows us to live in comfort zones, but it turns vast spaces of the world into death zones. The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of...

Dutch Uncles – Cadenza

05/05/2011

So NME accuse this album of 'musical incompetence' and being 'baffling', whilst The Fly go with 'one of 2011's most exciting prospects'. Things are already juicy....

SLASH: Announces UK Headline And Festival Dates

03/05/2011

Gunners star announces UK Headline And Festival Dates Single: “Starlight” Release date: 25th July 2011, taken from the critically acclaimed album “Slash” Exclusive...

Kasabian Announce Intimate Warm Up Shows

03/05/2011

London 3rd May 9am 2011 – In what will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of 2011, Kasabian announce an intimate UK warm up Tour in June ahead of festival season. The multi – platinum,...

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