Energy drinks linked to substance use in musicians, study shows

Frequent use of energy drinks is associated with binge drinking, alcohol-related social problems and misuse of prescription drugs among musicians, according to researchers at the University at...

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Science News: The myth of the ‘queen bee’: Work and sexism

Female bosses sometimes have a reputation for not being very nice. Some display what's called "queen bee" behavior, distancing themselves from other women and refusing to help other...

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Make Better Music 48: Putting Out – Production

Make Better Music 48: Putting Out - Production. Getting people together to work on something as a group is forever getting harder, whilst making music via the computer (where so many of us spend so...

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High Voltage Announces Further Acts For 2011

Following the launch of the UK’s new prestige rock festival, in 2010, High Voltage returns in 2011 with exclusive performances from headliners Judas Priest and Dream Theater, UK festival...

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The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual

For their fifth studio album, Detroit heavy weights The Black Dahlia Murder have remained true to what they do best. Namely blasting out high energy, heavy and powerful melodic death metal. The album...

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On “The Issue Of Character” And Empire

Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed "bluesologist," Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source…to begin chanting, eternity will not be televised. In...

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Plant Plants – Plant Plants EP

First growth bears sweet fruit… Skimming through titles, you might suspect that ‘Plant Plants’ indicated gardening instructions for absolute beginners. Though their name is...

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King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Union Chapel

Acoustic unions in an electric chapel, I beheld the evolution of folk music and it was divine. Rocking it was not. Communion. A series of flashbacks occurred as I walked down an aisle of the Highbury...

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Wolf People – Steeple

Is originality everything? I only ask because, throughout contemporary music history, there is very little that has been created without some sort of precedent. This is not to say that the quality of...

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Mastodon Unveil New Album Title

Progressive heavy metal (or hard rock) band Mastodon have revealed the name of their new album today. While still in the process of being finished "The Hunter" is said to contain the...

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Ducktails – live photos 31st May

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. – James Lalropui Keivom...

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Kurt Gluck Speaks ‘Ohm Resistance’

Anger fuelled techno label Ohm Resistance have described their sound as “the price of revolution”. So with this rebellious streak in mind, Trebuchet Magazine interviewed owner and...

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NASA’s Voyager Probe Edges Closer to Interstellar Space

Surprising observations from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft raise questions about the radial extent of the heliosheath — the heated outer shell of our sun’s sphere of influence —...

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Savage Nomads, Don’t Wait Animate, White Powder Gold – Live

The constant hybridisation of music is the fuel that drives innovation. The problem is that decontextualising sounds and themes from other genres can make them meaningless or seem weakly pastiche,...

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Alice Cooper to Play intimate show at 100 Club

ALICE COOPER Live At The 100 Club June 26th 2011, 100 Oxford Street, London   PLUS – HALLOWEEN NIGHT OF FEAR OCTOBER SHOWS + NEW YORK DOLLS *( 27-31 OCT ONLY) WANTED:...

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Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem 3

The Pacific Northwest meets the rest of the world… strange things happen… Before I commence, I feel I ought to issue an important warning – be VERY careful if trying to Google...

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Amon Tobin – Surge EP

Amon Tobin simultaneously alienates and intrigues....

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Charity Event: PD James and Ruth Rendell in Conversation

Trebuchet Supports: PD James and Ruth Rendell in Conversation Leading crime writers PD James and Ruth Rendell, both Members of the House of Lords and admired and read by millions, are appearing at an...

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David J Roch – Skin and Bone

Colliding the wonderment of tragedy and the bewildering virtue of romantic love, these songs are not lullabies. They are raw emotions straight from your nerve endings. Every so often an album comes...

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Rival Consoles – Kid Velo

Rival Consoles' Kid Velo has the beats and builds of anthemic house, but it's more Paul Hardcastle than Paul Oakenfold. Now that GaGa has got her hands on sidechain compression and synth...

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Magnetic Bubbles Reside at Solar System Edge

NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored...

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Washed Out Free Dance Rock Download

    WASHED OUT “EYES BE CLOSED” REMIX 12” – FULL TRACKLISTING FREE DOWNLOAD OF GRIMES REMIX   “Eyes Be Closed”, the opening track and first single...

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Somewhere Somehow We Repair – Body Studio

Mary George's group exhibition in a fully functioning gym juxtaposes the static with the kinetic, the delicate with the strong, the physically aspirational with the spiritually contemplative. At...

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The Australian Pink Floyd Show Return With Mammoth 2012 UK Tour

Live Nation are proud to announce that The Australian Pink Floyd Show is set to return with a series of 29 headline shows across the UK in February and March 2012. Tickets are on sale from 9am...

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Ukkonen – Erriapo (EP)

Erriapo's icy but intimate techno-chillout is understated, elegant, but never simple. Unhurried development: the tightrope walk of the electronic musician's art. How many bars can you...

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Physicists hit on mathematical description of superfluid dynamics

Physicists hit on mathematical description of superfluid dynamics It has been 100 years since the discovery of superconductivity, a state achieved when mercury was cooled, with the help of liquid...

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Modern Panic – Carnevale Grotesque

Art can be like a wedding cake, full of jam and sponge and sugar on top. It's tasty, once in a while, but won't blow you away. You can spend a lot of money on it, but it won't really...

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Miss Led – Street Style Perfection

Illustration with a street edge, Miss Led's art has moved to galleries, brands have taken note, the rise and rise of graf influenced art continues.  Miss Led is a UK based artist with a keen...

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Make Better Music 47: Messiaen and the Blues

Make Better Music 47: Messiaen and the Blues. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Be It Numbers or Words—Language Structure Remains the Same

It is one of the wonders of language: We cannot possibly anticipate or memorize every potential word, phrase, or sentence. Yet we have no trouble constructing and understanding myriads of novel...

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