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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Gold-Bears – Are You Falling in Love?

What's that sound in my ears? The Gold-Bear's debut album is messing with my head. And my hands are dancing too! The Gold-Bears have been developing their sound for a number of years. Formed...

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Persuasive speech: The way we, um, talk sways our listeners

Want to convince someone to do something? A new University of Michigan study has some intriguing insights drawn from how we speak. The study, presented May 14 at the annual meeting of the American...

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Eye Hear, Heart See 2: Optimo

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...

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Going Nowhere?

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...

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Scenes of Plenty: British Library

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

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UK Astronomy Will Be Hit Hard By Budget Cuts

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...

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Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down

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...

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Status Quo return, with first ever ‘QuoFest’.

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...

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Interstates and States of Grief

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...

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