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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Caretaker of the Curious: Leyland Kirby

"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...

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Musical experience offsets some ageing effects

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...

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Slugabed – Moonbeam Rider EP

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...

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Motorhead Announce UK Tour

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...

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Make Better Music 42: Being the Next Big Thing

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

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Blank Dogs – Collected By Itself: 2006-2009

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...

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

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...

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Toby Keith Confirms UK Dates

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...

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Eye Hear, Heart See 1: Float On

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.

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

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Austerlitz – Austerlitz

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...

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

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...

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Computers sing to a better tune

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...

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

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...

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Bloodiest – Descent

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...

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The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

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...

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