Tennis – Carpe Diem, Cape Dory!

During the summer months, we've all taken off to find that elusive something. Some of us collect trinkets, others snaps – and some record an album. When “Tennis”, husband and...

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Brahma: From the Cradle to the Rave

Psychedelic visions combined with a skill for geometry and a lexicon that owes more to mathematics than romanticism, Bramha’s exhibition brings rave culture into the light. But can his work...

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Make Better Music 36: Exploit All Parameters

Make Better Music 36: Exploit All Parameters. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

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Syd Barrett – The Art is in the Letters

Barrett's mythologised life finally comes down to earth in the first major exhibition of his art and letters. But is he a little too human? January 1968. Crammed into the back of a van, Pink...

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Obscura – Omnivium

If Earth were to be invaded by an alien race the scene could be imagined as smaller bombers strafing the surface being coordinated from a mother ship.  Much like, say, the US Air Force or Navy...

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Is space like a chessboard?

Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space. Space is usually considered infinitely divisible — given any...

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Magic Bullets – ‘Magic Bullets’

Sunshine and tears… Boy, do these Californians love their Orange Juice. Not, however, the golden state’s fruity elixir, but the Scottish variety. Despite their San Franciscan base and...

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Daedelus – Bespoke

An album full of bespoke pieces as layered as his choice of fashion, does Daedelus retain full control of his creation or does he challenge our ears with a note too far? After a splurge of LP...

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Lost in New Jersey 9: Perpetual Transformation

Lost in New Jersey 9: Perpetual Transformation. Photographic series by Matt Coleman...

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PRESS RELEASE : SOS Festival 16-17th

We're absolutely delighted to announce a further 6 bands for SOS Festival…. Attica Rage, Babylon Fire, Velvet Star, Betraeus, Skarlett Riot & Inferno. Also our good friends from...

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Scanners – Submarine

This London born band has the right mix of feminine wiles, indie charisma and soft punk sensibility to win any listener over. Let’s all get depressed. No, let’s get angry. No, cheerful....

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Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire

  Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire, says CU-Boulder-led study A new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by...

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MONO and The Holy Ground Orchestra…LIVE!!!

One Inch Badge and Tidal Shift proudly present, MONO and The Holy Ground Orchestra…LIVE!!!      Blurring the boundary between art-metal and neo-classical, Japanese post-rockers...

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Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love

When the going gets weird… Once or twice in the space of an aeon, something or someone enters the musical multiverse that is so completely bizarre that you’re not sure whether it’s...

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Impact of a bad job on mental health as harmful as no job at all

The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: results from a longitudinal national household panel survey. The impact on mental health of a badly...

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Make Better Music 35: Your Music as a Burger

Make Better Music 35: Your Music as a Burger. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Syn Ze Sase Tri – Intre Doua Lumi

Dark Symphonies from the Black Metal heart of Romania. Roughly translated the band’s name means,“I’m with triple 6”. After some brief thought and armed with the knowledge that...

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Hunx and His Punx – Too Young to Be in Love

The Hunx and His Punx's new album “Too Young to Be in Love” gives 1960s pop a queer twist, but did the Hunx forget to pack before racing to the past? You've seen the film. Marty...

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Drugg – Shackled EP

Choosing a band name is always a fraught business and in the case of London garage act Drugg one I’m not sure from this first outing whether they’re the real thing or merely an inert lump...

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Madame Butterfly – Royal Albert Hall

Puccini's tragic opera, beautifully performed by the soprano lead. Madame Butterfly's focus is misplaced devotion; the drama of the opera is used to effectively convey the utter hopelessness...

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Science: Teenagers prescribed Viagra.

Erectile dysfunction drug improves exercise tolerance in young people with congenital heart disease. Sildenafil, a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension, has another...

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Lost in New Jersey 8: Abnormal Behaviour

Lost in New Jersey 8: Abnormal Behaviour. Photographic series by Matt Coleman...

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Belong – Common Era

Uncommon pleasures… The shoegaze revival that many thought could never happen is still in the process of snowballing as it rolls onward through yet another decade. From ambient meanderings to...

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TOMBS: Complete Work On New Album

  TOMBS: Complete Work On New Album; Announce U.S. Tour Dates       TOMBS has completed work on their brand new album, Path Of Totality. Path Of Totality, the follow-up to...

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Wagon Christ – Toomorrow

Toomorrow is Luke Vibert’s first outing as Wagon Christ since Sorry I Make You Lush in 2004 and if you needed a masterclass in sample transmutation, this is it. From the intro onward Toomorrow...

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Spiritualized to play Royal Albert Hall

    ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON   TUESDAY 11th OCTOBER   Tickets go on sale 9am, Friday 11th March   Double Six is pleased to announce SPIRITUALIZED at the ROYAL ALBERT HALL on...

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The Cave Singers – No Witch

A lot of this album rides on close vocal harmonies - but don't expect sweetness and light from the Cave Singers, No Witch...

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Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo

An album that was given all the breaks yet provided none of the greatness.  As a musical mid-life crisis goes, this one is the equivalent of a red sports car and a blonde twenty-two year old...

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Trappings, Friezes and Being Female.

Kleio Gizeli, Lisa Holden, Martha Parsey, Carol Robertson, Susan Gunn, Rana Begum. Crossroads, Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill, March 2011 – June 2011. UK Female Artists...

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Mike Starr (Alice in Chains) 1966-2011. RIP.

Today the talented Bass Player of Alice In Chains was found dead today in Salt Lake City, Utah. While thought to be due to a heroin overdose the police have yet to release a statment regarding the...

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