Archive - Trebuchet

Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

19/03/2014

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

War: The Exile and the Rock Limpet exhibited 1842

Late Turner : Painting Set Free

18/03/2014

Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. ...

A picture of Les Claypool's Duo De Twang album

Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang : Four Foot Shack

17/03/2014

There will be someone out there, bored by the usual, willing to listen to a bluegrass barn-dance inspired acoustic record that contains covers of the Bee Gees and Alice in Chains....

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Loitered Lens : Prosperina

16/03/2014

Photos of Prosperina live at London's KOKO....

Women: Over-Strained, Under-Utilized

15/03/2014

Women have fought for the right to be equal but still struggle compared to men. We might as well be fed last if we are to be fed less....

Here is a film that demands to be seen, particularly considering some lovely cinematography that complements and highlights a seemingly idyllic landscape quietly blighted by the unexploded bombs of...

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

13/03/2014

Although we have been graced with life - all its possibilities and abundance - it has become apparent, we have fallen in love with Extinction....

Conan : Blood Eagle

12/03/2014

Devastation bleeding from the speakers....

Def Leppard Interview (Part 2)

11/03/2014

I think a lot of that was down to “Mutt” Lange. He worked us so hard on those records to make it sound special. He didn’t want us to sound like a run of the mill rock band. ...

Dealing With Women in Art

10/03/2014

Women are undoubtedly still having to fight against our traditional patriarchal society, but surely the art world is one that can lead by example?...

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Loitered Lens : Church of Misery

09/03/2014

Doom-sludge metal at stratospheric volume. Photos of Church of Misery live at Koko, London...

Keel Her [Album]

07/03/2014

Mood music matching the most foul of moods...

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Anti Fracking Benefit (Asian Dub Foundation)

06/03/2014

“No Toxic for profit legacy for our children” : Asian Dub Foundation...

Nocturnal Breed album cover for Napalm Nights

Caliban versus Slough Feg versus Nocturnal Breed

06/03/2014

It’s immature, it’s juvenile and it will never, ever grow up. ...

A poster for Shangaan Electro and The Bug at Koko

Shangaan Electro / The Bug : Koko

05/03/2014

KOKO London will transform into an eclectic cocktail of deep Bass music from The Bug, combined with rapid style rhythms and soulful vocal chorus’ from Nozinja aka Shangaan electro ...

Ruin Lust : Tate Britain

05/03/2014

Ruins can point towards futures, potentials, opportunities and constructions of the new, as well as to endings...

Def Leppard : Interview

04/03/2014

There are so many artists, bands and so many different ways of getting them. It’s taken the special out of it. There’s too much out there. ...

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Bigelf : Into the Maelstrom

03/03/2014

It's been a long wait for this album, but the wait has been worth it. ...

Fear in a Handful of Dust

03/03/2014

The times call for us to explore the soul's topography of exaggeration, and this is propitious because it is not possible to exaggerate the peril we face if we cling to the status quo...

Brett Armory : Lazarides Gallery

02/03/2014

Waiting series examines the social disconnect of individuals on public transport and in public spaces, always waiting, never being....

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Loitered Lens : Tribazik

02/03/2014

Despite having a lot of distorted rock trappings, Tribazik are a force of groove...

Panic Room : Incarnate

28/02/2014

This is an album by a band not afraid to try something slightly different, and there is much to like about it. ...

Monster Magnet , Koko

27/02/2014

Monster Magnet ripped out the spine of the packed Koko, swung it around with the head still attached and drooling, and smashed it down hard and heavy into the stage....

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Argy Bargy [Live]

26/02/2014

The underground movement of Punk and Oi. Will it ever die? Not in Watford at any rate....

Tribazik : Data Warfare

26/02/2014

Pulsing bass, heavy insistent drums, chugging guitars. Despite having a lot of distorted rock trappings, Tribazik are a force of groove and emphasise the ‘one’ with the sort of dedication you...

Óscar Mulero / Pole Group : Interview

25/02/2014

We don't have one type of sound that we want to focus on or develop to a higher or lesser degree, we just make music and if it fits our philosophy, we release it....