Author: Trebuchet Magazine

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Drop the big weights. Lower resistance leads to better muscle growth.

Lifting less weight, more often, leads to better muscle growth. It's hardly the established approach, nor does it lend itself as well to the post-workout bragging sessions about how many kilos...

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Roadrunner Records to Close Europe Office?

Industry sources say that seminal metal label Roadrunner is to close its Europe Offices.  Speaking to Trebuchet earlier today it was revealed that Roadrunner records is to close it's Europe...

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Location/existence of the g-spot scientifically confirmed

It's a glacial process, for women, having the realities of their sexual health determined and documented. The mere existence of clitoris or orgasm have only been annotated by western physicians...

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Musicians from Isis and Deftones form new band – Palms

Musicians from Isis and Deftones form new band - Palms...

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Chocolate Beats Heart Disease

Sweeeet! San Diego, CA— Chocolate, considered by some to be the "food of the gods," has been part of the human diet for at least 4,000 years; its origin thought to be in the region...

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Avaaz petition: Jeremy Hunt Must Go.

As the Leveson inquiry continues, depressing a nation by holding a mirror up to it's own moribund fascinations with celebrity reproduction, new and startling revelations arise.  Sometimes...

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Anna Calvi to perform at Somerset House

Anna Calvi to headline Summer Series at Somerset House on Thursday the 12th of July 2012. This July will see the much anticipated return of one of London’s must-see events of the festival...

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Surgical ‘light saber’ developed in Austin, Texas

Medical scientists have developed a laser scalpel capable of working on a cell-by-cell basis. It's already being referred to as a 'surgical light-saber' That's nice, of course. Whilst...

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Spiritualized – Announce UK Tour

Jason P and crew are bringing the hard style electric guitar vibe to the hipster London Elite. Spritualized – UK TOUR ANNOUNCED! Spiritualized, whose new album ‘Sweet Heart Sweet...

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I Ching – the Changing sound of electro indie

I Ching – release their new video! It's me It's fun and it's a Monday. A promising band from England… with starry ambitions and relevant noises. I predict that the transient...

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Sam Sparro – release several million remixes and a video

Sam Sparro – 'I wish I Never Met You'  – New single released 4th June 2012 Pop crooning and magical realism. It's as though Gabriel García Márquez...

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Baroness announce album release ‘Yellow and Green’

Baroness 'Yellow and Green' Confirm for July 16th Release The band that has given the world some of the most amazing band shirts is rising up to delivery for crushingly groovey metal. ...

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Background TV Found Damaging to Kids

At least they didn't say 'Background TV is damaging your kids. Turn them around so they can see it properly'. American children exposed to high amounts of harmful background TV Children...

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NASA Put Rubber Chicken in Orbit

NASA photograph a rubber chicken in space. We have no idea why. She's called Camilla. We have no idea why. See more of Camilla's space adventures here Image: NASA Trebuchet MagazineThe aim of...

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Thinking about death can lead to a good life

Western culture has a mental block when thinking about death, but new research from University of Missouri suggests this may be unhealthy. Thinking about death can actually be a good thing. An...

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Coastal Visits Mend Your Head

Isn't science wonderful? UK readers will be delighted to know that their education system is responsible for such groundbreaking research as this one. It seems that  visiting the coast is...

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David Lynch Debuts Record Store Day Exclusive

Sunday Best Recordings proudly presents limited edition remixed by Moby.  SINGLE PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE INDEPENDENT RETAIL COMMUNITY TO PROMOTE RECORD STORE DAY ARRIVES SAT 21 APRIL To...

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NASA Call For Asteroid-Hunters

Remember when you were a kid playing video games, and you thought to yourself – 'man, imagine if NASA were watching this and decided to recruit me coz I'm so sharp'? And then you...

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Occupy and MoveOn Support civil disobedience training

The MoveOn.org in association with a number of organisations are launching an initiative to train people in non-violent resistance.  The idea is to make 2012 the year for a co-ordinated protest...

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Hot Chip: New Single and Album Artwork

'Night And Day' – the first single from Hot Chip’s forthcoming fifth LP, In Our Heads – is released on June 4th. In Our Heads will be available on 11th June (in the UK) on...

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Killed Under Arrest – Some Figures

Killed whilst under arrest, the figures show an alarming increase. According to researcher Kenneth Jost, writing in the April 6, issue of CQ Researcher, from 2003 to 2009, killings of arrestees by...

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Megadeth to play special UK show!

One of the most recognized and culturally significant names in metal over the last thirty years, MEGADETH, have today announced that they will be playing a very special one-off show at London’s...

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Tomahawk to release 3xLP!

The revered experimental alternative-rock supergroup Tomahawk will be releasing a very special and luxurious 3xLP retrospective entitled Eponymous to Anonymous exclusively for Record Store Day 2012....

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Lady Starlight announced for Born This Way Ball with Lady Gaga plus Judas Priest shows

Lady Starlight announced for Born This Way Ball with Lady Gaga plus Judas Priest shows Girls apparently just want to have fun. Fun with benefits and money, and adoration, and more fun. The secret is...

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Membranes release special AAA-side

For record store day, Louder Than War Records will be celebrating the return of the legendary post punk band the Membranes by releasing a triple AAA-side, which marks their first release in 22 years...

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Twitter User Faces Jail for Dropping the C-bomb

Twitter user, and free-speech activist, Olly Cromwell, has been found guilty under Section 127 of the Telecommunications Act 2003 of making a grossly offensive and menacing comment on Twitter....

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Car-Mounted Radar in Development

The worrying part of the Universiy of Navarre's project to develop a pedestrian-avoidance system is that it appears not to exist already. And considering that the state of Nevada approved the...

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‘Excessive Worrying’ linked to Intelligence

It might not be rational or scientific, but there are some of us who just know instinctively that if we don't clutch the armrests with a deathgrip on takeoff, that obviously the wings will fall...

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Glimpses of Aurora on Uranus

WASHINGTON—For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is....

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Handel’s Messiah in Dublin

If the artistic foibles of 21st century musicians and composers ever seem outlandish, it's fair to say they are preceded by a tradition of similar behaviour that stretches back centuries. History...

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