Category: News

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank

Southern Lord to release Enabler

24/01/2012

Enabler. This brain-melting hardcore punk/metal crossover band from Milwaukee was formed by guitarist / vocalist and songwriter Jeff Lohrber. Cut from the same cloth as the likes of Integrity, Earth...

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Ringo Starr Announces Album

23/01/2012

'I'd like to be Under the sea In an octopus's garden, In the shade'. Ringo's BACK! Celebrating the 50th anniversary of joining The Beatles, the man described by John Lennon as...

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Introducing Ronin (ITA)

23/01/2012

This band is awesome. Big bio… BIG bio. See em tonight for elements of Leyland Kirby, Fennesz and Godspeed. /
 
£6 in advance / £8 on the door

The Vortex
11 Gillett Square, London...

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The Legendary Shack Shakers UK Tour

23/01/2012

Holy shoot, you scumbags, possibly the most righteous band currently kicking several shades of satan out of your ass hits town in April.  Th' Legendary Shack Shakers.  This band sums up...

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One Hit Wonder? You’ve Got 3.95 Years

22/01/2012

Just under four years of public profile for a one-hit wonder? So how come 'Shaddap a' Your Face' is still stuck in my head after thirty-odd years? DENVER – A detailed analysis of...

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The Many-Faceted Beauty of the Flying Street Rat

21/01/2012

Yeah, maybe they're cute, fluffy and of great scientific interest. Bet you wouldn't eat one though…. Your standard street pigeon might seem like a bore, but pigeon fanciers well know...

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Matthew Bourne Performances Video

20/01/2012

Matthew Bourne Performance Videos Released The clips were filmed just before Christmas at Leeds College of Music, and give a sense of Bourne's remarkable technique. The pieces include...

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Anonymous Issue Video ‘Don’t Mess With Us’

20/01/2012

Anonymous video...

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Graham Coxon Returns with new album A+E

19/01/2012

Graham Coxon returns to Parlophone for his new album titled A+E, which will be released on 2nd April. A+E is Coxon’s first release since the acclaimed, acoustic-driven The Spinning Top. Coxon...

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Avaaz SOPA petition – share this!

18/01/2012

Hey Trebuchet readers. This is really important. You know this internet that you all love. Well a lot of it is memetic and based on pop culture. SOPA and PIPA will curtail the satire, the references...

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Meshuggah on tour 2012

18/01/2012

Meshuggah are very special band for Trebuchet writers and indeed many of our readers.  The hyper rhythmic tour de force Meshuggah has become an institution and despite low record sales for...

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Anthrax joined by Diamond Plate for UK shows

18/01/2012

Chicago thrashers DIAMOND PLATE have confirmed three UK shows, marking the first time ever that the band will have played outside of North America. DIAMOND PLATE are due to support thrash metal...

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Abbey Road Studio to become Fairmont Hotel

17/01/2012

So the Fairmont Hotels group is to open a hotel in the Abbey Road studios. Deny all you will the nefarious influences of filesharing and piracy on the fortunes of the music industry – and those...

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The Wedding Present announce new studio album and tour

17/01/2012

The Wedding Present anounce new studio album – Valentina – and tour  The Wedding Present will be releasing their much-anticipated eighth studio album Valentina on March 19th,...

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S.C.U.M. Announce UK Tour Dates

17/01/2012

S.C.U.M announce a series of UK dates, including Bush Hall in London on 24 February, their first in the UK since 2011’s NME Radar Tour.   UK TOUR DATES 21 Feb – Brighton, Green Door...

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English Wikipedia to turn off the lights in SOPA protest

17/01/2012

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at WED 05:00 UTC.  In an unparalleled show of web solidarity...

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Pulled Apart By Horses: New Single/Album

16/01/2012

Bad jumpers, bubbles and blooded stumps. The video has a certain clunky charm at least. Pulled Apart By Horses are excited to announce the release of a brand new single, ‘V.E.N.O.M’ today...

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Helmet – play ‘Meantime’

12/01/2012

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic second album ‘Meantime’, the mighty Helmet will play the album in full, as well as other classics, on a UK tour next year including...

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Planets. How Many? 100 Billion?!

12/01/2012

It seems like only days ago that we were all getting excited about the proof that there are other planets out there. NASA's Kepler mission proposed that there were at least two planets in other...

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Pirate Power Metal – Alestorm

11/01/2012

Sometimes things just feel right.  In this case pirate shirts, pirate-based drinking and pirate-themed metal. It's salty and juvenile insert analogy here and could just be thing to blow away...

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Algae for your fuel tank

11/01/2012

New process for producing biodiesel from microalgae oil The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The...

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Thieves Like Us stream their new track

11/01/2012

Thieves Like Us return on 20th March with a new album on Captured Tracks. 'Marie Marie' is the first track to be heard. THIEVES LIKE US // Marie Marie by TheArtOf… Trebuchet MagazineThe...

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Pelican – Custom Metal, April UK Tour

10/01/2012

April 2012 will see Chicago’s post-metal quartet Pelican make a welcome return to the live circuit for their first full UK tour since 2008. Never content to remain static over the course of...

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Killing Joke –  UK tour 2012

10/01/2012

Industrial Rock Weirdos Killing Joke – bring back the crazy.  Emerging from the late 70s as a formidable force of social unrest, political revolt and spiritual corruption Killing Joke have...

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Olafur Arnalds Scores For Hollywood

10/01/2012

Acknowledgement of Arnalds' applicability to motion picture soundtracks...

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Black Sabbath Guitarist Suffering from Lymphoma

09/01/2012

Very little to go on here, but the breaking news on Black Sabbath's Facebook page is that Tony Iommi is suffering from 'lymphoma'. Whether or not this refers to the condition...

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Primus to play two special RAH shows.

09/01/2012

After returning to the UK for the first time in 14 years in 2011, for 2 special sold out shows, the band will play 2 special nights, 2 different shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on April 4 +...

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Dragonforce – intimate 100 club performance

08/01/2012

Metal heroes Dragonforce have announced their first UK headline show with new singer Marc Hudson at London's 100 Club in Oxford Street on 16th Feb.  Get your tickets now for the power metal...

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Real-Life Laser Tricorder Developed

08/01/2012

But will it work on green-blooded goblins? Star Trek Tricorder revisited: Toward a genre of medical scanners A hand-held scanner, reminiscent of the fictional Star Trek medical Tricorder, images...

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Dillinger Escape Plan and Mastodon UK Tour

07/01/2012

Seriously intense music is heading this way!  Mastodon have released wagon burning, World or Warcraft Psych-rock masterpiece after masterpiece! Dillinger Escape Plan are in a rare league of...

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