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

Red Fang: Tour Dates

19/12/2011

RED FANG announces European tour with Mastodon Having just wrapped up their highly successful North American run with Mastodon, RED FANG has confirmed that they will be heading to Europe this Winter...

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If Only it Were So Simple: An Algorithm to Predict Hit Songs

18/12/2011

Can science predict a hit song? Most people remember listening to the official UK top 40 singles chart and watching the countdown on Top of the Pops, but can science work out which songs are more...

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Physics meet Music, Music meet Physics

17/12/2011

An internationally renowned composer and an award-winning violinist, are bringing particle physics to life through a series of classical compositions. The composer Edward Cowie is teaming up with...

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Christopher Hitchens: RIP

16/12/2011

Far from being the most popular of journalists within his lifetime (he supported the Iraq wars, intelligently and with erudition, but such taboo thoughts are not popular with the emotional masses),...

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Nitin Sawhney Presents ‘Spin The Globe’ on BBC R2

15/12/2011

Producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral composer Nitin Sawhney brings his eclecticism to BBC Radio 2 in January with a series exploring music from all cultures and...

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Bear Cavalry

15/12/2011

No, not the Canadian reinforcement to the mounties. Bear Cavalry, it's a band. A bit math-rock in the guitar figure, a bit strop-rock in the vocal. Tipped by Tom Robinson, Edith Bowman and (a...

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Christmas Presents: Give Less, Impress More. Bargain!

14/12/2011

Now this is a piece of psychological research that will come in handy. Adding little additional presents to one big gift not only makes you look dithering and a bit needy, but makes the whole package...

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Artists’ Families to Benefit from Resales

13/12/2011

Interesting to see how this will be greeted by the bottom-feeders. In a follow-on to September's extension of music copyright law, a similar series of benefits have recently been applied to...

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Racism Makes You Miserable

12/12/2011

See, all that time we'd been worrying about how it feels to be on the receiving end of a rascist or xenophobic rant, we should have been worrying about the frothing bigot instead. Flippancy aside...

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Four-tailed Galaxy Beast

11/12/2011

Greedy galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy continues to devour its small neighboring dwarf galaxies, and the evidence is spread out across the sky. A team of astronomers led by Sergey Koposov and Vasily...

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NASA finds its first habitable planet

11/12/2011

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface, on a planet close to a sun-like...

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Saggy in the Middle? 77,000 Year-Old Mattress

10/12/2011

Oldest Known Mattresses From South African Rock Shelter: Early humans in South Africa were constructing sleeping mats out of local plants as many as 77,000 years ago, according to a new study. Some...

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ASG:  Sign To Relapse Records

09/12/2011

Relapse Records is extremely proud to announce the signing of North Carolina’s finest psychedelic, stoner-punks ASG!  Impossible to pigeonhole, ASG  has been wheelin’ and...

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Sound Helps You See!

08/12/2011

This story is for anyone who ever ducked their head in the cinema. Even unconsciously, sound helps us see "Imagine you are playing ping-pong with a friend. Your friend makes a serve. Information...

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The Wedding Present: BACK!

07/12/2011

“I never really enjoy New Year’s Eve!” With those fateful words David Gedge set into motion a train of events that has culminated in the “Seeing Out 2011 With The Wedding...

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Fool’s Gold Gets Valuable

06/12/2011

Pyrite, those flecks of shining 'gold' you see in river gravel, might not be as worthless as once believed. Clean, cheap energy. Bring it on. Just don't tell the petrochem baddies!...

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Earth: Angels of Darkness/Demons of Light, plus tour dates

05/12/2011

The second half of  Angels of Darkness/Demons of Light is at hand and Earth are ready to unveil it on the highways and byways of the UK and EU. The line-up again consists of Adrienne Davies on...

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Bobsled runs—fast and yet safe

03/12/2011

Making bobsleigh runs safe for bobsleighs seems to be taking the fun out of thing a bit, no? Ice-monitoring, friction levels, materials and mechanics. Everything is taken into account. Just as well...

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Horror Films Warp Your Mind!

03/12/2011

Horror films a cause of stress? Not half as much as the queue at the chipshop afterwards. Acute stress, like the kind brought on by watching violent movies, changes the way the human brain functions,...

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Scientists Discover Method for Beer-Locating

02/12/2011

Oh the irony! Research on beer done by Spaniards. As the glacially-old joke used to go: Why is Spanish beer like making love in a canoe? They're both f**king close to water…. Anyhow,...

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Music is a moral law

Motley Crue to tour with Tommy Lee’s 360 Drum Rollercoaster.

01/12/2011

Motley Crue to tour with Tommy Lee's 360 degree Drum Rollercoaster....

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10 Years of Free Museums!

01/12/2011

The shadow of Red Ken lingers in the London air. Red Ken – the ex-mayor. Not Redken – the haircare range. Although it depends on which part of London you happen to be in. Anyhow, it's...

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Cass McCombs UK Tour

01/12/2011

Cass McCombs will be touring the UK in March 2012. The four date tour will see him performing in Manchester, Glasgow and Liverpool as well as a Union Chapel show in London on March 9th. This is the...

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Plastic Flowers: Strange Neighbors

30/11/2011

Florida! Are you sure they're from Florida? Sounds more like Manchester, but it's undeniably sweet. The band is Plastic Flowers, the track is 'Strange Neighbours'. They're on the...

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Steve Lawler Single

30/11/2011

Steve Lawler announces his new single alongside Detlef titled "Audition"; his first release since last year's "Gimme Some More". Sand Drawing video produced by: VERVUE Steve...

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Burning Love sign to Southern Lord records.

30/11/2011

Southern Lord proudly announce the signing of Ontario-based BURNING LOVE, as the label prepare for the release of the unit's anticipated upcoming sophomore full-length in early 2012. Following...

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NASA Launch Mars Probe

29/11/2011

Trebuchet has published a couple of articles about NASA's latest Mars mission already, so it's a pleasure to report that the comparatively huge (car-sized) Mars rover got off to a successful...

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That Razorlight Press Shot

28/11/2011

Form an orderly queue, ladies. Well, somebody certainly knows how do generate a buzz. Earnest landfall-indie rockers Razorlight released a new promo picture today. In promotion of something or other,...

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Craig Finn Releases Honolulu Blues

27/11/2011

Ahh, Christian Rock. Who can ever forget Stryper? Actually, who can remember Stryper? Anyhow, it's not all B-Flo and drippy whining from the likes of Ben Harper these days, daddio. Open minds...

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The Prodigy, Metallica and Black Sabbath to headline Download 2012

25/11/2011

Looks like contrary to the industry trying to go with smaller acts 2012 will see a very serious line-up at Download.  While Metallica have been a little underwhelming recently… Black...

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