Category: Sound

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A dormant thread in old blues (Vintage Trouble)

'All bullshit aside, these are bands that are taking the road that we've taken, which is real raw recorded music'. Vintage Trouble talk. ...

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The Levellers (Simon Friend) : Interview

'Certainly I think we’ve been ignored. Or not even ignored – shunned' - Simon Friend of The Levellers makes up for some lost media attention. ...

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Womad 2013

Has the cross pollination of sound led to a syncretic culture? True to form, WOMAD 2013 poses as many questions as it answers....

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Loitered Lens : Mud Morganfield

'dressed like a high-class gangster in his high pin-stripe suit with a silky handkerchief in the top pocket'. Mud Morganfield...

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Pompeii Graffiti : Interview

Songs about falling in love with lesbians, a song about Battlestar Galactica, songs about losing friends, songs about high school romance, songs about feeling like a loser...

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Randall Dunn Interview

I don't think that the world has become a horrible place. I think that we should be more aware of now rather than some idea of the future. ...

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Cambridge Folk Festival 2013: Review

Beards and flat caps are very much the exception rather than the rule at the Cambridge Folk Festival...

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Tailored waist coated suits (Vintage Trouble live)

Vintage Trouble are a band who have gained in confidence and professionalism but lost none of their approachability or inclusiveness. And therein lies their strength. Live St Pancras...

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Author & Punisher to Tour with Pantera’s Anselmo

Author and Punisher to Tour with Pantera's Anselmo...

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Adam X (Traversable Wormhole) : Interview

'There was a strict agenda, but only in terms of designing it to being spatial and outer worldly-sounding.' Traversable Wormhole's Adam X talks to Codex Europa...

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Maschine : Rubidium

Contemporary progressive rock at its best, mixing metal, jazz and rock in a seamless blend...

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Tarja : Colours in the Dark

It's all completely over the top, but then it's a Tarja record, and you wouldn't really expect anything else; it would be like expecting Meatloaf to make a lo-fi Americana album. ...

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Imperial Teen : The Borderline

Confidence building from song to song, Imperial Teen’s vocal harmonies were perfect and their friendship and upbeat personality poured over the crowd like an infectious smile. ...

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Lu Cozma : Lockdown

It's not a full-band recording, but neither is it completely stripped-down and minimalist. The dominant instrumental sounds are acoustic guitar and programmed rhythms, but there's a lot else in the...

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Jesu New Album Announcement

Justin K. Broadrick has today announced that jesu's upcoming studio album is to be released in the UK/EU on September 23, 2013. Formats will include CD, digital and vinyl....

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Robbie Boyd : Bush Hall

Odes of a life unmarred by complication or dissonance. Robbie Boyd live....

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Loitered Lens : Mikill Pane

Make Us Say (Fuck)? Mikill Pane misreads his audience at the Watford Colosseum. Photos by Carl Byron Batson...

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TOAD : Endless Night

A night-perfect fusion of doom (both traditional and modern), black metal and Groooooooove....

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Mudhoney : HMV Forum

'themes of angst and resentment rage against the hagiography, by self and others, of youth'...

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Loitered Lens : Professor Green

Getting Enough. Professor Green live. Photos....

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Listening Now: Torus Tapes

Listening Now: Torus Tapes - Each month Trebuchet presents some unusual music that puts you in an inspired place. Come back again. ...

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AUTHOR & PUNISHER : Women & Children

Iconoclastic in the truest sense of the word, Tristan Shone inverts the tenets of doom metal completely, relying on cold steel and soulless machinery to sonically replicate the despondency of life...

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Make Better Music 71: Sound/Light

Though both deal with wave-like phenomena, sound and light each have their own peculiarities. ...

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Marc Bolan at the BBC

Whether you are just a fan of his pop orientated, hook filled classics or a hardcore Bolanite on a quest for the grail; this well researched and well collated set of interviews, poetry readings and...

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Loitered Lens : Mudhoney

Photos from Mudhoney's recent gig at the HMV Forum, London...

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Jack Cheshire : Interview

'I've always found it difficult to describe my music to people, but psychedelic is definitely something I aspire to.' Jack Cheshire talks to Trebuchet....

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Luca Forcucci : Fog Horns

a hissing, radioactive sea full of semi-conductors and digital junk...

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Loitered Lens : The Dead Famous

Photos of The dead Famous from the Camden barfly, June 2013...

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Professor Green : Watford Colosseum

Professor Green brought the party with him, bouncing up and down, roaming the stage like a caged tiger and stepping onto the monitors to reach out to the crowd...

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The Icarus Line : Slave Vows

A dangerous high-powered oxyacetylene blowtorch aimed straight at the heads of all those preened plastic pretend pointy-shoed rock and rollers that have bred like maggots over the stages of the land...

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