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Orbital: Wonky

'boredom, indifference, embarrassment and even disgust', Codex Europa reviews Orbital's Wonky In August 1993 I saw Orbital give a memorable show in a tent at the Deptford Free Festival....

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Rival Sons: Jay Buchanan Interview

Trebuchet interviews Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan discussing music life and the million of chances in between....

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Bang On!: [Sic]

And, like many gobby kids with a sharp wit and an audience, he gets carried away at times. 'Picking fatties with big racks/ to lick their piss flaps/ like Johnny Vegas in drag' flies past, sexist and...

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Art Improves Quality of Life in Stroke Victims

New research just published by the European Society of Cardiology sheds some pretty interesting light on what looks, on first glance, like more scientists taking chunks of time, brainpower and...

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Interview: Ian Jones (KARNATAKA)

It is very common to hear people moaning about clichés, especially when it comes to our ‘soul feeder’ music. Even Rock music, which once was a controversial movement against the...

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Emma Sywyj, Photographer: Interview

Photographer Emma Sywyj has a wry approach to her craft. Sean Keenan interviews Emma Sywyj about her photography and travelling in the UK. ...

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Evy Jane: Sayso and Ohso (+Remixes)

I know the sexualisation of R&B has been overdone to a point where it has become sexually gratifying, big arses and jiggly tits sitting and dancing on Hummers, where the amount of fuel one can...

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The British Expeditionary Force: Interview

With scant weeks to go before the March release of their album Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu, The British Expeditionary force are at that tricky pre-publicity point in their album campaign. A spring...

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Legendary J.D. Wilkes: interview

The Legendary Shack Shakers never miss and have wowed the hardy fools of the hip underground over the course of six energetic punk blues albums. Inteview with JD Wilkes...

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Speech Debelle: Freedom of Speech

Calling upon Kwes to produce, Big Dada apply a sonic approach to Speech Debelle's return album that, even this early in the producer's career, tends towards formulaic. It's there right at...

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The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

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Ronin: Interview

Interview with OVO drummer Bruno Dorella about with dark folk group Ronin...

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Straylings: Interview

Vulpine and ragged, dropping effortlessly from the plaintive minors of her upper range down to throaty growlings all earthy and powerful, Straylings' Dana Zeera throws her voice around in ways...

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Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands: Muses and Bones

“Where's your will to be weird?” ― Jim Morrison Crystal it seems, holds a better hand than most when it comes to music, playing a bewildering amount of instruments; accordion,...

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Nile and Mayhem exclusive Bloodstock 2012

NILE and Norwegian Black Metal Legends MAYHEM, make their BLOODSTOCK debut....

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Interesting Times: SOPA

Politics has rarely concerned itself with the intelligent. The art of persuasion is neutered by the intelligent person's demands for data. Where will the money for schools, libraries, hospitals...

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Fawlty Towers Syndrome

The melancholic experience of visiting a declining English hotel out of season reveals some suggestivaly ominous parallels with the current state of the nation. After almost forty years, John Cleese...

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OWS 2012: Still Resisting

In my opinion, when people opine that the OWS movement is about — or should be about — the airing of this particular grievance or that it must bandy this or that particular demand —...

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DJ Food: The Search Engine

This is the land, where nothing changes, the land of red buses & blue blooded babies, This is the place, where pensioners are raped, And the hearts are being cut, from the welfare state, Let the...

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Islet: Illuminated People

Islet's Illumiminated People is awash with the self-indulgence of a band who have little to fear from the ignominy of failure. That's the official line at any rate. Famous now for not being...

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Kids in Glass Houses – Interview

Kids in Glass Houses, as their names suggests are obviously not the sort of band that you’d expect to be particularly forthcoming or vitriolic on any topic. Not least because they appear to be a...

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Capturing the Moment – Bill Hale Interview

For over 30 years Bill Hale has captured the hairs and prayers of a generation of rock and roll players. the Metallicas, the Megadeths, the Slayers......

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King Mob and Bermondsey Joyriders: Live

Punkemon: elusive punks finally sighted and captured. 17/11/2011 – 229 Portland Street. There is a section of the punk community, born too late to see any of the bands in their prime (and in...

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The Other Art Fair

Seduced by art: From art virgin to art collector It sparks off debates, encourages us to take a look at topical issues, delves inside the subconscious, and allows us to have a laugh at the world and...

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Charlene Soraia – Moonchild

Charlene Soraia's ability to split her voice into ultra-shrill harmonics is a talent. There was a chap a few years ago with an act entitled 'The Puppetry of the Penis' who was able to...

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We would go totally apeshit (Splatterheads)

Trebuchet interviews Sly, vocalist and guitarist for The Splatterheads, about their history and tentatively, the future of the parochial Australian rock labourer....

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Yann Novak – Presence

Electronic music is now more ubiquitous than schoolboy garage rock bands ever were. And where schoolboy garage bands once plagued their classmates into spending Saturday evenings at church halls and...

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Open Letter to Simon Cowell Gathers Pace

Happy Ending Update! ITV Producers have announced that X-Factor band "Rhythmix" will change their name. Hooray! Original news piece follows Simon Cowell and childrens' charity Rhythmix....

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Kid Koala – Space Cadet

Typical. You wait all year for an album playing on the sound of the internal mechanisms of the piano, and then two turn up within a fortnight.  On first impressions, Kid Koala's Space Cadet...

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iconAclass: Powers that be interview

Powers that be: Will Brooks, hip hop’s transgressor and previously dälek, steps into the light as iconAclass.  Hip hop that referenced musique concrete and My Bloody Valentine,...

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