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On The Nature Of Self-Defeating Convictions

05/05/2012

A missive to an estranged southern friend Although I have resided in New York City for many years, I was born in the Deep South. On a daily basis, I negotiate Manhattan's gridded streets and...

Supersonic festival Celebrates 10 years

01/05/2012

Supersonic is one of Trebuchet's favourite festivals of the year. It's so good that normally people are blown away by the music… there is just too much unmissable greatness. ...

Acclaimed poet Brendan Cleary in cult magazine relaunch!

30/04/2012

Like the lust of my midnight phoenix bad poetry seems to die and be reborn every three years. There'll be some event, movie, appointment that brings it into the public eye and...

Sam Sparro – release several million remixes and a video

23/04/2012

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...

Touchstone at The Duchess, York

12/04/2012

Playing progressive rock with the emphasis on rock, Touchstone have achieved much in the past few years. They've now got three full-length studio albums and an American festival appearance under...

Orbital: Wonky

11/04/2012

'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....

Electric Deluxe Releases [Techno]

28/03/2012

Codex Europa reviews a series of techno releases on Speedy J's Electric Deluxe imprint Speedy J's Electric Deluxe is a reliable label that continues to issue a steady flow of thoughtful,...

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...

Polymath

10/03/2012

Polymath, 14th April 2012, GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U 6LY ....

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: Review

01/03/2012

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: A Sad Wandering Dreamer Trapped In Contemporary Memory Architectures Sometimes techno titles are totally irrelevant to the sounds and some producers even prefer simply to...

Legendary J.D. Wilkes: interview

14/02/2012

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...

Ronin: Interview

08/02/2012

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

Ernesto Neto: Spaces of Transformation, Edges of the World

28/01/2012

Ernesto Neto is a quirky and charismatic artist who has fascinated me with his tactile, porous artworks for years. His talk for ‘Topology at Tate Modern’ began with a lyrical wordplay on...

Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

19/01/2012

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...

Fawlty Towers Syndrome

11/01/2012

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...

Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

30/12/2011

Painful though it may be to recall, it was summer once. Cool drinks were sipped at pavement cafes, flesh was bared and balding scalps reddened and peeled in the light of the now-forgotten sun....

DJ Food: The Search Engine

19/12/2011

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...

Riots and Rods of Iron: An Academic in Africa

14/12/2011

It is both a curse and a blessing that we don’t know what other people think of us. I am much better than I used to be, but I know that I still spend much of my time in conversation with an...

Panic Room: Live Review

08/12/2011

Panic Room have come a long way since their first live appearances back in 2008. The band emerged from the ashes of the first incarnation of celtic proggers Karnataka, with that band's...

I was always closer to rock´n roll (Nils Frahm)

25/11/2011

Interview with Nils Frahm 2011...

The Walls of St Pauls by Kailas Elmer 2013

Sex, Anarchism, Politics and Pirates: London’s Theatres Collaborate

10/11/2011

This week saw the launch of a new collaborative project between 12 of London’s top theatre venues, who are changing the way Londoners find theatre....

FZV – Soundsump

07/11/2011

The shadowy producer known only as FZV is a long-term, low-profile participant in London's Pitchless Sound System and has often played at underground events in temporary spaces. Operating in the...

Kid Koala – Space Cadet

24/10/2011

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...

Takako Shimizu – Piecemaker Exhibition 2011

22/10/2011

Mosaic sculptor Takako Shimizu explores the other facets of Glass. It’s clear that while glass heats to a liquid state and cools to become a solid, something of its liquid nature always...

Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

12/10/2011

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

Rock’s Backpages Launches New eBooks Series

05/10/2011

Rock's Backpages, the world's largest online library of rock journalism, announces the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, headed up by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. Backpages eBooks...

Stateless – I’m on Fire EP

31/08/2011

Symphonic electronica and beguiling voices – 'I'm on Fire' feeds the spirit. There really is a lot of range on this five-track EP. Hell, there's more range in each one of the...

Gunfire in the studio: Shooting film, photons & 12-bores

06/08/2011

I’m often asked, ‘What are the best bits about being an artist?’ A glance in the mirror after my day in the studio typically reveals a tired face peering out from beneath a...

Dissecting Dyslexia: Linking reading to voice recognition

30/07/2011

Research shows dyslexia involves difficulty processing language sounds in dyslexic brains. When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people...

Crystal Antlers – Two-Way Mirror

06/07/2011

Crystal Antlers find liberation in music's current chaos. Adaptation to the realities of the music market in 2011 is something of a Darwinian exercise. Freetards lurking in the comment feeds of...

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