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Destroyer Joins Dead Oceans For First European Headline

31/03/2011

Destroyer Joins Dead Oceans For UK/EU/Japanese Release Of Kaputt, Announces First European Headline Tour. Dead Oceans are thrilled to announce that we're handling the UK, European and Japanese...

Tindersticks announce UK tour dates in October.

30/03/2011

Tindersticks are delighted to announce UK tour dates in October, in conjunction with Music Beyond Mainstream to celebrate the band’s long awaited release of Claire Denis Film Scores...

To Hell with Centrism: We Must Reclaim the Inspired Edge

27/03/2011

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – George Orwell I don’t want to be part of your revolution if I can’t dance. – Emma Goldman...

Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire

16/03/2011

Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire, says CU-Boulder-led study A new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by...

Belong – Common Era

11/03/2011

Uncommon pleasures… The shoegaze revival that many thought could never happen is still in the process of snowballing as it rolls onward through yet another decade. From ambient meanderings to...

Wagon Christ – Toomorrow

10/03/2011

Toomorrow is Luke Vibert’s first outing as Wagon Christ since Sorry I Make You Lush in 2004 and if you needed a masterclass in sample transmutation, this is it. From the intro onward Toomorrow...

Trappings, Friezes and Being Female.

09/03/2011

Kleio Gizeli, Lisa Holden, Martha Parsey, Carol Robertson, Susan Gunn, Rana Begum. Crossroads, Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill, March 2011 – June 2011. UK Female Artists...

Attack of the Stereotypes

07/03/2011

Attack of the Stereotypes In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street, And on the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark building And in the dark, dark building were… BRIGHT JAPANESE...

Mono/Poly – Manifestations

18/02/2011

The slow and sexy presets of Mono/Poly 's Manifestations represent smart funk at its unique best....

How do I look: Robert Mapplethorpe?

27/01/2011

Glossy photographs in glossy frames create the perfect environment for glossy fashionistas in Alison Jaques gallery. ‘Curated by Scissor Sisters’. Need the gay fashion pack know more?...

AXXONN – Let’s Get It Straight

13/01/2011

Break me off some! AXXONN releases the happiest electro-doom record ever. Resplendently retrorama, Let’s Get It Straight mounts cathedral sized melodies with the light touch of heavy industry....

You are Here – Dutch Art

30/12/2010

As snow blizzards down in Bloomsbury, a bunch of Dutch art devotees gather for mulled wine and muffins in a miniature white cube style gallery. With such extreme weather outside, viewers gaze on...

Chromagain – Any Colour We Liked

22/12/2010

Electronic and experimental dark disco from Italian rogues, but do they still have what it takes? Oh synth, synth, synth! How I love thee. Let me count the ways… except I had trouble counting...

Small is Beautiful

19/12/2010

Small is Beautiful XXVII and Gyunel Rustamova in Cork Street galleries, Dry the River and Clare Maguire at The Social. 14th December One small step for artists but a giant leap for free arts...

Trouble with Curating?

15/12/2010

Ben Street’s Gifted at the Josh Lilley Gallery answers the ICA’S question; why do we need curators? December 2010. Outside the great student fees debate rages. Placards set to one side, a...

Fen – Epoch

10/12/2010

(Code666 Feb2011) Shouted whispers across a hunter’s field. Epoch is the intense third release for this English quartet that owes as much to Alan Moore as it does to King Crimson. This is a...

For Sale: Future Trophy Wife

06/12/2010

Parents to clamp down on the sexy child market. The UK Government is setting up a governing body to assess and prevent over-sexualisation of children in marketing, advertising and product sales....

Neurosis – KOKO, London, UK

06/12/2010

In December 2010 I witnessed rock and roll’s nadir, the point where you look upon a crowd of stupid fucks and wish that each and every one of them would fucking die....

Pan American – For Waiting, For Chasing

03/12/2010

Pan American is no stranger to the art of soundscapes...

Gabby Young and Other Animals – The Tabernacle, Notting Hill

01/12/2010

“We’re all in this together”, World Connection records. 20th November 2010. I first encountered Gabby Young and Other Animals at Glastonbury 2010, one of those wandering encounters...

Pam Glew: Circus

30/11/2010

Red Bull Studios, London Bridge 26/11/10 – 02/12/10 The second major exhibition by popular emerging artist Pam Glew has all the trappings of punk nostalgia, mixed up with celebrity noir. Portraits...

Benoit Pioulard – Lasted

25/11/2010

The shimmering delight of Lasted by Seattle émigré Benoit Pioulard AKA Thomas Meluch is a massively inspired vehicle of brilliance. A gushing Trebuchet review. ...

Scientists Get Closer to Invisibility Cloak

04/11/2010

Scientists have come a 'huge step' closer to developing a material that bends light around an object, a property that aims to make things invisible....

Television the Drag on the Nation

01/11/2010

Television has struggled enormously to cope with the technological paradigm shift of the internet...

iDose Therefore I Am

22/10/2010

Panic in the Bytes of Digital Music: Featuring Cyber-mums fed moral panic by sensationalist media in An Old Scare Gets a Brave New Update. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Your child is...

Art Music: Remembering Mille Plateaux on the eve of its relaunch

22/10/2010

Mille Plateaux, a multifaceted icon of the dot.com musical era and now in 2010 it’s coming back. ...

Standing Our Ground: Land reclamation in Bevere, Venezuela.

22/10/2010

In the Bevere community, located outside Tucani, Venezuela the push for agricultural reform and ‘endogenous development’ is the government’s reported attempt to reduce the poverty and...

Zidane: A Strange Form Of Love

22/10/2010

Zidane and Camus unlikely bedfellows a discussion of the film and it's implications...

Stop The War: Or What?

22/10/2010

The War on Terror is unquestionably the dominant security discourse of our times. It has reshaped our worldwide strategic perspective, reoriented our approach to policing and airport security, and...

Anita Maj – Out of Control

18/10/2010

Heading mainly for the teen rock audience, this debut single by upcoming South London-based “feisty rock soul diva” Anita Maj combines lyrics lamenting the hot boy laden crush,...

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