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Lost In The Trees: 2000 Trees 2019
Trebuchet sets out to break our 2000 Trees virginity with their excellent 2019 instalment. (read more)
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The Tides Are In Our Veins
Floridian Post-Rockers Tides of Man return with brand new instrumental release ‘Everything Nothing’. (read more)
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Heroes Sometimes Let You Down
Fraggle casts a critical eye on newcomers to the Finnish Metal tradition Heroes Don’t Ask Why, and their new release ‘Sound Of A Broken Heart’ (read more)
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When Godsmack’s Legend Stagnates
So just how much have seminal Nu-Metallers Godsmack phoned it in with latest release ‘When Legends Rise’? (read more)
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Sons of a Galactic Wasteland
Sons Of Alpha Centauri get a little space-y with latest instrumental release ‘Continuum’ – but is it cool, Sci-Fi space or just the dark bits in between? (read more)
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Bullet For My Valentine’s Not Dead Yet!
Welsh Metalcore stalwarts Bullet For My Valentine are back with new release ‘Gravity’. But does it stand up against their early material? (read more)
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A Grand Day Out At Camden Rocks
Team Trebuchet visit a few of our favourite Camden haunts to soak in this year’s Camden Rocks. (read more)
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Only The Support: How To Steal The Show
Bristol Indie-Rockers Coasts made for a stellar night with their headline appearance at Kentish Town’s O2 Forum… But how did openers Only The Poets fare in navigating the crowd? (read more)
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Call A Bloody Chiropractor (Cancer Bats – Live)
Trebuchet wade into the Manchester date of Cancer Bats’ ‘The Spark That Moves’ album release celebrations to ensure they’ve still got it live! (read more)
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Wrecked The Grading Curve – Home Wrecked
Sheffield Pop Punkers Home Wrecked tackle the tricky sophomore release with a fresh, mature approach in ‘Try What You Want, Just Make Sure It Works’. (read more)
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Diary of a Pop Punk kid – the team behind Pop Punk Pile Up 2018
Upstart young festival Pop Punk Pile Up take us through what their debut year has in store for the UK’s Alternative scene. (read more)
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If we don’t choose the path we walk, who wrote this music?
Burgeoning Emo influenced Alt-Rockers Selfish Things pump a little Canadian sheen into a dreck-spattered scene. (read more)
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2018: the year of the Crown?
Lincoln Alt-Rockers Carry The Crown are angling to make a statement with new release ‘Not Alone’ (read more)
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Frank Turner brings punk to the folk-core (or vice versa)
Contemporary Folk-Punk troubadour Frank Turner’s Hardcore alter-ego Möngöl Hörde knock London’s Scala down a couple of pegs. (read more)
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Dead Reflections, Live Context (Silverstein Interview)
A cosy chat with Silverstein singer Shane Told (read more)
Society
Loitered Lens: Great British Tattoo Show
Beauty’s only skin deep, but some tattoos… live forever? (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Nova Neon
Heavy alt-pop stylings at the launch of Nova Neon’s debut album (read more)
Features
London Tattoo Convention 2016
Inky fingers and fiery lipstick at the UK’s premier tattoo and body art event (read more)
News
Can You Boost Your Brain With a Battery? With tDCS, Hells Yeah!
Electrifying brain circuits may decrease depressive symptoms and chronic pain (read more)
Society
Look Again: The Way of the Morris
Forget the decades of Pythonesque ribbing, Morris dancing is deep rooted folk ritual (read more)
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Avast Load of Salty Shanty (Dread Crew of Oddwood)
Dead men tell no tales, but the Dread Crew of Oddwood take no prisoners with Lawful Evil (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Stiff Little Fingers (The Forum, 2016)
Never tired, never complacent, Stiff Little Fingers revved the Kentish Town Forum to the redline. Photos (read more)
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Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy
Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that. (read more)
Society
Smell the air and rub the sky
For most of us in the cities and towns the weather is just something that happens to us, something inconvenient, an impediment. Perhaps we should pay it more attention. (read more)
Events
Allowing the innate weirdness of the musicians to shine : Primus live dates
gobstopping formula conjured by Claypool is to play the weird line very straight. This plays out with few of the clichés of weirdness that normal musicians might employ, rather allowing the innate weirdness of the (read more)
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Alt-Fest Lineup Update
Alt-Fest expands from it’s already established repertoire of Steampunk, Alternative, Gothic, Electronica and Industrial to bring a slew of the gnarliest metal acts to the Northampton 3-day (read more)
Society
Druids, Magic Mushrooms and Cultural Memory
Iron Age Druids might have known about and used magic mushrooms even if there’s no way of testing it. (read more)
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David Cronenberg’s Wife: Don’t Wait to be Hunted to Hide
Challenging and chillingly memorable rather than enjoyable; giving a glimpse into the lives of people we either pretend don’t exist or hysterically vilify. It personalises the men who exist in the public eye only as subhuman stereotypes, but are actually all too real. (read more)
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The Tribes of Britain
To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. (read more)