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Music

Writing Exercise for Trebuchet

Writing for Trebuchet. If you can give us 500 words on a topic that demonstrates; focus, research, differentiation, and appeal you're what we're looking for. ...

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Rival Sons: Interview

What we do together is pretty fun but you need a producer who’s decisive, especially with us, because we ARE 'Rival Sons'. We are like; he’s seeing it this way, I’m seeing that way, Scott is...

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Zebra Katz unveils video for ‘Ima Read’

The song depends upon a shock impact that was spent twenty-odd years ago with The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up', the video has less visual impact than Spoek Mathambo's 'She's Lost Control' (which was...

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Arrows Of Love + Bank Of Joy

Even in the venue itself, there's the swimming event taking place on the big screen. Thankfully for at least an hour, all attention was briefly shifted for some live music. Because of the club...

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Twilight of the Bins: indie record stores?

What reason does the humble record shop now stand when people can find a wider selection of music online, when recommendations come in the form of toplists by musical heroes, and you never have to...

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Steve Vai announces Tour/Album

Virtuoso guitarist and visionary composer Steve Vai is set to release a new solo album of original material, on September 11th (in the UK) called ‘The Story Of Light’. the album does feature...

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Oscar Mulero: Black Propaganda

With Britain in the grip of near-compulsory enthusiasm for a militarised circus of corruption on an epic scale, there can hardly be a better time to be listening to an album entitled Black...

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The Sun Explodes: Emergence

'this ballsy new convergence of metal/rock/prog/post-hardcore/electronica'...

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Constellation des Carpates: Eglise de Seignosse le Penon [Live]

Writing about live music on the Capbreton-Hossegor-Seignosse strip of South-Western France has the tendency to become a 'What I did On My Holidays' essay. An essay featuring more blonde-dreadlocked...

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Spiritualized – London.

“The thread that runs through all Spiritualized albums is that I am obsessed with music and the way we put it together. And if I have learned one thing in all the time I have been making music, it...

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Crime and the City Solution tour!!

One of key moments in anyone’s life has to be the moment they discover the amazing shimmering walls of noise that is a crime and the city solution album. or even THAT scene from Wings of Desire...

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Two Fingers (Amon Tobin) announces new album

Amon Tobin, the most uncompromising artist on an uncompromising record label, demands a dedicated listener. Brittle, beautiful, but always disappearing just out of easy cognition, Tobin’s music...

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Tickets on Sale for Cambridge Folk Festival 2013

The eternal wheel just keeps turning. For some that may mean the hopes of transcendence to a higher plane of existence once they have parted this brief life. For others less hopeful, it is the grim...

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Velvet Underground and Nico Reissues

One for the completists. Universal Records will be releasing a 45th Anniversary Edition of the seminal Velvet Underground & Nico, across 6 discs, on October 1st. A chance to revisit, or discover,...

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Peter Broderick: These Walls of Mine

‘…composing and playing music is just a pretty sophisticated way to do those things we do, but why? Because we were separated in the big bang – and are now endlessly trying to find...

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Mutiny on the Bounty: Trials

Here is a band with a ceaseless work-rate, an impressive touring/gigging record and Facebook and Twitter pages filled with adoring fans ...

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Menomena announce album and tour

Menomena announce album and tour. Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena will release their new album, Moms, on September 18, 2012 in the US and on October 8 in the UK. Now a duo,...

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Mostly Autumn: Ghost Moon Orchestra

The Ghost Moon Orchestra is either the ninth or tenth studio album from York rock band Mostly Autumn, depending on how you count them, and the second since Olivia Sparnenn replaced the much-loved...

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Win your band a chance to open for Evile

Win your band a chance to open for Evile...

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Sarin Smoke: Vent

Recreating the gurgling dry-retches of Dawn French’s back passage during a virulent bout of random-onset dysentery using the medium of guitar feedback may seem a concept album conceit too far...

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Yann Novak/Robert Crouch: Fata Morgana

Yann Novak’s last artwork, the album Presence, was an impressive tableau of ambient noise, deeply evocative and intriguing, yet desperately missing a visual element. A multimedia artist working...

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Trebuchet [Album]

Trebuchet, the band… Trebuchet, the album… The name seems familiar, but I just can’t place it… Comprised of four experienced hands from California’s underground indie and post-rock scenes,...

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Viva le Rock/Gypsy Hotel: The Garage

I’ve always found Highbury Garage (I’m still refusing to call it Relentless Garage) a rather sterile venue, but when the evening began with a male unicyclist, Count Adriano Fettuchini, stripping...

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Kangding Ray Monad XI

Monad XI is the latest in the Stroboscopic Arfects label's ongoing experimental series and marks a further development in the label's thoughtful aesthetics....

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Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies [Live]

A Retro-rock night and musical fashions, anachronism, mending old ground, conversational racism and phenomenal guitar playing.  Let’s burn something. The Borderline is a place where Rock and...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 2)]

Review of gothic industrial festival Wave Gotik Treffen 2012...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 1)]

How do you review an event that takes place over four days in multiple venues, includes numerous styles of dark music and if done properly takes the rest of the month or more to recover from? To...

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The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

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King Mob Rock Cruise

When my band King Mob was invited to play on a ‘rock cruise’ I had no idea what to expect. We were collected from Stockholm airport at 4pm local time and bussed to the White Ship, a great...

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Supersonic festival 2012 Lineup

Supersonic festival is the most intensely purifying music event of any year. 2012 brings us a resplendent line-up of discordant wonder that is an absolutely must for any discerning music fan....

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