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Panic Room: On Songwriting

01/11/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”S/dropcapwansea’s Panic Room are one of British rock’s best-kept secrets. Over the past few years they’ve built up a loyal...

Trouble at t’Mill: Radio 2 Axe Mike Harding

31/10/2012

Folk. An English lower middle-class museum music. Ouch....

Loitered Lens: Rival Sons, Electric Ballroom

28/10/2012

Rival Sons, live at Camden's Electric Ballroom, photographs. No wrongness....

Forgotten Tomb: …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil

26/10/2012

'if it’s a pastiche, it’s a well-written, executed, and compelling pastiche that could almost be mainstream-friendly, were it not for the grim chords and screams'...

Doro Pesch: Interview

24/10/2012

I have never been degraded or considered the second sex as a woman. I was always supported and respected because I had the chance to work with the best people. And good people, they know better!'...

JKutchma: Interview

24/10/2012

He held himself like a man of another era. Like he had a shed full of tools and knew how to use them....

Rival Sons: Electric Ballroom

23/10/2012

It’s not too difficult to understand the appeal of Rival Sons. They do classic rock extremely well. Jay Buchanan is without doubt a charismatic lead vocalist who, despite his relatively small...

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

22/10/2012

For a devout cadre of vinyl record owning, real ale drinking, herbal cigarette smoking losers Jazz fusion is the pinnacle of music. ...

Various Artists: Stellate 3 (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

22/10/2012

The Stellate series can be recommended not just as a collectors' wet dream or a dealers' safe bet but as an experimental series producing consistently interesting music that might not otherwise have...

Loitered Lens: Death Letters

21/10/2012

On support duty for Anneke Van Giersbergen at the Borderline and a stint opening for Enter Shikari, Death Letters are on a trajectory to shuck off bridesmaid's syndrome. ...

Twelfth Night: Live and Let Live

20/10/2012

Twelfth Night remain one of the formative bands of the early 80s neo-prog scene, and this new edition of what many consider their definitive album represents a good starting point to discover their...

Spinning the crowd: Adamski, 3 / 4 and Neo Waltz.

19/10/2012

"indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage." ...

Bruce Cockburn: Bush Hall

17/10/2012

Back in Bush Hall, Cockburn preceded one song by saying, “the way to avoid dashed expectations is not to have any.” It was however clear that expectations were high as he took the stage...

Beware of Mr Baker

17/10/2012

SEE Ginger whipping up an afro storm with Fela Ransom Kuti in Lagos. SEE highlights from both of Cream’s memorable Albert Hall performances. SEE Ginger, stoned out of his mind, falling off his...

Chris Isaak: Hammersmith Apollo

16/10/2012

Deliver us from surly musicians in jeans and baseball boots. Let us be blinded by mirrored suits and touched inappropriately by covers of seemingly untouchable songs. Chris Isaak Live...

Great Walls of Fire! Psychobilly goes Chinese

15/10/2012

Hot dang if these Asian dudes aren't slamming out some of that much talked about psychobilly music....

Headphone Def Culture

15/10/2012

The tobacco industry was, for many years, adept at concealing the health dangers of smoking. There may well be detailed research on the long term effects of self-determined, persistent, decibel...

Loitered Lens: Sleepy Sun

14/10/2012

'All eyes were on Sleepy Sun. They hypnotized, mesmerized, and with a click of a finger they were gone and an almighty surge began for the smoking area.'...

ADMX-71: Second System

11/10/2012

'increasingly powerful percussion that should wreak devastation played on a big system' ADMX-71's Second System ticks all the right boxes for Trebuchet's reviewer....

Sankara: Guided By Degrees

10/10/2012

At an LP-length forty minutes it's a record that doesn't outstay it's welcome, and there's no room for much in the way of filler. ...

Loitered Lens: The London Punk Festival

09/10/2012

Punk is dead? Well no-one told the mass of sweating, heaving bodies, young, old (some maybe a little too old) who were dancing, sweating, singing and generally having a right old time at...

Mad Sin: 25 Years ‘Still Mad’

08/10/2012

Personally I’d rather see them live or listen to Burn and Rise, but this is an ideal Halloween present for any hardcore fan with a Mad Sin patch sewn onto their sleeveless denim jacket. And it’s...

Loitered Lens: Anneke Van Giersbergen

07/10/2012

Anneke Van Giersbergen brings it to London's Borderline. Photoessay....

One Mile an Hour [Album]

04/10/2012

Perhaps the music should be taken in the context of entertainment to fill six months of darkness with little more than cod heads, limpets and puffin broth for sensual pleasures. ...

The Peacocks: Don’t Ask

03/10/2012

Curiously, as they get older The Peacocks seem to mutate into a band that will appeal to a younger audience. The music may not be breaking any musical boundaries, but they retain their youthful anger...

Interview: Paul Hardcastle – 19 Below Zero

03/10/2012

'I do use technology a lot, I always have done'. Paul Hardcastle talks to Trebuchet about 'Nineteen', sampling, dance music, technology and his new album 19 Below Zero...

Missy Le Pink: London Crawlin’

02/10/2012

Now that the crossfire has died down, Col. Jon pokes his head up from behind the outhouse to review Viva Le Pink's London Crawlin' EP. Warning: Contains the word 'Psychobilly'. ...