[Listen] The Zolas

22/09/2012

It's feeling like Canada week at Trebuchet, what with Stuart Gadd's missive from the great wild north at Festival de Musiques Emergentes in Quebec, and Mode Moderne announcing their UK dates...

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DJ Stingray: Psyops for Dummies EP

22/09/2012

'The Sadist' is edgy from the outset and a great scene-setter. Constantly intensifying cold textures coil around an atmospheric voice sample, discreetly hinting at various dark scenarios. As it...

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Free Download: Nils Frahm

21/09/2012

Falling out of a bunkbed and smashing up a digit would be inconvenient for anyone. For a pianist though, it's disaster. Nevertheless, if Django Reindhardt could manage to relearn to play guitar after...

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Theatre of the Mind

21/09/2012

JULIUS is a multi-screen film, in which Roman Emperor Julius Caesar triggers the protagonists’ obsessions. His world of thoughts is shared with the audience. Reality and dream worlds are presented...

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Big Boys Gone Bananas* [Film]

20/09/2012

Back in 2009 director Frederik Gertten was scheduled to premiere his latest film at the LA Film Festival. Called simply Bananas, it dealt with alleged abuses suffered by Nicaraguan workers who worked...

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Welfare Greed

19/09/2012

A Danish researcher has compared two of the most different welfare systems in the western world. Despite the differences, the research shows surprising similarities in the way in which people in the...

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Festival de Musique Emergente, Quebec

19/09/2012

Held in Rouyn – Noranda and now in its tenth year Festival de Musique Emergente, otherwise known as Emerging Music Festival, itself emerged as an elegant solution to a local problem. Generous,...

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King Mob: Interview

18/09/2012

Side effects of the full King Mob experience may include: drowsiness, delirium, radio poisoning, severe hair growth, waxy pallor, vitriol spray, flushing, unexpected time manipulation and space...

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Sarah Lucas: Ordinary Things

18/09/2012

These forms act like vague memories of Lucasʼs former glories.The subject of art history and the idea of art as an object is referenced in them, Lucasʼs stance on the subject seemingly quite glib. ...

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Inside Out: Anton Corbijn on film

17/09/2012

Inside Out attempts a look at who the man is, truly believing itself as presenting some insight. To a degree, yes, but the documentary is ultimately unfulfilling, choosing just one aspect of his...

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Satan’s Wrath: Galloping Blasphemy

17/09/2012

it's fun, it's heavy, and the over the top Satanic lyrics are often hilarious. By no means should Satan's Wrath hang up their goat-skull helmets and battleaxes any time soon. It'd just be nice if...

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Crustaceans Remake Finding Nemo (sorta)

16/09/2012

With sea ice in the Arctic melting to record lows in summer months, marine animals living there face dramatic changes to their environment. Yet some crustaceans, previously thought to spend their...

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Emma Sywyj: China [Photography]

16/09/2012

Sywyj's China series is as colourful and eclectic as one would expect of the location, but dispenses with the more obvious depictions of new-urban environments, ancient aesthetics and displaced...

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Extreme Winters: Advance Warning

15/09/2012

Severe UK winters, like the 'big freeze' of 2009/10, can now be better forecast months in advance using the Met Office's latest model. A new study, published today, Friday 14 September, in IOP...

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Rare Grooves: The Dropa Discs

15/09/2012

‘The stone disks you have mentioned do not exist; but, being extraneous objects in this museum, they were relocated.’ The discovery of a mass grave containing dwarfish skeletons with abnormally...

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Hot as Hell, But Where’s the Hottest?

14/09/2012

"This investigation demonstrates that, because of continued improvements in meteorology and climatology, researchers can now reanalyze past weather records in much more detail and with greater...

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Jeff The Brotherhood [Live]

14/09/2012

Jeff The Brotherhood are amongst the new wave of noisy duos to create a substantial buzz. Although the Nashville band have now been in existence for more than a decade - including drummer Jamin's...

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[Video] A Winged Victory for the Sullen

13/09/2012

A Winged Victory for the Sullen's 'Requiem For The Static King Part One' directed by Christopher Hewitt...

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[Listen] The New Union

13/09/2012

Brighton's The New Union combine the better bits of The Macabees and Coldplay in a joyous single 'Without You', out on October 8th (Two Sisters Records). Details of where to catch them live are at...

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Disgusting! Sexual Arousal Makes Us Less Squeamish

13/09/2012

Well, we've all done things in the heat of passion that, in other circumstances, would seem a touch yucky (now give that hairbrush a good wash, madam). Actually, in the cold light of morning, the...

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Jellymongers: The Art of Food

13/09/2012

With a bit of graft you can get almost anyone's contact detail. Every so often I propose something sensible and they get back to me. The results are some of the best and most interesting work we've...

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2:54 Cover Adamski/Seal

12/09/2012

When ZTT bit the dust, Seal went from being an edgy urban electronica act to something more akin to a one-man Lighthouse Family. That said, 2:54 have channeled the bleak and sterile undertones of...

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Redrails [Album]

12/09/2012

Challenging, Redrails most certainly is. Rewarding, in equal measure. Intriguing, and destined to be the source of many hours spent, headphones on, grasping to find the mental setting in which it all...

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Gut Feeling. Surgeons Leave 4000 Objects Inside Patients

11/09/2012

The swab, which was boring its way into the rectum, was clearly visible on a CT scan. Removal of the swab resolved her symptoms. Well, here's a word for you: 'gossypium'. And it refers to the...

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The Economy of Violence

11/09/2012

The fact that Hollywood often releases certain types of movies ‘en glut’ has led to conspiracy theories that it is manipulated by our old friend ‘dark forces’, but the truth is that this...

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Rupert Stroud [Single]

10/09/2012

Putting in the miles, sofabeds and service-station all-day breakfasts, Rupert Stroud has been touring hard in the UK all summer. All grist to the mill, and meaning that when 'Twisted Games' and 'No...

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Listener [Live]

10/09/2012

Performing a set covering both old and newer material, Listener create an electric, vacuous atmosphere of mystification and strike the crowd near-dumb. The usual glazed, blank looks at the back of...

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Green Man [Festival]

10/09/2012

What with hugging around the Green Man and reading people’s wishes on little mailing labels around the tree, this has been a pleasant valley, bucolic, neo-druidic experience. Thoughts of love, to...

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Loitered Lens: Taragano Theatre

09/09/2012

Carl Byron Batson captures the passion of Taragano Theatre's ​Chrysalis. They played together with the combination of the deep, soulful tones of the cello and the higher pitched breathy sound of...

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Fathers who sleep closer to children have lower testosterone levels

08/09/2012

Surely this is a good thing. Fathers who sleep closer to children have lower testosterone levels Closer sleeping proximity between fathers and children is associated with a greater decrease in the...

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