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Loitered Lens: Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers

13/05/2012

Legendary Shack Shakers - 04/23/12 London Underworld United Kingdom. ...

Smartphones and human interaction

12/05/2012

Just remember the music industry maxim: 'nobody with a smartphone has the authority to write you a cheque'. With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging...

The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos with the Hungry Ghosts of a Corporate State

12/05/2012

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural...

Crime & the City Solution Gearing Up for Tour

11/05/2012

Crime and the City Solution and planning a tour. Oh great spirit this rarest of events has flashed the cloud crossed heavens with elation. Crime and the city solution NEVER tour… ever....

Art. A mirror to reflect society, or a hammer to shape it?

11/05/2012

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,...

Icarus Line: You make your own L.A. reality: interview

11/05/2012

"You make your own L.A. reality "Trebuchet interviews Joe Cardamone, lead singer of The Icarus Line to talk through life and touring. ...

Restricting wi-fi access can’t curb territorial customers

10/05/2012

Oh yeah, you know it. And they haven't even mentioned the wars that take place for control of the plug socket…. CHESTNUT HILL, MA (May 8, 2012) – Increasingly "plugged-in"...

Loitered Lens: New Order [Photos]

10/05/2012

Photos of New Order...

Viagra: Heartwarming alternative use

09/05/2012

A lovely story. Firstly because it gives us the opportunity to come up with gleeful screamer headlines about giving kids Viagra. Not going to deny it, that's a gift. More importantly though,...

The Mercy House: Barfly, London.

09/05/2012

The Mercy House are getting a reputation for reinventing smartrock for a new generation. But will it blend? The Mercy House have the right musical mixture for the times, simultaneously...

Maximo Park: New Single/Video

08/05/2012

If you enjoyed This is England, you'll recognize Thomas Turgoose in this. Maximo Park's “Hips and Lips” single and “The National Health” LP out June 11 on V2/...

A different kind of gas giant.

08/05/2012

What's that smell? Sauropod dinosaurs could have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet....

The Pork Gene

08/05/2012

Pork chops, bacon, sausages, stew. Your mouth may be watering just from reading their names. Or perhaps it's gone bone-dry and you're trying desperately to rid your mind of the images....

‘Offensive’, ‘Repugnant’: An Academic in Africa

08/05/2012

'the senators asked to vote on this bill must have been mystified', DR reports on the fight to make homosexuality in Nigeria even more illegal. I read an interesting story the other...

Elvis Costello & The Imposters : The Revolver Tour DVD

07/05/2012

Elvis Costello: The Revolver Tour DVD is the quintessential live document – imperfect, improvised, unusual and reactive. Rarely does a UK musician make his love of the Grateful Dead...

Groof: Reality Fails

07/05/2012

'In the best tradition of Spanish minimal techno', Codex Europa reviews Roberto Gemelin's techno project Groof. Groof is veteran Spanish producer Roberto Gemelín a.k.a. Robert...

Too Many Batgirls

06/05/2012

Shameful use of the word'batgirl' in the title, we'll admit. But it worked…. Early spring means more bat girls There must be something in the warm breeze. A study on bats by a...

Band and Brand: The View from the Corporation

06/05/2012

Music and arts fans are used now to seeing the debate on artist sponsorship portrayed from the point of view of the artist. Sacha Taylor-Cox voices it from the brand's side. What is less...

What’s your dog really thinking about?

05/05/2012

Do you really want to know what your dog is thinking? What if it's really cynical, fully aware that it can gull you into free food and shelter in return for some silly rolling around with its...

On The Nature Of Self-Defeating Convictions

05/05/2012

A missive to an estranged southern friend Although I have resided in New York City for many years, I was born in the Deep South. On a daily basis, I negotiate Manhattan's gridded streets and...

Beastie Boy – Adam Yauch 1964-2012 RIP

04/05/2012

It has been reported that Beastie Boy Adam Yauch lost his fight with cancer today. It's a sad day for partying, tibetan freedom and intelligent hip hop. Rest in peace.1964 – 2012 BBC...

City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch

04/05/2012

City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch. News work by challenging the edge of music. … Cathy Lane – Tweed Cathy Lane – Hidden Lives Viv Corringham –...

Remote Flying Spycams make Sci-Fi a Reality

04/05/2012

Flying robot cameras, once the preserve of sci-fi, enter final development stages. A recent viral YouTube video showed formation-flying quadrocopters with anti-collision technology and...

Small Faces: Deluxe Editions

04/05/2012

A seminal collection of songs, in the word's true sense. Unfortunately, so abused is the adjective that we tend to read on, having taken it to mean some glib variation of 'good'. In...

Vive le Punk’n’Roll: The Grits & Gypsy Hotel

03/05/2012

Vive Le Rock Magazine in association with Gypsy Hotel Proudly Presents: VIVE LE PUNK’N’ROLL! STARRING: THE GRIT – London’s premier Punk’N’Fuck”N”Roll...

Head-exploding zombie ants

03/05/2012

Let's get this straight. There is a fungus. It attacks the brain of ants. OK. The fungus causes ants to march off to a mass ant grave. Cripes. Then the fungus spores explode out of the ants'...

Mo Fox: Poems

03/05/2012

A Thousand Pockets Ah well, I remember you kissed weirdly because you used hold your big cat eyes open, watching me as we did it. I used close mine but opened them to watch you as we did it....

Dopamine impacts your willingness to work

02/05/2012

If you're reading this on one of those slick, white pieces of computer technology that are designed by a company who take great pleasure in marketing themselves as the counterculture, ex-hippy,...

De Profundis: The Emptiness Within

02/05/2012

'describing it as "extreme" is pushing things a little'. Trebuchet's Tim Hall takes issue with genre headings. The Emptiness Within is the third album by this British-based...

Supersonic festival Celebrates 10 years

01/05/2012

Supersonic is one of Trebuchet's favourite festivals of the year. It's so good that normally people are blown away by the music… there is just too much unmissable greatness. ...

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