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Algae for your fuel tank

11/01/2012

New process for producing biodiesel from microalgae oil The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The...

Thieves Like Us stream their new track

11/01/2012

Thieves Like Us return on 20th March with a new album on Captured Tracks. 'Marie Marie' is the first track to be heard. THIEVES LIKE US // Marie Marie by TheArtOf…...

The melancholic experience of visiting a declining English hotel out of season reveals some suggestivaly ominous parallels with the current state of the nation. After almost forty years, John Cleese...

Pelican – Custom Metal, April UK Tour

10/01/2012

April 2012 will see Chicago’s post-metal quartet Pelican make a welcome return to the live circuit for their first full UK tour since 2008. Never content to remain static over the course of...

Killing Joke – UK tour 2012

10/01/2012

Industrial Rock Weirdos Killing Joke – bring back the crazy. Emerging from the late 70s as a formidable force of social unrest, political revolt and spiritual corruption Killing Joke have...

Olafur Arnalds Scores For Hollywood

10/01/2012

Acknowledgement of Arnalds' applicability to motion picture soundtracks...

Trace Elements: Commercial Breakdown

10/01/2012

A commercial break on Pick TV has just made me question the way that I’m living life. And not in a “It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting here on my own watching Pick TV”...

Black Sabbath Guitarist Suffering from Lymphoma

09/01/2012

Very little to go on here, but the breaking news on Black Sabbath's Facebook page is that Tony Iommi is suffering from 'lymphoma'. Whether or not this refers to the condition...

Primus to play two special RAH shows.

09/01/2012

After returning to the UK for the first time in 14 years in 2011, for 2 special sold out shows, the band will play 2 special nights, 2 different shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on April 4 +...

Into the Unknown: Sharon Van Etten

09/01/2012

As it’s the new year it seems right and proper to look forward, and how nice it is too. What’s even nicer is to get your teeth into some blood-bubbling new music. We look forward to...

Dragonforce – intimate 100 club performance

08/01/2012

Metal heroes Dragonforce have announced their first UK headline show with new singer Marc Hudson at London's 100 Club in Oxford Street on 16th Feb. Get your tickets now for the power metal...

Real-Life Laser Tricorder Developed

08/01/2012

But will it work on green-blooded goblins? Star Trek Tricorder revisited: Toward a genre of medical scanners A hand-held scanner, reminiscent of the fictional Star Trek medical Tricorder, images...

Loitered Lens: Joel Sarakula [Pics]

08/01/2012

Hipster Folk and laid back dirt rave, gypsy funk with a grow-mo pomo comb-over… Vicariously talented wunderkind Joel Sarakula has been a collectors item for a number of years...

Dillinger Escape Plan and Mastodon UK Tour

07/01/2012

Seriously intense music is heading this way! Mastodon have released wagon burning, World or Warcraft Psych-rock masterpiece after masterpiece! Dillinger Escape Plan are in a rare league of...

Woods of Ypres frontman David Gold was tragically killed

07/01/2012

Woods of Ypres frontman David Gold was tragically killed in a road traffic accident on 21st December, outside Barrie, in his home country of Canada. In accordance with the wishes of David's...

Lubomyr Melnyk’s Debut UK Performance

07/01/2012

Continuing their eclectic and frankly fascinating programme of musical events, London's Cafe OTO hosts superfast 'continuous music' pioneer Lubomyr Melnyk in his debut UK performance. A...

OWS 2012: Still Resisting

07/01/2012

In my opinion, when people opine that the OWS movement is about — or should be about — the airing of this particular grievance or that it must bandy this or that particular demand —...

Nano-Wires, Quantum Electrics

06/01/2012

Quantum-scaled nano-cables. Pretty nifty, no doubt whatsoever. But until someone figures out how to make a molecular plug, socket, or screwdriver, the applications are somewhat murky. Enough...

The Free Music Mirage

06/01/2012

Putting an End to a Persistent Illusion Steadily, over the course of the last 10 years, the idea that recorded music "has" to be free has been transformed from a radical stance taken by...

Multitasking Bats

04/01/2012

Driving whilst listening to a partner yelling instructions? Hardly ideal. Luckily, bats are pretty good at it. Although perhaps not the one in the video…. Washington, D.C. – Imagine...

Cockroaches, Clubs and Clocks: An Academic in Africa

04/01/2012

I have missed being here, and it is good to be back. I think I have missed the life and the people rather than the place itself though. The familiarity which has made it so easy to settle...

Wobble and Levene Team up to perform Metal Box!

03/01/2012

In perhaps the best news we've heard in a while it seems that P.I.L founder Jah Wobble and Keith Levene are teaming up to perform Metal Box in Dub in Tokyo. For many this may mean close to...

Trace Elements: Screamer

03/01/2012

Back in the sixties, teenage girls in their thousands would cram into concerts given by The Beatles and scream hysterically from first note to last. The songs were seldom heard. Those teens could...

Pulling Faces to Survive

02/01/2012

If you've spent any of the last few days with family, or a partner's family, you've very likely had to resist the urge to pull faces. You've probably also had to resist the urge to...

Loitered Lens: Intense [Pics]

01/01/2012

UK Metal's Ronseal Band… Intense struggle against adversity and finally give the audience what they want: Drama and penicillin. Reading through the history of the band it becomes...

Bloodthirsty! What attracts mosquitoes?

31/12/2011

Ever noticed how some people get chewed to shreds by mosquitoes, whilst others aren't even touched by the blood-sucking pests? New research looks like it might have a reason for that....

Idiot Wind: The Eternal Politics of the 1970s

31/12/2011

Unpopular wars drag on, gas prices erratically rise and inexplicably fall, as clouds of cynicism, dark as Richard Nixon’s perpetual five o’clock shadow, brood over the length of the U.S....

Simian Ghost Release ‘Wolf Girl’ EP

30/12/2011

Choose your own level of excitement to react to Simian Ghost's upcoming EP Wolfgirl. Out on January 16th on Heist or Hit Records the Stockholm art-pop act combine sharp beats with icy top-end...

Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

30/12/2011

Painful though it may be to recall, it was summer once. Cool drinks were sipped at pavement cafes, flesh was bared and balding scalps reddened and peeled in the light of the now-forgotten sun....

The 27 Club. Does it exist?

29/12/2011

Is 27 really a dangerous age for famous musicians? The list of well known musicians who have died at age 27 may look like more than a coincidence – Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix,...

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