Archive - Trebuchet

Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

12/10/2011

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

Burial and Massive Attack collaboration on release today

11/10/2011

Burial might not be as aptly named as may initially appear. After a previous collaboration featuring Thom Yorke, and then providing the subject material for Context MC's 'Listening to...

Make Better Music 62: Working Out Your Musical Muscles

11/10/2011

Of course, if you are writing a song every day, it’s unlikely that you are going to be churning out a double album of SOLID GOLD CLASSICS each months, but on the flip side, it will do you a lot of...

Kate Bush announces ‘Wild Man’

10/10/2011

KATE BUSH ANNOUNCES “WILD MAN” The First Single to be taken from her Brand New Album “50 Words for Snow” Released via Fish People (through EMI) on 11th October 2011 The...

Faith No More and evolutionary scientists proved right.

10/10/2011

Aquatic fish jump into picture of evolutionary land invasion Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research...

Nils Frahm – Felt

10/10/2011

Pianists's fingers knurl and bulge with the same blunt mutantcy as freshly-dug jerusalem artichokes. Easy as it is to imagine the rigours on the hands of Prokofiev's yard-long keyboard...

Coffee causes Cocaine Addiction?

09/10/2011

Jonesing for java: Could caffeine use predict risk for cocaine abuse? Or. I'm tense and nervous and I can't relaxe. Get to the conclusion or distract me, a Columbian blend...

Jim Stapley – 100 Club

09/10/2011

It's great to be straight, oh yeah. Leftfield journalist experiences musical ennui in the face of lauded talent. Peter Parker R&R Club are the loosest bunch of garage rock acolytes...

Removal of restrictions decreases music piracy

08/10/2011

New research from Rice and Duke challenges conventional wisdom that removal of restrictions would increase piracy levels. Researchers are still mulling over what, at least to most people, is a dead...

Features and Speeches of Nigeria

08/10/2011

“The matriculation ceremony really isn’t about the students,” David said, and boy, was he right. The whole thing took around 3 hours and of that their part took about two and...

Cass Mccombs to lay Robin Blue Egg on public.

07/10/2011

“Robin Egg Blue” will be released as the first single from Cass McCombs’ forthcoming album, Humor Risk and will be available digitally (RUG436D) from 21st November. The promo...

Nasa to probe space Hotties

06/10/2011

Nasa probe to discover space hotties Nasa has recovened team-scorchio for what has been informally dubbed 'project Icarus' in order to ascertain 'how hot is the sun exactly'....

Real Estate – Days

06/10/2011

Real Estate. Even the name is dull. Recently signed to Domino records, Real Estate's second album – Days – is something of an anomaly in a label roster which boasts the freeform...

Rock’s Backpages Launches New eBooks Series

05/10/2011

Rock's Backpages, the world's largest online library of rock journalism, announces the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, headed up by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. Backpages eBooks...

Make Better Music 61: The Music Diet

05/10/2011

Every few months I feel like I need this kind of diet for my ears - I’ve either been over-indulging in one particular artist or genre, or I’ve been gluttonous and chowing down way too much of...

Paul Catten – Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics

30/09/2011

Paul Catten - Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics...

Fliers for Nigeria

29/09/2011

Last Saturday I was supposed to hand out fliers for my university to students taking their JAMB tests. This is the Nigerian equivalent of SATs, and you have to take it to get into college....

Oil: Edward Burtynsky’s Narrative of Society’s Fuel Source

28/09/2011

That one substance which is at once both everywhere and yet nowhere to be seen is the subject of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s most recent exhibition, entitled Oil. Through over 50...

Make Better Music 60: Automation and the Human Form

27/09/2011

On the plus side, a new generation (one that has grown up with remarkably powerful music tech tools) will do things with music software that are incredible, ground breaking, ear-catching and mind...

Cults announce UK tour

26/09/2011

“David Lynch goes dreampop” – Guardian Guide “11 hook-laden lullabies to be lured in by, all underpinned by a sultry menace that’s impossible to ignore”...

Macks Faulkron – Friends EP

26/09/2011

As much as sixties psychedelia has been artlessly plundered by last month's media darlings, Best Coast, it seems only logical that the 90s re-visioning of that movement be picked over in the...

Into the Unknown: Radiohead – Good Evening Mrs Magpie

25/09/2011

There’s one thing about dance music and that is it tends to divide people. Dance music is seen by some as a lesser ‘Techno Techno’ form of music, devoid of intellect and not up to...

Hevy festival 2011 – review

24/09/2011

Starring Dillinger Escape Plan, Architects, Funeral for a Friend, and Bouncing Souls, the third year of Hevy proves that festivals are an astounding musical democracy. Set near the Folkestone...

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad

21/09/2011

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad...

Make Better Music 59: It’s not what you put in, it’s what you get out

20/09/2011

One of the joys of music is that it always has something to say that’s worth listening to, even in tracks that you have heard a hundred times. There’s a richness and enough ambiguity of...

The Deer Tracks – The Brevity Interview

19/09/2011

Sweden’s Deer Tracks are one of those bands that are nigh-on impossible to pin down. The dynamic duo of Elin Lindfors and David Lehnberg are purveyors a magical, colourful swirl of melodies,...

Supersonic Festival 2011 – Update

15/09/2011

Its time for the day tickets/line ups to be announced for this year's festival (though the exact times have yet to be released). Additionally, Supersonic have announced two more musicians to the...

Pure X – Pleasure

14/09/2011

Summer echoes… Don’t you just loathe the term shoegaze? As far as categorisations go, you can’t get much lazier than trying to sum up a band’s entire raison d’etre by...

MOGWAI – ‘Earth Division’ EP released today

13/09/2011

Arch weirdos MOGWAI release their latest quizzical opus. Having thus far enjoyed a monumental year, with a sold out world tour and the release of the superb and critically acclaimed 7th studio...

Make Better Music 58: Go Where the Barriers Are

13/09/2011

The idea is simple - things that are easy to do can be done by more people than things that are hard. You want to make your music available as a “self release” via a service like bandcamp? Go for...

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