Archive - Trebuchet

Blank Dogs – Collected By Itself: 2006-2009

09/05/2011

The first steps are always the hardest… Some bands can take a while to focus their ideas. So it was with Brooklyn’s Blank Dogs. Nowadays, they are a spellbindingly opaque mix of...

Sir Cliff Richard girds himself for the ‘soulicious’ tour.

09/05/2011

London, 9th May 2011; The live tour and album concept conceived by television star and music producer David Gest, Sir Cliff Richard will duet with more than ten soul legends on a brand new album (and...

Toby Keith Confirms UK Dates

09/05/2011

Locked and Loaded Tour Kicks Off. Monday 9th May 2011 – Following the sell-out success of his first ever European shows in 2009, Country Music Superstar, Billboard...

Eye Hear, Heart See 1: Float On

09/05/2011

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence The empty-handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets This sky, too, is...

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50 years on, UK betting shops lure new breed of punters.

08/05/2011

Fifty years after legalisation, the UK's betting shops are attracting a new type of customer....

Austerlitz – Austerlitz

08/05/2011

How soon is too soon. Parisian indie rockers Austerlitz go for bronze. Austerlitz have rushed to release a record that with a couple of months worth of emphatic development would have been...

Austra present new video for ‘Lose It’ and announce UK dates

07/05/2011

Premiere new video for ‘Lose It’ and announce July UK & Irish live dates Austra have unveiled a video for their next single Lose It, which is released on May 9th. The video was filmed...

Computers sing to a better tune

07/05/2011

Now, Akio Watanabe and Hitoshi Iba have turned to evolution to help them devise a novel algorithm that compares the frequency curves from real human performances and uses them to home in on a more...

Tree rings tell a 1,100-year history of El Niño

07/05/2011

El Niño and its partner La Niña, the warm and cold phases in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific, play havoc with climate worldwide. Predicting El Niño events more...

Bloodiest – Descent

07/05/2011

How often when listening to a new metal band do you stick on the record, sit through it for the duration then ask yourself the question, “What the fuck?” For me that doesn’t happen...

The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

06/05/2011

Transmuting Lead into Gold: America's Politics Of Revenge And Submission. When the individual feels, the community reels Osama Bin Laden is dead. And so is the U.S. republic. We had to destroy...

Spirituality? More than 20% of atheist scientists are.

06/05/2011

Scientists think spirituality is congruent with scientific discovery, religion is not....

NASA Selects Investigations For Future Key Planetary Mission

06/05/2011

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on...

Outliers in Emotion: Enduser

06/05/2011

"I think Dubstep is something that just got out of hand creatively and now it's just a bunch of people ripping each other off" Trebuchet’s love affair with Breakcore continues...

Why Are Americans So Easily Conned?

06/05/2011

Our blind optimism allows us to live in comfort zones, but it turns vast spaces of the world into death zones. The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of...

Dutch Uncles – Cadenza

05/05/2011

So NME accuse this album of 'musical incompetence' and being 'baffling', whilst The Fly go with 'one of 2011's most exciting prospects'. Things are already juicy....

SLASH: Announces UK Headline And Festival Dates

03/05/2011

Gunners star announces UK Headline And Festival Dates Single: “Starlight” Release date: 25th July 2011, taken from the critically acclaimed album “Slash” Exclusive...

Kasabian Announce Intimate Warm Up Shows

03/05/2011

London 3rd May 9am 2011 – In what will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of 2011, Kasabian announce an intimate UK warm up Tour in June ahead of festival season. The multi – platinum,...

Make Better Music 41: Tempo, Rhythm & Time

03/05/2011

Make Better Music 41: Tempo, Rhythm & Time. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

//Tense// – Escape or Soundscape?

01/05/2011

“Your official diagnosis is schizophrenic psychosis…” drones a machine on the title track of Escape, the new EP from Tense. Sounds cool. Sounds ominous. But am I tense? Words mean...

The Rewards of Doing ‘Something’

30/04/2011

People don't really care what they're doing—just as long as they are doing something. That's one of the findings summarized in a new review article published in Current Directions...

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis – Bull and Gate

30/04/2011

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis promote their new album 'Smoking in Heaven' at the Bull and Gate. I found the Bull and Gate by following a trail of polka dot skirts, red lipstick and rockabilly...

Among the Ciphers of a Declining Empire

29/04/2011

Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: A Comb-Over Treatment for Declining Empire. Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often...

Public Enemy performing Fear Of A Black Planet

28/04/2011

Public Enemy performing Fear Of A Black Planet Perhaps the most infuential of all hip-hop groups return to the UK to perform one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, 'Fear Of A Black...

Motivation plays a critical role in determining IQ

28/04/2011

Penn research demonstrates motivation plays a critical role in determining IQ test scores. PHILADELPHIA — New psychology research at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a...

What can movie stars tell us about marriage?

28/04/2011

Movie stars: Is there anything they can't tell us? According to a study published in the Spring issue of the Journal of Human Capital, marriages among movie stars can help unravel the reasons why...

The Fall – KOKO 1st June.

28/04/2011

Iconic 70s Post-Punk band THE FALL performs for THE PLAYGROUND at an exclusive London show here at KOKO. THE FALL Of all the late-'70s punk and post-punk bands, none are said to be longer-lived...

TOKiMONSTA engulfs with dreamy texture.

28/04/2011

TOKiMONSTA has odd and beautiful dreams, apparently. Brace yourself, as she treats us to a musical retelling. According to L.A. Weekly, Jennifer Lee (aka TOKiMONSTA) is Los Angeles' premier...

Roger Daltrey to Perform “Tommy”

27/04/2011

ROGER DALTREY TO PERFORM THE WHO’S LEGENDARY “TOMMY” ALBUM FROM START TO FINISH THE SET WILL ALSO INCLUDE A VARIETY OF THE WHO’S CLASSICS AND MORE ...

On the Brink of Democracy

27/04/2011

Nigeria is a confusing country for the stranger, and the situation only gets worse when you start looking at politics. As such I’m not going to try and give you a nicely crafted or...

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