Category: Sound

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Loitered Lens: Demented Are Go

26/02/2018

Welsh Psychobillies Demented Are Go inflict themselves upon Watford's Old Brewery for another evening of ill-mannered disarray....

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Frank Turner brings punk to the folk-core (or vice versa)

19/02/2018

Contemporary Folk-Punk troubadour Frank Turner's Hardcore alter-ego Möngöl Hörde knock London's Scala down a couple of pegs....

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Hollywood Undead (Live Review)

12/02/2018

Hollywood Undead launched into the lights at Camden's Koko 2018...

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Operation: Mindcrime (Live Review)

09/02/2018

To Queensrÿche without Geoff Tate or to Geoff Tate without Queensrÿche? Operation: Mindframe celebrate 30 years of their namesake album....

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Pissed Regardless – Feed The Birds (Review)

05/02/2018

Crossover Thrash is a fickle beast. Have Californian newcomers Pissed Regardless managed to crack the code with their sophomore EP effort 'Feed The Birds'? Fraggle investigates....

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Frank Turner: Unearthing The Underground

29/01/2018

Eclectic singer-songwriter Frank Turner gives Trebuchet the low-down on some of his favourite rising stars....

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Loitered Lens: Peter Hook & The Light

28/01/2018

Trebuchet visits Roundhouse on a chilly winter evening to take aim at former Joy Division and New Order bass-man Peter Hook and his band The Light....

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Nerdcore: Next Level Hip-Hop?

22/01/2018

Trebuchet explores the Nerdcore Hip-Hop movement, its relationship with modern culture and music, and the issues with rigid genre categorization with help from Mega Ran, Sammus and Ben Knight....

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Tankard – A Compilation of Inebriation

20/01/2018

Thrash Metal, like most genres, has its tropes. Those same reoccurring themes which pop up in the lyrics, inspirations or meanings behind the songs....

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Loitered Lens: SikTH

16/01/2018

Photos from SikTH's December gig at Koko, Camden...

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The Hat Man and The Korg

15/01/2018

Saturday night music at the Lansdowne pub in Lewes, church of the unchurched, and my (low) expectations are scattered to the four winds by the performance of Robert Lashmar AKA Rhythmic/AKA The Hat...

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Dead Reflections, Live Context (Silverstein Interview)

08/01/2018

A cosy chat with Silverstein singer Shane Told...

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Fields of the Nephilim Winter Solstice

Flaming in the Fog: Fields of the Nephilim, Kentish Town Forum

05/01/2018

As other goth bands fall, Fields of the Nephilim still carry the torch through the graveyard...

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The Professionals Islington

Album launched, future credit assured. The Professionals

20/12/2017

Loud and proud, regardless of era, history, politics or provenance...

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Myrkur

Sacrilege! Profanity! Err, Isn’t That the Point of Black Metal? Myrkur

20/12/2017

Myrkur proves, by dint of sheer talent, that magnificent Black Metal can be made by those there lady women people....

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Dimebag Darryl

Roll On, Roll Over, Roll Away: Dimevision (Dimebag Darryl)

18/12/2017

Legend? Yes. Talented? Certainly. Brilliant on every occasion? Well, about that......

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Igorrr

Psychological Cravings and Heavy Beasts: Igorrr Live London.

14/12/2017

French breakcore rocks the capital and we fall in love with Laure...

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Loitered Lens: Billy Bragg and Sean McGowan

13/12/2017

Activist singer-songwriters go head-to-head at Islington's Assembly Hall...

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Roma Zuckerman

Distressed, Dirty, Disfunctional: Roma Zuckerman

12/12/2017

Dirty, dysfunctional minimalism confuses and fascinates simultaneously...

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Looking for a New Islington? Billy Bragg

06/12/2017

Billy Bragg's Bridges Not Walls tour rolls up to the proletarian boulevards of Islington...

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Charlotte Branson

Triple Threat: Charlotte Branson [Interview]

05/12/2017

In conversation with pop's brave new hope for hopeful, brave pop...

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Steven Rutter

From Me To You (Steven Rutter)

04/12/2017

How does a futuristic vision hold up when time passes? Very well, in Steven Rutter's case...

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Nitin Sawhney

Live at Ronnie Scott’s: Nitin Sawhney

01/12/2017

Heavyweight vinyl, heavyweight venue, heavyweight talent...

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Cannibal Corpse

Suitably Complex Brutality: Red Before Black (Cannibal Corpse)

30/11/2017

Focus, work ethic, rhythmic dexterity and lots of entrails...

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UK Subs

Loitered Lens: UK Subs and The Angry Agenda

24/11/2017

Grassroots garage punk brings a dose of righteous anger to The Flag...

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Mr Big

Don’t Get Old, Get ‘Spiritual’! Mr Big [Live]

23/11/2017

You're never too old to kick out those jams. Mr Big lay into Shepherds Bush Empire...

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Shamanic Falterings Amongst the Valleys of Tone

21/11/2017

Musician Ben Frost meanders at the ICA 2017...

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Tarantist

Death (Sentence) Metal: Not a Crime [Tarantist]

15/11/2017

Iranian Metal goes one step further - TarantisT now sing in Farsi...

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Blush Response (Interview)

14/11/2017

'I don’t know what a Berlin album is but it’s definitely a me album'...

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Birthday Massacre

Something Slinky This Way Prowls: The Birthday Massacre, Live

09/11/2017

Bouncing, thrashing and panty-flashing with The Birthday Massacre ...

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