Trebuchet Issue 4

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Mythbusting: Large Immigrant Families and Poverty

The number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found....

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What’s Behind The Mask?

Trebuchet's debate about banning full-face veils rears its partially obscured head again...

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Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil

Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear....

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The Songs of Lovecraft’s Children

Gary Hill won’t make a fortune from The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft, or be interviewed on breakfast TV about it, but it had to be written....

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The Meat Puppets [Live]

Trippy and meandering as the hastily recorded studio version of themselves, live, the Meat Puppets just about delivered the goods musically. ...

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Immigrant Sahara Dust Outbreak

Concentrations of inhalable particles more than doubled during a major Saharan dust intrusion in Houston, Texas...

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Mesmerism and Quantum Entanglement [Interview]

Our true contact with eternity is right here, right now. Judgements, explanations, rationalisations will never teach us...

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Got Rhythm? You Probly Talk Gud Too

It may be that musical training, with an emphasis on rhythmic skills, exercises the auditory-system, leading to strong sound-to-meaning associations that are so essential in learning to read...

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PAFT Relief with Rachael Reichert

CyBelle Horizon: a comic book, a video and a catwalk show all surrounded by vintage issues of American comic books. It could, and perhaps should, have been a total disaster...

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Martin Bedard : Topographies

Anyone seeking innovative and forward-thinking electronic music need look no further; the energy and imagination displayed in this collection puts many younger producers to shame...

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Con-artist. I have respect for that (Lydia Lunch)

I do feel that it is a calling, to be a mouthpiece for some individuals that just feel they’re screaming and no sound is coming out....

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Britain is Booming?

A real world recession for the majority is applauded as a recovery, when all that is recovered are the profits for transnational corporations, and incomes of high earners, most of whom pay little or...

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Helen Knowles : GV ART [Exhibition Details]

Knowles selects footage that portrays the women’s euphoria and attempts to capture the intense emotion of childbirth ...

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Mesmerism Revisited : Lee Gerrard-Barlow [Interview]

Human beings are essentially creatures of habit, we tend to follow the path of least resistance in almost everything that we do. ...

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Occupy London at the DSEI Arms Fair

Inside: a variety of meetings and conferences by delegates, discussing the proliferation of weapons, the issues surrounding a discourse of deadly peace, and the spread of gunpowder dialogue. Quicker,...

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What’s in your pee?

Urine analysis using colour, taste and smell (called uroscopy) was one of the primary methods early physicians used to diagnose disease. Even today, millions of chemically based urine tests are...

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Stop the Arms Fair – Protest Today

A mass action against the arms fair in solidarity with the international struggles for justice. When? Sunday, September the 8th 12noon Where? Near the Excel Centre, which hosts the arms fair....

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John Noveske’s Link to Drugs and School Shootings

This is the last post John Noveske made on his Facebook page before his death:...

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Important podcasts to Improve Your Life.

In podcasts alternative media has become truly democratised: anyone with a point of view can reach an audience (and by repeating the process achieve fame) with little technical knowledge and less...

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Round 2 : The Gagging Law fight.

The latest update and links to more information as well as how you can get involved in the fight against the latest gagging law legislation....

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Fracking: The Battle for Balcombe

Balcombe has become the front line in the battle against not simply fracking – but our right to have a say in the big decisions that shape our world...

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Ministry : Drug Gospels by Al Jourgensen

'As Al puts it: the guy that was supposed to have his back was clamped on it'. The Ministry story, according to Jourgenson....

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Choons Cause Crashes

Male novice drivers in particular make more frequent and serious mistakes listening to their preferred music than their less aggressive, female counterparts...

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Sarah Sense : Weaving Water

Photography in Weaving Water acts as a political statement, and stands for the social and technological integration of different cultures. ...

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Gun Control? Lock and Load

Col Jon Burrows returns. Trebuchet's man in the States defends his right to bear arms....

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Simon Fowler : Interview

Using a style reminiscent of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, Fowler's labour intensive work has complemented the avant garde work of Dub and Bass group The Bug, doom sonicists Sun O))), Jap-rock...

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So Buff. Hypermasculinity and Sports Mags

'Male athletes are rarely, if ever, depicted in sexualized, submissive, objectifying or non-athletic positions in sports magazines.' Until now....

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A dormant thread in old blues (Vintage Trouble)

'All bullshit aside, these are bands that are taking the road that we've taken, which is real raw recorded music'. Vintage Trouble talk. ...

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Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man

As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think...

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Green Tea Protest Lemonade

Drink the green, clean your pipes, cool yourself off and beat back the military-industrial complex in one fell swoop with Trebuchet's Green Tea Lemonade....

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