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Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 1)]

21/06/2012

How do you review an event that takes place over four days in multiple venues, includes numerous styles of dark music and if done properly takes the rest of the month or more to recover from? To...

The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

14/06/2012

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

King Mob Rock Cruise

10/06/2012

When my band King Mob was invited to play on a ‘rock cruise’ I had no idea what to expect. We were collected from Stockholm airport at 4pm local time and bussed to the White Ship, a great...

Supersonic festival 2012 Lineup

07/06/2012

Supersonic festival is the most intensely purifying music event of any year. 2012 brings us a resplendent line-up of discordant wonder that is an absolutely must for any discerning music fan....

Tav Falco [Interview]

07/06/2012

There's a mixed crowd at Rough Trade East, a record shop in ever-so hip Brick Lane. They're listening to Tav Falco read extracts from his new book, Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma and...

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner

06/06/2012

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner...

Friends are a 5 piece Brooklyn band, not yet two years old, who you might have noticed gathered a lot of buzz back at the end of 2011. Their name suggests a kind of exclusivity- An ambiguous Google...

Hank3: Interview/Live Review

01/06/2012

'when people come to see me, I want to give them a good time' Most bands have enough problems getting out one album at a time. Not so for Hank 3, real name Shelton Hank Williams, also...

Dinowalrus: Best Behavior

29/05/2012

Warrington's Parr Hall saw the Stone Roses' comeback gig just last Wednesday, playing a free concert for fans who could produce some physical merchandise-based evidence of their devotion. Rock and...

Dinowalrus release video for ‘Beth Steel’

18/05/2012

Let me put you in the picture, let me show you what I mean, the messiah is my sister, ain't no king when she's my queen. This 'news' piece is really an excuse to soften you up for...

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion

15/05/2012

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion...

Onefest – The Coldest Festival of the Season

28/04/2012

Onefest. First Festival of the Year, or Coldest Festival of the Year. The festival season kicks off in mid-April with Onefest, which claims to be the first festival of the year, or could be the...

Music in the Age of No-Effort

19/04/2012

‘97,751 albums released in a year’, Jeremy Schlosberg examines the implications of music market gluttony. I was talking to a music industry acquaintance on the phone not long ago and he...

Rival Sons: Jay Buchanan Interview

09/04/2012

Trebuchet interviews Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan discussing music life and the million of chances in between....

Bill Drummond podcasts Damascus in London

31/03/2012

Bill Drummond's Damascus (2012) in London art-music project twisted the rules of internet-age event management....

Bloodstock Festival: Lineup Announcements

13/03/2012

Bloodstock 2012 Festival: Lineup Announcements ...

Testament to play Bloodstock 2012

15/02/2012

Testament announced as special guests at Bloodstock for only UK show of 2012. ...

The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

11/02/2012

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

Sepultura and Iced Earth on the Bill at Bloodstock

06/02/2012

Sepultura and Iced Earth on the Bill at Bloodstock...

Nile and Mayhem exclusive Bloodstock 2012

25/01/2012

NILE and Norwegian Black Metal Legends MAYHEM, make their BLOODSTOCK debut....

Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

19/01/2012

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...

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...

Astral Projection and Ableton: Mono/Poly Interview

22/12/2011

Paramatma is about the supersoul.., I got it from a Vedic scripture and it talks (about) having the omnipresent god-spirit inside of you, that it’s (Paramatma) the observer and you’re the doer. -...

Islet: Illuminated People

12/12/2011

Islet's Illumiminated People is awash with the self-indulgence of a band who have little to fear from the ignominy of failure. That's the official line at any rate. Famous now for not being...

Motley Crue to tour with Tommy Lee’s 360 Drum Rollercoaster.

01/12/2011

Motley Crue to tour with Tommy Lee's 360 degree Drum Rollercoaster....

Kids in Glass Houses – Interview

30/11/2011

Kids in Glass Houses, as their names suggests are obviously not the sort of band that you’d expect to be particularly forthcoming or vitriolic on any topic. Not least because they appear to be a...

Make Better Music 68: Words and Music

29/11/2011

Writing music comes easily to me for the most part, I’ve usually got a surplus of ideas, so the only the most interesting actually get worked on. The more derivative and unimaginative ideas get...

Make Better Music 67: Raw Power and Sophistication

22/11/2011

For some, measured, intelligent songwriting skills are the pinnacle of musical enjoyment, for others it can be the antithesis of what music is there for - the expression of raw emotion....

Make Better Music 66: Embrace the Chaos

15/11/2011

In the midst of a vast YouTube binge the other evening (I’ve got a thirst for seeking out to interviews with musicians I like, and seem to be hopeless at turning YouTube off), I happened to come...

Supersonic festival 2011 – review

08/11/2011

Begin transmission: Supersonic is the probably the greatest festival or true music lovers in the UK, perhaps further afield. Stop. 21st to 24th October. Attending Supersonic 2011 felt like being...

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