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Wolves in the Throne Room : Celestite

23/07/2014

One gets the sense that Wolves in the Throne Room are soundtracking the Joseph Campbell monomyth of their own lives, but rather than a Disneyesque prog version, they’re going deeper. ...

Stylus Stories

26/06/2014

It is modern folklore, providing an insight into the human condition and a soundtrack to match. Stylus stories listening club....

Finding Nick Tosches

19/06/2014

I asked him how he had gotten his first book published. “It’s a dead industry”, he said....

Midsummer Music Festival 2014

04/06/2014

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world's finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space....

Mostly Autumn : Dressed in Voices

30/05/2014

From full-on rock to passages of delicate beauty and back again - Mostly Autumn, Dressed in Voices...

Pregnant and Slave to the Vibe

25/05/2014

Music appears to have an especially strong influence on pregnant women, a fact that may relate to a prenatal conditioning of the fetus to music....

Loitered Lens : The Sonics

25/05/2014

Every number was another thick layer of royal icing on the garage cake ...

Loitered Lens : Bruce Foxton’s From The Jam

04/05/2014

Entertainment, Going Underground, Beat Surrender and an outstanding version of Town Called Malice all fixed a look of pure ecstasy onto the audiences middle-aged faces, and a glint of nostalgia in...

Loitered Lens: The Spitfires

20/04/2014

Photos of The Spitfires, A Watford based 3 piece who have been together since September 2012...

Mike Vallely : On Not Being Broken

26/03/2014

Action-sports megacorporations duly demonized, Vallely takes to the appropriately bleak and inhuman streets of Berlin....

Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

19/03/2014

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

The Genetics of Music Aptitude

13/03/2014

Multiple regions in the human genome are reported to be linked to musical aptitude...

Maybe You Just Don’t Like Music

09/03/2014

Some otherwise healthy and happy people do not enjoy music and show no autonomic responses to its sound, despite normal musical perception capacities...

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LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani

20/02/2014

LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani 21-23 March, Britannia House E1...

Death on the Fault Line

10/02/2014

Torture, blood sacrifice and sinister messages extracted from Beatles lyrics. The final surges of the California Death Ray. ...

Papa Was a Rolling Stone : Seductive Mouse Songs

06/02/2014

Play me some new stuff. Female mice displayed an innate preference for male songs from different families. News item....

Macklemore’s Grammy Gold

01/02/2014

After pop rapper Macklemore took Grammy gold, many are crying cultural appropriation. ...

LTJ Bukem / Roni Size : Village Underground

10/01/2014

Soundcrash return with another night of bass, following a sell out the last time around, legends of the Drum and Bass game LTJ Bukem and Roni Size are back....

My Dark Song : Bobby Beausoleil

03/01/2014

Bobby Beausoleil and Charles Manson. The collision of two dominant personalities would certainly be the trigger for the first and, perhaps, all three of the gory and ritualistic Manson Family...

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Now the Party’s Over. 2013

01/01/2014

What happens if something good happens at the close of year? How can we definitively say what were the highlights of 2013 until it has actually finished? ...

666 Degrees of Separation

20/12/2013

Manson has lost some of his ability to exercise the media for his own sinister purpose, but still retains the sanguine air of a devil in temporary chains....

Pearls Negras : Favela Flava

17/12/2013

Fast, aggressive hip hop beats matching their aggressively charged performances. Pearls Negras bite back at the favela that birthed them....

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Loitered Lens : The Ben Miller Band

01/12/2013

Quite simply an absolute must see band. The only thing missing was moonshine in a mason jar at the merch stall. Plus: Gimli squeezes out a crusty one....

Engage! Analytics for Musicians and Creatives

21/11/2013

Smart use of analytics can help music companies justify every penny and cent invested in marketing campaigns by identifying who their fans are...

Nils Frahm Releases Video of ‘More’

18/11/2013

Loo brushes ahoy! Nils Frahm and Erased Tapes records release live video of Frahm at the keyboard....

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Spiritwo release Primitive Twinship

18/11/2013

'a pop infused dance-hall groove in a hard rock framework' Spiritwo release Primitive Twinship ...

Manraze Release EP

14/11/2013

Manraze release their EP: I Surrender...

Bring to Light/Supersonic

23/10/2013

The inaugural Bring To Light event presented by Supersonic Festival shall commence this weekend (25-27 October) at the recently launched, new Library of Birmingham. ...

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Wait for the Drop. Anticipation and Music

27/09/2013

The auditory cortex performs a role beyond just processing sound. Rather, this area of the brain appears to be activated during other activities that require learning and thought, such as confirming...