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LA Laura Paris Creates a Furor with “Game Over”

Coming out of the bustling music scene in France and Belgium, LA Laura Paris creates a furor with her special brand of electro pop and dance beats. "Game Over" is a last tip-off to a powerful new force in music.

The track "Game Over" comes through with high-octane beats and deep basslines that are really smoothed over by the lyrical content. It pretty much narrates the story of breaking free from bad relationships and self-affirmation. With lines such as "I love myself, I respect myself. I eject the jerks of the night," LA Laura Paris really drives a point home: empowerment through and keeping one's dignity.

Born Laura Pinon-Courtoy, LA Laura Paris began her musical journey at the age of 6. Grown in a home with a pure classical environment, she studied violin and piano at the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels. Her dynamic musical style has come from extensive and multifarious training in various dance forms and the visual arts. Such eclectic influences come through in the music she creates, which is a mix of pop, electro, and dance all rolled into one.

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Even before breaking into the music scene, LA Laura Paris had also ventured into some modeling and street art. She had been writing her name in huge "LA" and "JUST DANCE MOTHER F💖💖💖💖💖" written in words, on the streets of major cities globally. All that diversity in her art is expressed well through her music, with visual aesthetics and the sonic experience meeting in one thing.

It comes into full realization with "Game Over," in which LA Laura Paris rejects the games and lies of a former love in an anthem of liberation. The lyrics are brought out with the fierce choreography and visual of the music video, set in a slick, digital playground. LA and her dancers are on a hard, edgy neon set with vintage arcade imagery, pulling a gritty performance in tandem with the defiant spirit of the song.

The single comes hot on the heels of her previous successes with "I'm Leaving Right Away" and "Kissing Boys," both of which have received critical appraise and have proven her continued versatility as an artist. Every release from LA Laura Paris is one more example of breaking new ground in electro pop yet, at the same time, staying deeply personal in lyrical content and totally original in style. "Game Over" is not a song; it's a statement. It screams declarations of independence and power, beat-bound so no one can sit still for it. This is the honesty of music created by LA Laura Paris as an artist in the invincible testimony for free speech and the undying quest for freedom in artistic endeavors.


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Coldplay share new ‘Biutyful’ video featuring alien band The Weirdos

Coldplay have shared a new video for their track ‘Biutyful’, featuring puppet band The Weirdos – check it out below.

  • READ MORE: Coldplay: “This is our period of having no fear”

Chris Martin had previously appeared on TV with the puppets to perform the ‘Music Of The Spheres’ track, while the band’s singer Angel Moon has also been appearing on the band’s current world tour.

The puppet band was created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, and recently signed to Atlantic and Parlophone Records.

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In the ‘Biutyful’ video, The Weirdos ascend from newcomers and rockstar wannabes into a huge, stadium-filling band.

Check out the new video below.

Speaking about the band in May, Martin said: “The Weirdos are a band who we’re trying to help out. I think we thought that we’ve sort of come to the end of doing singles as Coldplay. I think we’ve probably basically finished doing that, in general.

“We can’t go more poppier or single-y than [their BTS collaboration ‘My Universe’] and that felt good and we’re a bit older now. So we do have songs we want to bring some attention to, but with this, we asked The Weirdos if they would do the song and front it and we would feature.”

The UK and European leg of Coldplay’s ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour kicked off this week, and more support acts for the dates were recently announced.

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Joining H.E.R. and London Grammar will be the likes of Griff, Ibibio Sound Machine, Laura Mvula, Nina Nesbitt and more.

In May, the band launched a special app to accompany their world tour to help their fans plan low-carbon and sustainable travel routes to and from their shows.

Elsewhere, the band were among a number of high-profile names that signed an open letter last month urging world leaders to take action on the pressing affairs of extreme poverty and climate change.

See the full list of remaining dates below.

JULY
8 – Warsaw, PL – PGE Narodowy
10 – Berlin, DE – Olympiastadion Berlin
12 – Berlin, DE – Olympiastadion Berlin
13 – Berlin, DE – Olympiastadion Berlin
16 – Paris, FR – Stade de France
17 – Paris, FR – Stade de France
19 – Paris, FR – Stade de France
20 – Paris, FR – Stade de France

AUGUST
5 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium
6 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium
8 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium
9 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium
12 – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
13 – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
16 – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
17 – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
19 – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
20 – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
23 – Glasgow, UK – Hampden Park Stadium
24 – Glasgow, UK – Hampden Park Stadium

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Peter Rehberg, founder of record label Editions Mego, dies aged 53

Peter Rehberg, the British-Austrian founder of pioneering record label Editions Mego, has died aged 53.

As reported in The Guardian, Rehberg died of a heart attack and news of Rehberg’s passing was first shared by his collaborator François Bonnet, who records as Kassel Jaeger, and Bonnet’s label INA-grm.

Bonnet wrote on Instagram: “I am heartbroken. Peter is gone, suddenly. Just like that. He hated goodbyes, effusions. Out of reserve. Out of sensitivity. He was one of the most kind, loyal and reliable people I have ever known. I feel privileged to have known him, to have collaborated with him and to have been his friend. I owe him so much. So do many of us.”

He continued: “The last time I listened to him playing live, it was in Paris, February 2020, in a small venue, with an average sound system. His concert was great, though. I was really impressed. Each time, more and more impressed. Over the years, his music has become denser. It was still radical and bold, but it was also deeper, more ambivalent, more moving too. It revealed unfathomable depths.

“We sometimes forget how talented a musician Peter Rehberg was, because of so much energy he devoted to the music of others. But he was an amazing musician.”

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Rehberg was born in Tottenham and raised in Hertfordshire before moving to his father’s native Austria.

An artist in his own right, Rehberg released many noise and ambient albums across a career that spanned 25 years. Some of his collaborators included Jim Jim O’Rourke, Christian Fennesz, and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley.

He released his debut album, ‘Seven Tons For Free’, as Pita in 1995; the previous year, he worked in a management role at Australia music label, Mego, which housed underground musicians and composers.

A year later, Rehberg relaunched the label as Editions Mego. Now a famed home for electronic music, it works with artists including Oneohtrix Point Never, Emeralds and Caterina Barbieri.
Rehberg is survived by his partner Laura Siegmund, his father Alexander, brother Michael and his daughter Natasha, from a previous relationship.

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Bop Shop: Songs From Laura Mvula, Orville Peck, Migos, And More

The search for the ever-elusive "bop" is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new?

Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This weekly collection doesn't discriminate by genre and can include anything — it's a snapshot of what's on our minds and what sounds good. We'll keep it fresh with the latest music, but expect a few oldies (but goodies) every once in a while, too. Get ready: The Bop Shop is now open for business.

  • Maharani: “Tere Bina”
    https://youtu.be/YGodc-hbAGA?t=149

    London-based singer-songwriter Maharani released her EP AnBae late last year, and I've had it in rotation ever since. Influenced by R&B artists like Tinashe, Tank, and Jhené Aiko, her sound is transportive, a musical cauldron blending Hindi, Dutch, Tamil, and English, often layered over a simple synth beat. Her latest release, "Tere Bina" ("Without You” in English) simultaneously puts me at ease and makes me want to be in love. Produced by fellow Londoner Itsyaboikay, the two are charting their own lane in R&B, and I am buckling in for the ride. —Virginia Lowman

  • Orville Peck: “Born This Way (The Country Road Version)”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCN0uYl_H_4

    Like any good gay person, I knew Lady Gaga teasing the title of the cover “Born This Way (The Country Road Version)” was code for an Orville Peck collab. My musical gaydar was correct, and Little Monsters, I’m happy to inform you that the masked singer was rightfully entrusted with the anthemic song. Peck’s rendition of “Born This Way” is a campy delight, infused with the twangy strings and soulful croon that put the queer country singer on the map. Yee-freaking-haw! —Sam Manzella

  • Tinashe ft. Buddy: “Pasadena”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bVfpRRngA

    What’s the world’s first post-quarantine summer without a fire playlist to vibe out to? Tinashe is giving us just that with her single and visual for “Pasadena.” The pop dazzler is serving up her airy, soprano vocals over a hot beat in her newly released single. The visual brings us some much-needed California sunshine and carefree vibes, and like Tinashe sings, “Now more than ever, life is all what you make it.” Let’s make the warm season count! —Taura Kimble

  • Ivy Mono: “Stars Are Blind” (Paris Hilton cover)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwD0h3ZiL6w

    Paris Hilton’s mythic debut single “Stars Are Blind” celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this month, making it ripe for the picking for an indie electro-pop soft-boi cover. And I use that term endearingly because Ivy Mono has found a way to curate an entirely different sun-drenched vibe with his synth-driven take on the 2006 single. While the original is top-down on the highway, making out on the beach, and the smell of sunscreen, Ivy Mono’s cover feels like iced coffee in the summer, yearning from across the bar, and yes, making out on the beach, too. —Carson Mlnarik

  • Pom Pom Squad: “Crying”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-O-z4wpVI

    Everything weeps on “Crying.” Singer-songwriter Mia Berrin howls, the creeping strings wail like coyotes in the night, and the layers of guitar crunch add a visceral sonic weight to the entire affair. It’s (sadly) not a Roy Orbison cover, but it lives in the same melancholy universe, along with the rest of Death of a Cheerleader, Berrin’s goth-fuzz new album from project Pom Pom Squad, out June 25. —Patrick Hosken

  • Blanks: “What You Do to Me”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIW24llrPuA

    No one is giving more full-hearted tributes to '80s new-wave pop right now than 24-year-old Simon de Wit, better known as Blanks. “What You Do to Me” is a brisk, breezy rush of synth where he finally confesses his heartfelt feelings. But naturally, the fear of falling in love has him overthinking. “I need you now to get me outta my head,” he reveals. “'Cause baby, when we touch, it’s like the whole world stops.” —Terron Moore

  • Migos ft. Justin Bieber: “What You See”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw_Iy7CL02E

    Justin Bieber’s lately made himself a hook machine, and on “What You See,” he lets his floating falsetto soar over a gentle beat infused with acoustic guitar. It provides the perfect backdrop for Migos to unpack questions about real love: “How many times that you got mad or told me you done with me?”; “If I was down to my last dime, would you slide, go Bonnie and Clyde?”; and most importantly, “What you want from me?” —Patrick Hosken

  • Laura Mvula: “Got Me”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJohzGzstag

    Summer is here, we have our vax (you have your vax, right?!), and it’s time to bask in a season of good vibes and fierce music. Laura Mvula’s synth sensation “Got Me” is serving the perfect bop for sitting in the sun, by the beach, or in a park. Like an '80s pop track with a 2021 twist, it’s a nostalgic smorgasbord of serotonin that puts a spring in your step. “In my adult years I had forgotten how important dance was to me as a vital tool of my creative expression,” Mvula told NME. “I brought it back, just for me, so I could find my delight in dance again. And now I can’t stop dancing. I can’t wait to play this album live.” —Zach O’Connor

  • Nao ft. Lianne La Havas: “Woman”
    https://youtu.be/lmvr7xq5cDE

    For the record: You can't go wrong with Nao or Lianne La Havas, so their team-up for the feminist anthem "Woman" was bound to be a sure-fire winner. This track got me through a summer alone indoors last year, and although outside is open now, the song has such good energy that it's become a kind of mantra for me. "If God is woman / On Sunday Imma worship us," the hook announces. And as far as I'm concerned, every day is Sunday, and everyone should act accordingly. —Virgnia Lowman

  • Nnamdï: "Lonely Weekend" (Kacey Musgraves cover)
    https://youtu.be/B6zNRHb-Lp0

    To say Nnamdï has covered Kacey Musgraves's gorgeously melancholy "Lonely Weekend" is to do the multitalented Chicago artist's version a disservice. Instead, it's a complete overhaul, a work of disassembly and reassembly in real time across three minutes. I've listened to it about six times now, and every time I've known it was a cover of a song I know quite well, but there's always a point where I get completely lost in how he's reimagined it. What a complete thrill. Find Nnamdï's freak-folk take on "Lonely Weekend" on record label Secretly Canadian's latest SC25 Singles collection. —Patrick Hosken

  • Armaan Malik, Eric Nam with KSHMR: “Echo”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CjNYcEF4cY

    In an epic cross-national collaboration, Bollywood's Armaan Malik, Seoul-based K-pop artist Eric Nam, and Indian-American producer KSHMR join forces on the EDM-tinged “Echo.” Though the song is an excellent crying-on-the-dance-floor bop, it stands for something much larger: transcending borders to smash the boundaries between genres and celebrate the richness of Asian experiences, on the heels of AAPI Heritage Month. Leveraging their unique talents and notoriety in their respective industries, Malik, Nam, and KSHMR have crafted a pan-Asian collaboration the likes of which EDM, K-pop, and I-pop have never seen, gesturing toward global solidarity and unity. —Sarina Bhutani

  • Peach Tree Rascals: “Oh Honey! (I Love You)”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XL5tv1D0eY

    Peach Tree Rascals’ latest EP Camp Nowhere couldn’t be more appropriately titled. Its nostalgia-flecked sound evokes the days of summers past, while providing the perfect soundtrack for sunny new moments. “Oh Honey! (I Love You)” is the band's most earnest single yet. Their goofy humor shines through in its cinematic visual, which stars singer Joseph Barros and his real-life girlfriend in a park picnic before panning to Isaac Pech, Dom Pizano, and Tarrek Abdel-Khaliq in full marching band attire. No matter how long the high temperatures last, the season will come to an end, but the soothing track reminds us it’s OK. Perhaps the most important memories are the ones we don’t know we’re making. —Carson Mlnarik

  • Jessie J: “I Want Love”
    https://youtu.be/g1svGinCsxk

    The post-pandemic dance-track boom is real, and it’s rarely sounded as massive as on Jessie J’s return single “I Want Love.” The pianos and strings are high in the mix, the four is on the floor, and Jessie’s voice is a clarion call commanding everyone back to the dance floor. Spoiler alert: Yes, there’s a key change. It’s all about the drama. —Patrick Hosken

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Jane Weaver Love In Constant Spectacle


Jane Weaver is playing a very good long game. She’s just turned 52 and has spent over 30 of those years deeply involved in music in Manchester – from her early bands Kill Laura and Misty Dixon to her free-flowing solo output and more wayward projects such as Fenella and NeoTantrik – and yet this latest release, Love In Constant Spectacle, is by some distance her most satisfying album. Full of surprises and tantalisingly familiar, it’s the sound of Weaver stretching out and drawing from her wealth of experience to fashion a heartfelt, head-spinning account of grief and solace.

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Viewing the curve of her career, you can see how she got here: 2014’s The Silver Globe and its follow-up Modern Kosmology packaged her hippie-ish idealism in proggy chansons and Can-like grooves, a homespun blend of Hawkwind and Hot Chocolate that paved the way for Flock in 2021. This, she’d decided, was to be her pop breakthrough, one she’d play to her swelling fanbase at numerous festivals. She studied the hits of Hall & Oates and the Bee Gees and emulated the parts that worked for her, producing an array of celestial psych nuggets like “The Revolution Of Super Visions” and “Heartlow” that sounded great on the radio. The pandemic scuppered most of her plans – she only finished touring that record in March last year – but Flock certainly helped Weaver take flight.

It was during her band’s runs in America that this album began to take shape, on long desert drives across Southern states into the sunset, soundtracked by the blissful pastorals of Harold Budd and Vangelis. Weaver was coming to terms with her father’s illness and eventual passing, and sought some kind of comfort in the natural world, an attempt by one fairly well attuned to the frequency of the cosmos to place order on the chaos of life. Securing John Parish as producer for the record also allowed Weaver the luxury of revelling in the sound of her music, happily relinquishing control to the man who’s stewarded records by PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding and Dry Cleaning. In the past, Weaver has had a hands-on role in every aspect of her albums, necessitated by budgetary constraints and an inherent resourcefulness, often recording them bit by bit over a couple of years in a local studio. So to have a first-class studio booked months in advance, for a batch of songs already well-rehearsed, with a producer known for channelling the essence of an artist, gave Weaver the space and confidence to look at her work from different angles.

For some songs she tried the technique of automatic writing, translating her lyrics to give the impression she’s singing someone else’s words, which provides a sense of welcome detachment. The opening lines of the spellbinding title track, “Over the head of you/Wanted an island to give to you”, might stem from this process, but it’s the song’s Roxy-ish swagger that pulls you in. Trish Keenan of Broadcast famously used this lyric-writing approach, and there are shades of that group, and Stereolab too, in the chintzy swirl of “Perfect Storm” and the loping funk that underpins “Emotional Components”, not to mention the fuzzy psych of “Happiness In Proximity”. Parish’s presence seems to have given Weaver the freedom to create extravagant arrangements which he hones into focus, as on “Univers”, an enchanting reflection on the natural order of things that started life as a country ballad but evolved into something quite stunning in the studio. Similarly, where perhaps Weaver might have piled on the synths to make a point in earlier recordings, here she exercises restraint to let the songs bloom. “The Axis And The Seed” unfurls atmospherically over a “Metronomic Underground” bassline as Weaver sings of “the crocus buried deep” and finding “the axis and the seed”; this is what she means by love in constant spectacle: although the soil is cold and muddy, life is bubbling away under the surface and come spring the flowers burst into life. By the time the purring final track “Family Of The Sun” coasts out of view, pulled away by a motorik drum-machine and cresting jangle, Weaver is serene and composed, singing, “I’m escaping this loneliness through the optical/And completing this task”.

There’s a pleasing sense of closure in the album’s circular flow, which also, inevitably, possesses that sense of optimism that runs throughout Weaver’s catalogue. This might well be her finest record so far, but you can bet the next ones will be even better.

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Watch a reporter drop over 20 references to Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ during traffic update

A reporter known for dropping references to popular artists’ songs during her traffic updates has once again gone viral, with a recent road report heavily drawing on titles from Taylor Swift‘s new album ‘Midnights’.

  • READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’ review: a shimmering return to pure pop

The feat took place during a live broadcast on Friday (October 21), the same day that ‘Midnights’ was released.

After weather reporter Marvin Gómez kicked things off by saying there would be no ‘Midnight Rain’, NBC Philadelphia’s Sheila Watko said there was “no ‘Snow On The Beach'” by the shore, but that she had to bring some bad news. That was, she explained, ‘The Great War’ of being a traffic reporter, describing herself as the “traffic ‘Anti-Hero'”.

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Warning viewers of potential delays due to construction work, she advised drivers to give themselves extra time, as they didn’t want to be thinking ‘Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve’ while stuck in traffic. She then dropped a string of other titles in quick succession: “This is not a ‘Glitch’,” she said. “Looking great out there. ‘Sweet Nothing’ in both directions. This is our ‘Karma’ for dealing with that earlier construction.”

“Most of our map is actually ‘Bejeweled’ with these green roads,” she continued. “But this map is very fickle. After six o’clock, we’re getting a lot of ‘High Infidelity’. Right now, a camera shot like this, looking clear, that just ‘Hits Different’, it looks great. But give this about 20 minutes, delays are going to be ‘Bigger Than The [Whole] Sky’. This map is going to be looking so red, it’ll almost be ‘Maroon’.

Watko proceeded to namedrop ‘Labyrinth’, ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid’, ‘Dear Reader’, ‘Vigilante Shit’ and ‘Question…?’ before saying she was in a ‘Lavender Haze’ because the ‘Mastermind’, Swift, released her new album.

Watko also gave a shoutout to Carly Rae Jepsen, who also released latest album ‘The Loneliest Time’ last Friday. “I am so excited for this whole weekend. All I’m going to be doing is listening to these two albums from two of my songwriters. Swifties, Carly Rae fans all around the globe, from Philly to ‘Paris’, we’re going to be ‘Making The Most Of The Night’, it’s going to be ‘So Nice’,” she said.

It’s far from the first time Watko has gone viral for her pop-inspired traffic reports. In August, she snuck 15 Beyoncé song titles into a live broadcast to celebrate the release of the R&B titan’s seventh album, ‘Renaissance’.

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As a matter of fact, it’s not even the first time Watko has dropped Swift songs into an update. In November last year, the reporter managed to rattle off 17 references to ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ to celebrate its release. Watch that below:

Less than 24 hours after arriving, ‘Midnights’ broke streaming records on Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music, smashing Spotify’s record for the most-streamed album in a single day. It was also recently reported that the album sold over one million units within three days of its release, with more than 955,000 units coming from digital downloads, CD, cassette and vinyl sales.

In a four-star review of ‘Midnights’, NME said that after Swift’s “foray into a different sonic world” on 2020 albums ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’, she “still shimmers” on her “return to pure pop”.

So far, Swift has released music videos for two tracks on ‘Midnights’, with a video for ‘Anti-Hero’ arriving shortly after the album’s release, and another for ‘Bejewled’, featuring cameos from Haim, Laura Dern and more, arriving earlier this week.

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Check out the full list of Record Store Day 2022 releases

Hundreds of exclusive releases have been revealed for Record Store Day 2022, including records from the likes of Blur, Taylor Swift, Elvis, Bring Me The Horizon, Pinkpanthress, Sam Fender, Blondie and many more. Check out the full list below.

Returning for the 15th time on April 23, RSD will see hundreds of vinyl, CD and cassette releases sold exclusively through independent record shops – with over 260 stores from every corner of the UK and thousands around the world taking part in the celebrations.

This comes after the Entertainment Retailers Association’s recent report that showed that vinyl sales in the UK are at their highest level in over 30 years, growing a further 23 per cent year on year in 2021.

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Mina Koroma, store manager at Liverpool’s Jacaranda Records, said: “We can’t wait to see Record Store Day back in full force at Jacaranda Records. Our community of musicians, DJs and record fans thrives on getting together to share ideas and experiences.

“RSD is always a great chance to do that, especially at such a challenging time for shops like ours. We’re excited for scenes all over the UK to keep growing their collections and adding to their fond memories of times spent at record stores.”

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Taylor Swift. CREDIT: Beth Garrabrant

Last month, Taylor Swift was announced as the first global amabassador of Record store Day 2022.

“I’m very proud to be this year’s Ambassador for Record Store Day. The places where we go to browse and explore and discover music new and old have always been sacred to me,” the singer explained. “Record stores are so important because they help to perpetuate and foster music-loving as a passion. They create settings for live events. They employ people who adore music thoroughly and purely.”

Swift went on to acknowledge the “rough few years” that independent record shops have faced as a result of the COVID pandemic, adding: “We need to support these small businesses more now than ever to make sure they can stay alive, stay eccentric, and stay individual.”

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The full list of Record Store Day 2021 releases is:

50 Foot Wave
Power + Light
Fire Records
LP

50 Foot Wave
Bath White
Fire Records
LP

A Place To Bury Strangers
Keep Slipping Away 2022
BMG
LP

A. R. Kane
Americana
Luaka Bop
2xLP

Academic, The
Community Spirit
Capitol
12″

Ace Of Base
All That She Wants
Demon Records
LP

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Absolutely Freak Out! (Zap Your Mind)
staticresonance
2xLP

Ade
It’s Just Wind
Mexican Summer
LP

Alan Vega
Jukebox Babe b/w Speedway
Sacred Bones Records
7″

Albert Ayler
Revelations
Elemental Music
5xLP

Alice In Chains
We Die Young
Sony CMG
12″

Alpha & Omega
Tree Of Life – Volume 1
Mania Dub
LP

Alpha & Omega
Tree Of Life – Volume 2
Mania Dub
LP

Altered Images
The Return of The Teenage Popstar
Cooking Vinyl
12″

America
Rarities
Rhino
LP

Amy Michelle
is that all there is?
Method Records
12″

Andy Crofts & Le SuperHomard
Forevermore
Colorama
7″

Angelo Badalamenti
Blue Velvet – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Deluxe Edition)
Concord / UMG
2xLP

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
In My Prime
Tidal Waves Music
2xLP

Art Pepper
Meets The Rhythm Section (MONO)
Concord / UMG
LP

Ashby
Looks Like You’ve Already Won
Marina Records
LP

ASIA
XXX
BMG
LP

Associates
Covers
BMG
LP

Azymuth
Light As A Feather (Picture Disc)
Far Out Recordings
LP

Bring Me The Horizon are among the artists to announce a special release for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
Bring Me The Horizon are among the artists to announce a special release for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

Bad Company
Live 1979
Rhino
2xLP

Barbara Mason
The Lost 80s Sessions
South Street
LP

Bardo Pond
Bufo Alvarius
Fire Records
2xLP

Be Bop Deluxe
Live! In the Air Age – The Hammersmith Odeon Concert 1977
ESOTERIC RECORDINGS
3xLP

Belinda Carlisle
The Heaven On Earth Tour
Demon Records
2xLP

Bell Biv Devoe
Poison
Get On Down
LP

Bernard Butler
People Move On: The B-Sides, 1998 + 2021
Demon Records
2xLP

Beth Orton
Central Reservation
Sony CMG
2xLP

Beth Orton
Trailer Park
Sony CMG
2xLP

Betty Harris
The Lost Queen Of New Orleans Soul
Soul Jazz Records
2LP

Biff Bang Pow!
Songs For The Sad Eyed Girl
Glass Modern
LP

Bill Evans
Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires
Resonance Records
2xLP

Bill Evans
Morning Glory: The 1973 Concert at the Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires
Resonance Records
2xLP

Billy Bragg
Life’s A Riot With Spy vs Spy
Cooking Vinyl
LP

Birds, The
The Birds Ride Again
Flood Gallery
7″

Bleeding Hearts, The
Riches to Rags
Bar/None Records
LP

Blondie
Sunday Girl EP
UMC/Capitol
2 x 7″

Blur
“Bustin’ + Dronin’ ”
Parlophone
2×12″

Bobbi Humphrey
Baby Don’t You Know
Uno Melodic
12″

Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited
Dream Queen
Now-Again Records
LP

Brian Bennett
Voyage (A Journey into Discoid Funk) (Limited Blue with Black Swirl Vinyl Edition)
Real Gone Music
LP

Brian Tyler
The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift – Original Score
Concord / UMG
2xLP

Bring Me The Horizon
2004 – 2013 – The Best Of
BMG
2xLP

Bruno Nicolai
La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times)
Decca/CAM Sugar
12″

Buena Vista Social Club
Ahora Me Da Pena
World Circuit
EP

Burning Hell, The
Nigel The Gannet
NineXNine
7″

Calvin Keys
Full Court Press
Tidal Waves Music
LP

Camera Obscura
Making Money (4AD B-Sides and Rarities)
4AD
LP

Carina Round
Carina Round – The Disconnection (Deluxe)
Do Yourself In
2xLP

Carlton Melton
Out To Sea (Sailed on Edition)
Agitated
2xLP

Ceyleib People, The
Tanyet
Jackpot Records
LP

Charles Mingus
The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s
Resonance Records
3xLP

Charlie Mitchell
After Hours / Love Don’t Come Easy
Janus
7″

Chet Baker
Live In Paris – The Radio France Recordings 1983-1984
Elemental Music
3xLP

Chicago
Chicago at Carnegie Hall, April 10, 1971
Rhino
3xLP

Childish Gambino
Kauai
Glassnote
LP

Chrissi
Back In The Day
Island/Listen Generously
10″

Christy Moore
Ride On
Rhino
LP

Coldharbourstores
Coldharbourstores REMIXED
Enraptured Records
LP

Collective Soul
Disciplined Breakdown
Concord / UMG
LP

Commander Venus
The Uneventful Vacation
Concord / UMG
LP

Coolio
It Takes a Thief
Tommy Boy Music
2xLP

Corinne Bailey Rae
The Sea
UMC/EMI
LP

Joseph Cotton
Zoom Zoom Shaka Tacka
Room In The Sky
LP

Cranberries, The
Remembering Dolores
UMC/Island
2xLP

Crass
Big A Little A / You’re Already Dead
One Little Independent Records
12″

The Cure
Pornography
UMC/Polydor
Picture Disc

Cypress Hill
How I Could Just Kill A Man
Sony CMG
10″

Dalis Car
The Waking Hour
Beggars Banquet
LP

Damned, The
Strawberries
BMG
LP

Dan Jones
OST Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie
Wave Theory Records
LP

Dan Jones
OST Shadow of the Vampire
Wave Theory Records
LP

Dana Gillespie
Foolish Seasons
UMC/Decca
LP

Darlene Love
The Many Sides of Love—The Complete Reprise Recordings Plus!
Real Gone Music
LP

Dave Allen
DNA
Diggers Factory
LP

Dave Allen
The DNA of DMA
Themsay
12″

Dave Davies
Kinked
Green Amp Records / Red River Entertainment
LP

David Bowie
Brilliant Adventure
Parlophone
EP

David Bowie
Brilliant Adventure
Parlophone
CD

David Bowie
Toy E.P.
Parlophone
EP

David Bowie
Toy E.P.
Parlophone
CD

David J with Tim Newman
Analogue Excavations & Dream Interpretations Volume 1
Glass Modern
LP

David J with Tim Newman
Analogue Excavations & Dream Interpretations Volume 2
Glass Modern
LP

Kevin Davy & The Inn House Crew
Golden Brown (22 Medley)
Room In The Sky
7″

Deacon Blue
Raintown (35th anniversary)
Sony CMG
LP

Dead Famous People
Lost Person’s Area
Fire Archive
LP

Deadmau5
Vexillology
Play Records
2LP

Deadmau5
Full Circle
Play Records
2LP

Deep Heat
Do It Again / She’s A Junkie (Who’s The Blame)
Cu-Wu
7″

Def Leppard
High n Dry
UMC/Mercury
Picture Disc

Del Shannon
Rock On
Demon Records
LP

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Live In Loveland!
Colemine Records
2xLP

Dermot Kennedy
Doves + Ravens
Island
LP

Dillinger Escape Plan
Dissociation
Cooking Vinyl
LP

Dio
Double Dose Of Donington – ’83 & ’87
Niji/BMG
LP

Dire Straits
40th Anniversary – Love Over Gold (half speed).
UMC/Mercury
LP

Disciples, The
Imperial Dub – Volume 1
Mania Dub
LP

Disciples, The
Imperial Dub – Volume 2
Mania Dub
LP

DJ Cam
Diggin
Attytude Records
12″

DJ Fresh
Gold Dust
BBK
12″

Doctor Who
Dead Air
Demon Records
2xLP

Donna Summer
Donna Summer
Driven By The Music
LP

Doors, The
L.A. Woman Sessions
Rhino
4xLP

Dudu Lima & João Bosco
O Ronco Da Cuíca / Incompatibilidade De Gênios
Far Out Recordings
12″

Durand Jones & The Indications
Power to The People
Colemine Records
7″

Dusty Springfield
See All Her Faces 50th Anniversary
UMC/Mercury
2LP

Elvis is among the artists to have a special release announced for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
Elvis is among the artists to have a special release announced for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

E. Lundquist
Multiple Images
KingUnderground
LP

Echo & The Bunnymen
B-Sides & Live (2001 – 2005)
Demon Records
2xLP

Elaine Mai
Home (Vinyl Edition)
Eva Magical Music Sounds
LP

Electrified A.G.B.
Fly Away / Fly Away – Inst
Dome City
12″

Electronic
Remix Mini album
Rhino
LP

Elton John
The Complete Thom Bell Sessions
UMC/Mercury
LP

Elvis Presley
Blondes, Brunes & Rousses (It Happened At The World’s Fair)
LMLR
LP

Elvis Presley
Les Disques En Or D’Elvis (Elvis’ Golden Record)
LMLR
3xLP

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Trilogy
BMG
LP

Engineers, The
Folly
Music On Vinyl
10″

Ennio Morricone
Una pistola per Ringo / Il ritorno di Ringo OST
BTF
LP

Ennio Morricone
Trio Infernale
Rustblade
LP

Ennio Morricone/Chet Baker
I know I Will Lose You
Moochin’ About
10″

Ennio Morricone
Sans Mobile Apparent
Wewantsounds
LP

Erasure
Ne:Ep
Mute
12″

Erika de Casier
The Sensational Remixes
4AD
LP

Esther Marrow
Sister Woman
Concord / UMG
LP

Eunice Collins
At The Hotel
Mod-Art
7″

Everlast
Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Tommy Boy Music
2xLP

Everly Brothers
Hey Doll Baby
Rhino
LP

Everything But The Girl
Night And Day (40th Anniversary Edition)
CHERRY RED RECORDS
EP

Farm, The
Groovy Train
BMG
12″

Fatboy Slim
Praise You / Right Here Right Now Remixes
BMG / Skint
LP

Field Music
Plumb
Memphis Industries
LP

Fir-Ya
Crying In Iran / Keep On Tryin’
Star-Glow
7″

Flame N’ King & The Bold Ones
Ain’t Nobody Jivein’ (Get Up Get Down) /Ho Happy Days
N.Y.C.S.
7″

Flash & The Dynamics
The New York Sound
Concord / UMG
LP

Fragma
Toca
Front Of House Recordings
LP

Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Greenway Records
LP

Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Altered Reels
UMC
LP

Freddie Hubbard
Music Is Here – Live At Maison de la Radio (ORTF), Paris 1973
Wewantsounds
2xLP

Frightened Rabbit
A Frightened Rabbit EP
Atlantic
12″

Frightened Rabbit
State Hospital
Atlantic
12″

Fun Boy Three
The Best of
Chrysalis Records
LP

Future
DS2
Sony CMG
LP

Future Sound of London, The
Rituals
FSOL Digital
LP

Future Utopia
12 Questions After Dark
70Hz Recordings
LP

Fuzzy Haskins
Radio Active
Tidal Waves Music
LP

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BRITs Critics Choice winner Holly Humberstone is taking part in Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

G.B.H.
City Baby Attacked By Rats
BMG
LP

Gabriels
Bloodlines EP
Parlophone

Gerard Way
Hesitant Alien
Warner Records
LP

Giant Giant Sand (Giant Sand)
Tucson (Deluxe edition)
Fire Archive
3xLP

Ginger Wildheart
Potatoes & You
Round Records
CD

Glass Animals
I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)
Polydor
12″

Go West
Bangs & Crashes
Chrysalis Records
2xLP

Go! Team, The
Proof of Youth
Memphis Industries
LP

Gojira
Live at Brixton
Rhino
2xLP

Golden Smog
On Golden Smog
Rhino
LP

Gong
In the 70’s
LMLR
2xLP

Gorgon City
Olympia – Remixes
EMI
12″

Graham Parker
Five Old Souls (Live)
100% Records
LP

Grand Wizard Theodore, The Fantastic Romantic 5
Can I Get A Soul Clap ‘Fresh Out Of The Pack
Soul-O-Wax Inc
7″

Grateful Dead
Wembley Empire Pool, London, England 4/8/72 (Live)
Rhino
5xLP

Grouch, The
Show You The World
The Grouch Music
2xLP

Groundhogs, The
Hogwash
Fire Records
2xLP

Guitar Ray
You’re Gonna Wreck My Life / I Am Never Gonna Break His Rules Again
Shagg
7″

Gun Club, The
Live At The Hacienda ’83
LMLR
LP

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are among the artists to have a special release announced for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are among the artists to have a special release announced for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

Halestorm
Back From The Dead
Atlantic
7″

Handsome Boy Modeling School
So…How’s Your Girl?
Tommy Boy Music
2xLP

Happy Mondays
Uncle Dysfunktional (2020 Mix)
London Records
12″

Harry Stone
Debut EP (Title TBC)
Capitol
12″

Heartbreakers
the L.A.M.F demo sessions
Jungle Records
LP

Hefner
Maida Vale
Where Its At Is Where You Are
LP

High Contrast
True Colours
Highly Contrasting
12″

Holly Humberstone
The Walls Are Way Too Thin
Polydor
12″

Home Boy And The C.O.L.
Home Boy And The C.O.L.
Tidal Waves Music
LP

Howard McGhee Quintet, The
Title Music From The Connection
Ikon
LP

Human League, The
The League Unlimited Orchestra
UMC
LP

Human League, The
Don’t You Want Me (Purple Disco Machine Extended Remix)
Positiva / EMI
12″

Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Ten More Turnips From The Tip
BMG
LP

Iggy Pop
Berlin 91
LMLR
2xLP

III Most Wanted
Calm Down
The Fever
7″

Ike & Tina Turner
The Soul Of Tina Turner
South Street
LP

Inn House Crew, The
Luanda
Room In The Sky
7″

Jacka, The
Tear Gas
The Artist Records
2xLP

Pixies are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
Pixies are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

James Blake
Covers
Polydor/Republic US
12″

Jamie Jones
Don’t You Remember The Future
Crosstown Rebels
2×12″

Jasmine Minks, The
The Jasmine Minks
Glass Modern
LP

Jazz Sabbath
Vol. 2
Blacklake
LP+DVD

Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane Live at The Monterey International Pop Festival
The Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation
12″

JennyLee
Heart Tax
Jenny’s Recordings
LP

Jessie Ware
Devotion (The Gold Edition) – 10th anniversary
UMC/Island
2xLP

Jesus Jones
Scratched – Unreleased Rare Tracks & Remixes
Demon Records
2xLP

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds / Sonya Spence
This Heart Of Mine/Let Love Flow On
Deptford Northern Soul Club Records
7″

Jo Dog and Paul Black’s Sonic Boom
Everyone Rains On My Parade
Black City Records
LP

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Acoustics
Sony CMG
LP

John Murry
The Graceless Age
Rubyworks
LP

John Williams
The Cowboys – Original Soundtrack
Concord / UMG
2xLP

John Williams
Lost In Space: Title Themes from the Hit TV Series
Spacelab9
LP

Johnny Marr
Spirit Power & Soul (Vince Clarke Remix)
BMG
12″

Jon Hopkins
Contact Note
Just Music
LP

Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers
Modern Lovers 88
Concord / UMG
LP

Joni Mitchell
Blue 50: Demos, Outtakes And Live Tracks From Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2
Rhino
LP

Jonny Trunk
The A Z Of British Record Shop Bags
TRUNK
BOOK

Joss Stone
LP1
Surfdog Records Inc.
12″

Joyce with Mauricio Maestro
Feminina
Far Out Recordings
12″

Jungle Brothers, The
Jimbrowski / On The Run
Warlock
7″

Karen Dalton
Shuckin’ Sugar
Delmore Recording Society, INC
LP

Kate Havnevik
Melankton
Continentica Records
2xLP

Kathryn Williams
Introduction
One Little Independent Records
LP

Katy J Pearson
Waiting For The Day
Heavenly Recordings
LP

Keane
Keane
Island
10”

Keith Richards
Talk Is Cheap/Live At The Palladium – Double Cassette
Mindless Records
Double Cassette

Kenny Lynch
Half The Day’s Gone and We Haven’t Earne’d a Penny [Album]
Satril
LP

Kevin Rowland
My Beauty
CHERRY RED RECORDS
12”

Kinks, The
Waterloo Sunset
BMG
12″

Kirk Hammett
Portals
Blackened Recordings
12″ EP & CD

Kraan
Psychedelic Man
36 Music
LP

The Rolling Stones are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
The Rolling Stones are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

L’Impératrice
Vanille Fraise
Microqlima
12″

La Femme
Paradigmes : Suppléments
Disque Pointu
LP

La Luz
La Luz – Instrumentals
Hardly Art
LP

Lady Blackbird
Did Somebody Make A Fool Outta You/It’s Not That Easy
Foundation Music
7″

Las Vegas Connection
Running Back To You / Can’t Nobody Love Me Like You Do
Hep’ Me
7″

Laura Nyro
Trees Of The Ages: Laura Nyro Live In Japan
Omnivore
LP

Les Baxter
Que Mango
Vinyl Exotica
LP

Lester Tipton/ Edward Hamilton
This Won’t Change/Baby Don’t You Weep
Deptford Northern Soul Club Records
7″

Levellers, The
Zeitgeist (Picture Disc)
On The Fiddle
LP

Lida Husik
Fly Stereophonic
Tongue Master
LP

Linda Hoover
I Mean To Shine
Omnivore
LP

Lou Reed
I’m So Free: 1971 RCA Demos
Sony CMG
LP

Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson
The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words: With Vin Scelsa (3LP)
THE BOTTOM LINE RECORD COMPANY
3xLP

Luciano Luciani Y Sus Mulatos
Mulata Vamos A La Salsa
Vampisoul
LP

Luke Haines, Peter Buck and Jacknife Lee
Wild Companion (The Beat Poetry For Survivalists Dubs)
CHERRY RED RECORDS
12″

Lumineers, The
Brightside (acoustic)
Decca
12″

Maccabees
Colour It In
UMC
LP

Madness
Baggy Trousers
BMG
12″

Madonna
Who’s That Girl / Causing a Commotion 35th Anniversary
Rhino
12″

Mal-One
It’s All Punk Dub
Punk Art
LP

Mansun
Attack Of The Grey Lantern
Kscope
LP

Marco Beltrami
Mimic – Original Soundtrack
Concord / UMG
LP

Maria McKee
Peddlin’ Dreams
AFAR
LP

Mariah Carey
#1’s
Sony CMG
LP

Marta Acuna
Dance Dance Dance
P&P
7″

Mary Lou Lord
She’d Be A Diamond
Fire Records
2xLP

Max Roach
We Insist!
Candid/Exceleration
2xLP

Meier, Dieter/The Young Gods
Schüüfele / Did You Miss Me (Dub Spencer & Trance Hill Remixes)
Echo Beach
7″

Melanie C
Northern Star
UMC/EMI
2xLP

Metronomy
Posse EP Volume 1
Because Music
12”

Michael Chapman
The Man Who Hated Mornings
Mooncrest
LP

Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells II
Rhino
LP

Mikey Dread
The Gun / Jah Jah Style
Music On Vinyl
10″

Miles Davis
Live In Montreal, July 7, 1983
Sony CMG
2xLP

Moons, The
Stand With Me
Colorama
7″

Morcheeba
Blackest Blue The Remixes
Fly Agaric Records
12″

Motorhead
The Lost Tapes Vol.2
BMG
2xLP

Muffs, The
New Improved Kim Shattuck Demos
Omnivore
LP

mxmtoon
true colors (from Life is Strange)
mxmtoon
LP

NEIKED x Mae Muller x Polo G
Better Days
Capitol
12″

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Live Seeds
BMG / Mute
2xLP

Nick Lowe
Wireless World (Transparent Green with Black Sweirl Vinyl)
Yep Roc Records
LP

Nick Mono
The Sun Won’t Stay After Summer
Parlophone
7″

Nico
Camera Obscura
Beggars Banquet
LP

Night Beats
Valentine Sessions
Cooking Vinyl
LP

Nightingales, The
Hysterics
Call of the Void
2xLP

Nirvana (1965)
Secrets
Madfish
LP

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Magic Secrets 2022
Sour Mash Records
7″

Nova Cheq & Samurai Breaks
HOOVERSOUND PRESENTS: Nova Cheq & Samurai Breaks
HOOVERSOUND RECORDINGS
12″

Offspring, The
Greatest Hits
Round Hill
LP

Opeth
My Arms Your Hearse
Candlelight Records
LP

OST John Barry
The Tamarind Seed
Silva Screen
2xLP

OST John Carpenter
Escape From New York (main Theme)
Silva Screen
7″

OST Mark Isham
The Hitcher
Silva Screen
LP

OST Ronald Binge
Sailing By (Theme from BBC Radio 4 Shipping forecast)
Vinyl Exotica
7″

Otto Kentrol
No Mistakes
Modern Harmonic
2xLP

Paradise Lost
Gothic live at Roadburn 2016
Paradise Lost
12″

Patti Smith
Curated by Record Store Day
Sony CMG
LP

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The
The Original Lost Elektra Sessions
Run Out Groove
3xLP

Paul McCartney
Women and Wives
EMI
12″

Pearl Jam
Live On Two Legs
Sony CMG
2xLP

Pearls Before Swine
The Exaltation of Tom Rapp
Earth Recordings
LP

Pete Townshend’s Deep End
Album title : Face The Face
Mercury Studios
LP

Peter Gabriel
Live Blood
Real World
LP

Peter Tosh
Complete Captured Live
Rhino
2xLP

Phil Lynott
The Philip Lynott Album
UMC/Mercury
LP

PinkPantheress
To Hell With It
Parlophone
12″

Pixies
Live From Coachella 2004
Demon Records
2xLP

Poliça
Give You The Ghost
Memphis Industries
LP

Pretty Reckless
Going To Hell
Cooking Vinyl
LP

Primal Scream
Shine Like Stars (Weatherall mix)
Sony CMG
12″

Prince
The Gold Experience Deluxe
Sony CMG
2xLP

Prince Lincoln Thompson The & Royal Rasses
Humanity
Burning Sounds
LP

Proclaimers, The
Sunshine on Leith (2011 Remaster)
Rhino
2xLP

Prodigy, The
The Day Is My Enemy Remix Album
Cooking Vinyl
LP

Super Furry Animals are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
Super Furry Animals are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

Ramones
The Sire LPs 1981-1989
Rhino
7xLP

Rationals, The
The Rationals
Prudential Music Group
LP

Ray Charles
Genius Loves Company (RSD Edition)
Tangerine/Exceleration
LP

Rebecca Vasmant
Dance Yourself Free EP
Tru Thoughts
12″

Reigning Sound
Memphis In June
Merge Records
LP

Rentals, The
The Midnight Socirty
Death Waltz Recording Co.
LP

Replacements, The
Unsuitable for Airplay: The Lost KFAI Concert
Rhino
2xLP

Residents, The
WARNING: UNINC (TITLE TBC) 1971-1972 Live and Unincorporated
NEW RALPH
2xLP

Rex Orange County
Apricot Princess 5 Year Anniversary Edition
Rex Orange County
2xLP

Rick Astley
Whenever You Need Somebody
BMG
LP

Rizzle Kicks
Stereo Typical
UMC/Island
LP

Rob
Rob (Funky Way)
Mr Bongo
LP

Robert Lester Folsom
Music and Dreams
Anthology
LP

Roddy Woomble
Architecture In LA / Atlantic Photography
A Modern Way
7″

Rolling Stones, The
More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)
UMC/ABKCO
2xLP

Ron Sexsmith
Long Player Late Bloomer
Cooking Vinyl
LP

Rory Gallagher
San Diego ’74
UMC
2xLP

Ryan Hamilton
1221
Wicked Cool Records
12”

Sam Fender
Alright/The Kitchen (Live)
Polydor
7″

Sam Smith
Nirvana
Capitol
12″

Sampa The Great
Birds And The BEE9
Big Dada
LP

Sandie Shaw
Hand In Glove (w/The Smiths)
UMC
12″

Sandro Brugnolini
L’uomo da gli occhiali a specchio
BTF
LP

Sandy Denny
The Early Home Recordings
Earth Recordings
2xLP

Sandy Denny
Gold Dust Live At The Royalty
UMC/Island
LP

Santana
Splendiferous Santana
Sony CMG
LP

Sara Keys
Struck By Lightning
Atlantic
12″

Satan’s Pilgrims
Live At Jackpot Records
Jackpot Records
LP

Scott Walker
Boy Child
UMC
2xLP

Sea Girls
DNA
Polydor
7″

Sepultura
Revolusongs
BMG
LP

Shankar Family & Friends
I Am Missing You b/w Lust
Dark Horse Records
LP

Sheena Easton
The Definitive 12” Singles 1983-1987
CHERRY POP
2xLP

Shocking Blue
At Home – The Singles
Music On Vinyl
10″

Simon Fowler & Oscar Harrison
Live On The River Boat
Demon Records
2xLP

Simple Minds
5X5 Live
Demon Records
3xLP

Skunk Anansie
An Acoustic Skunk Anansie – Live in London
100% Records
12”

Sky’s The Limit
Don’t Be Afraid / Don’t Be Afraid – Inst
J.M.J
7″

Slade
Ballzy
BMG
LP

Slash
Live ! 4 (feat. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators) (Live at Studios 60)
BMG
2xLP

Sleep Token
Sundowning
Spinefarm Records
LP

Soul Jazz Records Presents
Studio One Classics
Soul Jazz Records
2LP

Soul Jazz Records Presents
100% Dynamite
Soul Jazz Records
2LP

Sound, The
Counting The Days
Demon Records
2xLP

St. Vincent
The Nowhere Inn
Loma Vista Recordings
LP

Steve Earle
Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother / Night Rider’s Lament
New West
7″

Steve Hackett
The Tokyo Tapes
ESOTERIC ANTENNA
3xLP

Stevie Nicks
Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition) (2LP)
Rhino
2xLP

Stezo
To The Max / It’s My Turn
Sleeping Bag
7″

Stiff Little Fingers
BBC Live In Concert
Rhino
2xLP

Stone Broken
Ain’t Always Easy
Spinefarm Records
LP

Streets, The
ORIGINAL PIRATE MATERIAL BOXSET
LOCKED ON
LP

Suede
Sci Fi Lullabies
Demon Records
3xLP

Sugababes
Anniversary Remixes
London Records
12″

Sun Ra Arkestra
Babylon
In + Out Records
2xLP

Sun’s Signature
Sun’s Signature
Partisan Records
12″

Super Furry Animals
Rings Around The World, B-Sides
BMG
LP

Superchunk
Incidental Music 1991 – 1995
Merge Records
2xLP

Supergrass
Moving
BMG / Echo
12″

Suzanne Vega
Close Up
Cooking Vinyl
LP

Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro [Deluxe Edition]
Chrysalis Records
2xLP

Sweet
Platinum Rare VOL 2
Prudential Music Group
2xLP

T. Rex
The Slider
Demon Records
LP

Soul Jazz Records Presents
PUNK 45: I’m A Mess! D-I-Y Or Die! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s In The UK 1977-78
Soul Jazz Records
2LP

Taylor Swift is among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
Taylor Swift is among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

Tangerine Dream
Alpha Centauri
ESOTERIC RECORDINGS
LP

Tangerine Dream
Live At Reims Cinema Opera (September 23rd, 1975)
LMLR
2xLP

Taylor Swift
the lakes
EMI
7″

Teenage Waitress
You Ain’t Got It Bad
Colorama
7″

Tegan & Sara
Still Jealous
Warner Records
12″

Terry Edwards And The Scapegoats
My Wife Doesn’t Understand Me
Sartorial Records
2xLP

Tesseract
Polaris
Kscope
LP

Thomas Dolby
Hyperactive
BMG
12″

Trevor Lucas
Overlander
Earth Recordings
LP

Tuff Crew
My Part of Town / Mountains World
Warlock
7″

Tyler Bates
OST Watchmen
Warner Records
3xLP

U2
A Celebration’
UMC/Island
12″

Ultravox!
Live at The Rainbow 1977
UMC/Island
LP

Undertones, The
The Love Parade
BMG
12″

UT
Griller
Out
LP

Van McCoy
The Hustle
Tommy Boy Music
12″

Various Artists
Franco Nero
17 North Parade
7″

Various Artists
De-Lite Soul
BMG / De-Lite
LP

Various Artists
PARALLAX VIEW PRINT SET
Cinema Paradiso
LP

Various Artists
Big Night – Original Soundtrack
Concord / UMG
LP

Various Artists
Go Ahead Punk…Make My Day
Concord / UMG
LP

Various Artists
Jazz Dispensary: Super Skunk
Concord / UMG
LP

Various Artists
The Wanderer – a tribute to Jackie Leven
Cooking Vinyl
2xLP

Various Artists
The Best Of Chi-Sound Records 1976-1984
Demon Records
2xLP

Various Artists
Breakin’: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Get On Down
LP

Various Artists
Greensleeves Ganja Anthems
Greensleeves Records
LP

Various Artists
Earthbeat
Jumpin’ & Pumpin’
2xLP

Various Artists
Brazil 45 Vol.3 Curated By Kenny Dope
Mr Bongo
Boxset

Various Artists
Salutations
RVNG INT
LP

Various Artists
It’s A Rough Old Road To Travel – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (Volume II)
The Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility.
LP

Various Artists
Hilbillies in Hell 13
The Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility.
LP

Various Artists
Soul Power ’68
Trojan Records
LP

Various Artists
Love Is All I Bring
Trojan Records
2xLP

Verticle Lines
Beach Boy/Beach Boy – Inst
Tuff City
12″

Viktor Vaughn
Vaudeville Villain
Get On Down
2xLP

Vince Guaraldi Trio
Baseball Theme
Concord / UMG
7″

Virgin Prunes
Pagan Lovesong (40th Anniversary Edition)
BMG
LP

The Who are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. Credit: Press
The Who are among the acts with releases for Record Store Day 2022. CREDIT: Press

Walkmen, The
Lisbon – 10th Anniversary Edition
BELLA UNION
2xLP

Wallows
Singles Collection 2017 – 2020
Atlantic
LP

Warrior Soul
Odds & Ends
Prudential Music Group
12″

Weyes Blood
The Innocents
Mexican Summer
LP

Weyes Blood
A Certain Kind b/w Everybody’s Talkin’
Mexican Summer
7″

Who, The
Its Hard – 40th Anniversary Edition
UMC/Polydor
2xLP

Whole Darn Family, The
Seven Minutes of Funk/Ain’t Nothing But Something to Do
Tommy Boy Music
12″

Wild Willy Barrett
Alien Talk (that’s what it’s all about)
stuffNmuck
LP

Wildhearts, The
ADHD Rock
Graphite
10”

WIll and The People
WIll and The People
Smol Records
LP

Willie Nelson
Live at the Texas Opryhouse, 1974
Rhino
2xLP

Willie Tee
First Taste of Hurt /I’m Having so Much Fun
Gatur
7″

Willie Tee
Concentrate/Get Up
Gatur
7″

Winston Reedy, Joseph Cotton, Vin Gordon , Ansel
Boom Shacka Lacka
Room In The Sky
7″

Wipers
Over The Edge (Anniversary Edition)
Jackpot Records
2xLP

Wire
Not About To Die
Pinkflag
LP

Wye Oak
If Children
Merge Records
LP

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Uncut April 2022

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Kate Bush​​, Nick Drake, Ronnie Spector, Fontaines D.C., Television’s Tom Verlaine, John McLaughlin, Slint, Aldous Harding, Cowboy Junkies, The Coral and all feature in the new Uncut, dated April 2022 and in UK shops from February 17 or available to buy online now. This issue comes with an exclusive free CD, comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music.

KATE BUSH: Donkeys and didgeridoos. Celtic ballads and ethno-pop. Harry Houdini and the Star Wars Cantina theme. Heady experimentation and creative freedom. Welcome to The Dreaming: Kate Bush’s “she’s gone mad” album – and the record that ushered in her imperial phase. “‘Wuthering Heights’ gave Kate licence to do what she wanted,” one eyewitness tells Peter Watts. “With The Dreaming, she took it as far as she could possibly go.”

OUR FREE CD! BLACKWATERSIDE: SOUNDS OF THE WEIRD NEW ALBION: 15 tracks from the 15 best new folk visionaries, including songs by Michael Tanner, The Left Outsides, Cath & Phil Tyler, Henry Parker, Rob St John, Burd Ellen, Waterless Hills and more.

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Inside the issue, you’ll find:

NICK DRAKE: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon is 50 this month. To celebrate, Uncut has assembled friends, peers and acolytes – including Richard Thompson, Vashti Bunyan, Mark Eitzel, Joan Shelley and Joe Boyd – to explore favourite songs from the visionary singer-songwriter’s starkly beautiful swansong. Which will you love the best..?

RONNIE SPECTOR: One of the most distinctive voices in pop music fell silent last month – a combination of street toughness and tenderness, a trademark vibrato and raw, unschooled energy. First, Stephen Troussé pays tribute to Ronnie Spector, then – in an unpublished archive interview – Ronnie herself holds forth on her peerless run of 45s, hanging with The Beatles, the Boss and the New York punks and more. Finally, Nedra Talley-Ross, the last surviving Ronette, celebrates the life of her bandmate and cousin: “She was my breath.”

FONTAINES D.C.: From valiant outsiders to rock’n’roll heroes, Fontaines D.C. have learned to be true to themselves. But how will a move away from Dublin, their home city, impact on their long-held camaraderie? “We’re there in the corner, not really fitting in,” they tell Laura Barton.

TOM VERLAINE: Forty-five years on, Marquee Moon remains an unassailable classic. But what of Television’s guiding light, the elusive Tom Verlaine? Drawing on memories of exacting working methods, Froggy The Gremlin and Television’s unfinished fourth studio album, collaborators and bandmates separate fact from friction. “He’s remained true to himself over all the years,” hears Rob Hughes, “He’s following his instincts.”

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: A virtuoso visionary, John McLaughlin has steered his music into some very heavy places. He gave lessons to Jimmy Page, helped Miles Davis go electric, communed with Alice Coltrane and pioneered a monumental new sound with his own Mahavishnu Orchestra. But what lies behind his tireless quest for transcendence? “I wanted to make music that takes you into the stratosphere,” he tells John Lewis.

SLINT: The making of “Good Morning Captain”.

AMON DÜÜL II: Album by album with the German rock band.

ALDOUS HARDING: A hard act to follow: outsider artist forces the doors of perception.

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In our expansive reviews section, we take a look at new records from Midlake, Judy Collins, Carson McHone, The Weather Station, Andy Bell, Binker & Moses, Duncan Marquiss, and more, and archival releases from Son House, The Coral, Tinariwen, Irma Thomas, Ornette Coleman and others. We catch IDLES and The Smile live; among the films, DVDs and TV programmes reviewed are Paris, 13th District, Flee, The Real Charlie Chaplin, Red Rocket and The Duke; while in books there’s David Bowie and Fat White Family.

Our front section, meanwhile, features Shane MacGowan, Loney Hutchins, Sarah Records, Ano Nobo Quartet and Jeremy Ivey, while, at the end of the magazine, Judy Collins reveals the records that have soundtracked her life.

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BERWYN: “I’m sitting on hundreds of songs and some high-profile features”

Rising rapper BERWYN has revealed that he’s currently “sitting on hundreds of new songs” and also has some “high-profile features” in the bag. Watch our video interview the rapper above.

  • READ MORE: BERWYN – Romford underdog’s soul-baring rap is helping those in need

The Trinidad-born, Romford-raised rapper, producer, and songwriter was speaking to NME on the red carpet ahead of last week’s Mercury Prize – which he described as “one of the best days of my life”.

“I don’t really know it feels,” he told NME. “I don’t expect to win. I’m just looking forward to sitting and playing the piano live on TV. I’ve always wanted to do that.”

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Asked if he’d brought all of Romford along to the ceremony, BERWYN replied: “I wish I could, but unfortunately not. We’ll do that for the Grammys.”

As for the rest of the nominees, BERWYN said: “The shortlist to me, says that life in 2021 is in a fruitful place. Beyond all the drama and the sadness, you always get that bi-product that trumps everything.

“Secondary to that, the quality of music that we’re producing in comparison to our counterparts globally is serious competition. It’s a very, very beautiful time for British music, I believe.”

Describing his own music as “solemn, musical and explorative”, the 25-year-old said that he felt people had been drawn to the “bravery, honesty and faith,” on his nominated record ‘DEMOTAPE/VEGA’ – describing these qualities as “tools relative to every human being inside of the matrix we live in.”

“It was brave in the sense that when I was composing all of those pieces, the biggest genre was drill,” he said. “[My style] was as unfamiliar to the world as it could be. It’s very much its own thing.”

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Looking to the future, BERWYN revealed: “All I do is write music. I had to take a two week break because I had to just do some human being stuff for a minute; take a walk in the park of that, but I’m sitting on hundreds of songs and maybe some high profile features as well. I’ve been grafting.

“The new music is slightly more polished. I actually have a bit of money now. I can actually afford a mic now, so there will be no more poor beats or poor quality. There will be the same amount of honesty because that’s all I’ve got to offer at the end of the day.”

The Mercury Prize went on to be won by Arlo Parks, beating off competition from the likes of Ghetts, Wolf Alice, Mogwai, Celeste and Laura Mvula.

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Alice Coltrane Kirtan: Turiya Sings

The recent popularity of Alice Coltrane’s music among a new generation of listeners can be a puzzle to longtime admirers of her late husband’s work. A distinguished John Coltrane scholar who teaches at an American university told me earlier this year that, while his students are extremely enthusiastic about Alice, they listen to John and don’t understand what the fuss was about. And one of the less ecstatic reviews of the recent Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders album observed that the music seemed to be doing little more than trying to replicate the mood of Alice’s recordings at their most trance-like and undemanding.

  • ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut

Yet from the work of her nephew Steven Ellison (Flying Lotus) to explicit homages paid by Paul Weller, Laura Veirs, Sunn O))) and others, the textures and flavours of the albums Alice made between her husband’s death in 1967 and her own departure for other planes of being in 2007 are now a common resource, forming a part of the fabric of modern music and an object of reverence for exponents and admirers of “spiritual jazz”.

What does the enthusiasm for spiritual jazz really amount to? A sceptic would say that its protagonists are looking for an easy way to enjoy or play jazz, entering through a gate beyond which lies little of the challenge that characterised the music of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and, of course, John Coltrane himself, whose late work will provoke heated arguments for as long as people still listen to recorded jazz.

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But it was Alice’s husband who can be credited with laying the foundations for spiritual jazz – not least with a composition called Spiritual, included on an album called Coltrane “Live” At The Village Vanguard in 1961. The grave incantation of its slow, hymn-like melody by Coltrane’s tenor saxophone established a mood of solemn meditation that he would develop over the ensuing four years and into his masterpiece, A Love Supreme, which countless other artists, from Pharoah Sanders to Jan Garbarek and Kamasi Washington, would take as the basis of their personal explorations.

Alice McLeod and John Coltrane were married in 1965, when she was a modern jazz pianist with a minor reputation and he was receiving global acclaim. She replaced McCoy
Tyner as the “classic quartet” broke up and a new lineup veered into freer and more expansive, exploratory realms that were seemingly influenced by John’s experiences with LSD, as well as by a search for spiritual fulfilment already made explicit in album titles such as Meditations and Ascension.

By this time, John was allowing even semi-pro musicians to join the band on stage and occasionally prefacing a performance with the Sanskrit chant of Om-mani-padme-hum. To some, the presence of Alice was an unwelcome symbol of the break with the rules, routines and conventions that had kept her husband’s music within the boundaries of jazz even as it pushed against them.

After his death, her music began to incorporate the sound of the concert harp that he had given her. Its sweeping glissandi both emphasised the reassuring stability of modal harmonies and evoked sounds of other musical cultures, notably the drone of the Indian tambura and the rippling of the Japanese koto. Thus suggestions of Hindu and Buddhist religions were combined with the Christian traditions within which both Coltranes had grown up, and which formed a part of John’s pantheistic beliefs. The music that Alice made after his departure could be seen, according to Ben Ratliff, his biographer, as the product of his most devoted disciple.

In the early ’70s, Alice became attached to the teachings of Swami Satchidananda – whose followers also included Carole King – and her music gradually moved further away from the relatively straightforward jazz represented by her early solo recordings, such as A Monastic Trio and Huntington Ashram Monastery. The acquisition of a Wurlitzer organ and an Oberheim synthesiser gave her the tools with which to create cinematic soundscapes illustrating the spiritual journey that she was on, further expanded on Universal Consciousness, Lord Of Lords and World Galaxy by the use of string orchestras.

She was searching, she said, for music that didn’t require pauses for breath: “The instruments which require breathing are more in line with what’s happening on an earthly level. But the instruments that can produce sound that’s continuous, to me express the eternal, the infinite.”

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Away from the public eye, however, her music was being constructed on a different scale, first in the Vedantic Centre she set up for her family and fellow devotees in Woodland Hills above Malibu in Southern California and then in an ashram in nearby Agoura Hills. Having taken the name Turiyasangitananda, she was performing bhajans and kirtans, songs of praise to the deity: some of them sung as solos accompanied by a keyboard, others as choral chants with percussion accompaniment, occasionally featuring other solo singers from within the community. She recorded many of these in the 1980s and ’90s, making them available to fellow adherents on cassettes whose titles included Divine Songs and Infinite Chants. A selection of them received a wider airing when Luaka Bop released a compilation titled The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda in 2017.

Kirtan: Turiya Sings is drawn from the same source as the 1982 cassette Turiya Sings, but is a very different affair. Here the concentration is entirely on solo songs, stripped of all the decoration – the strings and synthesisers – from their original incarnations, leaving just Alice’s voice and her Wurlitzer organ. Something like the opening Jagadishwar benefits greatly from the removal of the trimmings. It might be blasphemous to say so but the result is curiously reminiscent of hearing Nico performing the material from The Marble Index and Desertshore in concert, the clarity and directness of her voice and harmonium revealed in the absence of John Cale’s arrangements.

Funnily enough, the comparison is not entirely inappropriate, even if the artistic intentions were wholly different. Alice’s singing voice is also a deep contralto, strong and sure, notable for an absence of inflection, although never strident. Similarly, the organ is required to do no more than play sustained chords with a modest, rustic, harmonium-like tone. The songs are slow-paced and even in cadence, their repetitive melodies and simple harmonies generally held within such tightly defined limits that the slightest variation – as in the modest melodic wandering of Krishna Krishna – comes almost as a shock.

The listener is drawn into a world of solitary devotion, very unlike the infectious choral chanting, banging and rattling on display in the Luaka Bop album (and also familiar from the chants of the followers of Krishna who once operated in London under George Harrison’s patronage). Any spiritual ecstasy on offer here appears to be of a more private kind, although no doubt offering a glimpse of the divine to believers.

On other listeners, particularly those unfamiliar with Sanskrit and either ignorant or dismissive of the belief system of which these songs are an expression, its effects will be less certain. But the longer you listen, the more you’re drawn in and the less aesthetically confining the music’s self-imposed restraints seem. What’s clear to sympathetic listeners is the direct emotional link between John Coltrane’s pioneering Spiritual of 1961 and the sound of his wife’s songs released 60 years later: very different means, same search.

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Uncut August 2021

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Nirvana, Paul McCartney, Amy Winehouse, Altın Gün, Sly Stone, Grateful Dead, The Jam, Will Sergeant, Rodney Crowell, Sparks, Rodrigo Amarante, Lump, Jakob Dylan and PJ Harvey all feature in the new Uncut, dated August 2021 and in UK shops from June 17 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music.

NIRVANA: Thirty years after Nevermind transformed Nirvana from adolescent punks to global superstars, Uncut revisits this era-defining classic in the company of its surviving creators. In brand new interviews, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic trace the album’s remarkable journey from a rented barn in Tacoma to the stage of Seattle’s Paramount Theatre and beyond, while producer Butch Vig reveals the secrets of the band’s working practices. There are cameos from Neil Young’s producer, aspiring cast members of Annie – The Musical and an ill-fated blue Datsun B210. And what of Kurt Cobain, you might ask? “He was vastly underrated as a comedian.”

OUR FREE CD! ENTERTAIN US: 15 fantastic tracks from the cream of the month’s releases, including songs by Mega Bog, Rodney Crowell, Juni Habel, The Grid / Fripp, Charlie Parr, The Black Angels, Dot Allison, Los Lobos and more.

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Inside the issue, you’ll find:

PAUL MCCARTNEY: Photographer Harry Benson was nonplussed when he received a commission to cover The Beatles in 1964. All the same, travelling from London to Paris and New York during this breakthrough year, he struck up a rapport with the band – and McCartney in particular – that endured through several decades. With a new collection of his images due for publication, Benson shows us McCartney at work and at play – backstage, in hotel rooms and on private jets.

ALTIN GÜN: From their base in a former Cold War nuclear bunker, the psych warriors are busy reinventing the deep and mystical sounds of Anatolian rock. Their tools? Fuzz pedals, electronics, and ancient instruments once used in shamanic rituals. But their message, they tell Uncut, is universal: “Songs about love, hate, tragedy, death,  war… it’s all basic human emotions…”

SLY STONE: It is 1969 and the singer is on the brink of superstardom. Ensconced in his Bel Air mansion, he has begun work on a new album. But surrounded by dealers, groupies and gangsters, it takes over two years to finish the record – during which time the life-affirming utopianism of his music is replaced by darkness, drugs and isolation. Fifty years on, band members recall the turbulent making of a masterpiece: There’s A Riot Goin’ On. “Fame attracts wonderful people,” hears Michaelangelo Matos. “But fame also attracts guns and dogs.”

SPARKS: Fifty years after releasing their first album as Halfnelson, Sparks are finally ready for their close-up. A new documentary, The Sparks Brothers, directed by Edgar Wright, pays tribute to the indomitable, pioneering spirit of music’s oddest couple. “People expect us to try to alienate them from time to time…”

GRATEFUL DEAD: Dead freaks unite! 1971 was a momentous year for the Californian band – involving landmark shows, bizarre ESP experiments, French Acid Tests, hypnosis, new faces and emotional farewells. Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and other eyewitnesses share tales from this momentous journey with Uncut: “We were just coming alive.”

THE JAM: Previously unseen photos of the English mod band show Weller and co’s impatient evolution.

RODNEY CROWELL: The Americana star on wild times with Guy and Townes, the generosity of Johnny Cash and the sex life of the Tennessee cicadas.

AMY WINEHOUSE: The making of “Back To Black”.

ANGELIQUE KIDJO: Album by album with the Afro-fusion artist.

RODRIGO AMARANTE: On new album Drama, the Brazilian songwriter crafts an exquisite sonic world marked by global rhythms, cinematic textures and playful takes on tradition.

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In our expansive reviews section, we take a look at new records from Lump, John Murry, The Flatlanders, Kings Of Convenience, Sleater-Kinney, Yola, John Frances Flynn, and more, and archival releases from Alice Coltrane, Laura Nyro, PJ Harvey, The Shins, Michael Small, Chris Barber, Aretha Franklin and others. We catch Songlines Encounters Festival and Gruff Rhys live; among the films, DVDs and TV programmes reviewed are Martin Eden, Punk the Capital: Building A Sound Movement and Rockumentary: Evolution Of Indian Rock; while in books there’s Sinéad O’Connor and Nico.

Our front section, meanwhile, features The Jam, Will Sergeant, Ellen Folley, Roy Harper and Arooj Aftab while, at the end of the magazine, Jakob Dylan reveals the records that have soundtracked his life.

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