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“I actually have a six-hour cut!”

Alex Gibney is a film director who, as well as making journalistic documentaries on dozens of subjects, has also made inventive films about some key musicians, including James Brown, Fela Kuti, Frank Sinatra and now Paul Simon with In Restless Dreams: The Paul Simon Story. “It was my Sinatra film, All Or Nothing At All, that Paul Simon and his people liked,” says Gibney. “So when they sent out feelers for me to make a film about Paul, of course I was interested. I’m a huge admirer of his work and, as with Sinatra, Paul’s career is like a history of America over a 60-year period. But it got interesting when Paul said, ‘I’m working on a new album, do you wanna watch me work on it?’ So that became the entry point – we move back and forth between the history and the present day. And, as well as being a biography, it becomes an extraordinarily moving story of a great composer struggling with his loss of hearing, making an album that deals with mortality and belief and suffering and spirituality, and allowing us intimate access to his creativity during a vulnerable moment.” THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5,… Read More →

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Listen to The Cure’s new track, “A Fragile Thing”

The Cure have shared a second track from their upcoming album, Songs Of A Lost World. You can hear “A Fragile Thing” below. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE In September, the band previously released “Alone“, their first new single for 16 years. Read a new interview with Robert Smith in the new Uncut – in shops from October 11 Songs Of A Lost World will be released on November 1 by Fiction/UMe as a 1LP, a half-speed master 2LP, marble-coloured 1LP, double Cassette, CD, a deluxe CD package with a Blu-ray featuring an instrumental version of the record and a Dolby Atmos mix of the album, and digital formats. The tracklisting for the album is: AloneAnd Nothing Is ForeverA Fragile ThingWarsongDrone:NodroneI Can Never Say GoodbyeAll I Ever AmEnd Song

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Lucy Dacus debuts new song at Julien Baker’s Brooklyn show

Lucy Dacus has debuted a new song while performing live in Brooklyn with Julien Baker. READ MORE: Boygenius on the enduring power of ‘The Record’: “We feel as good as we ever hoped to” On October 8, Lucy Dacus was revealed as the “special guest” performer for Julien Baker’s rescheduled concert in Brooklyn, New York. The show was meant as a replacement date for Baker’s October 6 set, which was cut short due to the singer falling ill. During the October 6 show, Dacus appeared onstage to wild applause, only to break the news to the audience that the gig was being cancelled as Baker was too ill to continue performing. A replacement date was announced for October 8 with a “special guest” performer. Fast forward to October 8 and Dacus performed a short six-song acoustic set before Julien Baker’s make-up set, and debuted a new song. Watch fan-shot footage of Lucy Dacus’s new song below. Advertisement [embedded content] The song has yet to receive a title, but was “dedicated to lesbians”. “Happy Lesbian Day. This song is dedicated to lesbians,” Dacus said before beginning the song. Late last month, Baker debuted two new tracks in Chicago – ‘Middle Children’, and ‘High… Read More →

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Olivia Rodrigo announces recheduled Manchester gigs – just after Glastonbury 2025

Olivia Rodrigo has announced new dates for her rescheduled Manchester shows, and they’re just after Glastonbury 2025. READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo: “It’s important for me to be taken seriously as a songwriter” The singer has announced that she’ll be playing Manchester’s Co-op Live arena on June 30 and July 1 next year, and tickets purchased for the original shows will be transferred to the new dates automatically. Glastonbury is set to run from June 25 to 29, meaning that Rodrigo’s Manchester shows will begin a day after the festival ends. Though none of the headliners for next year’s festival have been revealed yet, Rodrigo is one of the favourites. She made her Glasto debut in 2022, pulling a huge crowd to her set on The Other Stage and bringing out Lily Allen to perform Allen’s 2009 single ‘Fuck You’, dedicating it to the Supreme Court justices in the US who formed the majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Advertisement At the time, NME called her set “a career and festival defining moment,” and said, “While you could argue it’s too early to suggest Rodrigo could make the same leap to the Pyramid top spot, if you passed on her Saturday Glasto… Read More →

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Hear Nadia Reid’s new track, “Baby Bright”

Nadia Reid returns with a new track, “Baby Bright“, which you can hear below. This latest release follows “Changed Unchained” which she released last month. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE Both tracks will appear on Enter Now Brightness, Reid’s new album which is released by Chrysalis on February 7, 2025. You can pre-order a copy here. The tracklisting for Enter Now Brightness is: Emmanuelle Cry On Cue Baby Bright Hold It Up Changed Unchained Second Nature Even Now Hotel Santa Cruz Woman Apart Send It Down The Line Reid also plays the UK and ROI. You can buy tickets here. 10.03.25 UK, London – EartH Theatre11.03.25 UK, Brighton – CHALK12.03.25 UK, Leeds – Brudenell Social Club13.03.25 UK, Glasgow – Room 214.03.25 UK, Bangor – Court House15.03.25 IE, Dublin – Whelans17.03.25 UK, Nottingham – The Bodega18.03.25 UK, Bristol – Strange Brew19.03.25 UK, Manchester – YES (Pink Room)

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Streams of K-pop music jump over 300 per cent in five years

Streams of K-pop music on a global scale has seen a jump over 300 per cent in the last five years, according to new Spotify data. According to Spotify data cited by Yonhap News Agency, streams of K-pop music have surged 362 per cent in the global market over the past five years. The largest increase was recorded in Southeast Asia, with a 423 per cent jump, while the US recorded a 182 per cent rise. However, the US has emerged as the country with the most K-pop listeners. It is followed by Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Mexico, Thailand, India, Brazil, Malaysia and Canada. “K-pop has become a global force, with artists breaking into international charts like Billboard,” Park Jung-joo, head of Spotify Korea’s music team said during a ‘K-pop Talks Session’ event held in Seoul, South Korea. “K-pop, which started in Korea, is being connected with fans around the world through many artists.” Advertisement Spotify also noted the addition of several K-pop songs to the service’s Billion’s Club over the years as indications of the genre’s growth. They include songs like Jimin‘s ‘Like Crazy’, Jungkook‘s ‘Seven’, BLACKPINK‘s ‘How You Like That’ and Lisa‘s ‘Money’. The streamer also stated that… Read More →

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Sam Fender shares live version of new song ‘People Watching’ as he continues to tease new album

Sam Fender has continued to tease his new album, this time by sharing a live version of his as-yet-unreleased song ‘People Watching’ with fans – three years to the day his last album came out. Read More: Sam Fender on the cover: “This album is probably the best thing I’ve done in my life” The North Shields singer posted a link on his Instagram Stories which takes fans to a web page where they’re asked for their phone number. Fans then receive a text containing a link to a YouTube video of his performance of ‘People Watching‘ at Boardmasters in August. It’s the same song he shared a teaser of on Instagram last week. On Wednesday (October 2), he shared snippets of him filming the speakers inside his studio to showcase two sections of the track. Fender hasn’t released a lot of music since his 2021 Number One album ‘Seventeen Going Under’, his most recent new tracks being ‘Homesick‘ with Noah Kahan after the American singer-songwriter re-recorded the hit for his digital album ‘Stick Season (Forever)’ and ‘Iris’, from the movie Jackdaw. Advertisement [embedded content] It was on August 3 that he first played ‘People Watching’ live, along with another unreleased… Read More →

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Watch Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in a new trailer for A Complete Unknown

A new trailer has been released for James Mangold’s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, due in cinemas on January 17. The first trailer released back in July featured lead actor Timothée Chalamet singing “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”; here, he can be heard having a crack at “Girl From The North Country” before hooking up with Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) – we see them duetting at the 1963 Monterey Folk Festival – and controversially going electric with “Like A Rolling Stone” at Newport. We also get a glimpse of Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. Watch the trailer below:

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Introducing the new Uncut: The Cure, Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, MC5, Queen, a free 14-track CD and more

March 2, 2022. I’m at the Brixton Academy, backstage during the NME Awards, waiting for an audience with Robert Smith. Smith is co-recipient of Best Song By A UK Artist with CHVRCHES for “How Not To Drown” and he’s taken the opportunity to reveal the title of The Cure’s long-awaited new album, Songs Of A Lost World. Eventually – things move very much at Robert’s place – we meet. A firm handshake, strong eye contact. Conversation touches on The Glove – the one-off band he formed with fellow Banshee Steve Severin – a memorable Cure gig at Crystal Palace Bowl in 1990 and his latest, tantalising update on the new album. Smith, politely, won’t be drawn further. “That is for another day,” he says with a smile. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, THE ANIMALS, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE That day has finally come, of course. Songs Of A Lost World underscores the singular creative vision of its chief architect – an album of ravishing, windswept musicality and lyrical intensity, as Smith grapples with notions of ageing and mortality, made all the more vivid by his own relatively recent… Read More →

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Uncut – December 2024

CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Every print edition of this issue comes with a free, 14-track CD compiled by Kim Deal and featuring music from The Stooges, Radiohead, Black Sabbath, Joy Division, Neu!, Stereolab and more THE CURE: 16 years on from their last album, The Cure return with a powerful and emotional new record. But as Robert Smith reveals, Songs Of A Lost World is only half the story… Advertisement KIM DEAL: The Pixie, Breeder and now solo artist explains how iguanas, ukeleles and the Florida Keys have shaped her new album THE MC5: This extract from a new oral history tells the turbulent tale of Kick Out The Jams RADIOHEAD: Bassist Colin Greenwood guides us through two decades of behind-the-scenes photography Advertisement MAGAZINE: Howard Devoto and his cohorts reflect on their brilliant but doomed trajectory as post-punk pioneers JOAN ARMATRADING: Looking back over half a century’s work as a new album continues her journey AN AUDIENCE WITH… ROGER TAYLOR: The Queen drummer on predicting punk, cocaine myths and tiger skin trousers THE MAKING OF “SUPPLEMENT 66” BY PAUL WELLER: The inside story of his new EP – and the final recordings of a… Read More →

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Coldplay share new collaborations with Matty Healy and Jon Hopkins on deluxe edition of ‘Moon Music’

Coldplay have released the deluxe edition of ‘Moon Music’, now dubbed ‘Moon Music (Full Moon Edition)’, which features new collaborations with Jon Hopkins and The 1975‘s Matty Healy. READ MORE: Exclusive: Coldplay: “When things appear overwhelmingly positive, that’s often because it’s what the singer needs most” Yesterday (October 7), just three days after releasing the standard edition of ‘Moon Music’, Coldplay have dropped the ‘Full Moon’ edition, which now comes with 10 additional tracks; including several live recordings. Included among the 10 new songs are a collaboration with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy and two new tracks with Jon Hopkins. The Healy-featuring cut is titled ‘The Karate Kid’. While the song does not include the musician singing on the track, he has provided additional production to the song and piano work. You can listen to ‘The Karate Kid’ below. Advertisement [embedded content] The two new Jon Hopkins tracks – Hopkins already produced several songs on the main record – are titled ‘Angelsong’ and 👋 (pronounced ‘Wave’). You can check them out below. [embedded content] Recommended [embedded content] ‘Moon Music’ was given a glowing four-star review by NME, and described by Rhian Daly as a record that looks to “pull [Chris] Martin and those… Read More →

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Here’s what went down at NOFX’s mammoth final-ever live show

NOFX wrapped up their final live tour with three shows over the weekend in San Pedro, California, as part of their Punk in Drublic Festival. Their last ever live concert on Sunday (October 6) had 33 songs on the setlist and featured special appearances from Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz and Jay Bentley. The American punk-rock band formed over four decades ago, and announced the stacked lineups for their final shows earlier this year. Each of the three shows had festival-style lineups, starting with performances in the early afternoon. Sunday’s agenda featured Fishbone, Subhumans, The Flatliners, Codefendants, Frank Turner, The Vandals, and Pennywise, all building up to NOFX’s headlining set. Advertisement The band’s penultimate song was one they had never performed live or released before: ‘We Did It Our Way’, a self-referential take on the Frank Sinatra classic. As Rolling Stone reports, frontman Fat Mike told guitarist Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta: “This is a song we went over in the trailer, and you didn’t remember it,” to which Abeyta replied; “oh, right.” Fat Mike introduced the song as their way of thanking the fans and everyone onstage. Following some sentimental opening chords, the band… Read More →

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Paul Heaton – My Life In Music

The Housemartins and Beautiful South singer on his happiest hours by the stereo: “It still sounds exciting now” THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! DAVID BOWIE Advertisement The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars RCA, 1972 I shared a room with my middle brother growing up, and this is one of the records that seeped through the walls of my oldest brother’s room into ours. It was just really different – it was on the edge of glam rock, I suppose, but it was also totally by itself. I had no idea what “Suffragette City” was, or “Moonage Daydream”, and Ziggy Stardust sounded like the name of a wrestler. But it was really exciting to watch it have influence over ordinary people. You could see quite hard lads in Sheffield trying to have their hair cut like Bowie and wearing these big stack heels. Some of the songs make no sense at all – I didn’t know what “Lady Stardust” meant and probably still don’t – but his voice is beautiful. Advertisement ARETHA FRANKLIN Aretha With The Ray Bryant Combo COLUMBIA,… Read More →

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Chuck Prophet: “It’s been a journey”

2022 was a crisis year for Californian roots veteran Chuck Prophet. Diagnosed with stage four lymphoma, the ex-Green On Red guitarist was kept waiting on his chances of survival. “After they discovered I had a mass in my intestines, I was in a kind of no-man’s land for about 14 days,” he explains. “That was real fear, like a wooden stake being driven into me. Eventually I was told there were options in terms of treatment, and things lifted from there. But it was music that got me out of my head.” THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Stretching back three decades, Prophet’s highly eclectic solo work tends to involve surf, punk, rock‘n’roll, folk and country. Yet it was the hitherto unexpected delights of cumbia music that guided him during his illness and recovery from chemotherapy. In particular, a band of brothers from Salinas, a farming community a hundred miles south of his San Francisco home. Advertisement “I’d seen ¿Qiensave? at a club in the Mission District,” he explains. “They were such characters. I think they were getting a kick from the fact I was digging… Read More →

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Simon Raymonde – My Life In Music

The Cocteau Twin turned Bella Union boss itemises his aural treasures: “It sounds like it’s from another universe” THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE PUBLIC IMAGE LTD Advertisement Metal Box VIRGIN, 1979 Me and my friends were obsessed with punk. Of course, it burned out rather quickly. John Lydon was such a divisive figure, but at that point in time I still loved him. The stuff he said was confrontational but always tinged with a certain amount of intelligence. I don’t feel like that about the latter part of his career, I should add! I wasn’t a fan of anything after Metal Box, really. But when that came out, it was like, ‘What is this? What are these sounds?’ They were subverting everything they’d been in other bands. It’s such an anarchic record because they’re literally making stuff up in the studio as they go along. There isn’t another record in history that is comparable sonically to Metal Box. Advertisement CULTURE Two Sevens Clash JOE GIBBS RECORD GLOBE, 1977 Reggae was as important to many of us as punk. I think it was… Read More →

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Anna Butterss – Mighty Vertebrate

‘Jazz.’ It’s a funny old word, isn’t it? Encompassing over a century of music, it conjures a mass of styles, from Dizzy Gillespie’s bebop to Ornette Coleman’s freeform extemporisation to Nubya Garcia’s afro-futurism, and all stops in-between. Even Jamiroquai is classed as, of all things, ‘acid jazz’, and like ‘classical’ – which embodies Beethoven, Shostakovich, Cage and Max Richter – and, of course, ‘indie’, ‘jazz’’s almost limitless scope has rendered the word strangely meaningless. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE Indeed, the genre’s become such a broad church its associations can seem bewildering, contradictory and even occasionally off-putting. These days it’s often used as a mere nod to instrumentation, but to some it’s a signal of free-thinking improvisation, to others technical discipline, while it’s as good as a red flag to those whose prejudices are based on limited experience (or The Fast Show’s Louis Balfour). Advertisement Nonetheless, it covers 2022’s Activities, Anna Butterss’ acclaimed debut, and Jeff Parker’s gently free-wheeling Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy, released the same year and on which Butterss also performs. Then there’s last year’s Lados B, recorded… Read More →

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Faces – Faces At The BBC Complete BBC Concert And Session Recordings 1970-1973

“Our second group this evening is the excessively rowdy Faces,” promises John Peel, whose voice introduces this set of (almost) complete BBC sessions from the Faces. It’s an appropriate start. When the Faces released their debut single, “Flying”, the Beeb didn’t take them seriously. It took John Peel to step in as an early champion, recording their first BBC session in March 1970. Peel pops up throughout this 8CD/1Blu-ray box that has rescued almost every Faces BBC session from archives and private collections – there’s just one set of three songs missing, believed wiped. It includes the Faces playing outstanding versions of “You’re My Girl”, “Oh Lord I’m Browned Off”, “Stay With Me” and “Miss Judy’s Farm”, singing Christmas Carols and performing one infamous concert that was never actually broadcast. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE The box begins with 10 songs from John Peel’s Sunday Concert – one set of five songs recorded in July 1970 and another five from November – and by the time you reach the deranged cover of “Maybe I’m Amazed” from November that year, you can see… Read More →

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Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to tour R.E.M.’s Fables Of The Reconstruction

Following the success of their tour this year, performing R.E.M.‘s debut album Murmur in full, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy have announced plans to play the band’s third album Fables Of The Reconstruction next year to mark it’s 40th anniversary. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Shannon and Narducy — along with Superchunk/Mountain Goats/Bob Mould drummer Jon Wurster, Wilco’s John Stirratt on bass, guitarist Dag Juhlin and keyboardist Vijay Tellis-Nayak — begin their tour in February. Advertisement The tour dates are: Friday, February 14 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & HarrietsSaturday, February 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ BellwetherSunday, February 16 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly UpTuesday, February 18 – San Francisco, CA @ The FillmoreFriday, February 21 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune TheatreSaturday, February 22 – Portland, OR @ Revolution HallMonday, February 24 – Indianapolis, IN @ The VogueTuesday, February 25 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar HallThursday, February 27-28 – Athens, GA @ 40 WattSaturday, March 1 – Carrboro, NC @ Catʼs CradleMonday, March 3 – Richmond, VA @ The NationalTuesday, March 4 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 ClubThursday, March 6 – Philadelphia,… Read More →

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Converge release new live album to raise funds for Hurricane Helene relief

American hardcore veterans Converge have released a new live album to raise funds for Hurricane Helene relief efforts. READ MORE: NME – The Cover: Heriot are ready to raise hell This past weekend, the band took to social media to announce the album, titled ‘Live in Orlando, FL 03.14.22’. The album was recorded at The Abbey in Orlando, Florida in March 2022 and consists of 18 tracks including ‘Under Duress’, ‘I Can Tell You About Pain’ and ‘Concubine’. The album is out now via Bandcamp – you can donate to the cause and listen to the album here. Per the band’s announce, the live album “aims to offer financial aid to those impacted by Hurricane Helene”. Converge have also confirmed that “all proceeds from this release will be donated to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief” – you can find out more about the organisation here. Advertisement See the full post below. The tracklist for ‘Converge: Live in Orlando, FL 03.14.22’ is: ‘Plagues’‘No Heroes’‘I Won’t Let You Go’‘Reap What You Sow’‘Cutter’‘A Single Tear’‘Under Duress’‘Dark Horse’‘Aimless Arrow’‘Empty On The Inside’‘Locust Reign’‘This Is Mine’‘Glacial Pace’‘Axe To Fall’‘I Can Tell You About Pain’‘Eve’‘Eagles Become Vultures’‘Concubine’ Recommended With the album, Converge are now one of many musicians… Read More →

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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ scores record low audience score for comic book movie

Joker: Folie à Deux has had a tough opening weekend at the box office, and has registered the lowest CinemaScore audience score for any comic book film ever. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, it is the first Hollywood comic book movie adaptation to have earned a ‘D’ score from the market research firm CinemaScore, indicating that many audiences are not enamoured with the sequel. The new movie is a sequel to 2019’s Joker and was released in cinemas on Friday (October 4), after receiving its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last month. It catches up with Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker, while he is a patient at a mental health facility after the events of the first film, where he falls in love with Lady Gaga’s Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn. Advertisement [embedded content] It drew an estimated domestic box office opening of $40million (£30.5million) on its opening weekend, which is roughly half of the equivalent take of its predecessor, and well short of its original projections of $70million three weeks ago. The Hollywood Reporter state that Warner Bros. are “stunned and sorely disappointed” by the results. The film had a budget of $190million (£145million). Even critically maligned comic… Read More →

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Listen to raucous cover of Iron Maiden’s ‘The Trooper’ by The Hu

Mongolian metal band The Hu have released their cover of Iron Maiden’s ‘The Trooper’, ahead of joining the iconic band on their Future Past tour. The Ulaanbaatar band played their first show opening for Iron Maiden in San Diego, California on Friday (October 4), and are set to continue on the road with them around North America throughout October and November. To commemorate their inclusion on the tour, the band have also shared their version of Maiden’s 1983 single ‘The Trooper’, originally released on their fourth studio album ‘Piece Of Mind’. Check out the video for the raucous, adrenaline-fuelled cover here: Advertisement [embedded content] The band’s lead throat singer Gala has said: “The Hu is thrilled to be on Iron Maiden’s Future Past Tour in North America. For us, this tour represents an important milestone for the Mongolian music industry and a historical step towards the world stage. As a special thank you, and out of huge respect as fans of the band, we covered their legendary song ‘The Trooper’ and are happy to be sharing that with you ahead of this tour!” In addition to the Future Past tour, The Hu will also play a series of headline shows around North… Read More →