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Travis share deluxe version of ‘L.A. Times’ featuring 10 extra tracks

Travis have released a deluxe version of their recent album ‘L.A. Times’, with 10 new and exclusive tracks. The album, the Scottish band’s tenth full-length, was released in July, having been preceded by the singles ‘Gaslight’, ‘Bus’ and ‘Raze The Bar’. It is their first release since 2016’s ‘Everything At Once’. The new deluxe edition includes the full album alongside intimate, stripped-back versions of all 10 album tracks. ‘L.A. Times Deluxe’ is on streaming platforms now; check out the full tracklist below. [embedded content] ‘L.A. Times Deluxe’ tracklist: ‘Bus’ ‘Raze The Bar’ ‘Live It All Again’ ‘Gaslight’ ‘Alive’ ‘Home’ ‘I Hope That You Spontaneously Combust’ ‘Naked In New York City’ ‘The River’ ‘L.A. Times’ ‘Bus’ (stripped) ‘Raze The Bar’ (stripped) ‘Live It All Again’ (stripped) ‘Gaslight’ (stripped) ‘Alive’ (stripped) ‘Home’ (stripped) ‘I Hope That You Spontaneously Combust’ (stripped) ‘Naked In New York City’ (stripped) ‘The River’ (stripped) ‘L.A. Times’ (stripped) Advertisement Shortly after the album’s official release, the group revealed that the piano used on ‘Gaslight’ was the same as the one used by The Beatles for ‘Lady Madonna’. Travis are also preparing to head out on their UK headline tour, set to take place at the end of the… Read More →

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‘Nobody Wants This’ creator denies depicting Jewish women negatively in Netflix hit

Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster has defended the show after it was criticised for its negative portrayal of Jewish women. The new Netflix romantic-comedy series, which centres on a relationship between a rabbi (Adam Brody) and a sex podcaster (Kristen Bell), has come under fire since its release on September 26. In response, Foster said the show’s goal was to “shed a positive light on Jewish culture from my perspective”. Among the critics was Glamour senior west coast editor Jessica Radloff, who published an essay titled ‘Netflix’s Nobody Wants This and the Persistent Jewish Stereotype’. In the article, she wrote that the show’s Jewish characters “come off as controlling, marriage-hungry women who want to plan dinner parties and alienate anyone who doesn’t share those same dreams.” Radloff also took issue with the show’s opening episode for a scene in which Brody’s character’s mother refers to Bell’s character as a “shiksa,” a derogatory term for a non-Jewish woman. Advertisement “This scene at the temple is the exact opposite of what we Jews are taught to do — welcome thy neighbor,” Radloff wrote. “At a time when antisemitism is at the highest levels we’ve seen since the Holocaust, scenes like this… Read More →

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Oasis fans react to the rush to tickets to North American shows: “Most frustrating experience of my life”

Tickets for Oasis‘ reunion shows in North America went on sale today (October 4), and fans have been reacting to the race to get tickets to the newly announced dates in the continent. READ MORE: Be Here Now: Why Oasis deserve another crack at America Earlier this week, Liam and Noel Gallagher announced a string of shows across North America – marking the first international dates for their reunion tour. Shortly after, four new dates were added due to “phenomenal demand”. The shows in the continent are set to take place in Los Angeles, New Jersey, Toronto and Mexico City. Visit here to buy any remaining tickets, and check out a full list of tour dates below. Already, both shows at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium (slated for August 31 and September 1 2025) have sold out, and fans who missed out have taken to Twitter/X to vent. “Most frustrating experience of my life,” wrote one fan, adding that difficulty getting tickets had “Completely crushed my dream.” Advertisement Meanwhile, another shared their success in getting one of the highly sought-after tickets, writing that it took “blood, sweat and tears”. Check out more fan reactions below. Oasis Live ‘25 tickets for East Rutherford, NJ…. Read More →

Introducing the Ultimate Record Collection: Lana Del Rey

As we take a moment to collect ourselves after her visit to the UK and celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut album, we’d like to introduce the latest Ultimate Record Collection: Lana Del Rey. The dark and involving albums. The slyly controversial singles. We’ve reviewed them all to bring you a definitive guide to the music of Lana Del Rey. Alongside, we’ve told the story of her journey from philosophy student and trailer home resident, the aspiring singer-songwriter Lizzy Grant, to globally influential artist. We’ll be unpacking the songs, and creating the definitive timeline as we go. But that’s not all. Our people have been on the ground to report back on the most recent dates of her sell-out 2023-4 tour. We’ve got deep inside Lana’s cultural references compiling the definitive A-Z from Slim Aarons to Frank Zappa. We’ve also located the key Lana interviews, which chart her path from young singer facing down incorrect assumptions to a brilliant and self-assured artist, who has proved her doubters wrong. Enjoy the magazine. You can get your here. John Robinson, Editor

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Joker 3: is a sequel to ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ happening?

Joaquin Phoenix teams up with Lady Gaga in the sequel to 2019’s Joker. Directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover), Joker: Folie à Deux picks up as Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) is institutionalised at Arkham Asylum awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker, where he meets fellow patient Lee Quinzel (Gaga). Other cast members include Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Jacob Lofland, and Ken Leung. Is a sequel to Joker: Folie à Deux on the cards? At the time of writing, Warner Bros. has not announced a sequel. Judging by recent comments from director Todd Phillips, this incarnation of the character might have made its final bow. Advertisement Speaking to Variety earlier this year about a follow-up, Phillips said: “It was fun to play in this sort of sandbox for two movies, but I think we’ve said what we wanted to say in this world.” ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ comes five years after the original. CREDIT: Warner Bros. Entertainment He echoed a similar sentiment when asked about a potential spin-off for Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn by The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s not really where this movie is headed for me,” he said. “I feel like my time in… Read More →

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Oasis warn of fake re-sale tickets ahead of North American reunion tour

Oasis have warned fans of scammers who are selling fake re-sale tickets ahead of the band’s North American reunion tour. READ MORE: Be Here Now: Why Oasis deserve another crack at America Earlier this week, Liam and Noel Gallagher announced the first run of international dates for their Oasis reunion tour which includes shows across North America and Mexico. They then went on to share that due to “phenomenal demand”, four new dates were added to the tour. The general sale for tickets will go live tomorrow (October 4) at 10am local time. Visit here to buy tickets and find more details here and check out a full list of tour dates below. Please be aware. Thousands of fake Oasis tickets have already been discovered on Stubhub and Vivid Seats before the North America tour has even gone on sale! @TwicketsUS and @Ticketmaster Fan-to-Fan in the US and Canada are the only official resellers. Read the @nivassoc letter… — Oasis (@oasis) October 3, 2024 Advertisement Now, as reported by the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) in a letter issued to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), “Over 9,000 tickets for Oasis shows… Read More →

Stevie Van Zandt’s essential British Invasion 45s!

The November 2024 issue of Uncut celebrates The Beatles’ first US visit in February 1964 and the subsequent British Invasion that shook America. Who better to assemble a crack Top 10 list of British Invasion 45s than Brit Beat disciple, Stevie Van Zandt? THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Advertisement THE BEATLES “I Want To Hold Your Hand” CAPITOL, 1964 Advertisement “The completely took over the charts. You have to mention this as it was the first salvo of the British Invasion. They continued to do great things all year right up to ‘I Feel Fine’.” BILLY J KRAMER “Bad To Me” IMPERIAL, 1964 “Billy was managed by Brian Epstein so he had some Lennon-McCartney songs like ‘Bad To Me’ but he would have success with other songs. He was pretty big that year, right there with the rest of them.” THE ROLLING STONES “Tell Me” LONDON, 1964 “It’s one of the great ballads of all time. I don’t think it was released in the UK. but it was a single in the US. Although it wasn’t a hit, I got it in my local store… Read More →

Lush – A Far From Home Movie

The 1964 World’s Fair in New York saw the launch of colour TV, IBM personal computers, the Mustang Ford and, just in time for the Beatles first tour of the USA, a new development from the Eastman Kodak company, Super 8mm film. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Since that point rock ‘n’ roll and the Super 8 were inseparable. It’s hard to think of any British band touring the States that wasn’t photographed at some point or other earnestly documenting their tour bus adventures with their own handheld movie camera. By the time he joined Lush in 1992, bass player Phil King was already a veteran of Felt, Biff Bang Pow and the Servants and naturally had a Sankyo Super 8. Now, with Brian Gates, he has edited footage shot on tours of England, America, Europe and Japan thorough 1994 – 1996 into a kind of dream journal of life in a rock band at the end of the twentieth century. Advertisement What’s uncanny is how the pale grainy 8mm black and white stock renders so much of the material out of time. Footage of the… Read More →

Stevie Van Zandt – Disciple

“There are no second acts in American lives,” said Scott Fitzgerald, but he obviously never met Stevie Van Zandt. As this intimate and epic HBO documentary makes clear, he’s currently on his fourth or fifth incarnation and showing no signs of stopping any time soon. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Born Steven Joseph Malafronte, in Massachusetts in 1950, he became Stevie Van Zandt after his mother remarried when he was seven and the family moved to New Jersey. Growing up, like many Italian American self-mythologiser, he felt his options were the “priesthood or the Mob”, but found himself transformed by the mid-sixties revelations of the Beatles and then the Stones (the first made being in a band seem glorious, the second made it seem possible). Advertisement Falling in with the Jersey Shore scene coalescing around the Hullabaloo, the Stone Pony and the Upstage clubs, with his preternatural musical facility, his encyclopedic knowledge of old soul and blues and his whole-hearted dedication to the vocation of rock ‘n roll, he became a key architect of the Sound of Asbury Park – Steel Mill, the Asbury Jukes… Read More →

Limbo District – Live Limbo

Athens, Georgia, in the late 1970s and early 1980s was a free-for-all. Bands popped up for house parties and backyard shows in direct defiance of what constituted a band: The B-52s were all beehives and surf licks, Pylon started out backing a Teach Your Parrot To Talk record before hiring one of rock’s great frontwomen. Perhaps no band during that first wave embodied that why-the-hell-not sensibility or exploded the drums-bass-guitar lineup as gleefully as Limbo District, a short-lived group that featured Jeremy Ayers reciting poetry and playing percussion, his boyfriend Davey Stevenson playing bass and Dominique Amet pounding out chords on the keyboard and howling wildly. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Even before they played their first notes together, Ayers was well known in Athens, a misfit and artist instantly recognisable for his oddball Victorian-thrift-store fashion. (In fact, Michael Stipe, a close friend, copied that scarecrow look during REM’s early years.) Beloved in Athens but a harder sell anywhere else, Limbo District recorded only a handful of sides together, but didn’t last long enough to make an album. But their natural setting was the stage,… Read More →

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MJ Lenderman has delayed several US tour dates over Hurricane Helene damage

MJ Lenderman has announced the postponement of several US tour dates due to the damage caused by Hurricane Helene. Last week, Hurricane Helene hit the Southeastern states of the US, laying waste to cities such as Georgia, Nashville, North Carolina and many more. The hurricane has at the time of reporting resulted in an estimate of 190 deaths, with hundreds others missing. Lenderman’s upcoming ‘Manning Fireworks’ tour in the US was due to kick off in Georgia today (October 3), before moving to Nashville on October 5. As a result of the damages and tragedies caused by the hurricane – especially in North Carolina, where the musicians’s band and their families are based, the musician has decided to postpone tour dates in the affected cities. He wrote on Instagram: “Due to the ongoing natural disaster and humanitarian crisis in Western North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Helene, where most of MJ Lenderman’s band and their families are based, we have no choice but to postpone the first few dates of the upcoming Manning Fireworks tour.” Advertisement Lenderman then confirmed that the tour will instead kick off on October 6 in Knoxville, with resheduled dates for Atlanta and Nashville being… Read More →

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New ‘Sweaty Ceilings’ book to celebrate London’s independent music venues – with proceeds going to MVT

A crowdfunder for the publication of Sweaty Ceilings, a book celebrating London’s independent music venues, has been launched. The book is a celebration of the city’s grassroots music venues such as The Windmill, 100 Club, Roundhouse, Moth Club, Koko, Seabright Arms, Cafe Oto, Shacklewell Arms and many more. Spearheaded by multidisciplinary artist and designer Sophie Mo and music manager Tash Cutts, Sweaty Ceilings will go behind-the-scenes of 30 landmark venues, showcasing interviews and stories from writers, musicians and cultural figureheads, all of whom shed light on the venues’ history and cultural importance. It will also include an additional spotlight feature on venues that have closed down. Advertisement The book will feature a foreword by The Libertines‘ Carl Barât as well as exclusive interviews with musicians, bookers, photographers and many more. In a press release, Felix White, of the Maccabees and 86TVs, said, “There will never be a better or more important time to document and celebrate independent venues across London. Even reading the list of the featured venues for Sweaty Ceilings is like a flashback of meeting lifelong friends, or seeing all kinds of special bands for the first time. I’m sure every music fan will feel the same.” The book… Read More →

Joan Armatrading unveils new album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean

Joan Armatrading has announced that her new album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean, will be released by BMG on November 22. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Watch a video for the lead single, “I’m Not Moving”, below: Advertisement [embedded content] As Armatrading explains, she was immediately compelled to write the song after witnessing some alarmingly confrontational public behaviour by a young person: “He was like, ‘I’m going to kill everybody! I’m not moving! You can get the police! You can’t move me!’ All the lyrics just flowed, in one, and I knew it had to have an aggression, because that’s how he was. I did a version of it that was a little bit milder, but you could tell that wasn’t it.” How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean was entirely written, produced, programmed and engineered by Joan Armatrading herself. Discussing the album’s title, she says, “You can apply it to just about anything. We are in such a weird place at the moment, and you do think, how did this happen? Some of the things we’re… Read More →

Watch a video for The Weather Station’s new single, “Neon Signs”

Tamara Lindeman AKA The Weather Station has announced that her new album Humanhood will be released by Fat Possum on January 17. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Watch a video for lead single “Neon Signs” below: Advertisement [embedded content] “I wrote ‘Neon Signs’ at a moment of feeling confused, upside down, at that moment when even desire falls away, and dissociation cuts you loose from a story that while wrong, still held things together,” Lindeman explains. “The song came with multiple strands entwined; the way that something that is not true seems to have more energetic intensity than something that is, the confusion of being bombarded with advertising at a moment of climate emergency, the confusion of relationships where coercion is wrapped in the language of love. Ultimately though, isn’t it all the same feeling?” Humanhood was co-produced by Lindeman and Marcus Paquin at Canterbury Music Company in Toronto, with drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Phillippe Melanson, reed-and-wind specialist Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley. Other guests include Sam Amidon, James Elkington and Joseph Shabason. Pre-order Humanhood here and peruse The Weather Station’s… Read More →

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Jackson Wang reaches out to BamBam amid mental health concerns: “Be at a place where you get appreciation”

Jackson Wang has publicly reached out to GOT7 bandmate BamBam with words of advice amid concerns surrounding the latter’s mental health. Over the span of the past few months, GOT7’s BamBam has been sharing cryptic posts and updates that fans believe indicate a decline in his mental health. He first expressed his current state in an Instagram Story in late July, where he told fans he “just want[s] to sleep and don’t wake up so I can finally rest”, according to Koreaboo. BamBam has since received an outpour of encouraging messages from fans, family and fellow celebrities alike. After he posted a YouTube video of Justin Bieber’s ‘Changes’ to his X on October 1, his GOT7 bandmate Jackson Wang replied to the post with encouragement and words of advice for the 27-year-old singer. “People closely around us, specially the industry. The only thing they care about is living their life like you are living urs. Different intentions. It’s facts, it’s reality. We all go through it, just different aspects” he wrote. “Don’t take it negatively, sometimes [we] just gotta be more selfish and get things right for urself. It’s not always a bad thing. We all have choices. Make them… Read More →

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Ricky Gervais approved female lead for’The Office’ Australian remake, says star: “Just in case anyone is angry”

Ricky Gervais personally approved casting a female equivalent of David Brent in the Australian remake of The Office, actress Felicity Ward has said. Ward stars as the franchise’s first-ever female lead, playing Hannah Howard, the managing director of the Flinley Craddick packaging company. The series will arrive on Amazon Prime on October 18. It is the 13th version of The Office around the world to date, after the huge success of the US version, starring Steve Carell as Michael Scott, which ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013. “Ricky Gervais has approved a female lead, he’s very excited about a female lead — just in case anyone is angry,” Ward said during the Prime Video Presents: Trailblazers event on Tuesday in London, where she debuted a trailer from the series.” Advertisement [embedded content] “I did zero preparation, because I read the script and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, this is every annoying part of my personality.’ I’ve been preparing for this my whole life,” she added. “It was just all in the script. And I don’t know if it’s [showrunner] Julie De Fina… I don’t know how much she had seen of me before, but it was as if she just, like,… Read More →

All of Magazine’s studio albums to be reissued on vinyl

The entire studio catalogue of pioneering post-punks Magazine will be reissued on vinyl by PIAS Catalogue this autumn. Their first three albums, Real Life (1978), Secondhand Daylight (1979) and The Correct Use of Soap (1980) will be available on November 15. Magic, Murder And The Weather (1981), No Thyself (2011) and Rays & Hail 1978-2011 – a compilation being released on vinyl for the first time – will follow on December 13. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Advertisement The tracklistings of the original studio albums remain unchanged, while Rays & Hail 1978-2011 is now augmented to 19 tracks, having originally been released in 1987 as a 14-track CD, Rays & Hail 1978-1981. All six reissues feature new sleevenotes curated by Rory Sullivan-Burke (the author of The Light Pours Out Of Me, the recent biography of Magazine guitarist, John McGeoch), with different Magazine band-members talking about one particular album each. The audio featured on the reissues is the 2000 remastered versions, and each release is pressed on coloured vinyl. Additionally, special exclusive coloured marble vinyl editions are available via Rough Trade Shops. There will also be… Read More →

Bruce Springsteen announces new UK tourdates for 2025

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band have extended their 2025 European tour to include eight new shows – three of which are in the UK. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Springsteen will play two dates at Manchester’s Co-Op Live Arena on May 17 and 20, plus a show at Anfield in Liverpool on June 4. Advertisement See the full list of his 2025 European tourdates (with ticket on-sale dates) below. Tickets are available via Springsteen’s official site here. 17 May – Manchester, England – Co-op Live – On-sale: 11 October at 10am BST20 May – Manchester, England – Co-op Live – On-sale: 11 October at 10am BST24 May – Lille, France – Stade Pierre Mauroy – On-sale: 07 October at 10am 9am BST31 May – Marseille, France – Orange Velodrome (rescheduled from May 25, 2024)04 June – Liverpool, England – Anfield Stadium – On-sale: 11 October at 10am BST11 June – Berlin, Germany – Olympiastadion – On-sale: 09 October at 9am BST15 June – Prague, Czech Republic – Airport Letnany (rescheduled from May 28, 2024)18 June – Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park –… Read More →

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Benedict Cumberbatch and FKA Twigs announced for Letters Live fundraiser at KOKO

Benedict Cumberbatch and FKA Twigs have been announced for the Letters Live fundraiser at KOKO in London. Cumberbatch was announced today (October 1) as the new global ambassador for environmental advocacy as part of the KOKO Foundation, the registered charity of London’s iconic venue KOKO. The BAFTA, Olivier and EMMY award-winning actor will be supporting the charity’s efforts to help ensure that London is able to become a greener and more sustainable city. Speaking about the role in a press release, Cumberbatch said: “I am honoured to be a KOKO Foundation Ambassador with a special focus on the environment. It’s been so inspiring to witness first-hand, the amazing impact that the Foundation has quietly had over the past few years, making real and lasting change in Camden. He continued: “I’m excited, inspired and committed to help bring awareness to the special work being done and continue to help improve the local area and scale the foundations work around the country, and the world.” Advertisement Benedict Cumberbatch. Credit: PRESS To celebrate the partnership, the KOKO Foundation has teamed up with Letters Live to host a special fundraising edition titled: ‘A Night In The Theatre’. The event will take place on November 7… Read More →

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Tommy Shelby returns in ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie first look image

Production has begun on Netflix‘s forthcoming Peaky Blinders film today (September 30), which the streamer confirmed by releasing a first look image of Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby. READ MORE: ‘Peaky Blinders’ season six review: Tommy’s time-jump sets up his final fling The film was first confirmed back in June, having been written by Steven Knight and with Tom Harper set to direct. Murphy is also serving as a producer on the project. Steven Knight revealed to Deadline that the film is being set during World War II. Knight added about the film: “I’m genuinely thrilled that this movie is about to happen. It will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.” Now, Netflix has released images of Murphy in character on set. Advertisement Cillian Murphy and Steven Knight are reunited on set as production officially starts on the upcoming Netflix film. “I’m thrilled to see the cameras rolling on this new chapter of the Peaky Blinders story, set during World War II. The country is at war, and so, of course, are our Peaky Blinders,” Knight said in a press release. Harper added: “There’s a great feeling of anticipation and excitement amongst our outstanding cast and crew. We’re… Read More →

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Uber Arena, Berlin, September 29

When Nick Cave lived here in the mid-’80s, the Friedrichshain district which houses the Uber Arena was part of East Berlin. A lot has changed since then, of course; not least for Nick Cave. While a preserved stretch of the Berlin Wall opposite the Arena acts as a reminder of darker times, the tempo around here is brisk and upbeat, thriving with coffee shops, bars and boutiques. Cave himself has enjoyed similar gentrification; today, he is an artist with his own range of miniature ceramic figurines, an invitation to the Coronation and a zealous commitment to air fryers. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! This is perhaps not the future the 25-year-old Cave imagined for himself back in his wild Berlin days. Yet 40 years on, the future is very much on Nick Cave’s mind: after a series of albums that explored loss and grief following the deaths of two of his sons – Arthur in 2015 and Jethro in 2022 – this year’s Wild God found Cave and The Bad Seeds seeking positive change from their experiences. It’s not quite sunny uplands ahead, but it… Read More →