The John & Alice Coltrane Home, Impulse! and Verve Label Group are calling 2024 the Year Of Alice, but for a growing contingent of jazz fans, it’s been her year for some time now. The stature of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, harpist, pianist, composer, spiritual leader and wife of John, has only increased after her death in 2007 at the age of 69. Her career as a jazz pianist began in her hometown of Detroit in the 1950s, but her life was forever changed when she met Coltrane in 1963. Two years later, they were married and the following year,...
On June 28, Reprise will release “a historic collection of early recordings from 1969” by Neil Young with Crazy Horse, entitled Early Daze. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! It includes early versions of songs that would feature on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and beyond, several of them previously unreleased. Listen to the Early Daze version of “Everybody’s Alone” below: Advertisement Pre-order Early Daze here and investigate the tracklisting below: Side One ‘Dance Dance Dance’ (included on ‘Archives Vol. I’) ‘Come On Baby Let’s...
The The return with Ensoulment, their first new studio album since 2000’s NakedSelf. Ensoulment is set for release through Cineola / earMUSIC on September 6, 2024. You can hear the first single, “Cognitive Dissident“, below. Advertisement Joining Matt Johnson are James Eller (bass), DC Collard (keyboards), Earl Harvin (drums) and Barrie Cadogan (lead guitar) – and co-producer and engineer Warne Livesey, who previously worked on Infected (1986) and Mind Bomb (1989). Additional performances include Gillian Glover (backing vocals), Terry Edwards (horns), Sonya Cullingford (fiddle) and Danny Cummings (percussion). Ensoulment features previously unpublished artwork by Johnson’s late brother Andy, (aka artist Andy Dog). Advertisement The track listing of Ensoulment is: 1. Cognitive Dissident2. Some Days I Drink My Coffee...
In an outdoor stadium on a stormy spring night, Neil Young and Crazy Horse offered shelter in a sound. Fifty-five years since the words “Crazy Horse” first appeared alongside Young’s name on a record sleeve, his loyal backing band has solidified a minimalist style that feels distinct both within his wide-ranging catalogue and the larger rock canon. For all their iconic work together and their vast influence on generations of grunge and indie rock and beyond, what other band sounds like this? ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN...
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...
John Lennon‘s 1973 album Mind Games is being celebrated with a suite of completely newly remixed and expanded Ultimate Collection editions, released on July 12 through The John Lennon Estate and Universal Music. Mind Games – The Ultimate Collection will be available as digital and 2CD and 2LP versions, a Deluxe box set featuring 6CDs and 2 Blu-ray discs and a Super Deluxe Edition of only 1,100 copies worldwide. Listen to “Mind Games” (Evolution Documentary) below: Advertisement And watch an unboxing video here: These new editions of Lennon’s fourth solo album have been authorised by Yoko Ono...
A growing list of musicians have joined Steve Marriott’s children and former bandmates to protest against the release of “new” recordings featuring AI-generated versions of his vocals. As reported by Variety, Cleopatra Records are in discussion with the Marriott estate about completing some of his unfinished demos with the aid of AI technology, though the label ultimately plans to release the recordings in their original form “for now” via three compilations. “The Marriott Estate is due to release an AI solo album of old and new songs of my father, Steve,” said Mollie Marriott in a previously released official statement. “Sadly, the surviving...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have released a new ‘making of’ video for their upcoming album Wild God, due out on August 30 via Bad Seed in partnership with Play It Again Sam. Filmed by Megan Cullen at Miraval Studios in France, the video shows Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood adding a bass part to one track as Cave and the rest of the Bad Seeds nod their approval. It also reveals some paths (presumably) not taken on the new album. “We could make a couple of hours of ambient yoga music,” suggests Cave to Warren Ellis at one point,...
From Uncut’s archives – 2004 vintage. Roger Corman has assured his place in the history books several times over. As fast and furious director and/or producer of over 300 no-budget exploitation movies since 1955, he remains the most successful independent film-maker Hollywood has ever known. If he’d done nothing but direct his ’60s cycle of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, films that found a perfect balance between haunted elegance and Pop hallucination, he would be remembered. As that turbulent decade wore on, however, Corman responded to currents in the air – and the money burning holes in the pockets of...
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band opened their set last night at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny with a cover of The Pogues‘ “A Rainy Night in Soho“. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! The performance was in honour of Shane MacGowan, who died on November 30, 2023. Advertisement Springsteen had previously paid tribute to MacGowan, writing on his website: Over here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Shane MacGowan. Shane was one of my all-time favorite writers. The...