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MJ Lenderman Boat Songs

Asheville, North Carolina, native MJ Lenderman inhabits a crucial nexus of the Southern underground. The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is a graduate of the local house-show scene, and of an important bygone venue called the Mothlight. He’s been releasing his own music since 2017, and is also a guitarist in the country-soaked alternative-rock band Wednesday, lead by his partner Karly Hartzman. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut While still only 23, Lenderman comes off more like a timeworn indie veteran than an eager newcomer. When a certain music website bestowed its coveted...
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Neil Young with Crazy Horse Toast

In 2000, Neil Young and Crazy Horse took up residence at Toast – a recording studio on San Francisco’s Mission Street. Awaiting overdue renovation, the district itself was in poor condition. The back door at Toast opened onto a view of derelict buildings; aside from a doughnut shop on the corner, their only neighbours were rats and the squatters. Inside Toast, the vibe was undetermined. As Young wrote in his memoir Special Deluxe, there were “some serious problems with my marriage” (to his then-wife Pegi). ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Instead...
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Gwenno Tresor

“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes,” said the French director Agnes Varda in 2009. Varda is one of many artists, musicians and filmmakers from around the world who inspired Tresor, the third album by the Cornish-speaking Welsh psychonaut Gwenno Saunders – and that quote is particularly beloved to a musician dedicated to mapping out the intersection of land, heritage, identity and potential. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Like Gwenno’s last album, Le Kov, Tresor is written mostly in Cornish – a language she learned as an infant from her...
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Martin Courtney Magic Sign

It’s been seven years since Martin Courtney’s first solo album, the subtle delight of 2015’s Many Moons. Since then, he’s shepherded his group, Real Estate, through two more albums – In Mind (2017) and The Main Thing (2020) – and last year’s Half A Human EP. Change is incremental with a group like Real Estate, and the coordinates for the songs Courtney writes haven’t changed hugely over the 15-or-so years he’s been making music: while the production might be tighter, more robust, his melodies still sit as gently within the landscape of sound he sculpts as they did on the...
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Watch MAR’s Stunning Music Video Today

World sensation MAR recently shared her official debut, the single “QUÉDATE” and its gorgeous music video. The Latin pop queen is now touring all over Europe so make sure to catch her performance if you can! “QUÉDATE” is a well-executed song that speaks to the appeal of emotions and the deep-running desire one can have toward a stranger. The beautiful young artist sings and dances on the white sandy beach in the music video as her eyes meet someone else’s, and their romance story begins. With mellow vibes and distinctly latin soundscapes, “QUÉDATE” seems to revolutionize the latin pop...
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New Generation Of Soft Pop Is Here: Argentina’s Finest Juan Minatta & His Single “best of me”

Juan Minatta is an Argentinian singer-songwriter who is releasing some of the most emotional songs lately and his latest release is “best of me,” a sad reflection on his past romantic relationship. The way Juan sings his lyrics is truly unmatched as the talented artist touches the hearts of his listeners with his powerful voice.  The young singer started off his career by releasing his version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” gaining substantial traction for his music. In the summer of 2020, Juan Minatta released his debut single “Run Away” that reached more than 150k streams across...
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Kendrick Lamar Mr Morale & The Big Steppers

Kendrick Lamar is one of the finest instrumentalists of his era, although his instrument happens to be his own voice. On previous albums but especially on his latest, Mr Morale & The Big Steppers, he raps in many modes, varying his pitching and flow on nearly every song, switching up his cadence as though changing his identity. He sounds impossibly nimble and declarative on opener “United In Grief”, even as he warns the listener, “I’ve been goin’ through something/Be afraid”. He goes low and legato on “Crown”, then spry and playful on “N95”. He uses short, choppy lines on...
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Elvis

Of all the filmmakers who could have made an Elvis biopic, it had to be one whose aesthetic is more Vegas bloat than Sun Studios leanness. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis lives up to the swooning excess of his Moulin Rouge, even down to its digital diamanté-studded end credits. Less a narrative than a deluxe jukebox musical with touches of Douglas Sirk melodrama, Elvis is framed as a sort of Citizen Kane deathbed reverie from Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s Dutch-born, Mephistophelean manager. He’s played by Tom Hanks with a bizarre, undefinable European accent, in makeup suggesting a cross between the Penguin...
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Iury Lech Musica Para El Fin De Los Cantos

Iury Lech’s second album, Música Para El Fin De Los Cantos (‘Music For The End Of The Songs’), has taken a while to reach its audience. Originally released by Spanish label Hyades Arts, which was run by writer and director Antonio Diaz and musician Dr Héctor, its understated beauty eventually attracted a wave of bloggers who were interested in albums that slipped between genres, sitting as it does between minimalism, New Age and Fourth World musics. Reissued five years ago by CockTail d’Amore, with altered artwork, for this reissue, Wah Wah and Lech have gone back to the master...
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Michael Nesmith Tantamount To Treason Vol 1 (reissue, 1972)

There’s added poignancy in this reissue of Nesmith’s fourth post-Monkees album, following his death in December last year. Yet rather than being a sentimental salute, Tantamount To Treason underscores Nez’s status as a country-rock forefather of a rather idiosyncratic bent. ORDER NOW: THE BEATLES ARE ON THE COVER OF THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT Produced by Nesmith himself, Tantamount To Treason was his only recording with the Second National Band, a sextet featuring just him and pedal-steel guitarist Orville “Red” Rhodes from the first incarnation, plus session musicians including bassist Johnny Meeks, who did time as lead guitarist with the...
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