Ohio-based singer-songwriter Lo’renzo To’rez has released two new tracks, “Closing the Door” and “Live Again.” A collaboration between Brett Pemberton and Rachel Maloney, “Closing the Door” was recorded at Randy Jackson’s studio in California. Lo’renzo’s music stands out from the others because of its honesty, genuineness, and real-life experiences. Songs written by him reveal his raw, true personality, which he hopes will help others understand his life experiences. Lo’renzo To’rez is a self-employed artist with a growing fan base who is also a hard worker and a gifted musician.
For more than 20 years, Damon Albarn seems to have been desperate to escape the suffocatingly restrictive straitjacket of Britpop and engage with a wider world. There have been collaborations with musicians from Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, Syria, Japan, Cuba and Iceland; charity projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Chinese operas commissioned in Paris; hook-ups with everyone from Bobby Womack to Lou Reed, from De La Soul to Erykah Badu. ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT As a routine example of Albarn’s rootless cosmopolitanism, his second solo LP –...
When Paul “Top Dollar” Major promises to “go full condor” in Admonitions’ opener The Offender, he doesn’t need to explain what he means. Besides recasting Endless Boogie’s sexagenarian frontman as an ’80s action-movie hero about to open a can of whup-ass, the line serves as a handy description for the many moments when he and his bandmates launch out of their signature motorik-choogle groove, spread their ragged wings and soar toward the sun. A gesture that seems majestic, foolhardy and potentially a little ridiculous, it’s fundamental to the mission this ragtag crew set for themselves every time they’ve jammed...
Looking back, there have always been clues. The Stones’ Stray Cat Blues, with its 15-year-old protagonist. Ted Nugent’s Jailbait. Iggy Pop’s Look Away – the lyrics referencing the relationship between teenage model Sable Starr and the New York Dolls’ Johnny Thunders. There are “countless” instances of what Runaways co-founder and songwriter Kari Krome calls “little girl songs”. So many, she says, that “it’s become a thing that’s normalised”. ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT The music industry has yet to experience a #MeToo movement of the size and scale of that...
While property prices make even the Soho of the 1990s a distant memory, the district in its older bohemian prime really is a long-lost Atlantis. But it resurfaces vividly in Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, a cinematic séance with the spirits of the West End’s bygone glory. A love song to ’60s fashion, pop and glamour – while peeling back the dust covers over a squalid past – Last Night is a ghost story about a retro-loving ingénue, Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), who comes to the big city to study fashion. Alienated, anxious and alone, she is haunted by...
Damon Albarn‘s new solo album, The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, goes on sale today. In this interview – an edited version of which appeared in the December 2021 issue of Uncut – Albarn discusses the late, great Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, cormorants, solar flares and an abandoned cruise ship… ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT UNCUT: How much did the project change when you switched recording from Iceland to the UK in early 2020? DAMON ALBARN: It was originally commissioned as an orchestral project so we...
Jack White has announced two new studio albums, both of which will arrive in 2022. ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT READ MORE: Jack White: “I knew Boarding House Reach would be divisive” The former White Stripes frontman returned last month with “Taking Me Back”, his first solo single in three years. It followed the 2018 record Boarding House Reach. Yesterday (November 11) White confirmed that he will release his fourth album Fear Of The Dawn on April 8 ahead of its follow-up, Entering Heaven Alive, arriving on July 22. You...
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana-inspired artist aku came out with a beautiful song called “rose gold in paris town” and a fascinating music video along with it. The song is an ode to the honeymoon phase of relationships where two people believe they are just perfect for each other. With dark subliminal messages, though, aku brings the listener back to reality, showing images of distorted beauty. “Lost in Heaven Space” is another one of aku’s latest songs that has generated thousands of streams. It has some impressive fast-paced beats and a lovely tune that sinks itself into your mind. The...
“Vengeance” is Diddy BMW’s newest single, fast and energetic. The song is meant to uncover the truth behind the glamorous appeal of living a street life. As anything else, there are numerous downsides to it and Diddy knows about them first hand, losing family and friends to gun violence and other criminal activity. With thousands upon thousands of streams to date and some heartfelt, bold music out, Diddy BMW is catching a lot of attention. “Shot You” was Diddy’s latest hit with thousands of streams, an infinitely impactful song with the most incredible rapping. His previous releases “Don’t Try...
CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Bruce Springsteen, Uncut’s Review Of 2021, Jason Isbell, Yasmin Williams, Jonny Greenwood, The Weather Station, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, the Beach Boys, The Coral, and Marvin Gaye all feature in the new Uncut, dated January 2022 and in UK shops from November 11 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 of the best tracks from 2021. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Bruce Springsteen contains multitudes: activist, balladeer, bandleader, rock star and more. Many of these different Bruces align in his...
