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Big Thief: “We need each other to survive”

July 2020 at Sam Evian’s Flying Cloud studio in the Catskill mountains. It’s only a few months since Big Thief’s world tour to promote their albums UFOF and Two Hands was dramatically curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the band forced to play their final show in the street outside Copenhagen’s Vega concert hall before hightailing it back to America in a state of panic. While the rest of the western world stockpiles toilet roll and adjusts to working from home, Adrianne Lenker chooses to lock down in a remote one-room cabin in western Massachusetts, where – processing the...
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David Byrne’s American Utopia resumes with modified show amid Omicron surge in New York

David Byrne’s American Utopia is returning to Broadway in modified form due to the surge in Omicron COVID-19 cases in New York. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: David Byrne’s American Utopia review The show started its second run in Manhattan earlier this year but was forced to cancel dates after a rise in cases and company members testing positive for the virus. Byrne has announced that American Utopia has resumed on December 28, albeit not in its usual form. “Most nights I’m on this stage performing American Utopia...
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ZAM Official Need “No Reason” To Reject A Guy

The skilled female trio best known as ZAM Official clearly state that they need no reason to reject a guy in their newest single titled “No Reason.”  No matter how many things or what a guy would do for them, they would rather be single for now and pursue their dream of becoming a prominent musical group in the industry. Rasti, Goldi & Mika have once again demonstrated the sharpness of their artistry in “No Reason,” a powerful follow-up release to “Selfish,” a single that revolved around doing things for yourself and being carefree.  Empowering women and girls through...
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Karen Dalton: In My Own Time

It’s a small miracle this film exists. In October 2018, a fire destroyed the Woodstock home of folk guitarist Peter Walker and with it the entire archive of his old friend Karen Dalton – her journals, handwritten lyrics, poetry and artwork. The loss is incalculable, but fortunately, just months before, he’d had everything digitised, allowing directors Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz to draw from these artifacts and paint the clearest picture yet of this mysterious and troubled – yet oddly influential – artist. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut A free spirit...
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Bola Sete Samba in Seattle : Live at the Penthouse

In the pantheon of guitar gods, from Delta blues sliders and ferocious rock gunslingers to fingerpicking folk stylists and bold American primitives, the gentle maestros of the Brazilian nylon-stringed acoustic (violão in Portuguese) too often get forgotten. The likes of Joao Gilberto, Luiz Bonfa and Heitor Villa-Lobos all deserve recognition, but perhaps the finest of them all was Bola Sete. John Fahey called him his “favourite guitar player” and signed him to his Takoma label, while Carlos Santana likened him to a nylon-stringed Hendrix and said to hear him play was to be in the presence of “something multi-dimensionally...
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Bush Tetras Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best Of the Bush Tetras

When Bush Tetras drummer Dee Pop died unexpectedly in October, plans were already well underway for this career-spanning retrospective. Confirming they would press ahead, bandmates Pat Place and Cynthia Sley noted that much of what went into Rhythm And Paranoia came from Pop’s own collection: the band’s most passionate historian, he kept an archive of their recordings and supplied many of the flyers and photos reproduced in an accompanying book. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Formed in 1979, Bush Tetras emerged from the no-wave scene in New York: they were contemporaries...
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It’s Officially Christmas Party Time With Riotron’s “Silent Night”

Riotron is out with a remarkable EDM track that is a beautiful new version of the classic “Silent Night”. Unique and creative as always, Riotron showcases his talent through this collaboration with GOLDHOUSE, a renowned Chicago DJ. The song is both festive and futuristic; its music and beats take the listener into outer space while the solid bells ground them right on the dancefloor. “Silent Night” has always been a Christmas favorite and is now gaining a new wave of popularity thanks to Riotron. The Canadian artist has been on the radar with millions upon millions of streams for...
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Pretenders Pretenders (Deluxe Edition) / Pretenders II (Deluxe Edition)

In her 2015 memoir, Reckless, Chrissie Hynde described the pre-show ritual in the early days of her band, the Pretenders: the four of them, backstage, waiting, “like dogs at the gate”. As they took to the stage they would play Wagner’s “Ride Of The Valkyries”, then widely known for scoring a pivotal sequence in Apocalypse Now: the sound of helicopters, menace, pursuit. Among the young band members, Hynde said, it encouraged a feeling that they were all “chasing something”. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Listen to the Pretenders’ first two records...
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Air 10 000 Hz Legend

Suddenly everyone had somewhere else to be – at least, that’s how Air remember the playback of their second album to Virgin’s UK executives. “After about 10 minutes, they were like, ‘Oh, we have a meeting we can’t postpone,’” says Nicolas Godin. “They were in panic. It was a big disaster for them… they were expecting Moon Safari 2.” ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel weren’t displeased by the reception. Their debut LP had been everywhere in 1998 and ’99 – from primetime radio to dinner parties –...
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Houeida Hedfi Fleuves de l’ me

The debut album by the Tunisian musician Houeida Hedfi has been more than 10 years in the making. In 2011 she played percussion on a compilation album of female musicians from Tunisia, many of them linked to the Arab Spring protests of 2010 and 2011. Hedfi’s contribution was mixed by the Swedish producer Olof Dreijer – one half of the electronic duo The Knife – and the two developed a rapport. Dreijer played flute in Hedfi’s band Hiya Wal Âalam, who toured America in 2015, and offered to produce her work. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in...
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