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Beatles film producer Denis O’Dell has died, aged 98
Denis O’Dell, an acclaimed producer best known for his work on films starring The Beatles, has died at age 98. READ MORE: A Long Rewinding Road – 10 Highlights From The Beatles: Get Back Documentary O’Dell’s passing was confirmed by his son Arran, who told The Associated Press on January 1 that he died of natural causes at his home in Almería, Spain on Thursday December 30. Breaking out into the world of film in the 1940s, O’Dell racked up an impressive catalogue that sported such hits as It’s A Wonderful World (1956), Tread Softly Stranger (1958) and The...
Without Getting Killed Or Caught
Guy Clark’s death in 2016, aged 74, was widely and correctly mourned not merely as the passing of a titan of modern country music, but as something like the end of an era. Though Clark had never become massively famous, he’d written a lot of songs that had, while those who knew of him revered him as a flame-keeper of a particular sort of country – literary and wry, with gentle iconoclastic tendencies. Clark may, more than anyone else, have invented what we now think of as Americana and alt.country. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the...
Titane
Truly deranged films don’t often come along these days – and when they do, you don’t expect them to win the exalted Palme d’Or in Cannes. That’s why Julia Ducournau’s Titane stands out as a wild exception; she’s also only the second woman to win the prize, 28 years after Jane Campion’s The Piano. Titane is the French director’s follow-up to her acclaimed, all-out feral Raw, a cannibal coming-of-age story. Heroine Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) has had a titanium plate in her head since childhood and now works as an erotic dancer at motor shows, while exploring a sideline in...
Various Artists Sacred Soul of North Carolina
Since Thomas A Dorsey made a business of gospel music soon after the turn of the 20th century, myriad black religious musical traditions have been studied, recorded, compiled and packaged, from the Sacred Harp singing of tiny churches lining the deep South, to highly sample-able gospel funk emanating from Churches Of God In Christ in major Rust Belt cities. Two years ago, footage of Aretha Franklin recording “Amazing Grace” at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972 was released, drawing renewed attention and appreciation for the black church among secular audiences, for its music and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...Recent Posts
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