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Listen to The Beatles’ Get Back rooftop concert in full
The Beatles’ legendary 1969 rooftop has arrived on streaming services – you can listen to it below. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: The Beatles – Let It Be Special Deluxe Edition review The unannounced gig took place on top of Apple Corps’ headquarters on Savile Row in London, marking the Fab Four’s final public performance of their career. Peter Jackson’s recent documentary The Beatles: Get Back includes footage of the concert, with limited IMAX screenings of the show having taken place last Sunday (January 30). Advertisement On January...
Nils Lofgren removes his music from Spotify
Crazy Horse and E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren is the latest artist to announce he’s removing his music from Spotify in support of Neil Young. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Neil Young & The Crazy Horse – Barn review In a post shared to the Neil Young Archives on January 29, Lofgren expressed his solidarity with Young, actress Daryl Hannah and the doctors, scientists and nurses who have called out “Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people”. “When these heroic women and...
Carambolage Carambolage (reissue 1980), Eilzustellung-Exprès (1982), Bon Voyage (1984)
“Everything changes when you change it,” as ’70s agit-punk band and North Frisia communards Ton Steine Scherben once advised. Frustrated drummer/percussionist Britta Neander took that to heart and left to form her own band in 1979, recruiting fellow resident Elfie-Esther Steitz as singer, guitarist and keyboardist, and Berlin émigrée Angie Olbrich as bass player. Carambolage – the French word for a pile-up – were part of the Neue Deutsche Welle and one of the scene’s very few all-female bands, building themselves a practice space inside an old grain silo, which was off-limits to the rest of the (largely male)...
Black Flower Magma
Belgium has been the butt of jokes from the Anglophone pop world for decades – Technotronic, the Singing Nun and some hilariously hi-NRG gabba acts being the country’s prime pop exports – but the Belgian jazz scene has a long and noble history. Artists as diverse as Django Reinhardt, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine and Marc Moulin have created varieties of jazz quite distinct from anything that was happening in the United States. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Now in the Belgian vanguard are Black Flower, fronted by Nathan Daems, a...
Imarhan Aboogi
Imarhan have long been anointed as official heirs to Tinariwen’s desert-rock throne. Frontman Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane (aka Sadam) is the cousin of Tinariwen’s bassist Eyadou Ag Leche and has joined them as a touring member on occasion. The bond between the two bands continues on this album, with Tinariwen’s Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni and Mohammed Ag Itlale (aka Japonais) contributing guest vocals – the latter, poignantly, in his final recording session before his death in February. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut While the music Imarhan make draws from the same...
The Weather Station announces new album, shares new song “Endless Time”
Tamara Lindeman, aka The Weather Station, has announced a new album, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars. The album is a companion piece to last year’s Ignorance – which was voted Uncut’s Best Album Of 2021. Lindeham has shared a track from the album – here’s “Endless Time“: Advertisement How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars was recorded live at Toronto’s Canterbury Music Studios between March 10 – 12, 2020, with Jean Martin co-producing. Lindeman’s band for the record include Christine Bougie on guitar and lap steel, Karen Ng on saxophone and...
Neil Young wants his music removed from Spotify “immediately”
Neil Young wants his music “immediately” removed from Spotify, which he says is “spreading false information” about the COVID-19 vaccine. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Neil Young & The Crazy Horse – Barn review The legendary folk-rocker shared an open letter to his team Monday (January 24), formally requesting that they – his agents at Lookout Management and the corporate leadership at Warner Bros. – “act on this immediately” and keep Young “informed of the time schedule”, as Rolling Stone reports. He took particular aim at controversial podcaster...
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band announce new album Dear Scott and UK tour dates
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band have announced details of their new album, Dear Scott. The follow-up to 2017’s Adiós Señor Pussycat, Dear Scott has been produced by Bill Ryder-Jones and will be released on May 27 via Modern Sky UK. CLICK HERE TO BUY OUR NEW ISSUE “I’ve been working with Bill Ryder-Jones in his studio in West Kirby, which is brilliant – dead chilled,” Head told Uncut at the end of last year. “It’s the first time Bill and I’ve worked together and it’s been magical. As well as a producer, he’s a gifted multi-instrumentalist –...
Bob Dylan announces spring 2022 dates for his ‘Never Ending Tour’
Bob Dylan has announced details of a spring run of dates for his ‘Never Ending Tour’. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Reviewed! Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom The tour resumes in Phoenix on March 3 and will run for 27 dates over five weeks. Dylan’s website hints that more dates will be announced after this, saying that the tour will run until 2024. Advertisement A ticket pre-sale for this run of dates begins on January 27, with a general on-sale beginning on January 28. You can purchase tickets...Recent Posts
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