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Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Where Monk was mysteriously interior and Coltrane beatific, Mingus was volcanic, a big, turbulent man who notoriously punched the embouchure and prospects of his trombonist Jimmy Knepper to bits, and regularly blew his own career stormily off-course. His autobiography Beneath The Underdog saw his music subsumed by wild pornographic excess, even a composing sanctum in a plush New York pad paid for by the tortured pimping of willing lovers. Where smack and a wounded liver were the crosses Coltrane’s genius bore, libido and temper were Mingus’, snagged at root on American racism’s barbed-wire, which sometimes made him feel that...
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Arushi Jain Under The Lilac Sky

Under The Lilac Sky, the closing track from Arushi Jain’s album of the same name, is a startling thing. Moving through a series of gorgeously built patterns for modular synth that spiral around each other like double helixes, it’s a composition that can place you in an entirely different emotional and psychic realm to the quotidian spaces of our daily surroundings, while still serving the everyday needs and desires of the listener. In Jain’s embrace both of modular synthesis and the Indian classical tradition that forms the backbone of her musical education, we can find an experimenter’s eye for...
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Send us your questions for The Weather Station

Back in the depths of winter lockdown, Tamara Lindeman made our lives a little more bearable with the release of her soaring fifth album, Ignorance. Today, she’s announced a deluxe version of the album featuring a whole disc of bonus material, including “Better Now” which you can hear below: Advertisement “Whenever you make anything, you have to leave things out,” says Lindeman. “It’s a critical part of the process, but a painful one nonetheless. I’m glad to have the opportunity to revisit the paths not taken, and allow some of them out after all; quiet versions of songs that...
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Ren Claire Ups The Ante On New Releases “Tight Rope” and “Refresh Me”

Ren Claire is back with a double feature of tracks. Titled “Tight Rope” and “Refresh Me,” the artist brings up her talents to reach new boils. The two new tracks transmit the artist’s sound through storytelling and immersive vibes, the tales are told over mesmerizing. They feature a bass line that bounces alongside delicate stabs laced with smooth pads, complemented by Claire’s amazing vocals. The track will be turning heads with her tantalizing tones and various touches upon many genres. She serves up a genre-spanning duo that accentuates her multidimensional talents. The package welcomes stripped-back deep vibes with soaring...
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Siouxsie & The Banshees on their imperial phase in the ’80s: “We pushed ourselves beyond the realm of safety”

September 7, 1979: Aberdeen’s Capitol Theatre is hosting a Friday-night concert by Siouxsie & The Banshees, who are just a few days into a tour supporting their new album, Join Hands. Rumours are rife that John McKay and Kenny Morris – the Banshees’ guitarist and drummer – have quit earlier that day, following a bust-up during a signing session at the city’s The Other Record Shop. When the Capitol Theatre opens its doors and the bar fills up, punters wonder whether the headliners will even appear. As the evening progresses, the signs aren’t good. The Cure, support band on...
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Hot Mondy Grabs Attention With “Desert Moonlight”

After “Pale Ember,” the Canadian team of 5 packs a new punch with their sultry sound on new track “Desert Moonlight.” The song carries a somewhat country feel that is perfectly assembled with their unique talents. Serving up deeply emotive sounds before now, their notable musicality favors organic sounds that are packed with detail.  Matt Rhind, Travis Flint, Troy Arseneault, Mat Budreski, and Matt Brannon, have come together once more to create an all-encompassing country-inspired fusion of tunes.  The shredded beat is further detailed with haunting string pads and guitar, as it introduces a soulful vocal that adds to...
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Steve Edwards Shines Bright With A Debut Single “Colour of Blood”

Steve Edwards has just dropped his new single called “Colour of Blood”. The New Zealand-based singer-songwriter executed a beautiful vision through his music video and through the overall melodic song vibes. A composition in the modern rock genre, “Colour of Blood” is a transcendental anthem of truth pouring out of the artist’s life experiences. “Colour of Blood” is the first of ten songs in Steve’s upcoming album Born which promises to be a treat for the masses. Like most good songwriters, Steve Edwards too, puts his own experiences, wisdom gained through living, and deeply personal thoughts into his songs....
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Premiere: Raquel Kiaraa Speaks To The Power Of Women in Defying Odds

Singer-songwriter Raquel Kiaraa announces her new album Defying Odds, which speaks to the boundless power and inner strength women have. In this album, Raquel is celebrating the beauty of giving life, welcoming a baby into the world, and continuing to pursue ambitious goals as a woman.  Striving to do her best in everything, Raquel has taken her music one step further, empowering herself and empowering so many women that are also going through pregnancy. In her own words: “women rise to the occasion proving to themselves and the world that the impossible is possible, and their dreams are alive,...
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Rory Gallagher Rory Gallagher 50th Anniversary Edition

When Taste broke up in the autumn of 1970, Rory Gallagher went through the mixed emotions that follow any divorce. There was pride: their final festival appearance at the alongside and had been spectacular and their last studio album, 1970’s On The Boards, had fused Gallagher’s driving blues-rock with jazzier, more experimental influences and taken the band into the UK albums chart for the first time. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of the November 2021 issue of Uncut Yet there was frustration and anger, too. There was enmity with Taste’s manager Eddie Kennedy, who had signed...
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Saint Etienne I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

If, as LP Hartley’s novel The Go-Between has it, “the past is a foreign country”, then Saint Etienne have earned frequent flyer status. From their 1991 debut, Foxbase Alpha, which leaned on UK club culture, C86 and ’60s pop, through 2005’s Tales From Turnpike House, a David Essex-featuring, indie-disco set themed around a fictional high-rise, to their ninth album Home Counties, a titular paean to where all three grew up, the reimagining of places and times slightly removed has always been central. It’s defined them as very English stylists with a psychogeographic bent, whose name-checking of London’s Parkway, use...
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