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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
As Mark E Smith once told Peter Hammill, it wasn’t Van Der Graaf Generator’s lyrics that sparked his love for the band, or the specifics of their music, nor even their academic complexity. It was the sheer power of the thing that drew him in. “He said, ‘You just have to go with the power,’” recalls Hammill today. “And I agree with that. Mark did like an aspect of noise, something Van Der Graaf have always liked. Sometimes that’s just noise brutality, and sometimes it’s noise in the musique concrète style.” ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover...
After waiting decades, Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael have finally made it to the big screen in a dazzle of grandeur and glory – not just as subjects of Edgar Wright’s joyous portrait The Sparks Brothers, but as co-writers and composers of a bizarre fantasy confection by elusive French director Leos Carax. Annette isn’t so much a musical as a piece of modern grand opera – a dark romance about a famed soprano (Marion Cotillard) and a tormented up-and-coming comedian (Adam Driver). Happiness seems to be theirs – but when their passion and pain erupt one stormy night at...
Summer Rain, a modern rock band based in Canada, has released their newest single “Let Me Tell You” which is a beautiful romance song that instantly takes the listener to the time of classical hits of North American Music. Influenced by Coldplay, Kings of Leon, and Oasis, their music captures the interpersonal energy the band members have as well as the authenticity each person adds to it. Summer Rain has three members — Will McLelland as lead vocalist and guitarist, Josh Beausoleil on bass and vocals, and Logan Hale on drums and slide whistle. The band’s previous release, “Hold...
British vocalist Chloe has established herself as a fresh new face in the electronic pop music world. Her collaboration with Seekay, fellow artist and music producer from Australia, has become a true staple. Together they have produced several great tracks with Seekay creating the sound and Chloe doing the vocals. “Fall”, “Hold” and “Rose” are some of their most acclaimed singles. The duo has recently released a full EP titled “Reflections” which is a collection of most imaginative, dreamy singles produced by the two artists together. In it, they have masterfully blended lyrics and sound to create a whole...