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Grouper Shade

“The Columbia river mouth is a chaotic and beautiful place,” Liz Harris, aka Grouper, reflects, discussing the relationship between the elements and her music, and thinking about where she currently lives, in Astoria, Oregon. “It is a doorway to the ocean, always in radical flux. The tide, the wind, the current, the rain. We get maritime weather here that does not hit the rest of the coast. Storms calm/reassure me.” This observation may surprise longtime listeners to Grouper, who often find a beatific radiance in Harris’s blurred, dissolving songs. But it speaks to the way oppositions oscillate in Grouper’s...
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Genesis reschedule London O2 shows to March 2022

Genesis have rescheduled their three shows at The O2 in London to next spring – check out the new dates below. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide: Genesis Earlier this month, the band were forced to postpone their final four UK reunion tour dates due to a positive COVID test. The cancellations came after the band have been travelling across the UK for their ‘The Last Domino?’ tour, which kicked off in Birmingham last month and marked their first shows in 14 years. Advertisement With a US leg of the...
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Friends and collaborators on Gil Scott-Heron’s legacy: “There seemed to be a part of him that could never really relax”

On April 19, 1971, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson were still essentially students in “ratty jeans”, being suspiciously eyeballed by the seasoned jazz and soul vets who had gathered to record their first album of proper songs at RCA Studios in New York City. On bass was Ron Carter of Miles Davis’s second great quintet; on drums was Aretha Franklin’s musical director Bernard “Pretty” Purdie; on flute, established bandleader Hubert Laws; and conducting them all was The Impressions’ arranger, Johnny Pate. ORDER NOW: Read the full feature on Gil Scott-Heron in Uncut’s December 2021 issue “Terrifying, that’s the best way...
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The Waterboys on Room To Roam’s legacy: “We were a lot wilder and more exciting than the record conveyed”

Anyone lucky enough to see The Waterboys in 1989 was in for a wild ride. Building on the momentum of the Fisherman’s Blues album, released the previous year, the band had evolved into a supercharged roots-and-rock collective, tearing through Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America. On a good night, and most of them were, the new seven-piece Waterboys seemed almost mystically attuned to a higher musical plane. The title of one new song summed it up: further up, further in. ORDER NOW: Read the full interview with The Waterboys in Uncut’s December 2021 issue “It was amazing to be part...
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Damon Albarn shares love for South America on new song “The Tower Of Montevideo”

Damon Albarn has shared a brand new solo track – listen to “The Tower Of Montevideo” below. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: Damon Albarn, Hot Chip: End Of The Road Festival 2021 – Day 2 The song is the latest preview of the Blur and Gorillaz singer’s second solo album The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, which is due to land on November 12 via Transgressive. The new song is inspired by Albarn‘s love of South America, and named after Palacio Salvo, a 1920s building in the...
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Never Gonna Snow Again

For several years, director Małgorzata Szumowska and cinematographer Michael Englert have been the most productive force in Polish cinema, with an unpredictable and cosmopolitan output ranging from Juliette Binoche drama Elles to recent US-set religious-cult drama The Other Lamb. Their latest, Never Gonna Snow Again, is among their most thoroughly Polish but may be the title that really marks their international breakthrough. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut Alec Utgoff plays Zhenya, a young mystery man from the East – ominously near Chernobyl, in fact – who arrives at a Polish...
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The Velvet Underground

With an oeuvre devoted to the poison, perversity and paranoia of the 20th century and a passion for telling tales of ambition, fame and oblivion, you couldn’t imagine a director better suited to a Velvet Underground documentary than Todd Haynes.  But though you might have hoped for some occult, oneiric version of the story told via fabulist casting, phantasmagoric CGI and a little puppetry, The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film by Todd Haynes is a story as straight as its title. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut Understanding the challenge of...
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The dB’s I Thought You Wanted To Know

In the halcyon days of New York punk club CBGBs, there was a pinball machine located in the furthest corner away from the stage. In his memoir Spy In The House Of Loud: New York Songs And Stories, dB’s co-leader Chris Stamey remembers being drawn to that part of the room on the (frequent) occasions when the band on stage wasn’t quite as thrilling as legend would have you believe. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut He wrote: “When a skilled player like Dee Dee Ramone nudged it just the right...
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Buffalo Nichols Buffalo Nichols

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols opens his self-titled debut with a crisp acoustic blues riff, bending the notes upwards while he depicts himself as a deeply and irredeemably lonely man. “If you see me in your town, looking tired with my head hanging down,” he sings on Lost & Lonesome, “you may wonder what went wrong and why I’m alone”. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut It’s a bracing introduction to an artist who uses blues to examine the world around him and who understands the historical weight of the music without being...
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