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Rush announce 2026 world tour
Rush co-founders Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have announced they will return to the stage in 2026 for a new tour, Fifty Something. The tour will not only celebrate Rush’s music but the life of late drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. It marks the first time Lee and Lifeson have toured together the finale of Rush’s R40 Tour on August 1, 2015. Advertisement For Fifty Something, Lee and Lifeson will be joined by drummer Anika Nilles. General onsale begins here on Friday, October 17. Rush’s 2026 Fifty Something Tour June 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia ForumJune 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia ForumJune 11...
Kraftwerk announce 2026 UK and Ireland tour
Following their one-off headline performance at the Forever Now festival in June, Kraftwerk have announced that they will tour the UK and Ireland next year, for the first time since 2017. The Multimedia Tour 2026 will visit 14 cities in May and June, with an additional early evening show at London’s Royal Albert Hall. See the poster below for the full itinerary: Advertisement Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday October 10 from here.
Jimmy Page pays tribute to Yardbirds’ co-founder, Chris Dreja
Jimmy Page has paid tribute to Chris Dreja, the rhythm guitarist, bassist and co-founder of The Yardbirds, who has died aged 79. Born Christopher Walenty Dreja in 1945, he was raised in Kingston, Surrey – on the ‘Thames Delta’, as the home of the British blues scene became known. Advertisement Dreja began playing with guitarist Anthony “Top” Topham, a school friend of his brother, forming the Metropolitan Blues Quartet in 1963 with singer Keith Relf, bassist Paul Samwell-Smith and drummer Jim McCarty. Not long after, the band changed their name to the Yardbirds, Topham left to be replaced by...
St Etienne’s International reviewed: cherished indie pop trio go out on a party high
Their hip vision of a swinging London Back in 1992, Saint Etienne issued the insouciant invitation to “Join Our Club”. For indie pop lovers of style and taste, it was an easy RSVP. The Britpop-adjacent trio of Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell were well connected but never exclusive. If anything, they were nerdy enthusiasts, hymning their hip vision of a swinging London, which drew fondly across decades of post-war British, nay European, pop culture – film, literature and visual art as much as music – while deftly bodyswerving the more jingoistic connotations of Cool Britannia. More than...
Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket reviewed: darkly comic detective caper set during Prohibition-era
“The Al Capone of Cheese” Thomas Pynchon’s ninth novel starts out as a case for Hicks McTaggart, a private dick hired to find the daughter of “the Al Capone of Cheese”. (“A byword of terror in milk sheds throughout the land”.) Hicks is “a big ape with a light touch” whose style of investigation is peculiarly passive. As he is spirited from Milwaukee onto a transatlantic ocean liner and then to Europe, where fascism is sprouting, he becomes a hatstand for the author’s playful use of pulp detective tropes. The book completes Pynchon’s fictional jigsaw of the 20th century....
Send us your questions for Cameron Crowe!
There really aren’t enough films where the hero is a music journalist. But thanks to Cameron Crowe, there is at least one: 2000’s Oscar-winning Almost Famous, which helped to bring some much-needed legitimacy to the notion of asking philosophical questions to spaced-out guitarists for a living. Advertisement Crowe, of course, was once that teenage music journalist himself: Rolling Stone’s youngest ever correspondent, charming his way into the confidence of bands like The Allman Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles and Led Zeppelin. In 1981, he wrote Fast Times At Ridgemont High, which was turned into a cult movie of the same...
Uncut’s New Music Playlist for October 2025
As we move into what the money people call Q4, it feels as if 2025 still has plenty left to give. To wit, we bring you significant new singles by Dry Cleaning, Sleaford Mods and Melody’s Echo Chamber; wily survivors Peter Perrett, Robert Finley and Thurston Moore continue to deliver the goods; and if you haven’t yet encountered Plantoid, Mildred or The New Eves, you’re in for a treat. Plus there’s reliably excellent new stuff from Tortoise, Midlake, Ed Harcourt, Lianne La Havas and David Moore, among a myriad of other delights. Dive in… Advertisement DRY CLEANING“Hit My Head...
Listen to a previously unheard T.Rex song, “I’m Dazed”
To commemorate what would have been Marc Bolan’s 78th birthday, English Heritage have today unveiled a blue plaque at Bolan’s former home at 31 Clarendon Gardens, Maida Vale, London. The occasion has also been marked by the release of “I’m Dazed”, a completely unheard T. Rex song recorded in 1975, and recently discovered on studio tapes from the period. Advertisement The track was first laid down at Château d’Hérouville studios near Paris in March 1975, and T. Rex recorded a second version on April 22 at Musicland Studios in Munich. Produced by Bolan and engineered by Reinhold Mack, it...
The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs: “It was a publicity stunt and it worked”
Back in 1999, the idea of writing 69 love songs didn’t seem such a monumental task. “My labour was very cheap at the time,” says The Magnetic Fields’ mainman Stephin Merritt. “So devoting a year of full-time labour to one project didn’t seem all that unreasonable.” Advertisement For the past two years, Merritt has been touring his resultant three-hour masterpiece 69 Love Songs around the world to celebrate its 25th anniversary, playing the entire album over two consecutive nights, with upcoming shows at London’s Union Chapel as well as in Brighton and Bristol (tickets here). Last performed...Recent Posts
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