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Wet Leg – Moisturizer

From The Rolling Stones to Robert Palmer, love as a medical emergency is a perennial theme for songwriters. Well, sound the alarm and send out the paramedics once again, because Wet Leg are in love. It’s all over their second album, but explicitly ringing out as a klaxon call on current single “CPR”. “Hello 999, what’s your emergency?” asks Rhian Teasdale with call handler calm before making her orgasmic self-diagnosis: “I…I…I…I…I…I’m in love.” And when Teasdale sings she’s in love, you’d best believe she’s in love, however you want to spell it. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED Advertisement It’s quite the turnaround. Debut album Wet Leg was written post-break-up, its sass and snark enabling a playfully scornful catharsis. Most of the songs had been concocted purely for the amusement of Teasdale and fellow founder Hester Chambers, a sort of knockabout therapy. But the release of debut single “Chaise Longue” in the summer of 2021 changed everything. Wet Leg became an old-school overnight sensation, as the world beyond their Isle of Wight home – an unexpected… Read More →

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Bill Callahan – EartH Theatre, London, July 2, 2025

The worst of the heatwave has passed through London by the time Bill Callahan rolls into town, but it’s still sweltering in Earth’s cavernous art deco theatre. It’s packed in here, too: 720 people squeezed in to witness one of America’s finest living songwriters play a rare solo show as part of a European summer run. A handful will be lucky enough to pick up one of the custom T-shirts Callahan is selling at the merch stall for £40 – plain, off-white shirts that he writes on before each show. On the last one left, he’s written “River Guard” across the front in black marker pen, the title of one of his most powerful songs, from 1999’s Knock Knock. Someone snaps it up. Seems like a good deal. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED The size of venue feels right for this stripped-back show. The sole focus is Callahan, in green shirt and blue trousers, playing a white electric Fender and a hi-hat he operates with his left foot while his right activates a subtle… Read More →

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WIN tickets to the Amateur Photographer Festival of Photography – DOCUMENTARY!

Our friends at Amateur Photographer are hosting the Festival of Photography – DOCUMENTARY a one-day event held on August 9, 2025 at the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London – and you could win tickets to the event. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED Advertisement Building on the success of the Festival of Outdoor Photography, Amateur Photographer is giving you another opportunity to learn, be inspired and engage with leading image-makers as they share their wealth of knowledge. Throughout the day you will hear from a series of world class experts in Documentary photography. Each giving an insight into their work, how they captured some of the world’s best known documentary images and how you can too. Confirmed speakers include: Zed Nelson, Laura Pannack, Jillian Edelstein, Jon Nicholson and more! Here’s the line-up… Advertisement ZED NELSON: Guns, Beauty and the AnthropoceneThis year’s Sony World Photography Awards winner Zed Nelson takes us on a revealing journey into humankind’s increasingly illusory relationship with the natural world, and behind the scenes on three previous award-winning projects. JON NICHOLSON: Auto ExposureJon takes… Read More →

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Watch Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts perform “Ambulance Blues”

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts performed “Ambulance Blues” last night [July 1, 2025] at Drafbaan Stadspark, Groningen in The Netherlands. You can watch fan footage below. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED This is a relatively rare outing for the On The Beach track, which Young hasn’t performed live since his 2019 American solo tour. Prior to that, Young and The Promise Of The Real (the Chrome Hearts forebears) performed it during a private concert in France in 2016. The track received a more consistent outing during Young’s 2008 tour with the Chrome Dreams band – aka Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Ralph Molina, Pegi Young, Anthony Crawford and Cary Kemp. You can read our review of Young and the Chrome Hearts in Copenhagen on June 22, 2025 by clicking here.

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The Best Albums Of 2025… Halftime Report

As we hit the halfway point of 2025, here’s 20 of the best albums we’ve heard – released between January 1 and June 30. This list is chronological, beginning with The Weather Station‘s Humanhood – which was released on January 17 – and ending with Van Morrison‘s Remember Now, which was released on June 13. Advertisement Plenty of great stuff here – from familiar faces to newcomers and, we hope, a few surprises… THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED The Weather StationHumanhood[Fat Possum]What we said: “Tamara Lindeman’s stunning seventh album is the work of a songwriter at the peak of her powers, possessing fierce honesty and outstanding creative instincts as she addresses anxieties both personal and global…“ Advertisement Chris EckmanThe Land We Knew The Best[Glitterhouse]What we said: “… a collection of interior monologues, essays in contrition, apology, enough regret to flood a valley. ‘Somehow I missed the memo that said when you reach breaking point, you just say stop…’ Eckman sings on the confessional ‘Haunted Nights’, an attempt to explain ruinous behaviour…“ Richard DawsonEnd Of The… Read More →

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Five of the best live sets we saw at Glastonbury 2025

Pulp(Pyramid Stage, Saturday) Advertisement It’s been precisely thirty years and four days, Jarvis Cocker informs us, since Pulp walked onto the Pyramid Stage in 1995 to replace The Stone Roses as headliners, a genuine surprise in the pre-iSnitch days. For two songs – “Sorted For E’s And Wizz” and “Disco 2000”, both debuted here in ’95 – there’s the possibility that ‘Patchwork’ (as they’re billed) might recreate that legendary set in jumbled order, but towards the end of their sensational hour, Cocker pulls out the original 1995 setlist, writ on the back of an envelope, and tears it to pieces declaring, “It’s all about now”. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED And a rammed Pyramid Stage field very much live in their own Pulp Summer moment; there’s an effervescent “Do You Remember The First Time?”, a breakneck “Mis-Shapes”, a sublime “Babies” and an intimate “Something Changed”. “Acrylic Afternoons” takes us back to the dawning of indie sleaze and the Red Arrows make a perfectly timed fly-by at the climax of “Common People”. Thirty years on, they… Read More →

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Kara Major’s “Can’t Control Me” Sparks a Powerful Burn of Purpose

When Kara Major punches in, she doesn’t clock out until she’s dismantled a system. In her new single “Can’t Control Me,” she doesn’t just offer another dance track to sweat through—she launches a full-bodied challenge to addiction, energetic manipulation, and conformity culture, wrapped in the volatility of EDM. “Can’t Control Me” demands full presence. Produced by Grammy-winning Vinny Venditto, the track opens with a lean, tightly wound build, teetering on the edge of restraint before erupting into a serrated drop. And that’s where Kara’s vocals land—front and center, unbothered and raw. It’s that confident, spoken edge that pulls from both rap and club traditions, but refuses to be boxed in by either. She’s here to remind you who’s running the room—and more importantly, who’s running herself. The most striking part of “Can’t Control Me” is the shift in perspective Kara Major employs. She doesn’t just tell her story of growth and recovery from the outside in—she voices the chaos, the seduction of the forces that once had her under. There’s a quiet brilliance in that choice. It gives the song a kind of possession; not just thematic, but rhythmic. The result is a piece that plays like a spiritual confrontation… Read More →

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Introducing The Definitive Ultimate Music Guide: Oasis

Hello, hello, it’s good to be back “You gonna wake up then, or what?” Advertisement As we launch this new magazine, in the shops tomorrow, it’s exactly 31 years – almost to the minute – since Oasis first sauntered on to the NME stage at the Glastonbury Festival and into the consciousness of the wider world. Up until this point the band had been joyously heralded by the weekly music papers for six months, and available to witness at only around 30 gigs in provincial pubs and clubs. This, then – for a group who had released their debut single six weeks previously – was undoubtedly a big one. Oasis play for 30 minutes, but from what I recall from watching them out in the field that day, it feels much longer. The performance is poised and spectacularly unhurried, as if they have everything completely under control and are proceeding, from “Shakermaker” to “I Am The Walrus”, at their own serene pace, according to their own plan. There’s a point during the instrumental break of “Supersonic” where Liam Gallagher stands completely still and simply drinks it all in, for a moment the calm centre of the storm. He reviews the… Read More →

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Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, London, June 26, 2025

Pete Townshend’s major rock operas – Tommy, Lifehouse and Quadrophenia – are a personal legacy he continues to wrestle with, repeatedly reviving and retranslating them into new forms. Quadrophenia (1973) was his attempt to remind The Who of their youthful Mod roots, and the music which lured him back to the band for 1996 performances of the album. After the 1979 film fleshed out and supplanted his liner note narrative, his wife Rachel Fuller’s orchestral arrangements for Quadrophenia Classical (2015) reconfigured the music. That recording, with additional soloists replacing vocals, soundtracks Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet. The title will provoke derision from Who fundamentalists, suspicious of Townshend’s sometimes overreaching penchant for high-art versions of his classic music. Working with his blessing and light touch consultation, though, this Sadler’s Wells production revives Quadrophenia’s fervid, youthful essence. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED Advertisement A prologue sees Jimmy (Paris Fitzpatrick) poised on a jutting rock over stormy back-projected waves and the equally tempestuous, crashing brass of “I Am The Sea”. Four Mods emerge behind him to represent his four… Read More →

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XTINE Won’t Sugarcoat It: “Nobody Stays” Stings Like the Truth

XTINE doesn’t make music to be liked. She makes it to be felt. On “Nobody Stays“, the Devon-born alt-pop artist rips into the raw nerve of abandonment with surgical precision. There’s no metaphorical padding here, just clean, direct lyricism that lands like a sucker punch: “Will I keep you, or will I end up pushing you?” It’s a question that doesn’t want an answer—it wants blood. First premiered on May 15, “Nobody Stays“ builds itself on a foundation of beautiful contradiction: orchestral strings crash into glitchy electronics; XTINE’s voice floats but never flinches. It’s Björk in the therapy room. It’s Sia with her guard down. It’s the kind of track that doesn’t ask for your attention—it commands it. More than just a song, “Nobody Stays” functions as a protest—against sanitized emotion, against the silence around mental health, and against the pop industry’s obsession with polish. It’s deeply personal, openly referencing XTINE’s own struggles with borderline personality disorder. But it never asks for pity. Instead, it leans into the chaos with intention and power. Her decision to anchor the accompanying music video in a bare studio setting—just her, a mic, and her notebook—isn’t some lo-fi aesthetic stunt. It’s a reminder: production… Read More →

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Lana Del Rey opens 2025 UK tour in Cardiff

Lana Del Rey opened her British tour in Cardiff last night, June 23, 2025. Here are our pick of five great moments from the show. ULTIMATE RECORD COLLECTION: LANA DEL REY IS IN SHOPS NOW OR AVAILABLE TO BUY FROM US HERE Advertisement Country playlist Hope you like her new direction! Whether it’s called Lasso, The Right One Will Stay, Classic or something different entirely, Lana’s new album is said to moving in a country direction. Even if support group London Grammar don’t exactly set the tone for that, Lana’s pre-show playlist does – hitting the crowd with historic pop/country crossover hits like Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John” (1961), “Jackson” by Johnny Cash and June Carter (1967) and Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” (1975). Actual husband Advertisement Much as she did at Stagecoach in the spring, Lana opens the show with a new song, “Husband Of Mine”. Point of difference for Cardiff: her actual husband – alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene – is in the house! “It’s a long way to travel,” she explains as she sniffles a bit after embracing him mid-song. “These are good tears!” “Happy Birthday Lana!” There weren’t a load of signs commemorating Lana’s 40th birthday last… Read More →

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Hear The Lemonheads’ new single, “In The Margin”

Evan Dando has confirmed that the new Lemonheads album Love Chant will be released by Fire Records on October 24. Hear new single “In The Margin” below: THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED Love Chant (pre-order here) was recorded in Brazil by Apollo Nove and features guest appearances from J Mascis, Juliana Hatfield, Erin Rae, John Strohm of the Blake Babies and Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond. Other songs were co-written with Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches and Dando’s long-time collaborator Tom Morgan. It will be released to coincide with Dando’s memoir, Rumours Of My Demise, which is published by Faber on November 6. The Lemonheads tour the UK and Europe throughout August and September, see the full list of dates on the poster below:

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Terry Riley by Pete Townshend

Happy 90th birthday, Terry Riley! Pete Townshend hails the minimalist maestro’s enduring influence… “The first time I heard Terry Riley would’ve been A Rainbow In Curved Air, when it first came out in 1969. I wasn’t particularly studying minimalist or electronic music, but I was experimenting and finding new stuff, and I happened upon him. I was playing with tape machines, which were central to Terry Riley’s method. It was how he got his delay loops. I also had two tape machines, but I used to bounce from machine to machine, rather than use them as a delay system. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED “‘Baba O’Riley’ was an accident. It came out of the Lifehouse project, where I was working on creating music using computers. But I couldn’t get my hands on a music computer that was up to the job, and ended up drifting into synthesisers. I was working with the Lowrey Berkshire, which had a repetitive kind of arpeggio setting. Instead of precise mathematical beats, it had drop beats in between, with… Read More →

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Mick Ralphs of Mott The Hoople and Bad Company has died, aged 81

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Mick Ralphs – founding member of both Mott The Hoople and Bad Company – has died aged 81 following a long illness. Advertisement He had been unable to perform since suffering a stroke in November 2016, not long after a Bad Company reunion tour culminated in a triumphant headline show at London’s 02 Arena. Mick Ralphs co-founded Mott The Hoople in 1969, writing songs such as “One Of The Boys” and “Sucker”, often in collaboration with frontman Ian Hunter. Ralphs left the band following 1973’s Mott to form supergroup Bad Company with former Free members Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke. He wrote or co-wrote most of their big hits, including “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad” and US Top 10 single “Feel Like Makin’ Love”. Advertisement Ralphs also wrote “Flying Hour” with George Harrison, toured with David Gilmour and released three solo albums, before participating in various Mott The Hoople and Bad Company reunions. “Our Mick has passed, my heart just hit the ground,” wrote Paul Rodgers in tribute. “He has left us with exceptional songs and memories. He was my friend, my songwriting partner, an amazing and versatile guitarist who had the greatest sense of humour. Our… Read More →

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Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts, Tiøren, Copenhagen, June 22, 2025

It’s 8pm on the button when Neil Young ambles on stage wearing a grey baseball cap, Maple Leaf t-shirt, check shirt and jeans, straps on his acoustic guitar and harmonica rig to deliver the first surprise of tonight’s show. A song about the passage of the years and a changing world, “Comes A Time” – making its tour debut – introduces one of several themes that weave loosely through the setlist of Young’s first European tour since 2019. As with “Looking Forward” and “Old Man” much later on tonight, these songs have been waiting patiently for him to grow old enough to fully reveal their gifts. What once seemed like uncannily wise observations from a blossoming songwriter have taken on a pathos, humanity and warmth that comes with age. These are now songs of experience: “Look at how the time goes past,” he sings on “Old Man”; written by Young when he was 24 but now delivered by the man a few months’ shy of his 80th birthday. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED Our… Read More →

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Wilco – Royal Albert Hall, London, June 22

On a night that Jeff Tweedy proclaims to be one of the best of his life, Wilco deliver a triumphant one-night stand at the Royal Albert Hall that confirms they are one of the most versatile and exhilarating bands around. The 23-song set, plucked imaginatively and democratically from across the band’s deep catalogue, ends with the crowd on their feet while Tweedy, flanked by guitarists Nels Cline and Patrick Sansone, laps up the crowd’s acclaim. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED The band’s mastery of the occasion is confirmed with a thunderous “Quiet Amplifier” from Ode To Joy that comes just a couple of songs after the intimate “If I Ever Was A Child”. That contrast between two different flavours of intense has always been one of the most exciting things about Wilco, and it’s amplified in the live arena as they switch from quiet to deranged within the course of a few bars of the same song – “Handshake Drugs” and “Bird Without A Tail/Base Of My Skull” being prime examples. On “Via Chicago”… Read More →

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The Damned announce 50th anniversary show at Wembley Arena in April

Evergreen punk pioneers The Damned have announced a special show at OVO Wembley Arena on April 11, 2026, to mark the 50th anniversary of their formation. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED They’ll be supported on the night by The Loveless featuring Marc Almond, Peter Hook And The Light and The Courettes. “Half a century on and who’d have thought The Damned would still be upright and breathing?” wrote the band in an accompanying statement. “We have shared some tragic losses along the way, but like a finely tuned engine, The Damned still has the power and finesse to excite, entertain and accelerate into our 50th year… Advertisement “We haven’t made up the set list as yet but with 50 years of catalogue to choose from, only the best songs from our chequered history will be performed – and with the passion and commitment all good music lovers deserve. You know we won’t disappoint… We never thought we’d make it this far and neither did you….” The current line-up of The Damned features founding members… Read More →

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Bobby Weir & The Wolf Bros, Royal Albert Hall, London, June 21, 2025

The Deadheads have gathered in Hyde Park under the perfect blue skies of the Summer Solstice, a propitious prelude to Bobby Weir’s first UK gig in 22 years. While Weir and drummer Mickey Hart usually now maintain the legacy of the Grateful Dead as Dead & Company in residencies at the Vegas’ high-tech Sphere, Weir’s Wolf Bros plot an alternate course, allowing the rhythm guitarist and deputy singer to perform to his own satisfaction. Tonight, this means making his debut at the Royal Albert Hall for the one-off spectacle of his first European orchestral show. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT STARS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SLY STONE, SCOTT WALKER, NEIL YOUNG, WET LEG, BLONDIE, BOOKER T, SADE AND MUCH MORE – CLICK HERE TO HAVE IT DELIVERED Advertisement The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra take the stage first for Giancarlo Aquilanti’s “A Grateful Overture”, which sets familiar Dead themes in the tradition of Aaron Copland’s early 20th century Americana, summoning images of Western vistas with plaintive pastoral passages and rock’n’roll punch. As the orchestra start “Truckin’”, Weir enters at the head of his Wolf Bros trio – pianist Jeff Chimenti, drummer Jay Lane and double-bassist Don Was, sporting dreads, shades and Stetson. Weir’s… Read More →

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Styngray’s “Be Mine” Breaks the Mold: A Love Song With Teeth

Hip-hop isn’t exactly known for wearing its heart on its sleeve—but Styngray is flipping that script. With his latest single “Be Mine,” the Chicago-born, Atlanta-based rapper steps away from tough talk and into something far riskier in today’s climate: emotional honesty. It’s not just a love song—it’s a declaration, delivered with the same clarity and conviction he’s been building his name on. Produced by hitmaker Mr. Hanky, whose fingerprints are on club anthems like “Wobble,” the track could’ve easily leaned into radio polish. Instead, it threads soulful warmth through Styngray’s gritty cadence, creating something that feels raw, uncalculated, and deeply personal. The beat is plush, melodic—more R&B than trap—but Styngray keeps it anchored in hip-hop with a delivery that’s restrained yet deliberate. Then there’s Chertrease. Her contribution to the hook is more than a vocal flourish—it’s the emotional center of the song. Her voice trembles, then soars, lifting the track from a simple back-and-forth into something like a dialogue between two real people trying to love each other right. It’s the kind of chemistry you can’t fake, and it’s the reason the track feels more lived-in than lab-grown. What’s more impressive is how Styngray manages to bring tenderness into his… Read More →

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New Pop Voice Vini Serves Emotional Truth on “I’m Happy for You”

When your best friend trades late-night talks for date nights with someone who gives you the ick, it stings. Vini knows the feeling and he’s turned it into “I’m Happy for You,” the pop song that perfectly captures being left behind with a forced smile and a broken heart. This 21-year-old Brazilian-Argentinian rising star has been quietly crafting a world of late-night glitter, crying-in-your-room vulnerability, and soft-boy rage—and this track is its perfect entry point. With verses that feel like diary entries and a chorus that swings between “I just hate your boyfriend” and “I swear it’s true, I’m happy for you,” the duality is delicious. What makes Vini stand out is his ability to capture how messy emotions really are. He doesn’t try to be poetic when he’s angry, and he doesn’t apologize for being jealous. And that’s refreshing. This isn’t about toxic love or fake friendships. It’s about what it feels like when your person stops choosing you. The music video is packed with Easter eggs—stars, glitter, late-night vibes—all symbolic if you know Vini’s story. It reflects the aesthetic of someone who grew up worshipping Disney Channel icons and then turned that sparkle into raw honesty. A total… Read More →

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Neil Young on his greatest hits: “The songs are on their own little trip, I go out and ride along with them”

In this epic interview – originally published in Uncut’s December 2004 issue – Neil Young talks us through the songs on his Greatest Hits album. “I wrote a lot of songs when I couldn’t talk…” _________________ Neil Young is just back from playing several dates on the “Vote For Change” tour and he’s still sporting the button badge and a custom-made “Canadians For Kerry” T-shirt to prove it. “Too bad you guys in Europe don’t get to vote. Then it would be a landslide, right?” he jokes. Advertisement Politically, Young has often appeared an ambivalent figure. He made potent early socio-political statements with songs such as “Ohio” and “Southern Man”, both of which have a prominent place on his forthcoming best-of compilation. But then in the ’80s he appeared to flirt with Reaganism. At the end of the decade, as the Cold War was coming to an end and global communism was collapsing, he wrote “Rockin’ In The Free World”. It’s also on the new ‘hits’ collection, and is one of those ambiguous songs claimed equally by both sides. To the right it’s a celebration of capitalism’s ultimate triumph. To the left it’s a critique of ‘freedom’ American-style, with its… Read More →