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The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
It’s a bold statement, 24 years into your career, to label an album your band’s best, as Colin Meloy, the songwriter behind The Decemberists, has described As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again. Assembled with the vinyl revival in mind – fitting across four “sides”, each with a distinct sonic feel – it’s an album that riffs on over two decades’ worth of operatic literary references, shape-shifting indie-folk whimsy and prog-rock experimentation, offering sonic easter eggs to long-term fans while both charming and bamboozling newcomers to their world. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW...
Bill Janowitz My Life In Music
The Buffalo Tom general on his essential listens: “I have this thing for big, sprawling double albums” JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! BOB DYLAN Advertisement Highway 61 Revisited COLUMBIA, 1965 My grandparents had these neighbours who were getting rid of a ton of records, which are still among some of my most cherished albums. On the same day, I got Out Of Our Heads by the Stones, Wild Honey by The Beach Boys, and some others. But of those, Highway 61 Revisited has just been a constant for me....
Einstürzende Neubauten Rampen (apm: alien pop music)
In their own peculiar way, Einstürzende Neubauten have always been ruthlessly efficient. In their early days, they smelted completely new music from the ruins of West Berlin, scavenging everyday and industrial objects due to the necessity of poverty, to transmute, alchemically, into musical manna. In 2023, that practicality manifested differently. Ready to record a new album, but with limited time on the schedule, the group decided to use their ‘rampen’ – in-concert improvisations – as base material for the 15 songs that constitute Rampen (apm: alien pop music). JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT –...
Listen to the MC5’s new track, “Boys Who Play With Matches”
The MC5‘s new album, Heavy Lifting, will be released on earMusic on October 18. Ahead of this, they’ve shared a new track, “Boys Who Play With Matches“, which you can hear below. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! The album is the band’s first for 53 years and features the final recordings of Wayne Kramer and Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, who died in February and May, respectively. Advertisement The album was produced by Bob Ezrin and features special guests including Slash, Tom Morello, William DuVall (Alice in Chains),...
Sturgill Simpson unveils Johnny Blue Skies
Sturgill Simpson returns with a new album under new name, Johnny Blue Skies. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Passage Du Desir is released on July 12 on his own independent label, High Top Mountain Records – you can pre-order a copy here. Advertisement The album was produced by Johnny Blue Skies and David Ferguson and recorded at Clement House Recording Studio in Nashville, TN and Abbey Road Studios. Passage Du Desir is Simpson’s first new music since 2021’s The Ballad of Dood And Juanita. The tracklisting for Passage Du...
Gastr Del Sol We Have Dozens Of Titles
David Grubbs has been thinking about this release from the moment Gastr Del Sol ceased, but a few things had to happen in the ensuing 26 years. For one, Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke had to reconnect in person in Tokyo back in 2016. Then, an excellent live recording of the band’s final performance was unearthed from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation archives, captured in 1997 at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in rural Quebec. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! But let’s travel back even further, to 1991,...
Willie Nelson The Border
It is already beyond serious argument that the string of tremendous albums issued by Willie Nelson during his eighties established a formidable benchmark in the admittedly little-contested field of octogenarian discographies. Having blown out 90 candles in April 2023, Nelson is now setting a daunting standard for future nonagenarians who fancy taking him on. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Just as last year’s Bluegrass was a deft reworking of a dozen of his own classics to make them sound even more like traditional standards than they already did, The...
Hear Mercury Rev’s new track, “Patterns”
Mercury Rev have shared a new track, “Patterns”. You can hear it below. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! The track is taken from the band’s upcoming ninth album Born Horses, which is released on September 6 via Bella Union – you can pre-order a copy here. Advertisement Of “Patterns”, the band say, “When we gaze up at the stars in the sky at night, the flickering lights seem random. If we could zoom out and see all of the galaxies revolving around each other, we would see the...
Beth Gibbons Uber Eats Music Hall, Berlin, June 2
A storm is brewing in the skies as Beth Gibbons prepares to take the stage of Berlin’s most unappetisingly named venue. There’s a wary anticipation inside the building too. Her debut solo album Lives Outgrown only emerged two days ago, and its still-unfamiliar intimacy is foreboding. When muted strings fill the auditorium before the lights have even dimmed, it’s a nervous hush that falls over the crowd rather than wild applause. As overtures go, it’s hardly emphatic, and yet the moment the seven-piece band enters, the atmosphere changes, the air suddenly electric. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF...Recent Posts
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