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How Charlie Castell’s “Where Were the Grown Ups” Strikes a Powerful Emotional Chord and Inspires Change

With a career marked by heartfelt songs and impassioned activism, Charlie Castell ’s newest single, “Where Were the Grown Ups,” continues his legacy of using music as a force for social change. The second release from his upcoming album Beautiful Apocalypse, this track shines a spotlight on the moral inconsistencies witnessed by the youngest members of society, who have been watching as the adults around them failed to live up to their responsibilities. The song’s protagonist is 13-year-old Natalia Eremiasova, whose voice brings a touching sense of innocence to the track, questioning the world with a sincerity that only a child can. Charlie Castell draws inspiration from his own experiences as a father. Sitting in his daughter’s third-grade classroom, surrounded by posters reminding kids to “Be Kind” and “Don’t Be a Bully,” Castell couldn’t escape the irony of a photo of the 45th president hanging on the wall. How could children be expected to internalize these messages when those in power were modeling the exact opposite? What makes “Where Were the Grown Ups” particularly compelling is its emotional depth. The simplicity of the lyrics mirrors the complexity of the message, as Charlie Castell navigates the heartache of realizing that we’ve… Read More →

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Listen to The Cure’s new track, “A Fragile Thing”

The Cure have shared a second track from their upcoming album, Songs Of A Lost World. You can hear “A Fragile Thing” below. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE In September, the band previously released “Alone“, their first new single for 16 years. Read a new interview with Robert Smith in the new Uncut – in shops from October 11 Songs Of A Lost World will be released on November 1 by Fiction/UMe as a 1LP, a half-speed master 2LP, marble-coloured 1LP, double Cassette, CD, a deluxe CD package with a Blu-ray featuring an instrumental version of the record and a Dolby Atmos mix of the album, and digital formats. The tracklisting for the album is: AloneAnd Nothing Is ForeverA Fragile ThingWarsongDrone:NodroneI Can Never Say GoodbyeAll I Ever AmEnd Song

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Hear Nadia Reid’s new track, “Baby Bright”

Nadia Reid returns with a new track, “Baby Bright“, which you can hear below. This latest release follows “Changed Unchained” which she released last month. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE Both tracks will appear on Enter Now Brightness, Reid’s new album which is released by Chrysalis on February 7, 2025. You can pre-order a copy here. The tracklisting for Enter Now Brightness is: Emmanuelle Cry On Cue Baby Bright Hold It Up Changed Unchained Second Nature Even Now Hotel Santa Cruz Woman Apart Send It Down The Line Reid also plays the UK and ROI. You can buy tickets here. 10.03.25 UK, London – EartH Theatre11.03.25 UK, Brighton – CHALK12.03.25 UK, Leeds – Brudenell Social Club13.03.25 UK, Glasgow – Room 214.03.25 UK, Bangor – Court House15.03.25 IE, Dublin – Whelans17.03.25 UK, Nottingham – The Bodega18.03.25 UK, Bristol – Strange Brew19.03.25 UK, Manchester – YES (Pink Room)

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Watch Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in a new trailer for A Complete Unknown

A new trailer has been released for James Mangold’s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, due in cinemas on January 17. The first trailer released back in July featured lead actor Timothée Chalamet singing “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”; here, he can be heard having a crack at “Girl From The North Country” before hooking up with Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) – we see them duetting at the 1963 Monterey Folk Festival – and controversially going electric with “Like A Rolling Stone” at Newport. We also get a glimpse of Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. Watch the trailer below:

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Listen to Tylan’s “Won’t Get It…”– The Lead Single from His Upcoming EP ‘IDKFR’

Emerging R&B artist Tylan delivers a striking emotional depth with his latest single, “Won’t Get It…,” a track that dives into themes of trust, personal growth, and the complexity of human relationships. Hailing from Washington, D.C., Tylan has developed a sound rooted in the rich musical heritage of his city, blending influences from icons like Usher, Brent Faiyaz, and Drake with his own unique approach to storytelling. This latest release offers a powerful glimpse into the personal reflections that have shaped his artistic journey. “Won’t Get It…” is the lead single from Tylan’s upcoming EP IDKFR, marking a significant step in his evolution as an artist. The song is a deeply introspective look at the struggles of navigating relationships and the challenges of staying authentic in a world that often demands compromise. With raw, reflective lyrics, Tylan shows a vulnerability that sets him apart in today’s R&B landscape. The track’s standout line, “Some might do drugs, some might do clubs, mistreating love, but I can’t judge,” highlights his empathy and understanding, offering a message that resonates with listeners who have faced similar internal battles. Musically, “Won’t Get It…” weaves soulful melodies with a laid-back R&B groove that feels both timeless… Read More →

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Introducing the new Uncut: The Cure, Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, MC5, Queen, a free 14-track CD and more

March 2, 2022. I’m at the Brixton Academy, backstage during the NME Awards, waiting for an audience with Robert Smith. Smith is co-recipient of Best Song By A UK Artist with CHVRCHES for “How Not To Drown” and he’s taken the opportunity to reveal the title of The Cure’s long-awaited new album, Songs Of A Lost World. Eventually – things move very much at Robert’s place – we meet. A firm handshake, strong eye contact. Conversation touches on The Glove – the one-off band he formed with fellow Banshee Steve Severin – a memorable Cure gig at Crystal Palace Bowl in 1990 and his latest, tantalising update on the new album. Smith, politely, won’t be drawn further. “That is for another day,” he says with a smile. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, THE ANIMALS, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE That day has finally come, of course. Songs Of A Lost World underscores the singular creative vision of its chief architect – an album of ravishing, windswept musicality and lyrical intensity, as Smith grapples with notions of ageing and mortality, made all the more vivid by his own relatively recent… Read More →

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Uncut – December 2024

CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Every print edition of this issue comes with a free, 14-track CD compiled by Kim Deal and featuring music from The Stooges, Radiohead, Black Sabbath, Joy Division, Neu!, Stereolab and more THE CURE: 16 years on from their last album, The Cure return with a powerful and emotional new record. But as Robert Smith reveals, Songs Of A Lost World is only half the story… Advertisement KIM DEAL: The Pixie, Breeder and now solo artist explains how iguanas, ukeleles and the Florida Keys have shaped her new album THE MC5: This extract from a new oral history tells the turbulent tale of Kick Out The Jams RADIOHEAD: Bassist Colin Greenwood guides us through two decades of behind-the-scenes photography Advertisement MAGAZINE: Howard Devoto and his cohorts reflect on their brilliant but doomed trajectory as post-punk pioneers JOAN ARMATRADING: Looking back over half a century’s work as a new album continues her journey AN AUDIENCE WITH… ROGER TAYLOR: The Queen drummer on predicting punk, cocaine myths and tiger skin trousers THE MAKING OF “SUPPLEMENT 66” BY PAUL WELLER: The inside story of his new EP – and the final recordings of a… Read More →

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Paul Heaton – My Life In Music

The Housemartins and Beautiful South singer on his happiest hours by the stereo: “It still sounds exciting now” THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! DAVID BOWIE Advertisement The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars RCA, 1972 I shared a room with my middle brother growing up, and this is one of the records that seeped through the walls of my oldest brother’s room into ours. It was just really different – it was on the edge of glam rock, I suppose, but it was also totally by itself. I had no idea what “Suffragette City” was, or “Moonage Daydream”, and Ziggy Stardust sounded like the name of a wrestler. But it was really exciting to watch it have influence over ordinary people. You could see quite hard lads in Sheffield trying to have their hair cut like Bowie and wearing these big stack heels. Some of the songs make no sense at all – I didn’t know what “Lady Stardust” meant and probably still don’t – but his voice is beautiful. Advertisement ARETHA FRANKLIN Aretha With The Ray Bryant Combo COLUMBIA,… Read More →

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Chuck Prophet: “It’s been a journey”

2022 was a crisis year for Californian roots veteran Chuck Prophet. Diagnosed with stage four lymphoma, the ex-Green On Red guitarist was kept waiting on his chances of survival. “After they discovered I had a mass in my intestines, I was in a kind of no-man’s land for about 14 days,” he explains. “That was real fear, like a wooden stake being driven into me. Eventually I was told there were options in terms of treatment, and things lifted from there. But it was music that got me out of my head.” THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Stretching back three decades, Prophet’s highly eclectic solo work tends to involve surf, punk, rock‘n’roll, folk and country. Yet it was the hitherto unexpected delights of cumbia music that guided him during his illness and recovery from chemotherapy. In particular, a band of brothers from Salinas, a farming community a hundred miles south of his San Francisco home. Advertisement “I’d seen ¿Qiensave? at a club in the Mission District,” he explains. “They were such characters. I think they were getting a kick from the fact I was digging… Read More →

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Simon Raymonde – My Life In Music

The Cocteau Twin turned Bella Union boss itemises his aural treasures: “It sounds like it’s from another universe” THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE PUBLIC IMAGE LTD Advertisement Metal Box VIRGIN, 1979 Me and my friends were obsessed with punk. Of course, it burned out rather quickly. John Lydon was such a divisive figure, but at that point in time I still loved him. The stuff he said was confrontational but always tinged with a certain amount of intelligence. I don’t feel like that about the latter part of his career, I should add! I wasn’t a fan of anything after Metal Box, really. But when that came out, it was like, ‘What is this? What are these sounds?’ They were subverting everything they’d been in other bands. It’s such an anarchic record because they’re literally making stuff up in the studio as they go along. There isn’t another record in history that is comparable sonically to Metal Box. Advertisement CULTURE Two Sevens Clash JOE GIBBS RECORD GLOBE, 1977 Reggae was as important to many of us as punk. I think it was… Read More →

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Anna Butterss – Mighty Vertebrate

‘Jazz.’ It’s a funny old word, isn’t it? Encompassing over a century of music, it conjures a mass of styles, from Dizzy Gillespie’s bebop to Ornette Coleman’s freeform extemporisation to Nubya Garcia’s afro-futurism, and all stops in-between. Even Jamiroquai is classed as, of all things, ‘acid jazz’, and like ‘classical’ – which embodies Beethoven, Shostakovich, Cage and Max Richter – and, of course, ‘indie’, ‘jazz’’s almost limitless scope has rendered the word strangely meaningless. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE Indeed, the genre’s become such a broad church its associations can seem bewildering, contradictory and even occasionally off-putting. These days it’s often used as a mere nod to instrumentation, but to some it’s a signal of free-thinking improvisation, to others technical discipline, while it’s as good as a red flag to those whose prejudices are based on limited experience (or The Fast Show’s Louis Balfour). Advertisement Nonetheless, it covers 2022’s Activities, Anna Butterss’ acclaimed debut, and Jeff Parker’s gently free-wheeling Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy, released the same year and on which Butterss also performs. Then there’s last year’s Lados B, recorded… Read More →

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Faces – Faces At The BBC Complete BBC Concert And Session Recordings 1970-1973

“Our second group this evening is the excessively rowdy Faces,” promises John Peel, whose voice introduces this set of (almost) complete BBC sessions from the Faces. It’s an appropriate start. When the Faces released their debut single, “Flying”, the Beeb didn’t take them seriously. It took John Peel to step in as an early champion, recording their first BBC session in March 1970. Peel pops up throughout this 8CD/1Blu-ray box that has rescued almost every Faces BBC session from archives and private collections – there’s just one set of three songs missing, believed wiped. It includes the Faces playing outstanding versions of “You’re My Girl”, “Oh Lord I’m Browned Off”, “Stay With Me” and “Miss Judy’s Farm”, singing Christmas Carols and performing one infamous concert that was never actually broadcast. THE CURE, BRYAN FERRY, THE MC5, RADIOHEAD, KIM DEAL, PAUL WELLER AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE The box begins with 10 songs from John Peel’s Sunday Concert – one set of five songs recorded in July 1970 and another five from November – and by the time you reach the deranged cover of “Maybe I’m Amazed” from November that year, you can see… Read More →

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Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to tour R.E.M.’s Fables Of The Reconstruction

Following the success of their tour this year, performing R.E.M.‘s debut album Murmur in full, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy have announced plans to play the band’s third album Fables Of The Reconstruction next year to mark it’s 40th anniversary. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Shannon and Narducy — along with Superchunk/Mountain Goats/Bob Mould drummer Jon Wurster, Wilco’s John Stirratt on bass, guitarist Dag Juhlin and keyboardist Vijay Tellis-Nayak — begin their tour in February. Advertisement The tour dates are: Friday, February 14 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & HarrietsSaturday, February 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ BellwetherSunday, February 16 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly UpTuesday, February 18 – San Francisco, CA @ The FillmoreFriday, February 21 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune TheatreSaturday, February 22 – Portland, OR @ Revolution HallMonday, February 24 – Indianapolis, IN @ The VogueTuesday, February 25 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar HallThursday, February 27-28 – Athens, GA @ 40 WattSaturday, March 1 – Carrboro, NC @ Catʼs CradleMonday, March 3 – Richmond, VA @ The NationalTuesday, March 4 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 ClubThursday, March 6 – Philadelphia,… Read More →

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Andrew Macdonald’s Heartfelt Cover of “Heart of Worship” Invites a Return to Authentic Praise

Andrew Macdonald, an emerging artist in the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) scene, released a moving rendition of Matt Redman’s beloved worship anthem, “Heart of Worship.” This cover is featured as the second track on his anticipated album, Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength, and it reflects Macdonald’s spiritual journey and commitment to genuine worship. From the moment the song begins, listeners are transported to a place of reflection. The opening lines—“When the music fades, and all is stripped away, and I simply come”—immediately set a tone of vulnerability and sincerity. Macdonald’s voice carries a weight that invites listeners to consider what worship truly means, moving beyond the performance to the essence of what it is to connect with the divine. “I’m comin’ back to the heart of worship, and it’s all about You, it’s all about You, Jesus,” Andrew Macdonald sings, a sentiment that resonates deeply in today’s fast-paced world. In a time where worship can often feel like a mere routine, Macdonald’s rendition is a gentle reminder of the heart behind the music. He expresses his intent clearly: this song holds a special place in his heart, and he is proud to share it. The track beautifully captures the longing… Read More →

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Introducing the Ultimate Record Collection: Lana Del Rey

As we take a moment to collect ourselves after her visit to the UK and celebrate the 10th anniversary of her debut album, we’d like to introduce the latest Ultimate Record Collection: Lana Del Rey. The dark and involving albums. The slyly controversial singles. We’ve reviewed them all to bring you a definitive guide to the music of Lana Del Rey. Alongside, we’ve told the story of her journey from philosophy student and trailer home resident, the aspiring singer-songwriter Lizzy Grant, to globally influential artist. We’ll be unpacking the songs, and creating the definitive timeline as we go. But that’s not all. Our people have been on the ground to report back on the most recent dates of her sell-out 2023-4 tour. We’ve got deep inside Lana’s cultural references compiling the definitive A-Z from Slim Aarons to Frank Zappa. We’ve also located the key Lana interviews, which chart her path from young singer facing down incorrect assumptions to a brilliant and self-assured artist, who has proved her doubters wrong. Enjoy the magazine. You can get your here. John Robinson, Editor

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Stevie Van Zandt’s essential British Invasion 45s!

The November 2024 issue of Uncut celebrates The Beatles’ first US visit in February 1964 and the subsequent British Invasion that shook America. Who better to assemble a crack Top 10 list of British Invasion 45s than Brit Beat disciple, Stevie Van Zandt? THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Advertisement THE BEATLES “I Want To Hold Your Hand” CAPITOL, 1964 Advertisement “The completely took over the charts. You have to mention this as it was the first salvo of the British Invasion. They continued to do great things all year right up to ‘I Feel Fine’.” BILLY J KRAMER “Bad To Me” IMPERIAL, 1964 “Billy was managed by Brian Epstein so he had some Lennon-McCartney songs like ‘Bad To Me’ but he would have success with other songs. He was pretty big that year, right there with the rest of them.” THE ROLLING STONES “Tell Me” LONDON, 1964 “It’s one of the great ballads of all time. I don’t think it was released in the UK. but it was a single in the US. Although it wasn’t a hit, I got it in my local store… Read More →

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Lush – A Far From Home Movie

The 1964 World’s Fair in New York saw the launch of colour TV, IBM personal computers, the Mustang Ford and, just in time for the Beatles first tour of the USA, a new development from the Eastman Kodak company, Super 8mm film. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Since that point rock ‘n’ roll and the Super 8 were inseparable. It’s hard to think of any British band touring the States that wasn’t photographed at some point or other earnestly documenting their tour bus adventures with their own handheld movie camera. By the time he joined Lush in 1992, bass player Phil King was already a veteran of Felt, Biff Bang Pow and the Servants and naturally had a Sankyo Super 8. Now, with Brian Gates, he has edited footage shot on tours of England, America, Europe and Japan thorough 1994 – 1996 into a kind of dream journal of life in a rock band at the end of the twentieth century. Advertisement What’s uncanny is how the pale grainy 8mm black and white stock renders so much of the material out of time. Footage of the… Read More →

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Stevie Van Zandt – Disciple

“There are no second acts in American lives,” said Scott Fitzgerald, but he obviously never met Stevie Van Zandt. As this intimate and epic HBO documentary makes clear, he’s currently on his fourth or fifth incarnation and showing no signs of stopping any time soon. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Born Steven Joseph Malafronte, in Massachusetts in 1950, he became Stevie Van Zandt after his mother remarried when he was seven and the family moved to New Jersey. Growing up, like many Italian American self-mythologiser, he felt his options were the “priesthood or the Mob”, but found himself transformed by the mid-sixties revelations of the Beatles and then the Stones (the first made being in a band seem glorious, the second made it seem possible). Advertisement Falling in with the Jersey Shore scene coalescing around the Hullabaloo, the Stone Pony and the Upstage clubs, with his preternatural musical facility, his encyclopedic knowledge of old soul and blues and his whole-hearted dedication to the vocation of rock ‘n roll, he became a key architect of the Sound of Asbury Park – Steel Mill, the Asbury Jukes… Read More →

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Limbo District – Live Limbo

Athens, Georgia, in the late 1970s and early 1980s was a free-for-all. Bands popped up for house parties and backyard shows in direct defiance of what constituted a band: The B-52s were all beehives and surf licks, Pylon started out backing a Teach Your Parrot To Talk record before hiring one of rock’s great frontwomen. Perhaps no band during that first wave embodied that why-the-hell-not sensibility or exploded the drums-bass-guitar lineup as gleefully as Limbo District, a short-lived group that featured Jeremy Ayers reciting poetry and playing percussion, his boyfriend Davey Stevenson playing bass and Dominique Amet pounding out chords on the keyboard and howling wildly. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Even before they played their first notes together, Ayers was well known in Athens, a misfit and artist instantly recognisable for his oddball Victorian-thrift-store fashion. (In fact, Michael Stipe, a close friend, copied that scarecrow look during REM’s early years.) Beloved in Athens but a harder sell anywhere else, Limbo District recorded only a handful of sides together, but didn’t last long enough to make an album. But their natural setting was the stage,… Read More →

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Joan Armatrading unveils new album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean

Joan Armatrading has announced that her new album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean, will be released by BMG on November 22. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Watch a video for the lead single, “I’m Not Moving”, below: Advertisement [embedded content] As Armatrading explains, she was immediately compelled to write the song after witnessing some alarmingly confrontational public behaviour by a young person: “He was like, ‘I’m going to kill everybody! I’m not moving! You can get the police! You can’t move me!’ All the lyrics just flowed, in one, and I knew it had to have an aggression, because that’s how he was. I did a version of it that was a little bit milder, but you could tell that wasn’t it.” How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean was entirely written, produced, programmed and engineered by Joan Armatrading herself. Discussing the album’s title, she says, “You can apply it to just about anything. We are in such a weird place at the moment, and you do think, how did this happen? Some of the things we’re… Read More →

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Watch a video for The Weather Station’s new single, “Neon Signs”

Tamara Lindeman AKA The Weather Station has announced that her new album Humanhood will be released by Fat Possum on January 17. THE BEATLES, JONI MITCHELL, VAN MORRISON, MICHAEL KIWANUKA AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Watch a video for lead single “Neon Signs” below: Advertisement [embedded content] “I wrote ‘Neon Signs’ at a moment of feeling confused, upside down, at that moment when even desire falls away, and dissociation cuts you loose from a story that while wrong, still held things together,” Lindeman explains. “The song came with multiple strands entwined; the way that something that is not true seems to have more energetic intensity than something that is, the confusion of being bombarded with advertising at a moment of climate emergency, the confusion of relationships where coercion is wrapped in the language of love. Ultimately though, isn’t it all the same feeling?” Humanhood was co-produced by Lindeman and Marcus Paquin at Canterbury Music Company in Toronto, with drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Phillippe Melanson, reed-and-wind specialist Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley. Other guests include Sam Amidon, James Elkington and Joseph Shabason. Pre-order Humanhood here and peruse The Weather Station’s… Read More →