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“I thought Ozzy Osbourne was the devil!”

Growing up in a small Tennessee town in the late 1980s, I thought Ozzy Osbourne was the devil. Not just devilish or evil, but the Dark Lord made flesh and bone. He looked the part, of course, with his perpetually bugged-out eyes, wild hair, and that maniacal grin. And he certainly sounded like the devil. I got a shiver whenever I heard snippets of “Crazy Train” or “War Pigs” or even “Changes” blaring from the cars and boomboxes of the older boys at my school, all of whom were conceived during the heyday of Black Sabbath. Ozzy had that...
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Joan Shelley announces new album Real Warmth and shares lead track, “Everybody”

Joan Shelley returns with a new album, Real Warmth. The follow-up to her 2022 album The Spur, it’s released on September 19 by No Quarter. Shelley has also shared “Everybody” from the album, which you can hear below. Advertisement Real Warmth was produced at Casa Wroxton in Toronto by Ben Whiteley – bassist for The Weather Station and Jake Xerxes Fussell – and features drummer Philippe Melanson, saxophonist Karen Ng, singer/songwriters Doug Paisley and Tamara Lindeman, Matt Kelley and Ken Whiteley. Shelley’s partner, guitarist Nathan Salsburg, also appears. Says Wheatley, “We had a few windows in mid-winter...
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Robert Plant and Graham Nash pay tribute to Terry Reid, who has died aged 75

Robert Plant and Graham Nash have both paid tribute to Terry Reid, who has died aged 75. Known as ‘Superlungs‘ for his electrifying vocal gifts, and also known as the man who turned down both Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, Reid had recently postponed a forthcoming tour as a consequence of cancer treatment. Writing on Instagram, Robert Plant, who became Led Zeppelin‘s vocalist after Reid turned down the offer, said, “Terry Reid’s enthusiasm and encouragement were incredible back then … still teenagers we crashed each others’ gigs and crucified Season of the Witch time and time again … So...
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Send us your questions for Edwyn Collins!

Goodness gracious, so audacious! Edwyn Collins has been delighting us with his wit, insouciance and songwriting excellence ever since spearheading ‘the sound of young Scotland’ with Orange Juice back in the early 1980s. From practically inventing indie, to a surprise global smash with “A Girl Like You“, to a miraculous third act following his recovery from two cerebral haemorrhages, Collins remains an inspirational figure. Advertisement Earlier this year he released his 10th solo album, Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation – and in September, he’ll embark on ‘The Testimonial Tour‘, his last ever lap around the UK (see here for...
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Pran Debuts With a Vulnerable Electropop Statement on “All I Need Is Love”

Pop debuts are often designed to dazzle, but Pran chooses vulnerability over spectacle. With his first official single “All I Need Is Love,” the Bangkok-born, Sheffield-based artist delivers a slow-burning emotional release wrapped in shimmering electropop. It’s the kind of track that doesn’t need to shout to be heard — it simply invites you in, quietly disarming in its honesty. There’s something disarmingly honest about the way Pran constructs this track. The song began on his iPad — not in some high-tech studio but in a moment of introspective sadness. From those lonely sketches, he built a track that...
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The Definitive Edition Ultimate Music Guide to The Who

Who’s better? Who’s best! Song is over? It sounds impossible, doesn’t it? Advertisement This fine magazine is out in UK shops tomorrow. But as this 172-page Definitive Edition Ultimate Music Guide to The Who reaches the USA, it will be doing so as The Who embark on their farewell North American tour, which begins in Florida on August 16th, winding up in Las Vegas on September 26th.  “Well, all good things must come to an end,” Pete Townshend said at the announcement in early May. “It is a poignant time. For me, playing to American audiences and those in Canada...
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Devendra Banhart announces Cripple Crow deluxe edition

Devendra Banhart has announced a 20th anniversary reissue of his album, Cripple Crow. It’s due on September 12, and marks the first release on Banhart’s own label Heavy Flowers, distributed by Secretly Distribution. To coincide with this news, Banhart has released a demo of “I Feel Just Like A Child”. Advertisement The Cripple Crow 20th Anniversary album reissue includes a third bonus LP featuring “The Seventies” (a never-before-released recording from the Cripple Crow sessions), “Shame” (the long out of print B-side to “Long Haired Child”), five previously unreleased demos and two live recordings. It also includes expanded artwork and liner notes written by Banhart himself. See below for the full deluxe edition tracklisting. LP...
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We’re New Here Folk Bitch Trio

You might not expect an acoustic vocal harmony group to radiate “‘fuck yeah’ rock’n’roll energy” but this is how Melbourne’s Folk Bitch Trio characterise their sound and attitude. In practice, they produce a sometimes spare, sometimes sumptuous, always graceful blend with a lyrical sting in the tail, moving Phoebe Bridgers to describe them as “Boygenius if it was from the ’40s”. “We just set out to play music together with our means and the feelings in our hearts,” says Gracie Sinclair, “but singing songs in three-part harmony is what we are best at.” Advertisement Sinclair and bandmates Heide Peverelle...
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The New Eves The New Eve Is Rising

Disclosure, self-affirmation and avowal may be the presentation currencies of our time – mystique now seems so very 20th century – but still, it takes courage and conviction for a young band to state their case from the get-go. All the more so if it’s a group of women, who risk accusations of bad faith and superficiality should they choose to develop their artistry or change their image. If they’ve considered it at all, none of this bothers Brighton four-piece The New Eves, who came together via a regular meet-up of creative women held in the early days after...
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Mark Stewart The Fateful Symmetry

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO UNCUT Mark Stewart tended to confound expectations wherever he went. Not because he wanted to – he just couldn’t help it. His innate curiosity, sense of humour and gently provocative nature, coupled with his enormous charisma and sharp mind, meant that while he dedicated his life to making intensely powerful music, he didn’t take himself too seriously. Spend even a couple of minutes in his company and he’d be ribbing you left, right and centre, barking ten to the dozen in his rich Bristolese; this towering post-punk prophet, all six and a half foot...
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