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Kim Deal, Barbican Hall, London, March 1, 2025

As one deal falls apart spectacularly in the Oval Office, a very different kind of Deal is bringing it all together across that big, beautiful ocean. US indie slacker heroine Kim Deal has taken over the 2,000-capacity Barbican Hall for her sold-out debut solo UK show and packed the stage with 25 musicians, including a nine-piece string section, four horns and the Shards vocal quintet, as well as her six-piece band. It’s a big splash for the modest star – the overheads must be eye-watering – but Deal wants to do justice to her excellent solo album Nobody Loves...
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Beautiful Monsters: Makes My Blood Dance’s Genre Rebellion “Time and a Place”

Brooklyn’s musical mutineers, Makes My Blood Dance have returned to terrorize genre purists with their latest single “Time and a Place,” which dropped just now. It’s another middle finger to convention from the self-proclaimed “DiscoMetal” architects who refuse to color within the lines. Recorded with producers Mikal Blue (OneRepublic) and Brett “Epic” Mazur (Crazy Town), the track is a disorienting cocktail of contradictions—screaming guitars and pulsing beats, vulnerability and aggression, all crashing together like colliding planets. It’s messy, it’s jarring, and that’s precisely the point. Lead vocalist EV0’s lyrics cut deeper than their previous work: “How can I compete/There...
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David Johansen: “I can look back and say, ‘Yeah, that was really something…’”

From Uncut’s July 2023 issue, Uncut’s final interview with David Johansen, the New York Dolls frontman turned bouffant nightclub act, country-blues singer and more… Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Sipping PG Tips from a dainty blue-and-white teacup, David Johansen considers the long, strange journey that has taken him from high-heeled frontman of the New York Dolls to bouffant nightclub act, country-blues singer and beyond. “There are certain phases in the history of New York, especially...
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Jack White, Troxy, London, February 28, 2025

The last time Jack White was in the UK, it was a blitzkrieg tour of small venues to promote his stealth-released album, No Name. This European tour is a little longer and the venues are a bit larger, but the general vibe remains the same. On the first night of two at the Troxy, White pounds across the stage, strangling the guitar like a toy chicken while his three-piece band heroically try to keep up. Kudos especially to Raconteurs‘ drummer Patrick Keeler, who White goads into ever-escalating feats of kit-bashing to the point that Keeler eventually wrecks a cymbal...
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Introducing…The History Of Rock

About 10 years ago, we at Uncut started a collaboration with our friends at NME to release a series of magazines which would revisit the archives of New Musical Express and Melody Maker and present an unrivalled archive trip through rock’s golden years. Advertisement Times have changed, but the quality of the friendship (and the publications) remain very much the same, so we’ve agreed to re-issue the series, in a limited number, for anyone who missed them the first time around. The first couple of these issues are available from our shop now. In 1965, you’ll find The Beatles...
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Stereolab: “We’re here to create the world that we desire”

Taken from Uncut’s January 2020 issue Advertisement In an old church by the Thames, the “groop” put together an 18-minute track with a message – here they take Uncut through the creation of “Jenny Ondioline”. “This song is about shifting the perception…” The centrepiece of Stereolab’s second album, 1993’s Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, “Jenny Ondioline” has come in many forms: the 18-minute LP version, the snappy single version, and somewhere between those extremes on stage. In any variation, though, there are motorik rhythms, restless guitars, loping bass, droning organs, layered vocals and radical, politically charged lyrics. “We played...
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Steve Reich Collected Works

The thunder lizards of classical and romantic music, from Haydn to Wagner, bestrode the earth for hundreds of years. They achieved musical domination by imposing a sense of form and narrative upon Western music, to express the warp and weft of human emotion and fate. Statement, development, recapitulation, climax, applause. A little over 120 years ago, music began to atomise, harmonies soured, familiar structures devolved into atonalism, spectral texture and formal experiments with microtones and alternative scales. Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR...
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Edwyn Collins Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation

In the video for “Knowledge”, the first single from Edwyn Collins’ 10th solo album, the clan chief of Postcard Records stands like a monument in the wintery landscape around his home in Helmsdale, on the north-east coast of Scotland. It is a grey day. There is snow on the ground. The joyous gospel harmonies can’t disguise the note of disquiet that leaks from the song. “Knowledge” is about unease, the loss and recovery of fond memories. Knowledge, Collins sings, with a nod to Amazing Grace, “first was lost and now it’s found”. The chorus underlines the point, while the...
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Luci Rain’s “Fong La”: A Spiritual and Cultural Reawakening

Luci Rain has crafted a bold intersection of ancient spiritualism and futuristic sounds with her latest music video for “Fong La.” The Amsterdam-based artist invites us into a visual and sonic journey deeply rooted in Chinese mythology, yet profoundly aware of Western and modern influences. With its intricate blend of house beats, Afrobeats rhythms, and evocative Chinese motifs, “Fong La” is not just a track—it’s an invocation. Luci Rain, inspired by her Buddhist grandmother’s teachings and her own transformative experiences, draws from the legendary tale of Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess. The video portrays Rain as a Moon Princess,...
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Neil Young and the chrome hearts to headline BST Hyde Park in July

The latest headliner to be announced for London’s BST Hyde Park series is neil young and the chrome hearts. Young’s new, all-lower-case band – featuring Spooner Oldham (Farfisa organ), Micah Nelson (guitar and vocal), Corey McCormick (bass and vocal) and Anthony LoGerfo (drums) – will play the London park on July 11. Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW This is the first officially announced UK date of neil young and the chrome hearts’ previously advertised world...
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