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The Byrds Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide

Celebrating the enduring legacy of The Byrds, whose joyful music invented (and escaped) folk rock, and country rock, becoming along the way home to some of music’s most legendary singer-songwriters: Gene Clark, David Crosby and Gram Parsons. “A time to every purpose under heaven…” Buy a copy here!
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Jeff Parker Forfolks

In his 1889 essay “The Decay Of Lying”, Oscar Wilde argued that, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” But the literary giant never lived through the shuttering of rock clubs, salons and hole-in-the-wall bars that are a sole source of promotion, incubation and performance for an artist and his work. That’s not to say Jeff Parker’s latest is a pandemic album, but it is one that effortlessly transmits the heart of a society in exile, just a man with a guitar in his house, improvising to no-one but himself and a friend who’s set up the...
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Black Country, New Road Ants from Up There

As soon as music venues reopened their doors last summer, Black Country, New Road were pretty much the first band back out on tour, playing to audiences seated at tables in socially distanced bubbles. Sure, they had a critically acclaimed debut album to promote – For The First Time was released at the height of lockdown in February 2021 – but they seemed keen to quickly push beyond that. The setlist for that first show, at Bath Komedia on June 15, included only three songs from the album, and four they hadn’t recorded yet. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is...
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Anaïs Mitchell Anaïs Mitchell

The first phase of the Covid crisis brought a rude interruption to normal life for Anaïs Mitchell. She was living in New York, in the ninth month of her pregnancy with her second child. Mitchell’s creative life was dominated, as it had been for some years, by the demands of Hadestown, the juggernaut of a musical which has grown from her folk opera about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (also the basis for her 2010 album). It’s hard, with the world now stuck in a state of numbed alarm, to remember the fearful reality of the early part...
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Erin Rae Lighten Up

Erin Rae has been quietly making strides around Nashville these past few years. 2015’s self-released Soon Enough – which found her fronting The Meanwhiles – brought her to the attention of John Paul White, who promptly signed her to his own Single Lock label for Rae’s solo debut, Putting On Airs, in 2018. For all their merits, however, neither of those albums quite prepare you for the major leap forward signalled by Lighten Up. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Produced by Jonathan Wilson in his Topanga Canyon studio, Lighten Up...
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The rich and musical life of Lou Reed: “There are many plans to continue putting out Lou’s work”

Lou Reed wasn’t known as the sentimental sort. And yet, he kept a memento of his earliest days as songwriter where he could see it every day. The demo tape he posted to himself to self-copyright in 1965 is one of the treasures in the Lou Reed Archive and the exhibition celebrating it, Caught Between The Twisted Stars, which opens on March 2, Reed’s 80th birthday. “We’d tried getting into a locked safe, thinking it was there,” curator Don Fleming recalls. “But it was right behind him at his desk in his office, on a shelf with a bunch...
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Listen to The Beatles’ Get Back rooftop concert in full

The Beatles’ legendary 1969 rooftop has arrived on streaming services – you can listen to it below. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: The Beatles – Let It Be Special Deluxe Edition review The unannounced gig took place on top of Apple Corps’ headquarters on Savile Row in London, marking the Fab Four’s final public performance of their career. Peter Jackson’s recent documentary The Beatles: Get Back includes footage of the concert, with limited IMAX screenings of the show having taken place last Sunday (January 30). Advertisement On January...
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Nils Lofgren removes his music from Spotify

Crazy Horse and E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren is the latest artist to announce he’s removing his music from Spotify in support of Neil Young. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Neil Young & The Crazy Horse – Barn review In a post shared to the Neil Young Archives on January 29, Lofgren expressed his solidarity with Young, actress Daryl Hannah and the doctors, scientists and nurses who have called out “Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people”. “When these heroic women and...
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Carambolage Carambolage (reissue 1980), Eilzustellung-Exprès (1982), Bon Voyage (1984)

“Everything changes when you change it,” as ’70s agit-punk band and North Frisia communards Ton Steine Scherben once advised. Frustrated drummer/percussionist Britta Neander took that to heart and left to form her own band in 1979, recruiting fellow resident Elfie-Esther Steitz as singer, guitarist and keyboardist, and Berlin émigrée Angie Olbrich as bass player. Carambolage – the French word for a pile-up – were part of the Neue Deutsche Welle and one of the scene’s very few all-female bands, building themselves a practice space inside an old grain silo, which was off-limits to the rest of the (largely male)...
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Black Flower Magma

Belgium has been the butt of jokes from the Anglophone pop world for decades – Technotronic, the Singing Nun and some hilariously hi-NRG gabba acts being the country’s prime pop exports – but the Belgian jazz scene has a long and noble history. Artists as diverse as Django Reinhardt, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine and Marc Moulin have created varieties of jazz quite distinct from anything that was happening in the United States. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Now in the Belgian vanguard are Black Flower, fronted by Nathan Daems, a...
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