Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band have announced details of their new album, Dear Scott. The follow-up to 2017’s Adiós Señor Pussycat, Dear Scott has been produced by Bill Ryder-Jones and will be released on May 27 via Modern Sky UK. CLICK HERE TO BUY OUR NEW ISSUE “I’ve been working with Bill Ryder-Jones in his studio in West Kirby, which is brilliant – dead chilled,” Head told Uncut at the end of last year. “It’s the first time Bill and I’ve worked together and it’s been magical. As well as a producer, he’s a gifted multi-instrumentalist –...
Bob Dylan has announced details of a spring run of dates for his ‘Never Ending Tour’. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Reviewed! Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom The tour resumes in Phoenix on March 3 and will run for 27 dates over five weeks. Dylan’s website hints that more dates will be announced after this, saying that the tour will run until 2024. Advertisement A ticket pre-sale for this run of dates begins on January 27, with a general on-sale beginning on January 28. You can purchase tickets...
Hip-Hop artist Tiing is back with some powerful sounds. His new album is titled Lost Files and includes the outstanding song named “Options,” among 11 other tracks. Filled with a motivational spirit and visionary lyricism, Tiing is proving the hype around each of his drops with these new releases. From the melodies to the instrumentals and beats, everything is carefully placed and intertwined with perfection to create an otherworldly listening experience. Tiing grew up playing the violin. Music ran in the family as his father was a master drummer in the jazz music scene. It was around 2012 that...
If you happened to be looking for the precise moment at which the stars came into alignment for David Bowie in 1972, there are plenty of occasions to choose from. It could be the point where, arriving on a plane into Los Angeles, the name “Ziggy Stardust” occurs to him for the first time. Whole books have been written on the hard to challenge notion that lightning finally strikes for Bowie (and an entire TV viewing population) after the performance of “Starman” on Top Of The Pops on July 6th. BUY NOW: The Ultimate Companion to Ziggy Stardust It...
If you happened to be looking for the precise moment at which the stars came into alignment for David Bowie in 1972, there are plenty of occasions to choose from. It could be the point where, arriving on a plane into Los Angeles, the name “Ziggy Stardust” occurs to him for the first time. Whole books have been written on the hard to challenge notion that lightning finally strikes for Bowie (and an entire TV viewing population) after the performance of “Starman” on Top Of The Pops on July 6th. BUY NOW: The Ultimate Companion to Ziggy Stardust It...
Presenting our latest online exclusive: The Ultimate Companion to Ziggy Stardust. The full scoop on Bowie’s most famous creation – Ziggy Stardust. Includes a massive new interview, the lowdown on every Bowie’s music from 1970-1973. Also: rediscovered interviews, all in this latest issue. Buy a copy here!
The next band to kindly volunteer for a gentle grilling by you, the Uncut readers, are alt.country pioneers Cowboy Junkies. Formed in Toronto in 1985 by Michael, Margo and Peter Timmins plus bassist Alan Anton, Cowboy Junkies have were ahead of the curve in rejecting ’80s studio trickery to record landmark album The Trinity Session in a church, its languid and haunting sound proving hugely influential. Since then, the band’s discography has expanded to include more than 20 albums, including the powerful recent one-two of All That Reckoning – partly inspired by William Blake and described by Uncut as...
It seems simple enough on the surface. “Baby, there ain’t no clouds,” Jana Horn sings blithely on the title track of her debut album, voice as clear as a mountain stream. “Baby, there ain’t no crying, or figuring this thing out”. However, for all of the promise of blue skies, sunshine and one-word answers, there’s something profoundly inscrutable about Optimism, a curious deep-fake ‘folk’ record which smacks of Broadcast, hippy Donovan, Julia Holter, Syd Barrett and the more wistful bits of The Cure while retaining an odd, metallic taste entirely of its own. By the time you’ve realised that...
The centrepiece of Good And Green Again, the ingenious and soulful new album by North Carolina-based folk musician Jake Xerxes Fussell, is “The Golden Willow Tree”, an epic story-song about the sinking of a ship. Combining lyrics and melodies from various folk tunes – including a song by The Carter Family and another by a North Georgia singer named Paralee McCloud – it’s an intricate tale of maritime espionage, of courage and conspiracy, betrayal and comeuppance, told over a dozen swashbuckling verses. Fussell recounts a sailor’s offer to scuttle his own ship to win the favour of a rival...
Rob Aldridge isn’t familiar to most, but that’s no reflection on his talent. Having spent the last few years touring the American South and breaking onto the festival circuit, first as a solo artist and then heading up The Proponents, the Alabama native is finally starting to get noticed as a songwriting frontman capable of a gnawing hook and a finely weighted turn of phrase. Jason Isbell is a fan, having commandeered Aldridge and the band as the opening act on his recent swing through the state. And the connection to Drive-By Truckers is deepened by way of The...