Global Music Releases & News

Kehinde Wiley Reimagines MTV Moonperson With Flowers And Vines

Before MTV developed the novel reality show formats that have come to dominate television, even before it became the first network to play music videos around the clock, it first broadcast footage and photographs cut from NASA’s Apollo 11 expedition, the spaceflight that landed...

Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever Has A Song For Every Mood

The title of Billie Eilish’s sophomore album Happier Than Ever is a misnomer: There are few cheerful tracks to be found. Instead, the 19-year-old singer reflects heavily on her own trauma as a young woman whose career suddenly exploded, bringing her — and all...

Bop Shop: Songs From Jamila Woods, Syd, Kyle, And More

The search for the ever-elusive “bop” is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This...

Through Fire And Physics, Yola’s Still Standing

By Joshua M. Miller Yolanda Quartey is done going through the motions. With the release of her sophomore album Stand for Myself, the British-born singer-songwriter who performs spirited roots soul music as Yola makes it clear she’s comfortable in her own skin. Produced by...

Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement

As they bickered throughout the final days of Minor Threat, drummer Jeff Nelson told singer Ian MacKaye that – as unwashed jocks from the ’burbs started to infiltrate their well-marshalled scene – he wasn’t really enjoying playing with the DC hardcore giants any more....

Yola Stand For Myself

Rarely does a protest song sound quite as sceptical as Diamond Studded Shoes, the first single from Yola Carter’s second full-length, Stand For Myself. It’s an anthem for the downtrodden, a call to arms for anyone pushed aside or trampled under, but even the...

LUMP Animal

Anyone familiar with the eponymous 2018 debut by LUMP – Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay – will recall that the album ended with a track called LUMP Is A Product, which saw Marling list the personnel involved in making the record. The businesslike...

John Francis Flynn I Would Not Live Always

The first song that John Francis Flynn learnt to sing was Come, Me Little Son, from a version by The Dubliners’ Luke Kelly. Based around a Scottish air, it was initially written and recorded by Ewan MacColl for the BBC’s celebrated radio ballads series...

ZZ Top Album By Album

With the passing of Top bassist Dusty Hill this week, we revisit the band’s formidable discography in the company of his compatriot, Billy Gibbons. This interview first appeared in Uncut’s February 2009 issue (Take 141), where Gibbons’ reflects on Southern boogie, Hendrix, the blues,...

Joni Mitchell to release early coffee shop performance recorded by Jimi Hendrix

Joni Mitchell is set to release the recordings of two sets at a Canadian coffee shop that were recorded by Jimi Hendrix. You can listen to “The Dawntreader” below. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ...