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The Cure’s Robert Smith interviewed: “Our songs have always had a fear of mortality”

From Uncut Take 332 [December 2024], The Cure's Robert Smith on their first new album for 16 years, Songs Of A Lost World, love, loss and ageing, the Moon landings,…

The Ghosts of ‘Halloween’

Spencer Berger is Auditorium. (All photos by Jonathan Rae) Spencer Berger has that kind of look that makes you wonder where you’ve seen him before. His thick brows, kind blue…

The Voice Without a Face

Ado. (Credit: Viola Kam) Maintaining an air of mystery in our all-access digital world is nothing short of an anomaly. But staying anonymous? That’s a miracle. Yet somehow, Ado has…

‘Are You There, Jimi Hendrix? It’s Me, Ken the Ghost Hunter.’

Jimi Hendrix. (Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Combing under the 30-foot-high marble dome encasing Jimi Hendrix’s grave, ghost hunter Ken Arnold scans AM/FM radio frequencies with…

Emmylou Harris interviewed: “I was faced with a conundrum”

With a new, expanded edition of her Spyboy live album due, Emmylou Harris talks to Uncut about the album, her collaborations with Daniel Lanois and Buddy Miller, covering Tom Petty,…

Bauhaus Alum Daniel Ash’s New Project Is Modern Art

Daniel Ash performs with Love and Rockets at The Fillmore Silver Spring on June 11, 2023, Silver Spring, Maryland. (Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images) “‘Danny, we need a gimmick. Wear a…

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Tortoise. (Credit: Heather Cantrell) Tortoise has done a lot in their 30+ years as a band. In the ‘90s, they became standard-bearers of the Chicago scene, their unusual instrumentation (three…

Brandi Carlile – My Life In Music

ELTON JOHNGoodbye Yellow Brick RoadDJM/MCA, 1973This is the first album I ever felt any individual ownership over. I got it on cassette for Christmas when I was 12 years old,…

5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats

Slim JIm Phantom. (Credit: Russ Harrington) Name Slim Jim PhantomMore from Spin: Mumford & Sons ‘Band’ Together With Hozier Rafael Toral Is Murdering the Classics A Broken Piano, An Exhausted Pianist,…

Soft Cell: “I suppose you could say it was a strange career path. But there were some amusing moments…”

The Soft Cell story is one of wild, hedonistic success. Here, Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all – about controversial performance art, New York’s depraved club scene, the perils…

The Cure’s Robert Smith interviewed: “Our songs have always had a fear of mortality”

The Ghosts of ‘Halloween’

The Voice Without a Face

‘Are You There, Jimi Hendrix? It’s Me, Ken the Ghost Hunter.’

Emmylou Harris interviewed: “I was faced with a conundrum”

Bauhaus Alum Daniel Ash’s New Project Is Modern Art

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Brandi Carlile – My Life In Music

5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats

Soft Cell: “I suppose you could say it was a strange career path. But there were some amusing moments…”

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