Voodoo

Beware of "tacky, cheap rubbish"

It's from his landmark show on July 4, 1970

It debuts at the Edinburgh Fringe in August...

A wealth of lost nuggets selected from our own private collections…

An all-star cast pick the greatest cuts from Jagger, Richards and co

Hammersmith Apollo, February 21, 2015; a landmark gig

Hear and read about the week's 24 key records

As chosen by his Bad Seeds and Grinderman bandmates, famous fans and Cave himself…

When Thom Yorke sneaked out his new solo album a few months back, I managed to hold out for 66 hours before writing a review of "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes". Since waking up early yesterday morning to a lot of very excited Americans on my Twitter timeline, I've been playing D'Angelo's "Black Messiah" many times: another rich and complex album that seems fundamentally ill-suited to any kind of snap judgment reviewing.

This is the full text of my interview with Hurray For The Riff Raff in New Orleans, that appeared in the print edition of Uncut a couple of months ago. I've added a lot of music to listen to as you read; not just by Alynda and the Riff Raff, but by some of the other New Orleans musicians who are critical to the story.