Enter The Slasher House, the debut album from Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, consisting of Dave Portner (aka Avey Tare), Angel Deradoorian and Jeremy Hyman, is released on April 7. Avey Tare’s psychedelic journey with Animal Collective, though, is also worth checking out – in this archive feature from Uncut’s September 2012 (Take 184) issue, Stephen Troussé chats to the band about their wide-ranging career so far. “We got terrible reviews…” Interview: Stephen Troussé
In haste again this week, but various delays in posting this have at least meant that the playlist has kept growing: 32 entries, with seven interesting things to listen to, including Neil Young and a couple of strong new artists, the pretty psych Morgan Delt and Matt Kivel, whose album reminds me a bit of the first one by Bon Iver.
Just before the release of 2007’s Era Vulgaris, Uncut’s Jaan Uhelzski headed out to California to see if head wrangler Josh Homme could keep the party going when the group’s hedonistic regulars had been barred…
Bob Dylan is to team up with Wilco and My Morning Jacket for a run of 26 dates in North America.
The tour - which will be called the Americanarama Festival of Music - will also feature additional artists the Richard Thompson Electric Trio and Ryan Bingham at select venues.
The dates begin on June 26 in West Palm Beach, Florida taking in Nashville, Chicago and Denver before coming to a close in Mountain View, California on August 4.
It’s an odd week to release a film, I guess, as no one’s entirely paying attention. The usual brouhaha surrounding this coming Sunday’s Oscars ceremony has been chewing up a lot of film content in magazines and on websites, while elsewhere the internet seems preoccupied with Star Wars spin-offs, Star Trek and Sin City posters and whether or not Sam Mendes will direct the next Bond film.
Anybody familiar with the short Beatles cartoons produced for US TV (in which George Harrison appeared to have an Indian accent) would have expressed grave doubts that the same company, Brodax, might have been able to make not just a decent full length animated Beatle movie, but a brilliant one.
