As Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney prepare to release their new album, Turn Blue, on Monday, we delve back into the Uncut archive and take a look at this album by album from the Ohio duo (originally printed in January 2013, Take 188). “We’ve always left things relatively unadorned,” Auerbach tells Uncut, “so this is warts’n’all music. We’re pretty blessed that things have worked out the way they have. Ever since we’ve started it’s never stopped building.” Interview: Rob Hughes______________________The Big Come Up
The Rolling Stones this week performed a track that last appeared on their setlists more than 40 years ago.
The band are currently on the Asia Pacific leg of their !4 On Fire tour, which includes three shows in Tokyo.
It was at Tokyo Dome on Tuesday (March 4) that the band performed the Goat's Head Soup track, "Silver Train". Mick Taylor appeared as a guest performer on the track.
The Rolling Stones played the first date off their 14 On Fire tour this evening [February 21].
The show was their very first performance in the United Arab Emirates.
The band were joined by special guest, Mick Taylor.
In addition to the songs familiar for the 2012/2013 50 & Counting tour, the band played "You Got Me Rocking" from the Voodoo Lounge album, as well as "Slipping Away" from Steel Wheels.
Today (December 18), Keith Richards is 70 years old – to celebrate the Stone's landmark birthday, here's a classic interview from the Uncut archive (January 2004, Take 80), originally published to mark the guitarist's 60th birthday. Jon Wilde hooks up with Richards to discuss his favourite Rolling Stones songs, the importance of Max Miller jokes and going without sleep for nine days…
I wrote a Throwing Muses feature for the November 2013 issue of Uncut, for which I spoke to all Muses past and present. The key interview, of course, was with Kristin Hersh, which ended up taking place over two lengthy sessions.
As you may have seen, this week’s NME features the 2013 edition of their 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. For this one, they also accepted votes from a bunch of the mag’s alumni, including me, so I thought it’d be an easy, albeit self-indulgent, blog to reproduce my Top 50 albums here.
The tracklisting for Arcade Fire's forthcoming new album Reflektor has leaked online.
The 13 tracks, spread over two discs, were revealed on Amazon France this weekend. New single Reflektor is the album's opening track, and is followed by "We Exist", "Flashbulb Eyes", "Here Comes The Night Time", "Normal Person", "You Already Know", "Joan Of Arc", "Here Comes The Night Time II", "Awful Sound (Oh Erydice)", "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheous)", "Porno", "Afterlife", and "Supersymmetry".
David Bowie light-heartedly threatened to steal Arcade Fire's "Reflektor" for himself, according to band member Richard Reed Parry.
Bowie appears alongside the Canadian band on their new single, the first track to be taken from the forthcoming double album of the same name. Speaking to NME in a new interview in this week's issue, available digitally and on newsstands now, Parry lifted the lid on what it was like to be in the studio with Bowie.
Arcade Fire/ are to appear in their own concert special on American TV later this month.
The band are booked in as musical guests on the season premiere of NBC's Saturday Night Live on September 28, and straight after the episode ends the same network will broadcast a 30-minute Arcade Fire concert special, Consequence of Sound has confirmed. NBC's Arcade Fire special will celebrate the release of the band's forthcoming album Reflektor but at present no further details about the show are known.
