A couple or so weeks ago, Jack White requested that no photos to be taken at his London show: the audience should put down their phones and concentrate on the gig in a different way, was his implied suggestion.
To accompany this month’s Uncut (Take 181, June 2012), out now, which features the Bonnie “Prince” Billy/Palace icon fielding questions from fans and musicians, here’s an illuminating Album By Album piece with Will Oldham, talking to Andrew Mueller, from Uncut’s April 2009 issue. “I feel more confident about things now,” he says. “Which frees up space for me to feel insecure about a whole new range of stuff…”
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Simi Stone was a member of the now apparently retired The Duke & The King, alongside Simone Felice. Tonight she’s opening for Simone at the Bush Hall, a solo turn that starts with Simi on fiddle, playing a lament that sounds like it may have been first heard a century ago, a keening in the Appalachians or somewhere similarly remote and steeped in mystery and drizzle.
Paul Simon has insisted that he was no regrets over the recording of his album Graceland in South Africa.
Simon was widely criticised for travelling to the country and making the 1986 with South African musicians, for effectively breaking the cultural boycott of the country due to its racist Apartheid regime.
Radiohead headed up the bill at the second day of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California yesterday [April 14].
The band, who previously headlined the festival in 2004, opened their set with "Bloom" from their 2011 album, The King of Limbs, following it with "15 Step". As well as airing "Lotus Flower", the band also played new song "Identikit".
The Black Keys brought day one of this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to close last night (April 13).
The California event, which is running with the same three-day bill on two consecutive weekends this year, got off to a wet and windy start.
Graham Coxon’s new album A+E is reviewed in the latest Uncut (May 2012, Take 180), out now – so we thought we’d revisit the last time the guitarist featured in our pages. In 2009, John Robinson met the guitarist at his Camden home to find out about his folk-infused solo album The Spinning Top, and hear all about the little matter of his old band’s reunion… Picture: Essy Syad
Alabama Shakes are set to debut at Number One this weekend with their album Boys And Girls.
The Georgia band, who released their debut album on Monday (April 9), are currently outselling Adele's 21 by 300 copies, according to the Official Charts Company.
