Last year, Warp Records embarked on a campaign for Boards Of Canada's "Tomorrow's Harvest" comeback that was notable for its obtuseness. Unmarked 12-inches were hidden in record stores, strings of numbers and inexplicable broadcasts were strewn enigmatically across the internet. At one point, I recall some talk of red moons and feverish online triangulations pointing to a bookshop near Edinburgh as the centre of the universe. It was all fun, and the album at the end of it all was great, but perhaps it wandered a little off course as it went on.
“Thank you, Boston,” deadpans Thurston Moore as the audience at tonight’s gig show their appreciation for “Speak To The Wild”. Of course, we’re in east London – Dalston to be precise, at Café Oto, which has become a regular hang out for Moore since he moved up the road to Stoke Newington.
As The Kinks prepare to release a deluxe edition of Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround Part One, packaged with soundtrack Percy, we take a trip back to Uncut’s November 2007 issue (Take 126), where Ray Davies talks Uncut through some of the best albums he’s made in his long career. “My songwriting has been my ally through life,” Davies muses, “because I ain’t got much else.” Words: Nick Hasted
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.
David Bowie Is - the retrospective exhibition first shown at London's V&A in 2013 – is to head to Australia.
The exhibition was originally shown in London from March 2013 and received a sell-out run during which time more than 300,000 people attended the show. Since then, it has moved around the world, being shown in Toronto, Chicago Sao Paulo and Berlin.
With a new Nick Cave documentary, 20,000 Days On Earth, due to open in the UK next month, I thought it a good time to dust down a piece I wrote on Cave's film career for our 2013 Ultimate Music Guide dedicated to Cave.
Eric Clapton has announced a new tour documentary for release later this year.
Planes, Trains And Eric features live performances, interviews and "fly on the wall" footage from the Far and Middle Eastern leg of Clapton's 2014 tour.
According to a report on Rolling Stone, the title will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and other digital formats on November 4.
Ry Cooder has announced details of a seven CD retrospective boxed set focussing on his soundtrack work in the Eighties and early Nineties.
Ry Cooder: Soundtracks will be released by Rhino on September 30.
The set contains scores for landmark films directed by Walter Hill and Wim Wenders; the musicians accompanying Cooder include Jim Keltner, Jim Dickinson, David Lindley and Van Dyke Parks, as well as Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench.
