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Photo: Max WagnerThe Milk Carton Kids will return to the UK and Ireland for a run of headline dates in January 2027, including London’s Barbican Centre, Bristol Beacon, Manchester’s Albert Hall, Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre and Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre.The band has released their new album, Lost Cause Lover Fool, via Far Cry Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers. Produced by Pattengale, Lost Cause Lover Fool is the duo’s seventh studio album, expanding on their signature minimalist sound while staying grounded in the intimate songwriting and understated arrangements that define their work.“This album is, at its core, a collection of songs about…

Originally published in Uncut Take232 (September 2016 issue)… “We were all walking through Macy’s to a local mall,” remembers MC and producer Dave Jolicoeur, “and I saw a Mickey-Mouse T-shirt with a big daisy on it. It just looked great, and I was like, ‘How could I incorporate something that looks so cool to me into what we’re doing? What could daisy mean and be really cool?’” With that revelation, Dave (then known as Trugoy) invented the ‘DAISY Age’ – ‘Da Inner Sound, Y’All’ – the concept that would embody De La Soul’s intelligent, sensitive lyrics, colourful style and sly…

As Graeme Tait takes an enforced break he kindly asked me to step in this month to produce our monthly EP Roundup. I think he knows he has no fears about my contributions matching his excellent work month after month. Still, we’ll give it a go.First off is a strange one – billed as an EP, it is in fact just one song, sung by the writer, octogenarian San Francisco cult folk singer Tucker Zimmerman (with a second version of the song by Jackie Oates and Neil Halstead). Zimmerman was a hero to many, notably David Bowie, and had recorded…

A director of UK-based festival Slam Dunk has stepped down from his role after he was accused of sexually assaulting an actress on multiple occasions.Jenny Miller claims in a since deleted social media post that one of Slam Dunk’s directors sometimes paid her to dance for him and that on one occasion he sexually assaulted her after providing her with “cocaine” which caused her to pass out.Miller, who describes herself as a showgirl and actress, says there were multiple other sexual assaults. She also posted screenshots of text conversations between herself and the man she accuses of the assaults.Article continues…

Credit: Jeff FasanoJim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal release rate. Both albums don’t show any slip in quality control, and together they represent both sides of Jim Lauderdale, songwriter. Country Super Hits Volume 2 follows Volume 1 after twenty years and contains country songs in the classic mould, while The Birds Know is his second album with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, one of the new leading traditional bluegrass bands who…

So Apex opens on the Troll Wall in Norway. Charlize Theron and Eric Bana, harnessed up, weather rolling in. The camera looks down. You feel it in your stomach. Honestly, this is the kind of opening that should be playing in front of 400 people in a dark room, not on whatever screen you happen to have nearby. Netflix bought it. That’s the deal. Director Baltasar Kormákur has been at this game for years now, between Everest and Beast, and the man knows what he’s doing with mountains and animals and weather. Apex Plot: A Grieving Climber Hunted in the…

Hollywood’s video game gold rush just got a whole lot louder. Christopher McQuarrie, the architect of the last decade of Mission: Impossible mayhem, is teaming with freshly minted Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan to bring Electronic Arts’ Battlefield franchise to the big screen — and the package is already drawing serious heat from major studios. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, with Deadline quickly confirming. McQuarrie is set to write, direct, and produce, while Jordan is on board as a producer with a possible starring role still on the table. Whether he ends up leading the picture will reportedly come…

Single Review and Video PremiereNeovenator The Air Raid Siren RepairmanFlicknife RecordsDL / limited edition 7″ vinylOut nowAs I said before… Olde English Peculiar they may be, or Steampunk Psych if you prefer, but fans of the Stranglers, Damned, Cardiacs, David Devant etc are well-advised to check out Neovenator, as there is much here to take to your heart. And this is their leanest, catchiest single yet, says Ged BabeySteampunk will never go mainstream or ‘overground’ because it’s just too smart, clever and cryptic for the masses (who are asses for the most part). It is the domain of the well-read,…

Originally published in Uncut Take 246 (November 2017 issue)… WHEN the Jackson brothers signed to Motown in 1969, they found themselves victims of a glorious culture shock: pulled from the amateurhour stages of the Midwest and the East Coast for a new life in the sun-drenched, star-studded El Dorado of Hollywood. “Riding down the street, seeing movie stars,” remembers Jackie Jackson. “At cafés, sitting outside eating, we’d say, ‘Wow, look at that car, look at this car!’ It was exciting to see for us, little boys from Gary, Indiana.” “It was nothing to go down on Sunset Boulevard,” adds Tito…

Ana Saia introduces Besos & Despedidas. A five-track debut shaping love, loss, and cultural duality into a tight, genre-fluid frame. Clarity-first: bilingual toplines, front-facing vocals, clean Latin pop/reggaeton transitions. Hooks land fast; open production keeps the vocal central. High-energy cuts and stripped moments hold range without drift.At concept level, the EP tracks love, fallout, and release through a bicultural lens. Direct writing, English–Spanish interplay. No filler, just forward motion. Ana Saia explains:‘Besos & Despedidas’taught me so much about myself as an artist. I wrote it after coming out of a three-year relationship, and it really captures that full emotional cycle—from…

KAROBELA step forward with Love Letter To No One. A hook-driven opener shaping emotional fallout into a multi-part narrative. Fast-moving. Tight riffs, driving rhythms, and a clear vocal lead. Alt-rock at the core, with pop/dance lift, lean structure, and a chorus that sticks.Concept-led, Love Letter To No One opens a four-part arc, tracking ghosting through a “pink” protagonist moving between denial and anger. The topline stays direct, with minimal expansion in the arrangement to support the shifts without overcomplicating the narrative.An absolutely fearsome live session from KAROBELA in the BBC Introducing Live Lounge” — BBC Introducing (Melita Dennett)The release sets…

Here’s our weekly overview of Hip-Hop and R&B album sales in the U.S., along with an update on where each album ranks on the Billboard 200 chart – this time for week 17 of 2026. No new debuts this week, but Justin Bieber still dominates the Top 50 with multiple albums after his viral Coachella show. Source: HITS Daily Double Chart # Artist(s) Album title Sales Sales + Streams 5 Justin Bieber SWAG 1,402 60,499 7 Don Toliver OCTANE 616 42,525 14 Bruno Mars The Romantic 6,973 35,782 15 SZA SOS 1,37 33,869 16 Kanye West BULLY 12,477 33,774 22…