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Established Yorkshire songstress reinforces her reputation for excellence with fine mini-album.Any new single release ahead of a new album is always a teaser. After the video premiere of her new single The Losing Hand on this site back in November of last year, Elaine Palmer aficionados will have been licking their lips at the album to come. The track was a rocky, raunchy, guitar-driven beauty of a song, featuring Palmer’s signature gritty vocal and Telecaster sound. Ahead of the track, Palmer lavished praise upon producer Mike Butler, whose searing guitar solo was the perfect complement and features heavily on the…
Conor Maradona’s “Blue Honey” is a witty, nostalgic rock-pop gem straight out of Cardiff, Wales. It’s the sort of track that goes straight into the good stuff from the very first moment….sun-drenched, nostalgic pop-rock delight built for feel-good festival moments.Within the opening second, you’re met with Conor’s sweet vocals paired with a delightful guitar tone, and just a few seconds later, a sliding guitar line arrives, welcoming you into the track with open arms. The female backing vocals are a real highlight, adding plenty of depth to a song that already feels bright, sun-kissed and vibrant throughout.Stylistically, it blends soft…
Originally published in Uncut Take 177 (February 2012 issue)… At the dawn of the ’70s, Creedence Clearwater Revival were the biggest band in the world – a brilliant and driven hit machine with deep roots in American tradition. By 1972, though, it was all over, and the ex-bandmates embarked on a bitter war that still continues, 40 years later. Here, Fogerty tells his side of a remarkable story – and then hears the very different stories of his old Creedence sparring partners. “I had so much anger,” says Fogerty, “I couldn’t play those songs…” ________________ “There were long, dark times”…
East London producer and DJ IZCO builds momentum toward his debut album with new single Wonderluv, out now via Brownswood Recordings.Following Japan Greatly and Strike a Pose, the track shifts into a softer, more romantic space. Built around a cleared sample from Leroy Hutson, Wonderluv captures the feeling of moving through the city in love. “This one is inspired by how it feels to walk around the city when you’re in love,” he says.Taken from his debut album Powerscroft, out 1 May, the project is named after the street he grew up on and blends jungle, broken beat, grime, garage,…
Across the album, Joseph moves fluidly between soul, rap and experimental textures, expanding on earlier singles like “Pluto Baby”, “If Time Could Talk” and “Peace Of Mind”. His self directed visuals continue to mirror that approach, blurring realism with something more abstract.At its core, Forever Ends Someday reflects on time, memory and change. Drawing from different stages of his life, Joseph creates something that feels both intimate and wide reaching, held together by instinct and atmosphere.Created between London, Los Angeles and beyond, with collaborators including Nicolas Jaar and Romil Hemnani, the album stays cohesive while allowing space to breathe.After the…
Stockholm artist GERD introduces Truth To Be Told. A tension-led entry point where instinct, identity shift, and unresolved emotion move inside one continuous system.For GERD, Truth To Be Told starts with imbalance. A quiet shift before any visible break. Instinct leads, not logic, with ambiguity left to carry the weight.Ahead of More Water Than Anything, the track holds where identity blurs and clarity slips—softness and tension running in parallel through a gradual build and close, intimate vocal.It stays inside the moment where something feels off, not yet broken.I like when something feels fragile it’s a beautiful thing to build and…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who came to power in October 2025, met with Deep Purple ahead of their appearance on Tokyo’s famed Budokan Hall on Saturday.The 65-year-old politician welcomed the members of the band to the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, proclaiming, “Deep Purple are here!” before drummer Ian Paice responded, “You’re a drummer: we are friends!”Takaichi, who took up drums in high school before joining an all-female outfit whose repertoire included UFO classics Rock Bottom and Doctor Doctor, plus Rainbow’s I Surrender, responded by telling Paice, “You are my god!” and presenting him with a pair of signed…
Paul Morley‘Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: Yoko Ono and the Avant-Garde Diaspora’Book ReviewAt last, a must read, in depth book that places Yoko Ono as a pioneering avant-garde artist rather than just John Lennon’s wife, partner in crime, ‘muse’ and tabloid folk devil who split up the Beatles.Yoko Ono must be one of the most famous and yet least understood figures in pop culture. For decades, her whole existence has been framed by her role in the Beatles’ endgame and by her relationship with John Lennon. Both were key narratives in the late sixties meltdown and both were complex love…
Photo by Gorup de BesanezAround 4pm on 22nd May 2018 I was standing in line outside the London Stadium, waiting for the gates to open for a Rolling Stones show. The wait was made more tolerable by virtue of being able to hear the band going through their sound check. During one song, the distinctive tones of Sir Mick Jagger were complemented by the voice of Florence Welch, who with her band would later open the show. The song that she performed with the Stones that day was Wild Horses, one of my favourites from their so-called country rock phase…
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Heavy Metal Rules” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more. Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm” is now available worldwide through…
In this new entry in our ‘Diamonds In The Rough’ category, we would like to introduce you to upcoming artist jWondr and his brand new album titled before.We.move.on. jWondr’s new album before.We.move.on feels like the soundtrack to a personal turning point, the moment right before life shifts and nothing stays the same. Built on introspection, emotional honesty, and atmospheric production, the project captures exactly what its title promises: the tension of standing still in the middle of growth, staring at the past while already feeling the pull of what’s next. From the very first track, “DND,” jWondr comes in with…
Foo Fighters drummer Ilan Rubin has recalled a strange moment from his wedding day – when Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge whipped out his phone and showed Nine Inch Nails star Trent Reznor a picture that he said was of a dead alien.DeLonge is famously fascinated by extraterrestrial life and UFOs. During his time away from Blink-182, he poured his heart and soul into long-term project called Sekret Machines, which included novels, non-fiction books, a documentary and music.At one point, his work gathered so much attention that the Pentagon officially released some of the videos made public by DeLonge.Article continues below You…