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Welsh outsider artist Eilir Pierce releases Do-List, his first standalone single after more than 30 years, 39 self-released albums, and over 500 songs. Produced with Gavin Thomson, the track combines tense piano, drum machines, synth textures, strings, and an increasingly agitated vocal to capture the pressure of unfinished tasks and constant productivity. Pierce says:I make lists because I’m overwhelmed. Then the list becomes another thing overwhelming me. I tick something off, feel satisfied for about three seconds and immediately notice the other 27 things I haven’t done.Eilir Pierce by Somhairle MacDonaldHe adds:I also refuse to call it a ‘to-do list’.…

No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart.Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club in East Tennessee, comes perhaps his most personal release to date. ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free not only continues the family name; his grandma was Pearlie Bell, his mom Willie Pearl, but offers a glimpse into his life in East Tennessee. Surrounded by a stellar cast that includes Tim O’Brien, Amythyst Kiah, Verlon Thompson and Brother Boy Eugene Wolf, the mainly acoustic songs still…

Roger McGuinn solo performing in Florence, South Carolina, Photo: D Cameron (shared under Wikimedia Commons)Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter superstar bands and on through a solo career. His last big studio solo album was in 1991; it was called Back From Rio and saw McGuinn collaborating with a lot of friends, old and new, various Byrds and Heartbreakers amongst them; Car Phone was co-written with Benmont Tench. The song…

Future’s highly anticipated new albumThe Real Me is out now! It contains 22 tracks and some hidden features. The video for the song “Fukk A Interview” is also out. Listen to the full project and watch the video below:  Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here

There’s big, there’s huge, then there’s whatever the fuck Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is. In translating the epic Romantic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to heavy metal form, Iron Maiden ended up testing the limits of the genre. The song filled up almost 14 minutes with its soaring highs and creaking, spoken-words lows, ending 1984 album Powerslave on one of the grandest notes the band have ever reached.As with most of the musically intrepid things Maiden have done, Rime… was the brainchild of bassist, founder and lead songwriter Steve Harris. Just nine years after he started the band, ’Arry…

Originally published in Uncut Take 165 (February 2011 issue)… It had been an auspicious day for Duane Allman. After more than two years of non-stop touring, he had received and cashed his first royalty cheque, for a useful $5,000. As dusk was closing in over Macon, Georgia, he left The Allman Brothers Band’s Big House and swung his beloved Harley Sportster, Melissa, onto the highway. Just minutes later, according to news reports, he swerved to avoid a truck and lost control of his bike. It flipped over, pinning him beneath it, sliding down the roadway for 50 feet. Following some…

It wasn’t until 2013’s Southeastern that Jason Isbell began to work out who exactly he was writing for. The Georgian had been in the business for a decade – first with the Drive-By Truckers and then as a solo artist, but on Southeastern the newly sober Isbell began to focus on a single imaginary individual and make them his audience. “You can’t write for everybody in the audience because then you get Big Macs,” he explains. “So you write for one person – and that person has to be kind of an asshole, this one imaginary audience member who wants…

Swiss DJ and multidisciplinary artist Sebastian Konrad connects house, tech house, and progressive music with fashion, design, and visual culture. At the centre of everything is groove.His productions pair dynamic percussion, hypnotic melodies, and atmospheric detail, with rhythm driving both the music and live experience.That approach draws from the communal foundations of house music and rave culture. Connection, unity, and release remain central to his work.With residencies at Nordstern Basel and Naturklang, Konrad has performed across Mexico, Bali, Mykonos, Istanbul’s Klein Phönix, and London’s Drumsheds. His productions have also received support from Adriatique, Chris Avantgarde, Adam Ten, Julya Karma, Innellea,…

Rolling through the swaggering Heathens, the punky Next Semester and Tear In My Heart, there’s little room to breathe, as one song flows into the next, like a stream of consciousness, creating an all-engulfing atmosphere. Respite does come as things move into the second act, however, as Josh appears from the darkness in Trench-coded gear, carrying aloft a torch that remains centre-stage for the rest of the show, blazing as bright and hot as the fevered passion flowing from the crowd. All of this serves for the big, fiery spectacle of Jumpsuit (with a dash of City Walls thrown in),…

Album ReviewDavid Devant and His Spirit WifeSeaside the B-sidesKindness RecordingsDL / CD*Out now*CD’s have sold out due to reviewers inability to meet a deadline. Download it and burn to disc for the car.Compilation retrospective of all the David Devant & His Spirit Wife B-sides. Rare tracks that were previously only available on limited-edition vinyl and CD singles. All the tracks capture the band’s freer experimental pop magic out of sight of the label asking for the single. Perversely they all seem like hits. And it stands as probably the very best of Devant in one package says Ged Babey.This album…

Charlie Jeer links with British-Indian singer and actress Simone Ashley on SO GOOD, a funk-driven summer single built around disco nostalgia, upbeat production, and Jeer’s signature saxophone. Produced by Ben Stancombe, the track follows MY MADONNA and its Kilimanjaro remix, pairing bright electronic energy with Ashley’s vocal performance. Jeer says:I wanted to make a song that spreads positivity and joy into the world. Having Simone Ashley on the record is such a privilege—she added so much life and energy.Simone Ashley and Charlie JeerAshley adds:This track oozes summer and a funk that I couldn’t get out of my head. I’ve made…

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 28 of 2026. This week’s recap includes the first-week sales of xperiment, the new Ken Carson album, which debuts at No. 7, and Rylo Rodriguez’s S.K.A.T.E. Source: HITS Daily Double Chart # Artist(s) Album title Sales Sales + Streams 5 Drake ICEMAN 134 67,337 7 Ken Carson xperiment 623 42,549 *DEBUT* 13 Rylo Rodriguez S.K.A.T.E. 113 36,578 *DEBUT* 16 Don Toliver OCTANE 1,181 29,112 20 SZA SOS 653…