Alia musica

Twin EPs on one disc from the vagabond trumpeter, exploring Mexican brass and lofi synthpop

Mick Harvey leaves after 25 years

Find out who will be joining Crystal Antlers and The Delta Spirit here...

Multi-Grammy winning producer, musician and musical director Roscoe Beck

Malian Afro-pop troubadours team up with Damon Albarn and others for this assault on the Western pop market

Today: Uncut presents musical director Javier Mas' view of Cohen on the road

A slightly tenuous connection, but it’s odd to think that, when the record I blogged about yesterday, “Brighten The Corners”, first came out, Damon Albarn was at the height of his Pavement phase. I remember going to see Pavement in Oxford on that tour (“Westie Can Drum”, “The Killing Moon”. . .) and Albarn was there with Justine Frischmann, looking conspicuously inconspicuous in a baseball cap pulled down low.

Uncut readers pay tribute to the late Pink Floyd keyboardist who died last week

Click on the links for Part One, Part Two and Part Three of the interview. Is it fair to see the last three LPs of a piece? They seem to sit together as a sequence. Yeah I think what I found, funnily enough, is sometimes you get what you want when you stop trying to get it.

Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico talk about new LP