Jaan Uhelszki
Jaan Uhelszki was one of the illustrious gang of writers - Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh et al - who made Creem a rock'n'roll household name in the '70s. She has subsequently written for Mojo, Rolling Stone and many other publications.
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Smokey Robinson: An Open Letter to Smokey Robinson
Letter by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, April 1972
Dear Smokey: ...
Edgar Winter's White Trash: Roadwork (Epic)
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, June 1972
IT WAS ONE of those days. You know, Spring Fever and all that. Ben tumbled in from the Agitator laundromat grinning vacantly, mumbling something about ...
The James Gang: Straight Shooter
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, July 1972
"Hey Jesse, Jesse, I wuz jus' down at Molly's Tavern and Johnny Clay was tellin' me 'bout this band of desperados a-callin' themselves after us! ...
Three Dog Night: Seven Separate Fools
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, November 1972
It was on a Friday night during Doctor Zimmerman's group therapy session that Danny, Corey and Chuck first made a breakthrough at the South Cal ...
Edgar Winter: They Only Come Out At NIght
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, February 1973
My, my, who pushed dear, dear Edgar and the boys into the closet? Now really. Do you expect me to believe it was THEIR idea? ...
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, June 1973
PACK UP the voodoo, stash the gumbo, 'cuz Dr. John has gone legit. Used to be a time when he was Numero Uno Witch Doctor. ...
Leonard Cohen: Live Songs (Columbia)
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1973
LEONARD COHEN is no sissy! Now, I know you always thought poets were gushing queers and over-grown altar boys, but not our guy, Lennie. He's ...
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, January 1974
CHER BONO is a Barbie dress-up doll. A fantastic ride from juke box to juke box to an island on the TV freeway. An early ...
J. Geils Band: Ladies Invited (Atlantic)
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, March 1974
WHAT'S A french-fried Fidel doing in a place like Boston? Not eating brown bread and beans, I'll grant you. ...
Suzi Quatro: Elvis as Virgin Queen
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, November 1974
"I STILL USE laundromats, and one day I was walking to one carrying a bag of laundry. I had a hat on and sunglasses because ...
Rick Wakeman: Journey To The Center Of The Wax
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, February 1975
"THERE WERE these two Irishmen, Shamus and Paddy. Paddy sez to Shamus, 'Whaddya got in the bag?' 'Ducks.' sez Shamus. 'If you guess how many ...
Bachman Turner Overdrive: Rules For The Road: The Family That Plays Together Stays In Together
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, March 1975
If it was easy as fishin'You could be a musicianAnd could make sounds/ loud and mellowGet a second hand guitarChances are you'll go farIf you ...
Alice Cooper: Welcome To My Nightmare
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, May 1975
THE PLOT OF THE somnambulistic and psychopathic Steven and his nocturnal atrocities (he unknowingly murders in his sleep) takes up most of the second side ...
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (Swan Song)
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, May 1975
ROCK'S BIGGEST bruisers, Led Zeppelin, have got another album. In rock chronology this is an Event, since the defending champions of the world's biggest rock ...
Joe Walsh: Lonely In The Spotlight
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, June 1975
JOE WALSH is curiously indifferent about success. He gives you the impression that he has long outgrown awkwardness, but has never gotten used to felicity. ...
Bad Company: Straight Shooter (Swan Song)
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, July 1975
BAD COMPANY was conceived by a collection of musical misfits. Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke from Free, Mick Ralphs from Mott, and Boz Burrell from ...
Grand Funk Railroad: Grand Funk: Super Patriots Come Clean And Still Manage To Till Some Dirt
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, July 1975
You're just hangin' out In the local bar And you're wonderin' who in the hell you are Are you a farmer? Are you a star? ...
KISS: I Dreamed I Was Onstage With KISS In My Maidenform Bra
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1975
WELL, NOT exactly my idea of the perfect fantasy, but I was curious about life on the other side of the foot-lights. Armed with an ...
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, October 1975
THE BEE GEES are back. If you said it's like they never left you'd be absolutely right, and would win the $5.98 question, redeemable in ...
Allman Brothers Band: Beat The Devil: The Allman Brothers
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, December 1975
There is a land of the livingand a land of the deadand the bridge is love,the only survival, the only meaning ...
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, December 1975
KISS IS THE musical answer to what to do after Mark Famer goes home to the farm to chase cows one last time, and Alice ...
Crosby and Nash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Crosby and Nash: Rocky & Bullwinkle In Marin County
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, February 1976
Ring! Brring! Ring! ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Fifths and Fists For The Common Man
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, March 1976
I ALREADY HAVE two strikes against me: one, I am a Yankee, two a girl. I don't want to strike out because I'm a teetotaler, ...
Led Zeppelin: Sodom and Gomorrah in a Suitcase
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, July 1977
FLASH: April 19, 1977, Cincinnati, Ohio: Led Zeppelin, a British rock group, again brought violence is its wake when about 1,000 fans tried to gatecrash ...
Hall & Oates: Confessions Of An Odd Couple
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1977
THE PHONE RANG and an unfamiliar voice said: "Is this Jaan Uhelszki?" Assuming that the caller was a bill collector or someone of like obnoxiousness, ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Addicted To Noise, October 1995
SAN FRANCISCO — The Mars/Hershey candy company recently added robin's egg blue to their bouquet of M&M candy colors. To most of us, that would ...
Pearl Jam: Stone Soup: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Addicted To Noise, 2 March 1996
PEARL JAM'S Stone Gossard is not quite the man I expected, when you consider that he's a member of one of the most popular and ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, November 1996
IT'S A LAZY MONDAY NIGHT IN LOS ANGELES, AND A few blocks east of Beverly Hills an inconspicuous sign adorns a shadowy building, quietly proclaiming ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: How The South Rose Again: The Soaring Flight and Tragic Fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, November 1997
THE DAY BEFORE THE SECOND MOST FAMOUS plane crash in rock history, the right engine of the 1948 Convair aircraft carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd backfired over ...
Jane's Addiction: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco
Live Review by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, January 1998
Set list: Ocean Size/Ain't No Right/Then She Did/Stop/Three Days/Mountain Song/Summertime Rolls/Jane Says/Classic Girl/Chip Away/Ted,Just Admit it/I Would For You. ...
Ronnie Spector: Rolling Ronette
Report by Jaan Uhelszki, Rolling Stone, 17 December 1998
YOU CAN BET it wasn't the first time Keith Richards has given up a night's sleep, but it may have been one of the more ...
Talking Heads: 1999 – Not So Eighties, After All
Report by Jaan Uhelszki, Rolling Stone, 27 April 1999
David Byrne joins his fellow Talking Heads ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: 10 Questions for Tom Petty
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, May 1999
What's your fascination with San Francisco? Two years ago you staged 20 shows at the Fillmore, and now you're here for seven days. ...
The Ramones: Hey! Ho! Let's Go! — The Ramones Anthology
Review and Interview by Andy Gill, Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, August 1999
I DON'T KNOW if they ever made a Ramones pin-ball machine, but if not, they missed a trick. Just imagine: the ritual chant of "Hey!Ho! ...
Kelis Doesn't Get Mad, She Gets Even
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Rolling Stone, 9 March 2000
Hip-hop's current It Girl talks about her reputation, decision-making, and more ...
Primal Scream: Locate, subvert, Exterminate: Primal Scream's War on Authority
Report by Jaan Uhelszki, Alternative Press, July 2000
AFTER BEING without an American label for the past three years, Primal Scream return with a vengeance on Exterminator, their first album for Astralwerks. But ...
Morrissey: Nine Perfect Minutes With Morrissey
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, SOMA, December 2000
ONCE, HE was the bespectacled singer of archetypal British guitar band The Smiths; now he's living in Los Angeles and shopping for a label. ...
Morrissey, The Smiths: Morrissey: LA Confidential
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, April 2001
It was a hot California afternoon. Our West Coast gumshoe, Jaan Uhekszki, heard the phone ring. Once again, she'd tracked down her man. He was ...
Iggy Pop: The Importance of Being Iggy
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2001
JAMES NEWELL OSTERBERG, a.k.a. Iggy Pop, once billed himself as the "world's forgotten boy," but that is no longer the case. From fronting the proto-punk ...
Jackson Browne: Late For The Sky
Retrospective by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, October 2002
SINGER-SONGWRITER Jackson Browne delved deep into his soul for his third album, Late For The Sky. ...
Lou Reed: 10 Questions for Lou Reed
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, February 2003
The Dark Prince entertains Jaan Uhelszki with tales of rewriting Poe, not punching David Bowie and understanding the emotional history of the amplifier. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, February 2003
While Chan Marshall's primal folk and haunting melodies are urgent and straightforward, on stage and in person, she is a study in contradictions. Jaan Uhelszki ...
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Stephen Malkmus: Just for Jicks
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2003
Generational icon, quirky wordsmith, and esoteric record hound, Stephen Malkmus, the former lead singer of Pavement, indie rock's most important band, has unleashed a second ...
Alice Cooper: Last Night A Record Changed My Life
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, October 2003
Back when he was dodging Phoenix rednecks as frontman of The Spiders, Alice Cooper's heart opened to a Broadway show soundtrack. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, December 2003
Ten Things You (Don't) Want To Know About Ryan Adams: He spills the beans on his romantic foibles, his phobias and chocolate. ...
John Frusciante: Shadows Collide With People
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, March 2004
Fourth solo album for Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist, featuring Flea and Chad Smith, with cover photography by actor Vincent Gallo. ...
Christine McVie: In The Meantime (Adventure/Sanctuary)
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, July 2004
Former Fleetwood Mac songbird flies solo for the first time in two decades. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2004
YOU MAY know John Frusciante as the intermittent guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He infamously quit the foursome only moments before he was ...
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2004
EVERYONE knows the old saw about the Eskimos having over 400 words for snow and the Parisians' two-dozen fevered phrases for passion. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2004
BY FRONTING her own rock band – issuing lyrical missives from the depths of her fertile unconscious that rivalled anything that Bob Dylan ever scribbled ...
The Ramones: Johnny Ramone: Johnny's Last Stand
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, November 2004
The taciturn, stony-faced dictator behind the Ramones' three-chord punk masterplan, in one of his last-ever interviews, Johnny Ramone emerged as a man at peace with ...
Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst: Bright Eyes: Inside Conor Oberst (Literally!)
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
JOHN LENNON sang, "I may be a dreamer, but I’m not the only one," in 1970’s 'Imagine'. ...
Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst: Dream Catcher
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
CONOR OBERST is an anomaly. While his hometown is famous for the two-inch Omaha Steaks that are FedEx-ed around the nation to lesser protein-endowed states, ...
The Ramones: Johnny Ramone: End of the Century
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
WHEN I SPOKE to Johnny Ramone less than a year ago, I had no idea that it would be one of his final interviews. Stoic, ...
Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithful: Strong Poison
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
INITIALLY MORE infamous than famous, Marianne Faithfull was known more for her extraordinary beauty and her liaison with Mick Jagger than she was for her ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, March 2005
AL GREEN'S genius spans four decades, and during those often tumultuous years the man who is routinely referred to as the last great Southern soul ...
Lucinda Williams: Southern Comfort
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2005
LUCINDA WILLIAMS is a splendid mess, a charming and bruised beauty. ...
Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: What's Next
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2005
THE FLAMING Lips have begun recording the follow-up to 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, provisionally titled At War With the Mystics, with Dave Fridmann ...
Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: Bearers of the Psych Torch
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2005
"WHAT'S THE greatest misconception about me?" the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne ponders aloud, pushing up the sleeves of his putty-colored suit. ...
Cat Power: Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power), 31, New York City, N.Y.
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2005
Chan Marshall isn't like the rest of us. She's gifted with a pristine voice, a keen mind, a restless heart and an attuned sense of ...
The White Stripes: Jack White: White Noise
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2005
YOU KNOW what they say: You are what you listen to. So what does that say about Jack White? Actually quite a bit: That he's ...
Yoko Ono: Profile: Yoko Ono, 70, New York City, N.Y.
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2005
YOKO ONO is diminutive in size, but huge in spirit. A fearless avatar, she will attempt anything whether it’s topping the Billboard charts as a ...
Willie Nelson's Countryman (Lost Highway)
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2005
HEARING WILLIE Nelson’s first reggae album, you’re bound to ask: What took him so long? There’s a rather sympathetic correlation between the Nelson’s rather lazy, ...
Profile by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2005
AFTER LEARNING that a London ad agency was searching for music for an upcoming Volkswagen commercial, Aqualung’s Matt Hales locked himself in his flat, hammered ...
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2005
"I ALWAYS wanted to be seditious and dangerous. But in a good rock and roll way," explains Jeff Whalen, principal of L.A.’s glammy Tsar. ...
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Fight Club
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, November 2005
WITH THE swagger of the young Yardbirds and the unstudied panache and casual arrogance of the early Stones, Nick Jago, Robert Been and Peter Hayes ...
Neil Young: Dark Side of the Moon
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, December 2005
NEIL YOUNG has long-plotted his life around the phases of the moon. Ancient and antediluvian, prehistoric and prescentient but strangely effective, Young uses the moon ...
Phish: Trey Anastacio, 40, Manhattan
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, December 2005
A YEAR after dismantling Phish, one of the jam scene's most beloved institutions, Trey Anastasio continues to receive hate mail from bereft fans. ...
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2006
KT TUNSTALL knew she was meant for big things. "I just always thought that I was the golden child," the Scottish chanteuse explains, with a ...
Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: Loose Lips
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2006
WAYNE COYNE is the Flaming Lips' major domo, lead vocalist and ringmaster for the Oklahoma-based art provocateurs. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, June 2006
IN MORE politically incorrect times there was an ad campaign that featured famous women wrapped in full-length Russian mink coats – people like Elizabeth Taylor, ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty: Anatomy of a rock star
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2006
ALMOST EVERYONE that knows Tom Petty for any length of time calls him Tommy. ...
Evan Dando, The Lemonheads: Evan Dando: The World's Forgotten Boy
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, November 2006
MOST OF the world thinks that, by rights, Evan Dando shouldn't be alive. But like Iggy Pop (one of his mentors), he's a misunderstood boy ...
Ornette Coleman, 76, Manhattan
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, November 2006
ORNETTE COLEMAN is one of the true immortals. A metaphysician, philosopher and futurist as much as a revolutionary musician, he set melody free from it's ...
Evan Dando, The Lemonheads: Evan Dando: Consistently Inconsistent
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 November 2006
LEMONHEADS CO-FOUNDER Evan Dando puts his pioneering alternative rock band back together like clockwork every decade. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, December 2006
CHAN MARSHALL'S a spectral beauty, haunted and ethereal as the songs she crafts. What makes her even more extraordinary is how selfless she is, insisting ...
Oasis: Noel Gallagher of Oasis
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2007
OASIS MAJORDOMO Noel Gallagher is turning back the clock. Not just because he’s staring at the specter of turning 40, but because he and his ...
Lucinda Williams: Westside Story: Lucinda Williams' Confessions of Love, Lust and Violence
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Relix, February 2007
LUCINDA WILLIAMS is a little distracted. She keeps popping up from her seat, perched between the four overstuffed pillows that are arranged artfully on her ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, March 2007
It's 2007, OK! Got a war across the USA! What better time, then, for Iggy Pop and the Stooges to return to their first album ...
Wayne Kramer, MC5, John Sinclair: MC5: The making of Kick Out The Jams
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, May 2007
How Wayne Kramer and his Detroit proto punks turned a stage heckle into a battle cry to herald the death of the hippy dream ...
Queens Of The Stone Age: Step Inside The Best Little Whorehouse In Rock
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, July 2007
FOR THE PAST DECADE, Queens Of The Stone Age have been the premier destination for wild, sexually charged rock, frequented by everyone from Dave Grohl ...
Queens Of The Stone Age: Step Inside The Best Little Whorehouse In Rock
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, July 2007
For the past decade, Queens Of The Stone Age have been the premier destination for wild, sexually charged rock, frequented by everyone from Dave Grohl ...
Neil Young: "I've learned a lot about the trail I've left and the debris behind me…"
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, December 2007
As he puts the finishing touches to his momentous Archives retrospective, Neil Young escorts us on an unusually revealing journey through his past. From car ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, June 2008
THINGS HAVE CHANGED monumentally for the Flaming Lips over the course of their 23-year career. "We were just dorks who liked music," says sonic ringmaster ...
Metallica: Kirk Hammett on Metallica's Kill 'Em All
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Music Radar, 11 September 2008
METALLICA HAVE NEVER done anything the easy way. On the eve of recording their first album Kill 'Em All, they fired lead guitarist Dave Mustaine ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà Vu Live
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, October 2008
Military madness! Live album, to accompany documentary film. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Mystery & Magic
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Classic Rock, Summer 2008
"YOU KNOW HOW they always say, who died and made you boss?" asks Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington in his soft Florida drawl, made even ...
The Gaslight Anthem: Baby He Was Born To Run!!
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, January 2010
Raised a few miles from Asbury Park and a few blocks from E Street, Brian Fallon is Springsteen's latest, feistiest and best-qualified heir apparent. In ...
The Low Anthem: Children of the Evolution
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, March 2010
In the world of Americana, 2009'ss Oh My God, Charlie Darwin marked out the Low Anthem as true originals of the species. In Washington D.C., ...
Joanna Newsom: After The Gold Rush
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, April 2010
In the remote Californian gold mining town she calls home, Uncut is granted a rare and exclusive audience with JOANNA NEWSOM. In the four years ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power
Review and Interview by David Quantick, Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, June 2010
Fine 3-CD reissue with live bootleg and much more ...
Grand Funk Railroad: We're An American Band
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, July 2010
Grand Funk Railroad shared drugs with Hendrix, helped Janis Joplin play tricks on the Stones, immortalised groupies, worked with Zappa and Rundgren, had the most ...
Grand Funk Railroad: We're an American Band
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, July 2010
Grand Funk Railroad shared drugs with Hendrix, helped Janis Joplin play tricks on the Stones, immortalised groupies, worked with Zappa and Rundgren, had the most ...
Blue Öyster Cult: The Making of '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, November 2010
Riff approaching! Buck Dharma and co's "trans-awesome" tune, and the spookiest FM staple ever. "Nothing like the Byrds," apparently... ...
Kings of Leon: The Once And Future Kings
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, November 2010
These are good times for KINGS OF LEON: an imperial lifestyle, attentive fans in Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder, and the likelihood that, any day ...
Iron & Wine: "It ruins something for me when I know all the answers"
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, February 2011
PERHAPS SURPRISINGLY, there is little privacy in Sam Beam's house, an octagonal behemoth one hour's drive from Austin, Texas. ...
Retrospective by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, February 2011
Resurrected! A remarkable, uncompromising proto-punk band from Detroit! ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, April 2012
1-2-3-4 Feistodon! Is Feist one of the most intimate and gifted singer-songwriters of her age? Or a more complex, hard-rocking beast? Uncut interrupts her latest ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, September 2012
Here's Donald Fagen in New York to discuss his latest solo album, Sunken Condos. "It's a metaphor for my current phase of life," the 64-year-old ...
Laura Marling: Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)
Review and Interview by Andy Gill, Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, June 2013
The "English Joni" ruthlessly dissects her love life on confessional fourth. ...
Civil Wars, the: The Civil Wars: The Civil Wars
Review and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, September 2013
THE FINAL CONFLICT? Roots revivalists find harmony in discord on self-titled second album. ...
Live Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, January 2014
In which a failed restauranteur — specialities: eel, donuts, fish scales — repays his debt to Neil Young. Lucky day! ...
Lester Bangs: Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lester Bangs and Almost Famous
Retrospective by Jaan Uhelszki, Spin, 3 February 2014
WHEN PHILIP Seymour Hoffman died Sunday of an apparent overdose in his Greenwich Village apartment, it was like losing Lester Bangs all over again. ...
Afghan Whigs: Flip Your Whigs!
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, April 2014
SIXTEEN YEARS after their last album, grunge-soul titans The Afghan Whigs have returned, as debonair and dissolute as ever. In the company of Greg Dulli, ...
Sharon Van Etten: "You'll never understand love. It's infinite."
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, December 2014
TWO DOORS DOWN from Dylan's old place in the West Village, Sharon Van Etten opens up her apartment and bares her soul. To be discussed: ...
Father John Misty: Play Misty For Me
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, February 2015
THE STRANGE TALE of how Josh Tillman, hirsute drummer of the Fleet Foxes, became dapper solo sensation Father John Misty. Involves threesomes in LA, ghosts ...
Joy Williams on The Civil Wars and Her New Album, Venus
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Cuepoint, 2 June 2015
MANY KNOW JOY WILLIAMS as one half of the four-time Grammy-winning folk-rock duo The Civil Wars. Until their 2012 hiatus (and eventual break up in ...
Joy Williams: The Surrender Of Joy Williams
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, The Fire Theft Project, 15 February 2016
With a varied musical career that began at age 17, Joy Williams has faced her share of forks in the road. Now, with the sun setting on ...
Loretta Lynn: "If you're good to the ghosts, they'll be good to you."
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, March 2016
WELCOME TO HURRICANE MILLS, the second-most-haunted house in Tennessee and, for the past 50 years, home of the supematurally gifted Loretta Lynn. Here, the Queen ...
Dan Auerbach:"I don't think I'm that much of a control freak any more..."
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, May 2018
Musician, label boss, entrepreneur, empire builder... Will the real Dan Auerbach please stand up? As Jaan Uhelszki joins Auerbach and his Easy Eye Sound crew ...
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