The Band Uncut

Uncut is a loud band from Toronto. New album 'Infinite Repeats' available now. “Uncut’s long-awaited third album is everything holdout diehard fans have been hoping for from these acclaimed local guitar rockers. Strong from start to finish, the album picks up right where the hard-charging, eardrum-rattling quartet left off seven years ago.” —Jordan Bimm, Now Toronto “Lurking just far enough beyond the radar to remain unnecessarily obscure, while perpetually frustrating evangelical admirers has been this underappreciated Toronto quartet’s modus operandi for a decade.” —Ben Rayner, Toronto Star

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This Thursday, October 8th, we'll be taking part in a benefit show at Lee's Palace in Toronto to raise funds for our friend Ronnie Morris (controller.controller, Lioness, The Flowers of Hell). Ronnie suffered a series of serious medical issues earlier this year and he needs help with the extensive costs related to his recovery.

Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), FrETZ (members of METZ and Fresh Snow), The Flowers of Hell (featuring our own Chris McCann) and V ∆ N E S S ∆ (Lioness) will be playing sets. Sebastien Grainger will be DJ-ing.

We'll be kicking off the night by joining some of our pals from controller.controller and The Two Koreas to play a few classic Mancunian cover tunes as the combo Hit The North!.

Please come out and support this cause, it's going to be a fun night!

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Toronto Show: Saturday July 11th

We'll be playing a Toronto show at the Silver Dollar with our buds Dearly Beloved as they celebrate their new 7" and forthcoming European tour. Also on the bill are our old pals Pile High and Tooth. Should be a hot summer Saturday night in the city!

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Toronto Show: Friday December 19th

We're finally back in action—just in time for Christmas! The legendary Dan Burke has signed us up for what is bound to be a wild holiday show at the Silver Dollar on Friday December 19th. Billed as St. Nick's XXXmas Show, the gig features Comet Control, "St. Nick" Flanagan with Wrong Hole, Uncut and Apeshit Simians. We're really looking forward to this—it should be an epic way to kick into the holidays (ie: with a hangover and ringing ears). Hope to see you there!

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These are a few of the excellent photos that our pal Jeff Harris took of us when we played with Kestrels in Toronto last month. 

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Toronto Show, Thursday July 3rd

Next Thursday we'll be playing with Kestrels (Halifax) and New Armour at Smiling Buddha in Toronto. Kestrels are kicking off their summer tour and are celebrating the release of their new EP The Moon Is Smiling Our Way. Should be loud!

Here's a link to the Facebook Event.

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Toronto Show, Saturday June 7th

This Saturday we're helping The Dying Arts celebrate their album release with a show at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. Also on the bill are Girls On Stilts and Pile High. Cover is $6. Should be a rocker!

Here's a link to the Facebook Event.

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CMW 2014 Showcase // May 8, 2014

We're playing a show at the Bovine Sex Club in Toronto next week (Thursday May 8th) as part of CMW 2014. There are a bunch of excellent bands on the bill, including old pals The High Dials as well as Megafauna from Austin TX and classic rockers Open AIR from Calgary.

Should be a fun night, hope to see you there!

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'Stay Gold' Showing Strong

Great news to start 2014 as our track 'Stay Gold' has been named to two very cool year end lists. First we got the news that the track came in at #54 on the CBC Radio 3 Top 103 Canadian songs of 2013. Then this week George Stroumboulopoulos rolled out his list of the best tracks of the year on The Strombo Show. His list has 'Stay Gold' ranked at #36—amazing! We just wanted to extend a big thank you to everyone who had a hand in making those choices.

Currently the song is showing strong on the Radio 3 R3-30 where it has been charting for the last few weeks. Let's keep it rolling!

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In keeping with the spirit of the season, we've posted Thomas D'Arcy's remix of 'Thieves Watch' for free download on our Bandcamp page. Go grab yourself a copy and tell your friends to do the same!  Download it here: Thieves Watch

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Now on Twitter!

Just a quick note to tell you that we are now live on Twitter. Drop by and say ‘hello.’ We look forward to meeting you! We’ll also keep you informed with any and all band updates.

This is our handle: @thebanduncut

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Tomorrow night (Sunday October 20th) we'll be playing a show at the Piston here in Toronto. Our friends Beliefs are fresh from a European tour and they've asked us to join their bill with Is/Is from Minneapolis. We'll be testing out a bunch of material from the new album, so it should be fun!

Click the link to check out the Facebook event page.

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A short promo clip for 'All Hands' from the new album Infinite Repeats.

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Young Pioneers: Free Download on Diffuser.fm

Diffuser.fm has posted a free download of our track Young Pioneers. Go grab it, then tell your friends!

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Infinite Repeats: Toronto Star Review

Yesterday the new album was reviewed in the Toronto Star by Ben Rayner. Ben really likes the record but did give us heck for releasing it so quietly—and for not playing enough (or ever). Ben, we will play and things will get loud!

Here's the review:

Uncut, Infinite Repeats (Independent). The “soft” online launch of Uncut’s third album, Infinite Repeats, on July 16 was sufficiently soft that I had no idea it had even happened until bassist Derek Tokar dropped me a file of the damn thing earlier this week. Lurking just far enough beyond the radar to remain unnecessarily obscure, while perpetually frustrating evangelical admirers such as I who desperately wish more of the people who should know about Uncut actually knew about Uncut, has been this underappreciated Toronto quartet’s modus operandi for a decade. So I’ll be pleasantly surprised and delighted if the band finally takes its ass-whuppin’ live show on the road long and hard enough to put Infinite Repeats over the top. Where, for the record, it rightfully belongs. The first half of Infinite Repeats might be mistaken for merely an exhilaratingly faithful homage to the more-more-MORE guitar splendours of, say, Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation and Swervedriver’s Merge, but the second sets it to “kill” circa “Stay Gold” and pins it there through the amped-up, Darklands-esque candy-cacophony of “Wasted Daughters” and the anthemic battery of “Shrouds.” It has a go-for-the-throat aggression that points up how wussy-by-comparison a lot of the “nü-gaze” noise that’s surfaced since Uncut’s 2004 calling card “Understanding the New Violence” has been. Meet the new violence, same as the old violence.

Here's a link: Toronto Star

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NOW Magazine Album of the Week

The first review is in and NOW Magazine has given Infinite Repeats the album of the week honours with a NNNN review. That's a good way to get things started!

You can read the review online here.

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INFINITE REPEATS: FULL ALBUM STREAM

Infinite Repeats is now fully streaming at both our Bandcamp and Soundcloud pages. Go check it out!

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INFINITE REPEATS AVAILABLE TODAY

Our new album Infinite Repeats is now available at all your favorite digital outlets. It was recorded by our loveable drummer & world famous producer Jon Drew (Fucked Up, Tokyo Police Club) and it sounds rad.