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Introducing the new Uncut… and our Review Of 2025!

At time of writing, it’s late October and I’ve already heard what sound like two major contenders for our 2026 Albums Of The Year. That’s not meant to sound like a tease, by the way; I really wanted to illustrate how, as we come to reflect on the music released during the last 12 months, there’s plenty to be excited about just around the corner. Our 2025 New Albums poll, meanwhile, reveals much about the discoveries, returning heroes and reassuringly steady progress of many of our favourite artists. Back in January, who would have predicted that our top three New Albums Of The Year would all be by artists enjoying unexpected, but fruitful, second acts? Or how yet another new generation of Americana artists are making their own fresh currency out of deeply respected traditions? Advertisement I don’t want to give too much away, so I’d advise you to drop everything now and head to page 53, where our Review Of 2025 begins. There’s New Albums, Reissues, Compilations, Films, Music Documentaries and Books as well as some very special joint interviews. Please let us know what your favourite new albums of 2025 are and we’ll print a selection in Feedback…. Read More →

06NOVNews

Ariana Grande suggests split from manager Scooter Braun has “healed” her relationship with music

Ariana Grande has opened up about her relationship with music and why she fallen in love with making music again. READ MORE: Ariana Grande – ‘Eternal Sunshine’ review: a compelling mood piece Grande, who in the past years has shifted her focus from her music career to acting, spoke to The New York Times for a feature published on Wednesday (November 5). Speaking to the publication, the ‘Thank U, Next’ singer spoke of the multiple projects she’s juggling. Advertisement Apart from promoting the upcoming Wicked sequel, Wicked: For Good, the multi-hyphenate has a number of other acting roles lined up, as well as a world tour in 2026. The tour seems to be the most daunting of her upcoming plans, as she hasn’t played many live shows since her 100-show ‘Sweetener’ tour in 2019 came to an end. Part of her aversion to touring – besides the gruelling task on being on the road constantly – comes from her relationship to music, which she said had taken a dip over the years. When asked by NYT what else she think needed mending in her pop career, Ariana Grande chuckled: “How much more time do we have?” Ariana Grande, 2025. CREDIT: Katia… Read More →

05NOVNews

Paul McCartney once sent baby poo to lying music journalist after bad review: “It was the perfect response to a crude British pressman”

Paul McCartney once sent baby poo to a lying journalist to get back at him for writing a scathing review of Wings‘ live show. The anecdote was shared in the new book, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run – an oral history of the band McCartney went on to form with his then-wife Linda, following The Beatles splitting up. Advertisement Published yesterday (November 4), the book contains around 150 photographs, as well as diary entries and handwritten lyrics, and anecdotes from the likes of Stella McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Sean Ono Lennon, Chrissie Hynde, Dustin Hoffman, Twiggy, and all the members of Wings. In one of the anecdotes, drummer Denny Seiwell revealed how the band got their fair share of negative reviews over the years, including from a journalist who lied about watching one of their shows. Seiwell recalled how Wings were briefly joined on tour by a writer in the early ‘70s who claimed he wouldn’t be reviewing their show, but rather writing a story about how the members brought their families on tour. At that time, Paul and Linda had three children together: Heather, Mary and Stella. They would later… Read More →

05NOVHit Singles

Uncut Review Of The Year 2025

EVERY PRINT EDITION OF THIS ISSUE OF UNCUT COMES WITH A FREE 15-TRACK CD, THE BEST NEW MUSIC OF 2025, FEATURING BIG THIEF, PATTERSON HOOD, EDWYN COLLINS, ROBERT PLANT feat SUZI DIAN, BON IVER, MARGO PRICE AND MORE! PRINT COPIES ALSO COME WITH A GIANT, FOLD-OUT BEATLES POSTERZINE: ALL TOGETHER NOW, A year-by-year miscellany of Fab facts from 1960–1970! Advertisement UNCUT’S REVIEW OF THE YEAR: Standby for the definitive look back at 2025. The 80 Best New Albums Of 2025, 30 Best Archive Releases, Best Compilations, Best Films, Best Books and Best Music Documentaries… plus Robert Plant, The Weather Station, Pulp, James Mangold and Stereolab speak! THE BEATLES: 30 years on from the groundbreaking documentary, albums and book, Uncut steps inside Anthology 2025, to hear about how it all came together, what passive aggressive ukelele sounds like, and what’s still in the archive. “It makes ‘Revolution 9’ sound like ‘Penny Lane’,” reveals Giles Martin. JEFF TWEEDY AND ALAN SPARHAWK: Wilco’s chief architect and Low’s co-leader look back over 2025. To be discussed: family, Spinal Tap II, Jim O’Rourke’s collection of modular synths and their abiding friendship: “We’ve always had a lot of fun together,” they tell Uncut. Advertisement PINK FLOYD:… Read More →

05NOVHit Singles

Radiohead reviewed: stunning return for rock’s radical chiefs

Uncut attended the opening night of Radiohead’s first tour for seven years. A full report will appear in a future issue of the magazine – but in the meantime, here’s 10 things we learned from this 1. What next for Radiohead..? It has been 10 years since Radiohead’s last studio album A Moon Shaped Pool and seven years since they last performed together in public. With no new material to promote, the purpose behind this tour remains, at best, opaque. Advertisement What is clear is that in the intervening years since their last tour, the band members have each moved away from Radiohead – into different configurations, solo projects, film and theatre scores. Does this make it harder, then, for them to come together again? Might this be, God forbid, the opening night of a farewell tour? These ideas feed a faint sense of pathos into tonight’s show – which, as it happens, is one of the very finest Radiohead shows I’ve ever seen. 2. The merch is a clue The busy merchandise stands outside and inside the venue provide a big giveaway about the parameters of tour setlists. A much loved OK Computer song title embossed on a t-shirt?… Read More →

05NOVNews

Watch Geese cover New Radicals’ ‘You Only Get What You Give’

Geese have performed a cover of New Radicals‘ ‘You Only Get What You Give’ for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge series – watch it below. READ MORE: NME – The Cover: With Geese at the wheel, NYC rock is entering a bright new era Last night (November 4), BBC Radio 1 shared Geese’s Live Lounge set, which saw them performed three songs: ‘100 Horses’, ‘Cobra’ and a unique cover of ‘You Get What You Give’. Advertisement Their one-of-a-kind rework of the New Radicals classic sees them trade the upbeat track’s lively sound for a solemn and jam band-esque experimental take that slowly builds to its cathartic and euphoric chorus. Watch Geese cover New Radicals’ ‘You Only Get What You Give’ starting at the 6:53 mark below. [embedded content] The band have had a string of standout covers, recently covering The Velvet Underground and The Stooges at a San Diego gig. Other beloved covers they’ve played in the past include ‘This Must Be The Place’ by Talking Heads, and ‘Escape (The Pina Colada Song)’ by Rupert Holmes. The former NME Cover stars recently announced a UK headline tour for 2026, which will kick off in Bristol’s Electric on March 20 and make stops in Glasgow, Leeds… Read More →

04NOVNews

Radiohead unveil new merch line ahead of European comeback tour kicking off

Radiohead have unveiled a new merchandise line for their long-awaited European comeback tour. The Thom Yorke-led band are preparing to play their first shows in over seven years, with four nights each in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin to take place over the next two months. The tour kicks off tonight (Tuesday November 4) with an opening night in the Spanish capital. Advertisement Ahead of doors opening, the band have revealed the new run of merchandise that will be on offer to fans. “Whether you’re going or not, the Europe 2025 merchandise range is now available to purchase from the W.A.S.T.E. store at the link in profile,” the band told fans, revealing the new designs. They also said those in Madrid can browse the range outside the Movistar Arena from 4pm today, and that it will be open to fans without a ticket, and remain open until Saturday (November 8). A variety of hoodies, t-shirts, hats, bottle openers, badges, water bottles, and posters are all available now on the online W.A.S.T.E store, and draw inspiration from the band’s albums and longtime collaborations with Stanley Donwood. Recommended On offer is a black tour t-shirt and a hoodie that have a… Read More →

04NOVHit Singles

Hear Cat Power’s cover of James Brown’s “Try Me”

January 20 marks the 20th anniversary of Cat Power’s critical and commercial breakthrough, The Greatest. To celebrate, Chan Marshall will release the Redux EP, featuring three tracks recorded with her touring band, Dirty Delta Blues, comprising Judah Bauer (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion), Gregg Foreman (The Delta 72, Jesse Malin), Erik Paparozzi (Lizard Music) and Jim White (Dirty Three, The Hard Quartet). Photo courtesy of Cat Power Listen to their cover of James Brown’s “Try Me” below. The track was among those first recorded by Marshall during the original sessions that produced The Greatest, but never completed. Advertisement [embedded content] The EP also includes newly recorded versions of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” (dedicated to the late Memphis Rhythm Band guitarist Teenie Hodges, who played on The Greatest) and and Cat Power’s own “Could We”. It will be released digitally and on 10” vinyl via Domino on January 23. Pre-order here. Next year will see Cat Power perform The Greatest in its entirety with a series of 20th anniversary live shows beginning in North America in February and reaching the UK in November. See the full list of dates below. February 202612 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall… Read More →

04NOVHit Singles

Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs

As Radiohead reunite for their first tour in seven years, it seems a fitting time to revisit the band’s 30 greatest songs – with help from their close collaborators, friends, famous fans, and even some of their biggest influences. Here, then, are their finest songs, presented chronologically, from the radio-friendly grunge of “Creep” to the more singular grooves found on 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool. Along the way, you might learn a thing or two about Thom, Jonny, Ed, Colin and Phil – including their experimental studio practices, their debt to “In The Air Tonight”, and their changing post-gig celebrations: “Gentlemen, some sake…?” Advertisement 1 CREEP Single, 1992; Pablo Honey, 1993 [embedded content] MARK MULCAHY, MIRACLE LEGION: I first heard “Creep” on the radio, and it somehow felt different to me. Thom’s voice and that explosive guitar just really got me. So I went to track it down in this store in New Haven, bought a cassette of it and listened to it over and over. I looked at the credits and [producer] Paul Kolderie’s name was there, so I called him up – I was a real fan-geek. Sometimes everything meets, the singer and the song and the guitars… Read More →

04NOVNews

Here are all of the performers and presenters for the 2025 MAMA Awards

The full list of performers and presenters for the 2025 MAMA Awards have been revealed – see all the details below. READ MORE: ENHYPEN on The Cover: Meet the K-pop boyband destined to dominate the mainstream This year’s edition of the annual K-pop wards is slated over two days in Hong Kong on November 28 and 29. Previously 10 acts were announced to perform over the course of the two days. Advertisement The original slate of performers for November 28 was ALPHA DRIVE ONE, BABYMONSTER, BOYNEXTDOOR, BUMSUP, ENHYPEN, Hearts2Hearts, IVE, MEOVV, Super Junior and TWS. The original announcement for day two’s (November 29) performers were: ALL DAY PROJECT, CORTIS, KickFlip, izna, Stray Kids, RIIZE and ZEROBASEONE. Now, more acts have been announced to perform. Day one will now include i-dle, MIRROR, NCT WISH and TREASURE, while day two includes aespa, G-Dragon, IDID, JO1, KYOKA and Tomorrow X Together. The presenters for this year’s awards have also been revealed: Go Youn Jung, Noh Sang Hyun, Roh Yoon Seo, Park Hyung Sik, Shin Seung Hun, Shin Ye Eun, Shin Hyun Ji, Arden Cho, Ahn Eun Jin, Ahn Hyo Seop, Lee Kwang Soo, Lee Do Hyun, Lee Soo Hyuk, Lee Jun Young, Lee Jun Hyuk, Yim Si Wan,… Read More →

03NOVNews

Bonehead: “I’m still playing my original 1984 guitar on the Oasis 2025 tour”

Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs has revealed that he has been using his guitar from 1984 on Oasis’ ‘Live ‘25’ tour dates. The model in question is the 1984 Epiphone Riviera, which he has used at nearly all his shows over the past three decades, from the early Oasis gigs at The Water Rats venue in London to the mammoth shows at Knebworth. Advertisement He also used the guitar for his sessions recording legendary Oasis albums ‘Definitely Maybe’ and ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, as well as throughout all of the band’s tours in the ‘90s. Now, Bonehead has joined forces with Epiphone to share a run of replicas, and confirmed that he has been using the 1980s model for the ‘Live ‘25’ shows, which have seen Oasis perform their first tour dates since 2009. “Epiphone Rivieras have been with me from the early rehearsals at the Boardwalk in Manchester all the way up to those historic shows at Knebworth and on into Liam’s solo career,” the guitarist said. “I’m still playing my original 1984 guitar on the Oasis 2025 tour, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.” Speaking about the new run of guitars with Epiphone, he added: “I’m excited… Read More →

03NOVHit Singles

Bert Jansch interviewed: “I didn’t think in terms of career… I never have”

In this interview from Uncut Take 152 [January 2010 issue], Bert Jansch talks about his career as one of Britain’s greatest guitarists, folk, blues and being a “26-pints-a-night man” “Best blues in town” As the guitarist John Renbourn remembers it, he first read that there was an important new face on the capital’s folk music scene when he looked at the notice board of a record shop in London’s West End. Browsing in the folk department of Collet’s in New Oxford Street with the guitarist Wizz Jones, he looked up and read a terse, but emphatic announcement: “Bert Jansch,” it said. “Best blues in town.” Advertisement Interestingly, the note did not specify which town, an omission which with hindsight seems entirely sensible. Jansch, after all, has spent the best part of 45 years drawing his own map for music, never resting in the same place for long. He has travelled, of course, most notably around the world as part of Pentangle, the folk-rock supergroup that he helped form in 1968. Maybe more important, though, is the fact that Jansch remains on a creative journey that’s still productively continuing. “He was mysterious, and came off as quite heavy, and reclusive” But… Read More →

03NOVNews

KISS fans launch campaign to posthumously make Ace Frehley an honorary astronaut

KISS fans have launched a campaign to make Ace Frehley a posthumous honorary astronaut – find out more below. The guitarist and founding member of the iconic rock group died in Morristown, New Jersey on October 16. He was 74 years old. Advertisement Per a statement shared by his family, Ace – also known as Spaceman – died “peacefully surrounded by family” following “a recent fall at his home”. An exact cause of death has yet to be shared, but reports indicate that an investigation into his death has since been launched by a medical examiner in New Jersey. Following Frehley’s passing, a Change.org petition was launched in an effort to convince NASA to award the guitarist with honorary astronaut status. The petition – started by a fan named Kathryn – has since received over 350 signatures and counting, having only recently gone viral. The campaign page, hinting at his ‘Spaceman’ nickname reads: “On October 16, 2025, the world lost not just a legend, not just a rock icon, but also a good man. Paul Daniel ‘Ace’ Frehley, at the tender age of 21, was brave enough to take one small orange step and one small red step, and make the… Read More →

02NOVNews

Twenty One Pilots to cover The White Stripes in tribute at Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2025 ceremony

Twenty One Pilots will perform ‘Seven Nation Army’ to honour the induction of The White Stripes into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. The annual ceremony is taking place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles next Saturday (November 8), and Jack and Meg White will be one of the inductees, alongside OutKast, Soundgarden, Cyndi Lauper, Chubby Checker, Bad Company and Joe Cocker. The show will be streamed live on Disney+. Advertisement One performance at the ceremony will be a rendition of The White Stripes’ signature 2003 track ‘Seven Nation Army’ by Twenty One Pilots, another high-profile singer/drummer duo. Bad Company will also play at the show, while the surviving members of Soundgarden will be joined by Brandi Carlile, Taylor Momsen and members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Heart. It has not been confirmed whether either Jack or Meg White will perform or appear at the ceremony in person. [embedded content] In addition to the above inductees, Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon will also be given the Musical Influence Award at the ceremony, Thom Bell, Nicky Hopkins and Carol Kaye will be presented with the Musical Excellence Award and Lenny Waronker will pick up the Ahmed Ertegun Award…. Read More →

01NOVNews

Lily Allen takes shot at David Harbour with ‘Madeline’ Halloween costume

Lily Allen has taken a shot at her ex-partner David Harbour by wearing a ‘Madeline’ costume for Halloween. The singer-songwriter released her first album in seven years, ‘West End Girl’, last week (October 24), and she has confirmed that her split from the Stranger Things star was a major source of inspiration for the songs on the record. Advertisement One song in particular has been identified as central to the theme of the break-up with Harbour – ‘Madeline’ sees her construct a fictional character who Allen implies had an affair with Harbour, and in the song, she reads out what appears to be a voice note from Madeline to the actor. “I can’t trust anything that comes out of your mouth / I’m not convinced that he didn’t fuck you in our house,” she sings. Now, Allen has taken another swipe at Harbour by dressing up as the children’s book character Madeleine, the young girl living at a Paris boarding school from the 1939 novel of the same name by Ludwig Bemelmans. Lily Allen as Madeline for Halloween. pic.twitter.com/NDNSDjAXR6 — Pop Crave (@PopCrave) November 1, 2025 She appeared at a Halloween party in the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles dressed… Read More →

01NOVNews

Kelly Osbourne’s two-year-old son bites head off toy bat in Halloween Ozzy tribute

Kelly Osbourne has shared a video of her two-year-old son Sidney biting the head off a toy bat in a Halloween tribute to his grandfather Ozzy. The Prince of Darkness passed away in July at the age of 76, just 17 days after he played one final show as the frontman of Black Sabbath at a concert at Villa Park in Birmingham. Advertisement Friday was the first Halloween since Ozzy died, and in a touching tribute video shared on Kelly’s Instagram and TikTok, she showed Sidney clutching a stuffed bat and ripping its head off with his teeth. “Learned from the greatest, Papa!” she captioned the post, which was soundtracked by Ozzy’s 1980 solo single ‘Crazy Train’. Watch the video here: @kellyosbourneyo Learned from the greatest, Papa! ♬ som original – MusicTok Ozzy Osbourne famously bit off the head of a real bat at a show in Des Moines, Iowa in 1982. The animal was thrown onto the stage by a fan and Ozzy picked it up believing it was made of rubber, before realising that it was the real thing. He was later given a series of rabies shots, which he said “ain’t fun”. Recommended Nevertheless, he remained associated… Read More →

01NOVHit Singles

The Cure announce new concert film, The Cure: The Show Of A Lost World

The Cure have announced details of The Cure: The Show Of A Lost World, a new concert film screened in cinemas on December 11. The film documents the band’s live show at London’s Troxy on November 1, 2024 – release day for their Songs Of A Lost World album – where they performed the album in full for the first and only time in front of an audience of 3,000. Advertisement The Cure : The Show Of A Lost World is a remixed, recut, and 4K remastered film of that night’s whole 31-song show. Directed by Nick Wickham, with a new Dolby Atmos sound mix by Robert Smith. Tickets at cinemas around the world will go on sale on November 20 at 2pm GMT/10am EST/6am PST. Further details are available at thecurelostworld.com The Cure : The Show Of A Lost World is released via Lost Images, Polydor, Mercury Studios and Trafalgar Releasing. Advertisement A physical Blu-Ray and DVD release will follow in late December 2025. THE CURE : THE SHOW OF A LOST WORLD set list: AloneAnd Nothing Is ForeverA Fragile ThingWarsongDrone:NodroneI Can Never Say GoodbyeAll I Ever AmEndsongPlainsongPictures of YouHighLovesongBurnFascination StreetA Night Like ThisPushIn Between DaysJust Like HeavenFrom the Edge… Read More →

01NOVHit Singles

The Cure’s Robert Smith interviewed: “Our songs have always had a fear of mortality”

From Uncut Take 332 [December 2024], The Cure’s Robert Smith on their first new album for 16 years, Songs Of A Lost World, love, loss and ageing, the Moon landings, abandoned projects, War And Peace, nearly splitting up, The Cure’s 50th anniversary and ambitious plans for another two new Cure albums… A rare and revealing new interview September 12, 2024 and Robert Smith is at Abbey Road Studios. Smith has spent time here recently, listening to the Atmos mix of Songs Of A Lost World – the first new Cure album for 16 years. Today, however, Smith can be found in Studio 3, where in a rare and revealing new interview he will dig deep not just into this new album, but also the past and future of one of British rock’s most enduring and fascinating musical institutions. Advertisement The interview forms part of a small amount of promotional activity to support the album: The Cure will also play two shows at the BBC Radio Theatre on October 29, to be broadcast two days later on Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music, and another concert where the band will perform Songs Of A Lost World in full. Opting for a… Read More →

31OCTNews

Happy Halloween – here’s Lankum’s haunting cover of The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’

Lankum have shared a haunting, creepy cover of The Specials’ 1981 classic ‘Ghost Town’ – check it out below. The track will be released as a standalone 12” single via Rough Trade Records on January 30, with an elaborate etching on the B-side. You can pre-order your single here. Advertisement The Dublin experimental folk band originally covered the song as a contribution to Oona Doherty’s dance show ‘Specky Clark’ at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre earlier this year, and they have now unveiled a video for the eight-minute track, shot in County Wicklow and directed by Leonn Ward. The single stays true to Lankum’s signature ‘folk drone’ style initially, with a crawling, insidious pace and discordant strings lending extra menace to the song’s legendary anti-Thatcherite lyrics, before it erupts into a cacophonous, electronic climax. Watch the video here: [embedded content] Lankum have said: “’Ghost Town’ came to us through some curious circumstances. Oona Doherty, who we were familiar with through her phenomenal dance work on the video for Gilla Band’s ‘Shoulderblades’, contacted us and told us about a new show she was putting together. It was about her great-great-grandfather being sent to Belfast as a child to live with his aunts… Read More →

31OCTNews

Neil Young attacks Donald Trump and “looting oligarchs” Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk in new ‘As Time Explodes’ video

Neil Young has hit out at Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk in a new video. Titled ‘As Time Explodes’, the two-minute long clip was shared by the folk music icon on his YouTube channel last night (Thursday October 30). Advertisement In the footage, a variety of news clips are pieced together as a critique of both the Trump administration and the increasing power granted to tech billionaires. No lyrics are featured, and the instrumental track that plays over the top is a guitar-driven nod to his song ‘Be The Rain’, which he released with Crazy Horse in 2003. ‘As Time Explodes’ begins by showing media coverage of the demolition of the White House’s East Wing during the government shutdown. It then goes on to show a banner that reads “The 1% ruins the world”, before embedding a compilation of some of the highest profile billionaires in the world. Elon Musk is seen wielding a chainsaw, Trump is seen accepting a luxurious jet from Qatar, and Apple CEO Tim Cook is seen going to the White House. There is also a nod made to the extortionate cost behind Jeff Bezos’ wedding, which was held in Venice over… Read More →

31OCTHit Singles

Snocaps reviewed: meet Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook’s Americana supergroup

Snocaps are a new band, but not really. They’ve only been together a matter of months, and they’ve just surprise-released their debut, but the two mainstays – twins Allison and Katie Crutchfield – have been singing together for most of their lives. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, they were active in the local DIY scene, forming their first band, The Ackleys, when they were in high school and only splitting up when the other members went off to college. They rechristened themselves P.S. Eliot in 2007, released two well-praised albums of earnest, anxious indie rock, then disbanded in 2011 when they simultaneously realised, with twin intuition, that they needed to go in different directions for a while. [embedded content] Allison quickly formed the scrappy indie-rock group Swearin’ and released an atmospheric, grief-addled solo album in 2017. Her sister Katie started releasing albums as Waxahatchee, her stormy guitar rock gradually transforming into musically graceful, emotionally thorny indie country. The sisters have performed together sporadically during the last 14 years, briefly reuniting PS Eliot in 2016 and performing a festival set in 2023 called “Katie And Allison Crutchfield Sing The Songs They Loved At 16”. They were bound to make music together… Read More →