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Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, REM and many more contribute to LA wildfire benefit comps

Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Gary Numan, Primal Scream, Devo and Jarvis Cocker have contributed previously unreleased tracks to a new benefit compilation called Los Angeles Rising, put together by Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus / Love And Rockets. All proceeds from the compilation – available exclusively via Bandcamp – will go to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, providing services and financial assistance for career musicians and music industry professionals. Another compilation called Good Music To Lift Los Angeles features 90 never-before-heard new songs, covers, remixes, live versions and unreleased demos from the likes of REM, Jeff Tweedy, Courtney Barnett and Animal Collective. Hear TV On The Radio’s contribution below. It is available for today only (February 7), also from Bandcamp, raising money for LA Regional Food Bank and California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Fund. A third benefit album entitled Super Bloom: A Benefit for Fire Relief In Los Angeles is available here, featuring tracks from The War On Drugs, Jim James, Dirty Projectors, Ty Segall and many more. 100% of proceeds will benefit local mutual aid organisations for LA Fire relief, including Sweet Relief, Direct Relief, Mutual Aid LA, Anti-Recidivism Coalition and Pasadena Humane.

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BLACKPINK’s Lisa drops new single ‘Born Again’, featuring Doja Cat and RAYE

BLACKPINK singer Lisa has dropped a new single titled ‘Born Again’ in collaboration with Doja Cat and RAYE. READ MORE: BLACKPINK’s Lisa embraces her ‘Rockstar’ status on bombastic new single The new song, alongside its accompanying music video, was released on February 6, marking the Thai K-pop idol’s first release of 2025. ‘Born Again’ features rapper Doja Cat and vocalist RAYE, who also appear alongside Lisa in the music video. “If you stayed just another few nights / I could’ve made you pray to Jesus / Would’ve showed you to the light (To the light) / Every single night (Every night) / To be born again, baby, to be born again,” Lisa and RAYE harmonise on the chorus. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘Born Again’ marks the fourth track lifted from Lisa’s upcoming debut solo album, ‘Alter Ego’, due out in full on February 28. It marks her first solo effort since she and the rest of BLACKPINK opted not to renew their solo contracts with longtime label YG Entertainment. She would later launch her own label, LLOUD, in February 2024. ‘Alter Ego’ was first announced in November 2024, after she spent the year dropping three singles – ‘Rockstar’, ‘New Woman’ featuring Rosalía and… Read More →

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Record Store Day 2025: Here’s the full list of releases

The full list of releases for Record Store Day 2025 has been revealed – with exclusive vinyl set to drop from the likes of Oasis, Charli XCX, Fred.. Again, The Cure, Gorillaz, Taylor Swift and many more. See the full list and some of the most beautiful releases below. The annual event will return for its 18th edition on April 12, with hundreds of exclusive releases made available on a first-come-first-served basis at over 270 independent record shops across the UK and as well as thousands more globally. With Sam Fender confirmed as an RSD ambassador in the UK and Post Malone Stateside, the full list of releases has now been shared – also featuring the likes of Beabadoobee, Rachel Chinouriri, Confidence Man, English Teacher, Lil Uzi Vert, Megan Thee Stallion, MJ Lenderman and Post Malone, alongside legends including Public Image Ltd, Lou Reed, The Jesus and Mary Chain and many more. Record Store Day 2025. Credit: Press Advertisement Oasis are another big name on the list, warming up for their huge reunion year with the best of collection ‘Time Flies… (1994-2009)’ available on vinyl for the first time with remastered audio and completely new packaging, with the box set is numbered and… Read More →

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Becoming Led Zeppelin

There’s a touching moment in Becoming Led Zeppelin when Robert Plant is played a tape of a previously lost interview with his old friend John Bonham. Bonzo is talking with huge fondness about his bandmates and Plant’s weathered face breaks into a huge grin as he listens – later there’s a similar reaction from Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW All three living members of the band are interviewed in Bernard MacMahon’s long-awaited documentary of Zep’s early years, but there’s something very moving about the footage of Bonham, which was recorded close to the point of impact rather than with the benefit of 50 years’ hindsight. As Bonham relates his affection for his bandmates, it’s a reminder that everything we know about Zeppelin – the hardness of their music, image, management, approach to outsiders, attitude towards partying – might not be the full story. Advertisement MacMahon is a Londoner who made his breakthrough with the American Epic series that explored the roots of US music – folk, blues and country, but also Hawaiian,… Read More →

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Neil Young shares promising update on new The Chrome Hearts album

Neil Young has shared a promising new update on The Chrome Hearts’ debut album – see what the folk icon had to say below. READ MORE: Who could headline Glastonbury 2025: The top runners and riders so far Last month (January 17), Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts shared the single, ‘Big Change Is Coming’. It marked their first release from the band that sees Young playing alongside Micah Nelson on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass, Anthony Logerfo on drums and Spooner Oldham on Farfisa organ. Now, Young has taken to his blog, the Neil Young Archives, to provide fans with a positive update on the band’s upcoming releases. Writing on Tuesday (February 4), Young shared that he had finished recording their debut album with producers Lou Adler (who is also his brother-in-law) and John Hanlon at Rick Rubin‘s Shangri-La studio in Malibu. Neil Young. CREDIT: Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images Advertisement Young wrote: “It is in mastering now to make the vinyl, CD and digital copies. I am very happy and relieved to have this done in the short time it took. The album art has been completed and handed in with Jenice Heo. I am working on the lyric sheets now,… Read More →

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Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Jake Bugg and Travis lead Splendour Festival 2025 line-up

Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Jake Bugg, Travis and more have been announced as performers at this year’s edition of Splendour Festival. The annual Nottingham music bash has returned after last year’s cancellation, which left organisers frustrated. This year, the fest is set to return to its usual home of Wollaton Park over the weekend of July 19-20. The likes of Clean Bandit, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Natasha Bedingfield, Echo & The Bunnymen, Seasick Steve, The Levellers, The Fratellis, Cardinals, Overpass, TSSFU and more are also set to perform over the weekend, with more acts set to be announced soon. Day tickets for the Splendour Festival are now available starting from £69 plus a booking fee for general admission. Weekend tickets are also available as well as VIP weekend tickets and discounted city resident tickets. You can purchase tickets here. Advertisement The Splendour Festival weekend line-up is: Saturday: Bloc PartyJake BuggClean BanditNatasha BedingfieldSeasick SteveKingfishrLYVIABrooke CombeElvanaVicky McClure & Our Dementia ChoirThe Amy Winehouse Band Sunday: Kaiser ChiefsTravisSophie Ellis-BextorEcho & The BunnymenThe LevellersThe FratellisKate NashCardinalsKezia GillOverpassTSSFUThe PublicsPentireTom A. Smith Recommended This year’s edition of Splendour Festival will see Day Fever across the weekend for a brand new stage, bringing their daytime disco curated by Line Of… Read More →

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Black Sabbath’s original line-up to play final show at Villa Park in July

Black Sabbath have announced a mammoth farewell show at Villa Park, Birmingham, on July 5. Entitled Back To The Beginning: The Final Show, it will feature the original Sabbath line-up of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward playing together for the first time in 20 years. Advertisement Ozzy Osbourne will also perform a brief solo set before fronting Black Sabbath for what is billed as his ‘final bow’. “It’s my time to go Back to the Beginning….time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” says Osbourne. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham Forever.” Back To The Beginning will feature support sets from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Anthrax and Mastodon – plus appearances from the likes of Billy Corgan, Duff McKagan, Sammy Hagar, Slash, Tom Morello and Wolfgang Van Halen in what is described by music director Morello as “the greatest heavy metal show ever.” Advertisement Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT on Friday February 14 from here. All profits from the show will be shared equally between the following charities: Cure Parkinson’s,… Read More →

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Bob Marley – Album By Album

From Uncut’s March 2019 issue [Take 262]. Bob Marley’s bandmates and collaborators chart the musical evolution of a reggae superstar… Advertisement “All the albums are great,” proclaims Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett as he casts an eye over The Wailers’ mighty back catalogue. “I played on them all, and I love them all.” Still touring with an incarnation of the band that includes guitarist Donald Kinsey, the original Wailers’ bassist guides Uncut through the records that delivered reggae from the ghettos of Kingston to stadia around the world, making Bob Marley a superstar in the process. Featuring rifts, shootings, spliff-related studio disasters exile, fish curries and ultimately tragedy, with supporting roles for Chris Blackwell and his Island team, as well as latter-day Wailers’ guitarist Junior Marvin, the band’s story is hardly lacking in drama. Through it all, the music developed and deepened. “With each album, we changed something,” says Family Man, who has lived up to his nickname by fathering 14 children. “I and I were in deep meditation of the works we were doing. We rehearsed, meditated, prepared ourselves every day to record, making sure we never missed a beat.” THE WAILERSCatch A Fire(Island, 1973) Having recorded with Lee Perry,… Read More →

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Big Thief release new EP Passionate Relation, to support LA wildfire charities

Big Thief have released a new five-track digital EP, Passionate Relation. Proceeds go to support charities helping LA communities affected by the recent fires. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW The band say, “Our hearts are broken for everyone affected by the fires in California. We’ve put together some of our favorite unreleased songs into an EP called Passional Relations, only available on our webstore, and all proceeds will go toward providing relief for those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles.” The majority of the proceeds will be donated to the Plus1LA Fires Fund, which directly supports organisations working on the ground to address critical needs like housing, education, animal welfare and more. Advertisement The rest will go to local musicians, artists and community members who need extra support during this time. “Our hope is that these contributions will not only help address the crucial and immediate needs of affected communities but also help sustain the work, identity, and culture of the artists within them.” The tracklisting for the EP is: Imagination (recorded by Dom Monks, 2020)Light As Light (recorded by Dom… Read More →

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David Byrne & St Vincent: “Get out of your comfort zone!”

From Uncut’s October 2012 issue [Take 185]. We travel to David Byrne’s office in New York to meet Byrne and Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, to discuss their collaborative album, Love This Giant… Advertisement It could be the heat doing crazy things to my brain, but as David Byrne paces around the office of his record label, Todo Mundo, I am struck by a strange thought. In his blue and white wide-wale seersucker trousers with matching braces, short-sleeve white cotton shirt and white flip-flops (to say nothing of his white hair and gradually whitening eyebrows), David Byrne resembles nothing so much as a giant ice lolly. No-one, not even a freeze pop, wants to be in New York City in the middle of July, and today is why. It’s 100° Fahrenheit with 65 per cent humidity: walking in Manhattan is like trudging through a swamp of other people’s sweat and diesel exhaust. Then there’s the smell. Even on the genteel streets of Todo Mundo’s SoHo neighborhood, which is otherwise populated by swanky Comme Des Garçons boutiques, the fumes of dead rodents exude their unmistakable perfume like the devil’s own bougainvillea. Although he rode his bike to work through these stifling… Read More →

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BLACKPINK’s Jisoo announces 2025 ‘Lights, Love, Action!’ Asia tour

BLACKPINK‘s Jisoo has announced her upcoming 2025 ‘Lights, Love, Action!’ tour of Asia, featuring concerts in Thailand, Vietnam and more. READ MORE: (G)I-DLE’s Minnie on defying preconceived expectations: “Actually, this girl can be different” BLACKPINK singer Jisoo’s upcoming 2025 ‘Lights, Love, Action!’ tour was first announced on February 4 by her label Blissoo with the release of a poster for the upcoming concerts. Jisoo will play a total of seven stops for her 2025 ‘Lights, Love, Action!’ tour, with concerts in Manila, Bangkok, Macau, Taipei, Hong Kong and Hanoi. So far, she has only announced the dates and venue for her Tokyo shows on February 5, with the rest remaining unannounced at the time of publishing. It also remains unclear if the K-pop star will expand the tour beyond Asia. Dates, venues and ticketing information have all yet to be announced. However, Blissoo’s initial announcement also stated that that details will be done through Jisoo’s newly launched app. Keep tabs on this page for the latest updates. The dates for Jisoo’s 2025 ‘Lights, Love, Action!’ tour are: Advertisement March 2025Monday 17 to Tuesday 18 – Tokyo, Japan, Saitama Super Arena TBAManila, the PhilippinesBangkok, ThailandMacau, ChinaTaipei, TaiwanHong Kong, ChinaHanoi, Vietnam 2025 JISOO… Read More →

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Big Thief announce new LA wildfires fundraiser EP, ‘Passional Relation’

Big Thief have announced their new charity EP ‘Passion Relation’ which will help raise funds for those who were affected by the LA Wildfires. The fires, which began on January 7, have left 28 people dead, more than 12,000 structures destroyed and saw the evacuation of more than 150,000 residents. Comprised of five tracks, ‘Passion Relation’ is available to purchase via the band’s official webstore and with all proceeds being donated to those impacted by the devastating wildfires. Speaking about the EP in a press release, the band shared: “Our hearts are broken for everyone affected by the fires in California. We’ve put together some of our favorite unreleased songs into an EP called Passional Relations, only available on our webstore, and all proceeds will go toward providing relief for those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles.” Advertisement Big Thief ‘Passional Relations’ EP artwork. Credit: PRESS They continued: “Our hope is that these contributions will not only help address the crucial and immediate needs of affected communities but also help sustain the work, identity, and culture of the artists within them.” A bulk of the proceeds will be donated to the Plus1LA Fires Fund, whichdirectly supports organisations working on the ground… Read More →

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Ticket to Ryde

If you really want to get away from it all, Chale Abbey might be the spot. Situated on the southern tip of the Isle Of Wight, the studio is housed within a fabulous 16th Century barn, all original oak trusses and natural stone walls. “It’s out in the middle of nowhere and a 10-minute walk to the coast,” enthuses multi-instrumentalist Jordan Lehning, flipping his phone camera to give Uncut a virtual pan of the studio. “We’re in the control room now. It’s just beautiful, totally isolated. A great place to make a record.” Even if it means travelling all the way from Nashville, which is where Lehning, Andrew Combs, Dominic Billett and Romford-born Spencer Cullum are usually based. Their new group, Echolalia, is rounded out by bassist Eli Beaird, multi-instrumentalist Juan Solorzano and Lehning’s brother Jason on synths and engineering duties. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW “A few years ago I told Jordan about this magical place, so we ended up booking some days to record here,” explains Cullum, peering over Lehning’s shoulder. The pair loved Chale Abbey… Read More →

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Songhoy Blues – Héritage

When Tinariwen popularised the idea of desert blues in the West, bandmembers’ previous participation in Tuareg rebel warfare lent their music heroic romance, conjuring images of nomad players as comfortable with a machine gun as a guitar, and finally manifesting The Clash’s fanciful notion of combat rock. The blues’ feedback loop from West Africa through American slavery to Hendrix seemed satisfyingly complete in their dusty grooves. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Songhoy Blues followed broadly in this musical tradition, but are from a different time and place, and tell a significantly different tale. The Songhoy people originate from the region around the River Niger in Northern Mali which was conquered first by Tuareg rebels then music-loathing Islamists. Guitarist Garba Touré escaped to the capital Bamako in 2012, forming the descriptively named Songhoy Blues with exiled compatriots. Touré was steeped in Hendrix, and (unlike Tinariwen, initially) John Lee Hooker and BB King’s US blues, alongside hip-hop and a multiplicity of Malian styles, forming the basis of the band’s crowd-rousing electric attack. As their participation in the brutal documentary First… Read More →

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Chris Eckman – The Land We Knew The Best

This fabulous album is a timely reminder that Chris Eckman has been making sometimes spectacularly singular music since at least the early ’90s, when The Walkabouts, formed in 1984 by Eckman with singer Carla Torgersen, famously became the first non-grunge band to sign with Sub Pop. The label was otherwise awash with bands of incredibly hairy young men in shorts who all sounded angry, frustrated, easily upset. There was a lot of tortured wailing set to loud, bulimic guitars; much monumental riffing. Compared to the heavy musical footprints left by grunge superstars like Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden, The Walkabouts on their 1990 debut, Scavenger, stepped more lightly across a musical landscape they made increasingly their own that entertained as well as punk, aspects of folk-rock, country, the blues. You suspected they’d be happier in the studio with Cowboy Jack Clement or David Briggs than Butch Vig or Steve Albini, more likely to cite Kris Kristoffersen, Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young as influences than Black Flag or Black Sabbath. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW This wasn’t hipster… Read More →

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Inside our free Uncut CD – Wilco’s Noisy Ghosts, a companion to A Ghost Is Born

Wilco have compiled another spectacular CD for Uncut: Noisy Ghosts, hooked around their upcoming A Ghost Is Born anniversary edition, is available for free with the March 2025 issue of Uncut. “This record isn’t like any other record we’d done before,” says Jeff Tweedy of Wilco’s fifth album. “That’s the sort of thing I value in my own record collection. Those are the records that are the most unique.” Advertisement A Ghost Is Born grew out of an intense period of upheaval for the band, who undertook a series of wild schemes and unusual creative exercises at Soma Electronic Sound Studios in Chicago. “I was already doing some cut-up techniques and free writing and things like that, which I really enjoyed,” says Tweedy. “I discovered that I liked the stuff that I didn’t think about more than the stuff that I did think about. With the sessions for Ghost, I was trying to find ways to extend that to the band and get everybody else to buy into it.” It didn’t take much persuading. Those Soma experiments allowed them to reconsider what a Wilco album could be, to the extent that they made up a series of fictional albums in… Read More →

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Marianne Faithfull: “It’s a miracle, really…”

Advertisement From Uncut’s June 2021 issue (Take 289). As she prepares to release her 22nd studio album, She Walks In Beauty, rock’s grand dame discussed recovery, Romantic poetry and how the ’60s weren’t all they were cracked up to be… The old St Joseph’s Convent School, a red-bricked, broad-lawned building founded by the Sisters of St Marie Madeleine Postel, lies close to the centre of Reading. Marianne Faithfull first came here at the age of eight. By sixth form, her main enthusiasm was English Literature. “I sat somewhere near the middle – near the front, but not exactly at the front,” she says. “It wasn’t a very big class, but it was very important to me.” This Spring, Faithfull releases her 22nd studio album, She Walks In Beauty, a spoken-word collection of some of her favourite Romantic poetry, scored by the composer and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, with contributions from Nick Cave, Brian Eno and Vincent Ségal. It is a crowning moment in her career; the product of a long-held ambition to interpret works by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and their contemporaries that she has carried close since St Joseph’s. Cave calls it “the greatest Marianne Faithfull album ever. And that’s saying… Read More →

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Dave Grohl to perform at ‘SNL 50’ anniversary concert

Dave Grohl will be performing at the upcoming 50th anniversary concert in honour of Saturday Night Live (SNL) – find out more below. READ MORE: ‘Saturday Night’ review: chaotic, inspiring but where are the laughs? Last week, SNL and Peacock announced the first round of performers who were confirmed to perform at the SNL 50: The Homecoming concert on Friday, February 14. Initially announced were the likes of Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and Post Malone among others. The concert will be hosted by former SNL alum Jimmy Fallon and will include Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Brandi Carlile, Chris Martin, David Byrne, Jack White, Robyn and more, with additional names set to be announced in the lead-up to the gig. Now, SNL has shared a new promo video for the concert, which confirms Dave Grohl’s participation. Details on Dave Grohl’s performance – including if he will perform with Nirvana (who briefly reunited at the FireAid benefit concert last week) or Foo Fighters – have yet to be announced. Advertisement [embedded content] Grohl’s addition to the SNL 50 concert should come as no surprise, seeing as he’s been the long-running show’s most frequent performer, having appeared as a musical guest a recording breaking 15 times. The current ‘SNL 50’… Read More →

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Watch Laura Mvula, Corinne Bailey Rae and more perform at ‘Mississipi Goddam’ London tribute

Laura Mvula, Corinne Bailey Rae and more led an all-star tribute to Nina Simone at London’s Southbank Centre. Check out footage, photos, the setlist and more below. Held at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday (January 31), Mississippi Goddam: A Celebration Of Nina Simone saw the Nu Civilisation Orchestra honour the life of the legend with special guest singers, led by conductor Peter Edwards. The night was made all the more fitting by taking place in the venue of Simone’s legendary 1999 concert as part of Nick Cave‘s Meltdown. This was one of her final performances before her death in 2003. Taking to the mic were the Mercury-nominated Mvula and Bailey Rae alongside neo-jazz star Ni Maxine, and acclaimed singer-songwriters China Moses and Tony Njoku – all spirited in song and speeches to honour Simone’s dedication to “Blackness, womanhood and the power of music”. Exchanging lead vocal duties and often performing together, the gathered ensemble worked to capture different shades of Simone’s personality but ultimately capture her powerful spirit of defiance and lust for life. Advertisement Mississippi Goddam: A Celebration of Nina Simone at London’s Southbank. Credit: Pete Woodhead Recommended Mississippi Goddam: A Celebration of Nina Simone at London’s Southbank. Credit:… Read More →

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Bob Dylan plots Spring tour dates and Outlaw Festival shows

Bob Dylan has announced a huge run of dates for 2025, both his own shows and as part of this year’s Outlaw Festival. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW He plays 20 shows with his band, beginning in March 25 in Tulsa, followed by 34 dates on the Outlaw Festival 10th anniversary tour. Dylan and Willie Nelson co-headline each show alongside a rotating cast of special guests including Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Billy Strings and more. Click here for ticket details for Dylan’s shows. Advertisement You can find about full line-up details and tickets for the Outlaw Festival here. Bob Dylan’s tour datesMarch 25 – Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa TheaterMarch 26 – Little Rock, AK @ Robinson CenterMarch 28 – Springfield, MO @ Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing ArtsMarch 29 – Wichita, KS @ Century II Concert HallMarch 30 – Topeka, KS @ Topeka Performing Arts CenterApril 1 – Omaha, NE @ Orpheum TheaterApril 2 – Sioux City, IA @ Orpheum TheatreApril 4 – Mankato, MN @ Mayo Clinic Health System Event CenterApril 5 – Eau Claire, WI… Read More →

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Grammys 2025: Stevie Wonder leads Quincy Jones tribute with ‘We Are The World’ performance

Stevie Wonder led the Quincy Jones tribute at the 2025 Grammys with a performance of ‘We Are The World’ alongside appearances by Janelle Monáe, Herbie Hancock and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo. READ MORE: Quincy Jones, 1933-2024: mega-producer who broke boundaries with a twinkle in his eye The segment was hosted by Will Smith, who made his first appearance at an awards show since his infamous Oscars slap incident in 2022 with Chris Rock. “In his 91 years, [Quincy] touched countless lives, but I have to say, he changed mine forever,” he said. Jones was an executive producer on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which helped launch Smith’s career in 1990. “You probably wouldn’t even know who Will Smith was if it wasn’t for Quincy Jones,” he continued. “Quincy made so many music greats, across multiple genres, sound even greater, bringing the best out in legends.” Advertisement Will Smith at the 2025 Grammys. Credit: Amy Sussman/Getty Images Smith then introduced former Jones collaborator Hancock, who began the tribute segment with Erivo’s rendition of ‘Fly Me To The Moon’, which was famously arranged by Jones for Frank Sinatra. Country star Lainey Wilson then took the stage to perform Jones’ ‘Let The Good Times Roll’,… Read More →