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Travis Kelce’s dad reacts to new Kanye song referencing son’s relationship with Taylor Swift

Travis Kelce’s father Ed has reacted to Kanye West‘s latest song ‘LIFESTYLE (Demo)’ which references Taylor Swift‘s and Travis’ relationship. READ MORE: Taylor Swift live in Edinburgh: The Eras tour finally hits the UK The new song is featured on the rapper’s – who now goes by Ye – ‘Vultures 2’ LP. The track features a guest verse from Lil Wayne and sees Weezy rap: “I twist my Taylor spliffs tight at the end like Travis Kelce.” Ed Kelce took to his official Facebook page and posted a link to a Daily Mail article headlined: “Kanye West mentions Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in Vultures 2 track.” He captioned his post: “Mental illness on full display.” The rapper was previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has previously addressed his ongoing battles with his mental health, touching on his frustrations towards the popular narrative that he’s “crazy”. Advertisement Ye and Ty Dolla $ign, real name Tyrone Griffin Jr., released their first collaborative album, ‘Vultures 1’, under the name ¥$ on February 10, before ‘Vultures 2’ arrived last Saturday (August 4) – months after its original release date in March. This is not the first time Ye has mentioned the ‘Bejeweled’ singer in one of… Read More →

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The Horrors announce intimate London show and tease “new music very soon”

The Horrors have announced details of an intimate London show and have teased there will be “new music very soon”. The band have not played live for two years, but in a social media post today (August 9), they have confirmed they will play The Shacklewell Arms on August 29. “It’s 19 years since we played our first show as the Horrors, almost to the day,” wrote frontman Faris Badwan. “It was August 8th 2005 when we performed at the Spread Eagle in Old Street, at a night Tom and I put on called “Cramped”. We played for barely 15 minutes to about 30 of our friends.” Advertisement “Now it’s 2024 and the Horrors are somehow still going. We return to the Shacklewell – the studio we built was next door and we had it all through Skying/Luminous so we’ve spent a lot of time there.” “New music very soon, can’t wait to share it with you,” he added, tantalisingly. The Horrors’ last show was at Wide Awake Festival in London’s Brockwell Park in May 2022. You have to go back to 2018 for their last extended run of concerts, which were in support of their most recent studio album… Read More →

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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings share new song, “Hashtag”

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have shared a new track from their upcoming album, Woodland. You can hear “Hashtag” below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE “Hashtag” is the second track to be lifted from Woodland after “Empty Trainload Of Sky”. Woodland – which is named after their recording studio in Nashville – is released on their own Acony Records label on August 23. You can pre-order the album here. You can read the only major UK interview with Gillian and David in the new issue of Uncut, which goes on sale Friday, August 16

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Hear Tom Waits’ alternate version of “Get Behind The Mule”

To mark the 25th anniversary of his album Mule Variations, Tom Waits has shared a previously unheard version of “Get Behind The Mule“. You can hear it below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE This stripped-down rendition finds Waits’ accompanied only by a Wurlitzer. Released in 1999, Mule Variations was also the first album on ANTI- Records, which was formed specifically to release Mule Variations.

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George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh is finally available for streaming

The Concert for Bangladesh album is now available for streaming across all major digital music providers worldwide. Watch a trailer for the show below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Advertisement [embedded content] The original concerts – held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on August 1, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York – were the first major music benefit of its kind, bringing together all all-star cast including Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Billy Preston and Ravi Shankar to raise awareness about the unfolding humanitarian crisis in East Pakistan/Bangladesh. The concert yielded a triple album boxset and feature film. This is, of course, the first time the music has been available on streaming platforms. All net proceeds (after taxes), will be donated to the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Tracklisting is… 1 George Harrison & Ravi Shankar Introduction by George Harrison & Ravi Shankar 2 Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan & Ali Rakha & Kamala Chakravarti Bangla Dhun 3 George Harrison Wah-Wah 4 George Harrison My Sweet Lord 5 George Harrison Awaiting On You All 6 Billy Preston That’s The Way God Planned… Read More →

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Listen to “Intro To Coyote / Coyote” live in 1975 from Joni Mitchell’s upcoming Archives set

The next volume of Joni Mitchell‘s archives series is coming on October 4 from Rhino. Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976 – 1980) covers her run of albums including Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, Mingus and the live set, Shadows and Light. You can hear “Intro To Coyote / Coyote” recorded at The Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 4 1975 below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Advertisement [embedded content] The set arrives on 6CD and Digital formats and a 4LP highlights edition. You can make your way through the tracklisting below… 6 DISC TRACKLISTING Advertisement Disc One: Rolling Thunder Revue Live In Niagara Falls Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY, November 15, 1975 Recorded by L.A. Johnson & Petur Hliddal Jericho Live at Harvard Square Theater Cambridge, MA, November 20, 1975 Recording supervised by Don DeVito; Mixed by Sean Brennan Introduction – Bob Neuwirth Edith and the Kingpin Don’t Interrupt The Sorrow Live at Music Hall Boston, MA, November 21, 1975 Recording supervised by Don DeVito; Mixed by Patrick Milligan Introduction – Bob Neuwirth Harry’s House Live in Bangor Bangor, ME, November 27, 1975 Recorded by L.A. Johnson & Petur… Read More →

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King Crimson celebrate the 50th anniversary of Red

King Crimson are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their album Red with a 2CD / 2 Blu-ray set and a 2LP set on 200 gram vinyl released on October 11. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE KCXP5017 is a 2CD & 2x Blu-Ray/boxed set in rigid slipcase. Advertisement 2 x Blu-Ray discs include all new 2024 mixes in Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD MA Surround (5.1) & 24/96 or 24/192 Hi-Res stereo. Elemental mixes, session material, 3 x USA album mixes, 5 x bootleg concert recordings from 1974, instrumental mixes and more… all in Hi-Res Stereo. 2 CDs include 2024 mixes in stereo and instrumental forms, elemental mixes and session material. KCLPX2024 is a 2LP (200 gram) vinyl set packaged in gatefold sleeve. LP1 features all new 2024 stereo mixes by Steven Wilson while LP2 has all new 2024 elemental mixes by David Singleton. Advertisement And here’s the tracklisting… KCXP5017 Red – The 50th Anniversary Edition Disc 1 CD 2024 mixes and Additional Material 1 Red 2 Fallen Angel 3 One More Red Nightmare 4 Providence 5 Starless Additional Material 2024 Instrumental Mixes 6 Fallen Angel 7 One More Red Nightmare 8 Starless – Edit… Read More →

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Hear Leon Bridges’ new single, “Peaceful Place”

Leon Bridges returns with a new album, Leon, which is released by Columbia on October 4. You can hear the first single “Peaceful Place” below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The album is available to pre-order here. The tracklisting for Leon is: When A Man Cries That’s What I Love Laredo Panther City Ain’t Got Nothing On You Simplify Teddy’s Tune Never Satisfied Peaceful Place Can’t Have It All Ivy Ghetto Honeybee God Loves Everyone

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‘Tuesday’ review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ arthouse oddity with a big heart

Death takes many forms. This most feared and enduring character has been depicted as a chess ace (The Seventh Seal), Brad Pitt (Meet Joe Black) and even an animated wolf (the less than bone-chilling Puss in Boots: The Last Wish). But a talking parrot who just needs a friend? Now that’s bound to ruffle some feathers. Indeed, this wildly original debut feature from Croatian writer-director Daina O. Pusić has ‘divisive’ written all over it. The film takes on a dream logic that’s unlike anything else you’ll see this year, with an often masterly central performance from Seinfeld superstar Julia Louis-Dreyfus and immersive special effects rarely seen in arthouse cinema. Unfortunately, its intriguing conceit is also hampered by comatose chemistry, a claustrophobic setting and a slew of dead one-liners. Louis-Dreyfus plays the nervy Zora, whose daughter, Tuesday (Lola Petticrew), is all but bed-bound by a terminal illness. Zora claims to cut and run from their comfortable home every day to attend her high-flying job, but in fact roams around London in a doomed attempt to distract herself from the inevitable, leaving Tuesday in the care of deadpan nurse Billie (an underused Leah Harvey). The film’s opening scenes depict an impressively rendered… Read More →

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Primal Scream team up on ‘Palestinadelica’ shirt for refugee football team

Primal Scream have collaborated on a new shirt design for a Palestinian refugee football team, based on their classic album ‘Screamadelica’. Frontman Bobby Gillespie confirmed the news in an Instagram video today (August 8), explaining that the team Lajee Celtic, who are a refugee club based in the Aida Camp in Bethlehem in Palestine’s West Bank. The shirt has been designed in conjunction with clothing brand A Number Of Names, as well as The Green Brigade, a supporters group for Celtic FC, the club which Gillespie supports. “The camp has lived under the rule of Israeli military occupation since 1947,” Gillespie says in the video. “Yet despite these abominable conditions, the people of the camp find joyful resistance in the game of football.” Advertisement “Football, the universal, democratic sport. All you need is a ball and a couple of coats for goalposts and off you go.” You can read more about the club and buy the shirt here. Recommended The Scottish band first collaborated with the Lajee Celtic in 2022, unveiling the ‘Palestinadelica’ branding for the first time. Former Manchester United star Eric Cantona joined them in the promotion, posing in the shirt on Instagram. Countless other music industry figures… Read More →

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Paul McCartney and Wings documentary One Hand Clapping is coming to cinemas

Paul McCartney and Wings‘ documentary One Hand Clapping is coming to cinemas worldwide, from September 26. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The documentary follows the band’s 1974 sessions at Abbey Road during the recording of the live-in-studio One Hand Clapping album. “It’s so great to look back on that period and see the little live show we did,” says McCartney. “We made a pretty good noise actually! It was a great time for the band, we started to have success with Wings, which had been a long time coming.” The documentary screenings also boast an exclusive filmed introduction by McCartney and previously unseen Polaroid photographs from the sessions. In addition to the One Hand Clapping documentary, screenings will feature the previously unreleased Backyard Sessions, showcasing McCartney on acoustic guitar performing tracks from his catalogue. The album One Hand Clapping was released in June. Tickets for Paul McCartney and Wings – One Hand Clapping will be available beginning Thursday, August 16 at 6AM PT / 9AM ET / 2PM BST from here. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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Watch the video for The Smile’s new track, “Don’t Get Me Started”

The Smile have released a new track, “Don’t Get Me Started“, which is their first new music since their second studio album, Wall Of Eyes, in January this year. You can watch the video below, directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE “Don’t Get Me Started” was released last Friday [August 2, 2024] as a limited edition, 2-track 12-inch single with another new song, “The Slip”. “Don’t Get Me Started” was produced and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies, who produced Wall Of Eyes.

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Stray Kids get their hands dirty in eclectic ‘JJAM’ music video

K-pop boy band Stray Kids have released a music video for their song ‘JJAM’ from their July mini-album ‘ATE’. The horror-inspired ‘JJAM’ visual features the members investigating strange supernatural happenings that have been leaving behind stains and puddles resembling blood and ectoplasm. As they follow the clues, they arrive at a locker filled with jam jars, and an unseen creature appears to jump out at them. “Dip and spread it, jam / Sticky, sticky, sticky jam / Yeah, our jam got them / I got no jam? You got no jam? We gotta jam (chop-chop) / Look at our jam, come on and shake, shake, jam, jam,” they chant in the chorus. Watch the video for ‘JJAM’ below. Advertisement [embedded content] ‘JJAM’ was first released last month as part of Stray Kids’ ninth mini-album ‘ATE’. The record was led by the single ‘Chk Chk Boom’, which dropped alongside a music video starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as Marvel’s Deadpool and Wolverine. The K-pop group later released the song ‘Slash’ as part of the official soundtrack for the Deadpool & Wolverine movie. Recommended Stray Kids have also announced their upcoming 2024-2025 ‘dominATE’ world tour, which kicks off later this month… Read More →

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Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign release ‘Vultures 2’ deluxe with new track ‘Take Off Your Dress’

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have released a digital deluxe edition of their ‘Vultures 2’ album, featuring a new track. READ MORE: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign – ‘Vultures 1’ review: mired in misogyny West, now known as Ye, and Ty, real name Tyrone Griffin Jr., released their first collaborative album, ‘Vultures 1’, under the name ¥$ on February 10, before ‘Vultures 2’ arrived last Saturday (August 4) – months after its original release date in March. The deluxe edition came last night (August 6) on Yeezy’s website, complete with updated songs and a bonus track, ‘Take Off Your Clothes’. The track features a sample of Talmadge Armstrong’s ‘Please Make It Good Again’, and some fans have speculated that clearance issues may be the reason for the track not hitting streaming services just yet. But they seem to have been able to work around this by including it as a bonus on the deluxe album. And the Yeezy chief of staff, Eric J. Cui, has reportedly said that the song will eventually appear on streaming platforms. Cui confirmed to Billboard, too, that the album will feature “real time song updates”, with tracks being remastered and new mixes already replacing… Read More →

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Alan Sparhawk interviewed: “I’m trying to tap into the universe”

White Roses, My God, the debut album proper by Alan Sparhawk, formerly of Low, is our Album Of The Month in the September 2024 issue of Uncut. Here’s an extended version of the Q&A that appears alongside the review, in which the songwriter tells us more about the record, rediscovering his voice and even his next album… “I didn’t set out to be contrary…” You’ve certainly been keeping yourself occupied, musically…Yeah, between a few different bands and local things and just people asking, ‘Hey, can you do this?’ ‘Yeah, I suppose I could do that. Let’s just get this band going…’ It’s pretty fun. It keeps me on my toes and keeps me playing, and engaged. I’m better if I have deadlines and things coming up, it helps shape my motivation, figuring out each day what I need to do. The last couple of years since Mimi passed away can’t have been easy.It’s a wild process… There’s of course the grief, the loss, the shock of this thing that was so so real being gone, but you really do find out how deeply you are just one part of a whole, that you’re incomplete without that person that you’ve resonated… Read More →

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Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes

Nobody can make a cello honk, slither, twang and gurgle like Mabe Fratti. In just a few short years, the prolific Guatemala-born, Mexico City-based musician, singer and composer has built an impressive international profile in experimental pop circles. Sentir Que No Sabes (which translates as Feel Like You Don’t Know) is her fourth album under her own name since 2020. Last year, she also released an album as half of Titanic, a jazzy avant-chanson duo project with her musical and life partner Hector Tosta (AKA I La Católica), and another with the improvisational quartet Amor Muere. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The 32-year-old Fratti has also worked with a promiscuous gallery of collaborators from Berlin post-punk legend Gudrun Gut to Danish indie-rockers Efterklang, British post-folk singer Ben Howard and sometime Björk/Thurston Moore drummer Chris Corsano. Howard likens Fratti’s performance style to “watching a sunbeam” while Corsano calls her music “a continual opening of possibilities.” Advertisement Following in a rare lineage that includes Arthur Russell, Charlotte Moorman and her current personal hero, South Korea’s Okkyung Lee, Fratti uses the cello as wide-open sound laboratory as much as solo instrument, fusing acoustic… Read More →

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Wayne Shorter – JuJu / Odyssey of Iska (reissue, 1965 / 1971)

Wayne Shorter’s career contains virtually the entire history of the second half of 20th century jazz. He cut his teeth with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and eventually became the band’s musical director; he helped crystallise the emerging new sounds of Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet and often composed for Davis; and he co-founded the pioneering jazz fusion group Weather Report. Not only was he an absolute master of the saxophone (originally on the less common soprano, then switching his focus to tenor) but he also redefined jazz composition, penned a number of pieces that have since become beloved standards, and has won numerous awards, including several Grammys. He died at the age of 89 in 2023, but his spirit lives on in the music he composed and the exploratory outlook of the many musicians he influenced. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE This year sees the reissue of two major Shorter albums in the Blue Note catalogue: 1965’s JuJu, as part of their Classic Vinyl Series and 1971’s Odyssey Of Iska, as part of their Tone Poet Vinyl Series. JuJu, recorded in 1964, is squarely post-bop, showcasing Shorter’s facility… Read More →

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“All our blood, sweat and tears haven’t gone to waste”: the amazing tale of Cimarons, Britain’s first reggae band

“It was a complete accident,” says filmmaker Mark Warmington, explaining how he came across the remarkable story of the Cimarons, the UK’s first indigenous reggae band. He was living and working as a cameraman in Brent when someone at the council suggested he speak to Cimarons guitarist and co-founder guitarist Locksley Gichie. “When he told me about who they’d worked with and what they’d done, it was just incredible.” BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The result is Warmington’s film Harder Than The Rock, which tells how the Cimarons formed in Harlesden, took reggae around the world, worked with everyone from Bob Marley to Paul McCartney, but ultimately disappeared under the radar – something that the documentary is seeking to put right. As Gichie says, “It will mean that all our blood, sweat and tears haven’t gone to waste.” Advertisement [embedded content] Jamaican-born teenagers Gichie and Franklyn Dunn (bass) met in a bus shelter in 1967, subsequently being joined in rehearsals by Carl Levy (keyboards), Maurice Ellis (drums) and Carl Lewis (vocals). After playing their first gig at Harlesden cricket club to an audience who Gichie remembers “going crazy” for their… Read More →

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Lauryn Hill and The Fugees have quietly cancelled their US tour

Lauryn Hill and her rap group The Fugees have seemingly quietly cancelled their US tour – find out more below. READ MORE: Why ‘The Score’ is one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever Hill and The Fugees were scheduled to kick off their world tour this Friday (August 9) in Tampa, Florida, and would continue their trek of the United States until September 21, before touring the UK and Europe in October, closing off the run of shows in Hamburg, Germany on November 1 – they had just announced additional shows for the European tour last week. Now, however, it seems the US leg of the tour has been cancelled on short notice with no explanation. While the tour’s dates remain available on Hill’s official website, all of their US performance dates have been pulled from the Live Nation website. News of the US tour’s cancellation was not announced via official channels, but instead began spreading through social media after fans began posting screenshots of emails from Ticketmaster announcing that shows had been cancelled and refunds were on the way. Advertisement Ticketmaster’s messaging reads: “Unfortunately, the Event Organiser has had to cancel your event”. I have felt a lot of disappointment… Read More →

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A ‘Scrubs’ reunion could happen in “six months to a year”, creator says

Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence has said the show could come back in “six months to a year” because the cast feel they have “stories to tell”. The screenwriter and director highlighted in a recent interview that the COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on the importance of people in the medical profession, meaning the hospital sitcom could have a fresh new relevance in the 2020s. “We’ve been talking about it,” he told The Independent. “We all spend time with each other in real life, but everybody is so talented from that show that they’re all working. “We’ve really started to entertain the idea about getting the band back together because we all feel like we do have some stories to tell. People in the medical community are heroes right now. They certainly aren’t doing it for the money! It’s been a crazy rough time, so I would not be surprised if we figure something out in the next six months to a year.” Advertisement However, he played down the idea of the reunion taking the form of a movie. “I’m not going to do a movie. That sounds like a lot of work!” The cast of ‘Scrubs’ CREDIT: Channel 4 Scrubs originally… Read More →

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Exclusive! Watch the video John Murry and Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins track, “What Remains”

John Murry and Cowboy Junkies‘ Michael Timmins have released “What Remains“, taken from a little bit of Grace and Decay, their upcoming soundtrack to the documentary, The Graceless Age: The Ballad Of John Murry. You can hear the track below. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The album is released on September 20 on deluxe CD as a download on TV Records, preceded by “What Remains” on September 13. In the meantime, The Graceless Age: The Ballad Of John Murry screens on Monday, September 16 at 18:15 at Rich Mix cinema on Bethnal Green Road, London. It features a live solo performance from Murry and a Q&A with Murry and director Sarah Share. You can watch the trailer below: Murry will also play these acoustic shows, with more to be announced: November 7 Stone, The Wren November 10 Leicester, The Musician November 17 Cork, Ireland, Coughlans November 19 Dublin, Ireland, Whelans November 22 Galway, Ireland, Monroes December 11 Leytonstone, Social Club December 12 Southampton, The Attic Tickets and further details can be found here.