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The Style Council’s Café Bleu to get the deluxe reissue treatment in January
The Style Council’s 1984 debut album Café Bleu will be reissued as a 3-LP or 6-CD by Universal Music Recordings on January 30. Advertisement Highlights from the collection include an early demo of “Long Hot Summer” (Aug 1982), an extended version of “The Paris Match” and early variant “Summertime Song”, and unreleased instrumental gems from Mick Talbot including a jazzier “Party Chambers”. The CD box set includes live recordings from Chippenham’s Goldiggers and London’s Dominion Theatre, as well as 1983 BBC Radio One sessions for David Jensen and Saturday Live. Pre-order here and check out the full tracklisting below....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bert Jansch interviewed: “I didn’t think in terms of career… I never have”
In this interview from Uncut Take 152 , 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,”...
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...
The Cure’s Robert Smith interviewed: “Our songs have always had a fear of mortality”
From Uncut Take 332 , 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...Recent Posts
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