End Of The Road has added several exciting new names to this year’s festival, which takes place from August 29 to September 1 in its regular home of Larmer Tree Gardens on the Dorset/Wiltshire border. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Richard Hawley and Altın Gün will now play the four-day bash, along with underground rapper Billy Woods and a solo appearance from Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier. They join previously announced headliners Slowdive, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Idles, Fever Ray, Lankum, Sleater-Kinney, Yo La Tengo, Jockstrap and Baxter Dury....
Last night (April 24), Neil Young & Crazy Horse kicked off their Love Earth Tour with a show at San Diego’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre. The Crazy Horse line-up included guitarist Micah Nelson, stepping in for Nils Lofgren who is currently on tour with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! They opened with a 15-minute version of “Cortez The Killer” which you can watch below, courtesy of audience member Todd Norris. It includes a missing verse that...
HERE’S Irmin Schmidt, explaining the mercurial brilliance of Can in full flight. “Even if we improvised onstage, we always went in the same direction,” he tells us on page 19 of our new issue. “In a way that it became a music that was not just bullshit. It was not some kind of jamming and everything falls apart. It was always something very connected.” You can witness the fruits of the group’s potent psychic bond on this month’s Uncut CD – a sampler showcasing Can’s indispensable live series, as they improvise freely and at length in cities as far-flung...
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME David Gilmour, Beth Gibbons, Jefferson Airplane, T Bone Burnett, Slowdive, Mark Knopfler, Royal Trux, Mdou Moctar, The Beatles, Isobel Campbell, Buffalo Tom, Eddy Grant, The Decemberists, Anita Pallenberg, Willie Nelson and more all feature in Uncut‘s June 2024 issue, in UK shops from April 26 or available to buy online now. All print copies come with a free CD – Can Live 1973-1977 – a must-hear collection of revelatory and uninhibited performances taken direct from the archives of rock’s most forward-looking band! Advertisement INSIDE THIS MONTH’S UNCUT: DAVID GILMOUR: In a world...
David Gilmour has announced that his new solo album Luck And Strange will be released by Sony Music on September 6. Gilmour discusses the making of the album at length in the new issue of Uncut, which hits UK shops on Friday (April 26) and is also available to order now directly from us by clicking here. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! As explored in Uncut’s exclusive feature, Luck And Strange was recorded over five months in Brighton and London, with Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Marika Hackman)...
It’s always a treat to have a new album from Dirty Three, the intrepid instrumental rock trio formed by Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White in Melbourne in 1992. Love Changes Everything – their first for 12 years – might just be the band’s finest work to date, a sustained blast of redemptive wonder. It’s released by Bella Union on June 28, and you can hear a track from it in Uncut’s latest New Music Playlist. It’s the perfect complement to Ellis’s role as chief berserker in The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and as Nick Cave’s primary creative...
An excellent new “generative” documentary In the opening scene of this hugely enjoyable Brian Eno doc, we find the composer/polymath bopping around in his home studio, thinking about a composition like an ecosystem. As he works, we see him add weather, and even an animal population to his piece. Eventually he tweaks some controls on his screen to alter the prospect of change – how probable it is that a musical phrase will occur again. Advertisement Eno’s “generative” – evolving, infinitely changing – way of making music has been the guiding principle for Gary Hustwit’s film. Rather than a...
Almost halfway through Hill Country Love, Cedric Burnside untangles a skein of blues from his guitar and starts singing, “Here I go, bout to walk through the door/I see people, all over the floor/I can’t blame them, the music is hot you know.” The opening of “Juke Joint”, one of the many high points of Burnside’s new album, does much to position his songwriting, and his music, within the rich tradition of hill country blues, placing it firmly in the juke joint: old rural weekend venues where black communities would gather to drink, eat, hang out and play music....
It’s unlikely anyone will hear anything much stranger this year than BrhyM’s “Platypus Wow”. “Got webbed feet, rubber bill, fat-ass tail, furry chill,” a multi-tracked Bruce Hornsby mumbles to a peculiar accompaniment of squawking, cawing woodwind, adding “dark purple-green coloured fur/I’ll stick that ass with my poison spur.” Soon he’s quasi-rapping, joined by mournful strings, unpredictable piano runs and doo-wop harmonies, before concluding, “I light up the world, only for you.” The sentiment might sound Disneyesque, but Disney this is not. DAVID BOWIE IS ON THE COVER OF THE LATEST UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The third track...
Nirvana‘s ambition, Dave Grohl tells Uncut’s Graeme Thomson in this new magazine, was to sell as many records as Sonic Youth and maybe be able to make enough money for the members of Nirvana to get their own apartments. Of course, what happened with Nevermind surpassed that ambition, to put it mildly. When the album was released in autumn 1991, it sold enough copies for the band to be able to buy apartments for themselves, and in principle, one for everyone they’d ever met besides. Advertisement Anyone acquainted with the Nirvana story will be aware of the complex and...