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Uncut’s Best Reissues, Live Albums and Compilations of 2024
30ROYAL TRUXTwin InfinitivesFIREDiving straight in at the deep end, Fire kicked off their Royal Trux vinyl reissue series with this synapse-mangling 1990 double LP which found America’s most gloriously fucked-up rock’n’roll band careering wildly toward the outer limits of convention, taste and sanity. A work of deviant high art or the sound of two people having a breakdown? Let’s say both. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW 29JOHN LENNONMind Games: The Ultimate CollectionCAPITOL/UMeIn 1973, Lennon’s fourth album – which...
Ringo Starr joins Paul McCartney onstage at London’s O2 Arena
Ringo Starr joined Paul McCartney onstage at the London’s O2 Arena last night (December 19) for the final 2024 date of Macca’s Got Back tour. The former Beatles bandmates teamed up in the encore for a run through “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club (Reprise)” and “Helter Skelter”. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Earlier in the show, McCartney had welcomed Rolling Stone Ron Wood onto the stage to play “Get Back”. There was a third surprise special guest: McCartney’s...
Send us your questions for Vashti Bunyan!
It’s fair to say that Vashti Bunyan’s musical career hasn’t followed a conventional path. After a faltering attempt to make it as a pop singer in Swinging London, she dropped out of the rat race and journeyed by horse-drawn wagon to the Isle Of Skye, an experience that informed her startling 1970 debut Just Another Diamond Day, recorded with assistance from members of Fairport Convention and The Incredible String Band. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW It proved to...
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Still Barking
Hedonism and angst, heartbreak and rapture, bombast and tenderness – rock music does them all with an often startling brilliance. Humour? Not so much. Randy Newman – possibly the whip-smartest, funniest songwriter who has ever lived – was once asked by this reviewer why rock’n’roll has such an under-developed funny bone. His answer was simple: rock stars take themselves far too seriously and want to be remembered for saving the world rather than playing it for laughs. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER...
Bridget Hayden And The Apparitions Cold Blows The Rain
The Yorkshire moors, wrote the novelist Emily Bronté, were a place to walk where your own nature would lead you. If only Emily could had lived in the age of Spotify and earbuds, she could have had the ideal soundtrack as she hiked away from the shadowy region, whose unsustaining vastness waxes drear. That soundtrack being Cold Blows The Rain, the first album which prolific vocalist and freeform avant rocker Bridget Hayden has released with this trio, The Apparitions. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW...
Paul McCartney, Co-op Live, Manchester, December 14
“This opening is pretty good,” says Paul McCartney, having already burned through “A Hard Day’s Night”, Wings double “Junior’s Farm” and “Letting Go”, plus “Drive My Car”. “I’m going to take a little moment to enjoy it for myself.” Hands clasped in front of him, leaning back as if to admire a work of art in a gallery, McCartney has every right to indulge in a spot of jocular self-appreciation. Tonight’s show in Manchester – his first UK gig since headlining Glastonbury in 2022 – is a triumph on every level. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH,...
Listen to Neil Young’s Christmas playlist
Neil Young has posted a Christmas playlist on his YouTube channel. Running to an hour and three quarters, it includes Young’s own material – including tracks from Harvest, After The Goldrush, American Stars ‘n’ Bars and Harvest Moon – as well as music taken from Seven Gates: A Christmas Album (later reissues as Christmas At The Ranch), a 1994 collection by his long-serving collaborator Ben Keith which featured Young alongside Johnny Cash, Nicolette Larson, J.J. Cale and others. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement...
Gram Parsons remembered: “He was too much of a purist…”
From Uncut’s February 2011 issue (Take 189). Summer 1972, GRAM PARSONS had patented his Cosmic American Music with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, but failed to see any of the profits. Now, thrown out of The Rolling Stones’ inner circle, he launches himself as a solo artist. On the 40th anniversary of his solo debut, Uncut’s David Cavanagh hunted down Parson’s closest collaborators to tell the untold story of an American legend’s last act… The Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall is not the sort of place you’d expect to find Gram Parsons. Home to the southernmost tip of...
Jeff Beck: “I was a good bowler, but I just wanted to crack a six…”
From Uncut’s August 2016 issue (Take 231): a conspiratorial chat with JEFF BECK, in which the guitar maestro looks back on a lifetime reinventing rock music… In a sunlit room on the top floor of a Bayswater mansion block, a laptop sits open on a table, a small wodge of Blu-Tack stuck over its camera. “A friend in the FBI told me to do that,” says Jeff Beck, and he’s not joking. One of rock’s most famous lone wolves, Beck rails at Newspeak, double-think and government surveillance. Everything Orwell predicted has come true, he maintains, “and like mugs we...Recent Posts
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