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Dusty Hill recorded parts for a new ZZ Top album before his death

Guitarist Billy Gibbons has revealed that the late bassist Dusty Hill recorded bass and vocal parts for an upcoming ZZ Top album. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Gibbons was speaking to Variety about ZZ Top’s forthcoming album, which will follow 2012’s La Futura. When he was asked how far Hill had gotten through his work on the album before his death, Gibbons said that the rough parts recorded will require “some completion work”. He explained how Hill came to sing on several of the record’s tracks: “I think the luck...
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Isaiah Wafer Releases A Captivating Album Titled Quarantine

Isaiah Wafer has not let quarantine slow him down, instead he created 20 intoxicating anthems released under the album titled Quarantine. In Wafer’s new tracklist, the drops, features, and instrumentals are often blended with simple, soothing melodies, engaging progressions, and ethereal soundscapes. The emotion radiating through each beat and element is mesmerizing, but also the perfectly arranged vocal deliveries like on the track “Runaway.” Serving an exceptional feel throughout, this festival-ready DJ set is clearly one of the best productions we’ve heard in a long while. This captivating album will have the crowds hooked, and Isaiah Wafer has no...
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Ty Segall releases surprise new album, Harmonizer

Ty Segall has released a surprise new album, called Harmonizer. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The record is the Californian’s first album since 2019’s First Taste, and – as the title suggests – it finds him experimenting with synthesizers and electronic processing of his guitars. Segall‘s label Drag City report that Harmonizer was recorded at Segall’s own, recently constructed Harmonizer Studios, and has been produced by Cooper Crain of Bitchin Bajas and Cave. Advertisement The guitarist’s longstanding Freedom Band – Mikal Cronin, Ben Boye, Charles Moothart and Emmett Kelly –...
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Hear two previously unreleased Beach Boys tracks from upcoming box set, Feel Flows

The Beach Boys have shared two previously unreleased tracks, taken from their upcoming box set Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The set will contain 135 tracks, 108 of which are previously unheard versions. The tracks include new studio recordings, new live recordings, alternate mixes, and isolated a cappella and instrumental tracks. Two more of these tracks have been released ahead of the set, following a live version of “Susie Cincinnati” and an early version of “Big Sur”. The new songs...
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The new Led Zeppelin documentary has been completed

The forthcoming new and authorised Led Zeppelin documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin has finally been completed. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Directed by Bernard MacMahon, the film was first announced back in May 2019 to mark the band’s 50th anniversary in 2018. MacMahon yesterday (August 2) confirmed the film’s title, Becoming Led Zeppelin, and announced that work on the documentary has been completed. Advertisement “Becoming Led Zeppelin is a film that no one thought could be made,” MacMahon said in a statement. “The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually...
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Kurt Cobain’s childhood home is now a heritage-listed landmark, will be turned into an exhibit

Kurt Cobain’s childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington has been formally recognised as a historical landmark, with plans to immortalise its original form reportedly “90 to 95 per cent” complete. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Krist Novoselic on Nevermind’s impact: “So much was going on. And then it all just spectacularly blew up” The legendary Nirvana frontman lived in the house, built in 1923 according to Washington’s public registry, from 1968 to 1984 – just ten years before his passing at age 27. Rolling Stone reported on Friday (July...
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Bob Dylan wins royalty lawsuit against estate of Desire co-writer Jacques Levy

Bob Dylan has prevailed in a royalty lawsuit against the estate of late songwriter Jacques Levy. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: The Complete Bob Dylan The estate of the co-writer of Dylan’s 1976 album Desire was handed a defeat on Friday (July 30) in a lawsuit against Dylan and Universal Music Group which hoped to establish co-ownership of the songs that Levy had a hand in. “We’re pleased with today’s decision,” Dylan’s lawyer, Orin Snyder, said in a statement Friday (via Variety). “As we said when the case...
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Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement

As they bickered throughout the final days of Minor Threat, drummer Jeff Nelson told singer Ian MacKaye that – as unwashed jocks from the ’burbs started to infiltrate their well-marshalled scene – he wasn’t really enjoying playing with the DC hardcore giants any more. Righteous fire forever burning in his eyes, MacKaye replied: “It’s not supposed to be fun.” ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Packed with great footage and interviews, James June Schneider and Paul Bishow’s excellent doc on the evolution of Washington, DC’s mutant strain of punk shows how...
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Yola Stand For Myself

Rarely does a protest song sound quite as sceptical as Diamond Studded Shoes, the first single from Yola Carter’s second full-length, Stand For Myself. It’s an anthem for the downtrodden, a call to arms for anyone pushed aside or trampled under, but even the ratatat chorus warns them not to get their hopes up: “We know it isn’t, it ain’t gonna turn out right!” ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Contrasting the fatalism of those lyrics is the exuberance of the music, with its rollicking guitar licks and rolling pace sounding...
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LUMP Animal

Anyone familiar with the eponymous 2018 debut by LUMP – Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay – will recall that the album ended with a track called LUMP Is A Product, which saw Marling list the personnel involved in making the record. The businesslike delivery was what her fans have come to expect from her. There are no outward signs of levity here. If Laura Marling derives any cathartic release from the act of writing and recording her songs, that’s something she withholds from view. Which isn’t to say that she’s a cold fish (of the hundreds of artists...
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