In an interview with The Observer in 2008, Anita Pallenberg explained why, despite many offers, she would never write an autobiography: “The publishers want to hear only about the Stones and more dirt on Mick Jagger and I’m just not interested.” JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Pallenberg, however, learned early the value of never giving away her whole truth – her exact date and place of birth long lay unresolved, with both 1942 and 1944, Rome and Hamburg, being suggested; perhaps a deliberate blur from a child born into...
Mabe Fratti is ready for her close-up. “My music is like when you see yourself in a really good mirror and you see all the pores in your skin – I love that,” says the in-demand Guatemalan cellist and singer, from her home in Mexico City. “Not sure I would want a picture of me like that, but I like that in my sound.” JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Fratti’s most recent solo album fits that description. Released a year ago, Se Ve Desde Aqui (It Is Seen From...
Oasis are to release a 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of their debut album, Definitely Maybe. JONI MITCHELL IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE! Featuring unheard Monnow Valley versions and Sawmills Studios outtakes, including an unreleased demo of “Sad Song” featuring Liam Gallagher’s vocal. Advertisement it’s available on deluxe 4LP, 2CD, coloured vinyl, cassette and digitally with new artwork and sleeve notes on August 30 via Big Brother. Pre-order here. The tracklisting for Definitely Maybe (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is Volume 1 Advertisement Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Remastered) Shakermaker (Remastered) Live Forever (Remastered) Up In The Sky (Remastered)...
AT the time of writing, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and The Rolling Stones are all on tour, either in Europe or America. As you can read from various reports on these outings in this issue, the artists continue to go about their business with commendable vigour, delivering performances that spectacularly reaffirm music’s unifying power. After seeing the Stones’ opening show in Houston, Stephen Conn – one of our subscribers – emailed to me to say: “In a world where Paul McCartney is still revising a Beatles saga that wrapped up decades ago and we now spend most of our lives...
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Joni Mitchell, Paul Weller, Kraftwerk, Stevie Nicks, Steve Albini, Grateful Dead, Arooj Aftab, John Cale, Warren Ellis, Bonny Light Horseman, Mark E Smith and Inspiral Carpets, Josef K, Beach Boys, The Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young with Crazy Horse and more all feature in Uncut‘s July 2024 issue, in UK shops from May 24 or available to buy online now. All print copies come with a free CD – Coast To Coast, featuring 15 tracks of the month’s best new music by John Cale, The Dirty Three, Linda Thompson, The Folk...
In recent times, we have tended to place great faith in late-life albums by revered artists. Johnny Cash’s releases on American Recordings, begun in 1994, perhaps set the course; since then has come, if not an explosion, at least a soft bloom of such records, from David Bowie’s Blackstar to Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker, via Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways and even Tom Jones’s run of recordings with Ethan Johns. These are records we covet for their sense of retrospection and accumulated wisdom, for the light they seem to cast on our callow years. ORDER YOUR...
The John & Alice Coltrane Home, Impulse! and Verve Label Group are calling 2024 the Year Of Alice, but for a growing contingent of jazz fans, it’s been her year for some time now. The stature of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, harpist, pianist, composer, spiritual leader and wife of John, has only increased after her death in 2007 at the age of 69. Her career as a jazz pianist began in her hometown of Detroit in the 1950s, but her life was forever changed when she met Coltrane in 1963. Two years later, they were married and the following year,...
On June 28, Reprise will release “a historic collection of early recordings from 1969” by Neil Young with Crazy Horse, entitled Early Daze. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! It includes early versions of songs that would feature on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and beyond, several of them previously unreleased. Listen to the Early Daze version of “Everybody’s Alone” below: Advertisement Pre-order Early Daze here and investigate the tracklisting below: Side One ‘Dance Dance Dance’ (included on ‘Archives Vol. I’) ‘Come On Baby Let’s...
The The return with Ensoulment, their first new studio album since 2000’s NakedSelf. Ensoulment is set for release through Cineola / earMUSIC on September 6, 2024. You can hear the first single, “Cognitive Dissident“, below. Advertisement Joining Matt Johnson are James Eller (bass), DC Collard (keyboards), Earl Harvin (drums) and Barrie Cadogan (lead guitar) – and co-producer and engineer Warne Livesey, who previously worked on Infected (1986) and Mind Bomb (1989). Additional performances include Gillian Glover (backing vocals), Terry Edwards (horns), Sonya Cullingford (fiddle) and Danny Cummings (percussion). Ensoulment features previously unpublished artwork by Johnson’s late brother Andy, (aka artist Andy Dog). Advertisement The track listing of Ensoulment is: 1. Cognitive Dissident2. Some Days I Drink My Coffee...
In an outdoor stadium on a stormy spring night, Neil Young and Crazy Horse offered shelter in a sound. Fifty-five years since the words “Crazy Horse” first appeared alongside Young’s name on a record sleeve, his loyal backing band has solidified a minimalist style that feels distinct both within his wide-ranging catalogue and the larger rock canon. For all their iconic work together and their vast influence on generations of grunge and indie rock and beyond, what other band sounds like this? ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN...
