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Uncut September 2022
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Wilco, David Bowie, Blondie, Dave Davies, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Julia Jacklin, Steve Hillage, Love, Chris Forsyth, Little Feat and Stephin Merritt all feature in the new Uncut, dated September 2022 and in UK shops from July 21 or available to buy online now. This issue comes with an exclusive free 11-track CD – an alternate version of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, compiled by Wilco. WILCO: 2022 was meant to be the year Wilco celebrated the 20th anniversary of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the album that almost split the band but ended up securing their legend....
The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine My Life In Music
Read more in issue 303 of Uncut – available now for home delivery from our online store. THE KINGSTON TRIO STRING ALONG CAPITOL, 1960 I had already heard The Kingston Trio’s version of “The John B Sails” – the original title of “Sloop John B” – when String Along came out in 1960. It was their fifth album and the last one with original member Dave Guard. I just loved every song on it. At the time, nothing beat their folk sound and perfect harmonies. It’s still one of my all-time favourites and really takes me back to my...
Black Midi Hellfire
For three young men in their early twenties, Black Midi have already covered a lot of musical ground. Their 2019 debut, Schlagenheim, embraced a twisted mutation of math-rock, jazz and post-punk, recalling Battles at their most discordant or a mutilated King Crimson. 2021’s Cavalcade was a more all-encompassing tonal affair; alongside the frenzied assaults was a softer, more melodic and often poignant side that showed they could veer into avant-folk territory as easily as they could pulverising noise-rock. They continue on this unpredictable route here, on their third album, seemingly on a crusade to sound like all genres yet...
Cheri Knight American Rituals
Fish around for a minute or two googling “Cheri Knight” and you’ll soon come across a song of hers on YouTube called “Dar Glasgow”. It’s the opening track on her second solo album, 1998’s The Northeast Kingdom. The cover is a painting of Knight in a dress of green leaves holding a guitar in a vegetable field, alluding to her two passions, music and farming. The song is a rural gothic folk tale, spun out over the drone of a harmonium, which slowly pulls the listener in. That harmonium is played by Steve Earle, whose label E-Squared released the...
Lera Lynn Something More Than Love
Lera Lynn isn’t prone to repeating herself. Having moved further away from her countryish beginnings with 2018’s duets album, Plays Well With Others, she followed up with the self-made, and self-explanatory, On My Own. Now she’s shifted into an entirely different dimension with Something More Than Love. Co-produced with her partner Todd Lombardo, it’s an often moving, sometimes troubled, meditation on the joys and trials of new parenthood. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Lynn gave birth to their first son at the start of the pandemic. Adjusting to being a mother...
Kate Bush Ultimate Music Guide
As she tops the charts in 2022 with her 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill”, which was featured prominently in Netflix’s Stranger Things, we celebrate the genius of Kate Bush with our Ultimate Music Guide. “I just know that something good is going to happen…” Buy a copy here!
Lucy Clue’s Magnetic Summer Anthem Is A Must-Hear
“In Your Eyes” is here to sweep you off your feet! Lucy Clue is on the move with ecstatic, positive music, sharing her passion and energy with her audience. With some stunning soundscapes and urban-sounding percussion, the melody leads the way into the world of romance in which the artist tells us about her true feelings—ones that cannot be contained any longer. Influenced by the greats in the pop and hip-hop genres, Lucy Clue knows exactly how to make a crowd cheer. Curly hair, southern temperament and tattoos—you can’t not fall in love with this artist and her incredible...
MJ Lenderman Boat Songs
Asheville, North Carolina, native MJ Lenderman inhabits a crucial nexus of the Southern underground. The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is a graduate of the local house-show scene, and of an important bygone venue called the Mothlight. He’s been releasing his own music since 2017, and is also a guitarist in the country-soaked alternative-rock band Wednesday, lead by his partner Karly Hartzman. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut While still only 23, Lenderman comes off more like a timeworn indie veteran than an eager newcomer. When a certain music website bestowed its coveted...
Neil Young with Crazy Horse Toast
In 2000, Neil Young and Crazy Horse took up residence at Toast – a recording studio on San Francisco’s Mission Street. Awaiting overdue renovation, the district itself was in poor condition. The back door at Toast opened onto a view of derelict buildings; aside from a doughnut shop on the corner, their only neighbours were rats and the squatters. Inside Toast, the vibe was undetermined. As Young wrote in his memoir Special Deluxe, there were “some serious problems with my marriage” (to his then-wife Pegi). ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Instead...Recent Posts
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