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The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s new Bold As Love boxset to include 28 unreleased tracks

On November 7, Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings will release a 5-LP/4-CD + Blu-ray boxset containing The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s landmark 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love in stereo, mono and Atmos formats, along with 40 bonus studio and live tracks, 28 of which are previously unreleased. Listen to one of those previously unreleased tracks, “Stone Free / Up From The Skies (Demo)”, below: Advertisement [embedded content] Produced by Janie Hendrix, original Experience recording engineer Eddie Kramer, and John McDermott, Bold As Love includes stereo and mono mixes of Axis: Bold As Love, remastered from the original mixes created by Hendrix, Chas Chandler and Eddie Kramer. Kramer and engineer Chandler Harrod have also created a Dolby Atmos mix of the album. The trove of previously unreleased tracks includes alternate takes recorded at London’s Olympic and Regent Studios, as well as performances from Top Of The Pops and Dee Time, Dutch TV programme Hoepla, and eight songs from a September 1967 concert in Stockholm. The cover art incorporates a drawing done by Jimi when he was five years old. “I thought it was perfect for this project,” says Janie Hendrix. “It’s a colourful dragon that depicts exactly what the song ‘Bold As Love’… Read More →

Read the tracklisting for Wings’ new career-spanning anthology

Wings release a new, self-titled anthology on November 7 through Capitol Records / MPL. Personally overseen by Paul McCartney, the compilation is released on 3 x LP Limited Edition Colour Vinyl, 2 x CD edition and 1 x CD and 1 xLP editions. Advertisement All physical formats come with a booklet including an introduction from McCartney. 3 x LP and 2 x CD editions include an expanded 32-page booklet featuring photographs, artwork, paintings and information about the band. The artwork for WINGS was overseen alongside McCartney by Hipgnosis‘ Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, with additional editorial by Uncut contributor Pete Paphides and original artwork by Humphrey Ocean – who first worked with Wings on some of the artwork for Wings At The Speed Of Sound. [embedded content] A Blu-ray version of WINGS is the first time Wings songs are available on a physical format in Dolby Atmos. TRACK LISTINGS: Advertisement 3LP / 2CD / Blu-ray / DigitalBand on the Run (2010 Remaster)Hi, Hi, Hi (2018 Remaster)Silly Love Songs (2014 Remaster)Letting Go (2014 Remaster)Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (2010 Remaster) Live and Let Die (2018 Remaster)Mamunia (2010 Remaster)Junior’s Farm (2014 Remaster)Helen Wheels (2022 Remaster)Some People Never Know (2018 Remaster) Let ’Em In (2014 Remaster)Get on the Right Thing (2018 Remaster)Jet (2010 Remaster)My Love (2018… Read More →

Suede’s Antidepressants reviewed: Britpop outliers on exhilarating, grandiose form

There was unfinished business… Before it was about sonic cathedrals, sex vampires and superhold hairspray, goth was the invention of distressed souls going slowly mad in cramped suburban homes on the southern fringes of London. It was David Bowie haunted by his brother’s asylum in Coulsdon’s Cane Hill Hospital on “The Bewlay Brothers”. It was Robert Smith wandering out of the new town dream of Crawley into the ancient European night of “A Forest”. And, most of all, it was Siouxsie And The Banshees divining an uncanny psychic vortex in a Chislehurst sitting room on “Happy House” and “Christine”. [embedded content] Watch the video for “Antidepressants”, filmed at Suede’s show at London’s Alexandra Palace in July 2024, see Brett Anderson prowl the stage with supernatural vigour, and you realise that Haywards Heath was always on that same cursed North Downs leyline. “This is the house that you saved up for,” Brett drawls, with all the estuary hauteur of Siouxsie in her prime. “There’s a room in the back in case you get scared.” There’s a perfectly judged pause, then the withering kiss-off: “Prisoner.” Advertisement For all that they’ve been tagged as Britpop heralds or glam revenants, and for all Brett’s… Read More →

Buckingham Nicks reviewed: mythologised 1973 folk-rock debut finally gets reissued

Holograms could be the answer… Take it with a pinch of salt, but it’s a tough time to be a Fleetwood Mac fan. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are still at loggerheads after the guitarist was turfed out of the band in 2018 – Nicks declared she was “no longer willing to work with him”; he suffered a heart attack soon after being fired – and the window has all but shut on what’s left of a Fleetwood Mac classic lineup reunion now that each member is pushing 80 and Christine McVie has gone. Holograms could be the answer. But before the credits roll on this most enduring rock’n’roll saga, a key chapter in the band’s origin story from a more harmonious time 52 years ago is finally being reissued. Buckingham Nicks, the mythologised 1973 folk-rock debut by Buckingham Nicks, as Lindsey and Stevie were introduced to the world back then, has been cleaned up and remastered from the original tapes and is in print for the first time since 1982 and on streaming services and CD for the first time. In some ways, this offers a sense of closure – let’s put it out properly before it’s too late…. Read More →

David Bowie was working on an “18th Century Musical” at the time of his death

David Bowie was working on a secret project at the time of his death in 2016, as reported by the BBC. ‘The Spectator’ was envisaged by Bowie to be an “18th Century Musical” based on the daily periodical of the same name, published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London from 1711 to 1712. Advertisement A series of post-it notes relating to the plot of ‘The Spectator’ were left stuck to the wall of Bowie’s study in New York. The room was always locked – only Bowie and his personal assistant had a key – so the project remained unknown to anyone else until archivists began cataloguing Bowie’s belongings. The post-it notes will now be available for public view when the David Bowie Centre opens at the V&A East Storehouse in London’s Hackney Wick on September 13, along with a notebook of comments on The Spectator, and the desk where he worked. Bowie’s notes suggest that he was looking to incorporate real characters from early 18th century London into the plot of his musical, such as notorious thief ‘Honest Jack’ Sheppard and his capturer Jonathan Wild – a vigilante who styled himself as the ‘Thief-Taker General’ – as well… Read More →

Kris Kolls Steps Forward With Debut Single “You Know”

On August 29, Kris Kolls officially introduced herself to the global pop stage with the release of “You Know.” The Russian-born, Istanbul-based artist blends years of training and performance into a debut that feels polished yet deeply personal. The track is smooth and atmospheric, built on floating synths and a steady pulse, but it’s her vocals that command attention. Distinctive and magnetic, Kris Kolls delivers each line with precision, shifting easily between moments of intimacy and bursts of power. In the song, she captures the confidence of a love that doesn’t need outside validation, singing about being “ahead, outta line” and unbothered by what others think. That defiance, paired with warmth, gives the single its heartbeat. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kris Kolls (@kriskolls) Kolls also reveals the passion behind her process. When she repeats “I’ll be writin’ all night long”, it feels like a glimpse into her creative world, where music becomes a way of living. On Instagram, she described the single as a reflection of when “it’s not perfect, not normal… but it’s your kind of love.” That sentiment runs through the song, turning imperfections into strength and intimacy into something universal. Her foundation… Read More →

Hear the fabled Electric Nebraska version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The USA”

On October 17, Sony Music will release Bruce Springsteen’s five-disc Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition on vinyl and CD (+Blu-Ray). It includes The E Street Band’s fabled ‘Electric Nebraska’ sessions and solo outtakes from the era, as well as a newly shot performance film of Nebraska in its entirety and a 2025 remaster of the original album. Below, you can hear a previously unreleased, April 1982 version of “Born In The USA” (which was originally written alongside Nebraska), featuring Springsteen backed by Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent. “We threw out the keyboards and played basically as a three-piece,” says Springsteen. “It was kinda like punk rockabilly. We were trying to bring Nebraska into the electric world.” Advertisement [embedded content] In addition to ‘Electric Nebraska’ – which features Tallent, Weinberg, Danny Federici, Roy Bittan and Stevie Van Zandt – the set’s collection of ‘Nebraska Outtakes’ unearths Springsteen solo rarities including more songs from the original Nebraska home recordings (“Losin’ Kind”, “Child Bride”, “Downbound Train”) and tracks from a one-off 1982 solo studio session (“Gun In Every Home”, “On The Prowl”). Also included is a present-day performance film of the Nebraska album – played in sequence for the first time ever and captured… Read More →

Pulp announce 30th anniversary reissue of Different Class

Pulp have announced that a 30th anniversary edition of their Britpop high-water mark, Different Class, will be released by Universal Music Recordings on behalf of Island Records on October 24. The album will be available in both quadruple-LP and double-CD format, expanded to include their legendary 1995 Glastonbury Festival set in full – the first time that this performance has been released. Advertisement The LP has been cut at 45rpm, to “make it sound a whole lot better,” as Jarvis Cocker explains. “We were obsessed with the fact that this was our ‘Pop’ album (we had finally achieved some ‘popularity’ when ‘Common People’ was a hit) and, as everyone knows, all pop albums have 12 songs on them: six tracks per side. “Only problem: this took the running time of the record to 53 minutes. We were told this would compromise the audio quality of the vinyl record – but we were more bothered about not compromising the quality of our Pop Dream. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory.” [embedded content] The deluxe 4-LP set is presented in a sturdy slipcase with a comprehensive, 28-page booklet featuring a… Read More →

Hear Emmylou Harris cover Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker’s “Thing About You”

Emmylou Harris will release Spyboy on November 7 via New West Records. You can hear her rendition of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ “A Thing About You” from the album below. [embedded content] The 19-track live album was produced by Buddy Miller and Harris and features Miller on guitar and vocals, Brady Blade on drums, percussion and vocals and Daryl Johnson on bass, djembe, percussion and vocals as well. Advertisement Originally issued on compact disc by Eminent Records in 1998, the 2025 edition of Spyboy features five previously unreleased recordings of the band performing Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker’s “Thing About You”, Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain Of Sand”, Bill Monroe’s “Get Up John”, Lucinda Williams’ “Sweet Old World” as well as the Harris and Kate & Anna McGarrigle co-write “All I Left Behind”. It also features updated artwork as well as new and updated liner notes written by Harris and Miller. A limited pressing of Spyboy was made available in celebration of Record Store Day in May but sold out. Spyboy grew out of Wrecking Ball, Harris’ groundbreaking 1995 collaboration with the producer Daniel Lanois. That album, among her best and most celebrated, offers a very different idea of what country music could be, how it might sound… Read More →

We’re New Here – Case Oats

“I wanted to write a coming-of-age novel and I made an album instead,” says Casey Walker, fulcrum of Chicago’s lustrous alt.country newcomers Case Oats. Their upcoming debut Last Missouri Exit is certainly steeped in confessional Midwest storytelling. A creative writing graduate, Walker crafts vivid portraits of youthful abandon and struggle, of deadbeat exes (and the exes they went back to), and of the darkness that can engulf her homeland landscapes. “Songs are born out of a short story or a poem,” she says, perched on a stool in a Notting Hill bar, ahead of an in-store performance at Rough Trade West with bandmate Spencer Tweedy. “A lot of times when I sit down to write a song, I have a scene, a character or a piece of dialogue, and that’s what I will come to first.” Advertisement Messing around in a garage-rock band after graduating from Columbia, in 2018 Walker ran into Chicago scene mainstay Tweedy – son of Wilco’s Jeff, and drummer in numerous local acts – and the pair recorded a single track, “Bluff”, at his home studio. Its warm collage of bittersweet relationship memories instantly crystalised the crux of her songwriting. “Having fondness for people who aren’t… Read More →

David Byrne’s Who Is The Sky? reviewed: former Talking Head has fun wrestling with big conundrums

No possible new endeavour is too far-fetched… Such is the diversity of David Byrne’s projects since Talking Heads’ split in 1991, it can feel like no possible new endeavour is too far-fetched. Now that American Utopia and Here Lies Love have finished their runs, maybe it’s time for a Broadway musical about the turbulent childhood of Tristan Tzara? Or else an art photography book of textile factories in South Carolina? And surely there’s an album of New Orleans bounce to be made with Diplo and Big Freedia, and possibly a weekly column of recipes for the New York Times? The fact that none of these options seem particularly outlandish makes the relatively straightforward nature of his latest release all the more remarkable. Byrne’s first studio album since 2018’s American Utopia, Who Is The Sky? consists of 12 robustly performed pop songs, almost all of them under three and a half minutes in length. Though several contain stories – like the one about the Buddha scarfing down too many canapes – none serves a single overarching concept or occupies a role within a cross-platform project. Instead, they have been designed for humbler aims, whether it’s to amuse, to delight or to… Read More →

Big Thief’s Double Infinity reviewed: uplifting and open-hearted sixth album

A dense, deep, fluid album… If Big Thief are now ostensibly a trio, how come they have never sounded as big as they do on Double Infinity? It’s paradox that reflects one of the central themes of this, their sixth studio album – how people change over time, how the present is simply a bridge between the infinite experience of the past and possibilities of the future. Double Infinity is a dense, deep, fluid album that pushes their exceptional rate of development into new areas thanks in part to a roster of New York musicians, who collectively add layers to the band’s songs, shifting them into unexpected directions, but without overwhelming the essence of Big Thief’s trade: making music from raw emotion. “Gonna turn it all, into rock and roll,” sings Adrianne Lenker on “Grandmother”, a lyric that seems more like a mantra, set against a backdrop of percussion and wordless vocalising. These rapturous incantations comes courtesy of Laraaji – the most prominent musician who joined Lenker, guitarist Buck Meek and drummer James Krivchenia for recordings sessions at New York’s Record Plant. In a neat echo of Laraaji’s ‘discovery’ by Brian Eno – who heard him playing in Washington Square… Read More →

Radiohead announce first tour for 7 years

Radiohead have announced a run of 20 shows to take place in five cities across Europe. The band will play shows in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin. These will be the band’s first tour dates since their tour for Moon Shaped Pool in 2018. In a message to fans today, Radiohead’s Philip Selway said: “Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the hell of it. After a seven year pause, it felt really good to play the songs again and reconnect with a musical identity that has become lodged deep inside all five of us. It also made us want to play some shows together, so we hope you can make it to one of the upcoming dates. For now, it will just be these ones but who knows where this will all lead.” Advertisement The dates are: NOVEMBER 04, 05, 07, 08 MOVISTAR ARENA MADRID, SPAIN 14, 15, 17, 18 UNIPOL ARENA, BOLOGNA, ITALY Advertisement 21, 22, 24, 25 THE O2, LONDON, ENGLAND DECEMBER 01, 02, 04, 05 ROYAL ARENA, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK 08, 09, 11, 12 UBER ARENA, BERLIN, GERMANY To help get tickets directly to fans and to minimise interception from touts and bots, tickets will only be accessible by registering at radiohead.com. Registration opens… Read More →

Slow Motion Cowboys announce debut UK tour

Slow Motion Cowboys, the New Orleans-based Americana band fronted by songwriter Pete Fields, make their first visit to the UK for dates in September and October. As we wrote in our review of their latest album Wolf Of Saint Elmo, they are “a wonderful throwback to early 2000s Americana; languid country with a cosmic backwash that underlies plaintive songs about loss and heartache”. You can hear “Invisible Stars” on our latest Sounds Of The New West Vol. 7 compilation, free with the October 2025 issue of Uncut. There’s also a live version of the song below. Visit the band’s website to book tickets to their tour dates, which are: September 23 – Sound Lounge, SuttonSeptember 24 – Betsy Trotwood, LondonSeptember 25 – The Grove, NottinghamSeptember 26 – Le Pub, NewportSeptember 27 – Otley Labour Room, LeedsSeptember 28 – Bears Bar, BournemouthSeptember 30 – The Bees Mouth, BrightonOctober 1 – The Princess Pavilion, FalmouthOctober 2 – The Rye Bakery at The Station, FromeOctober 3 – Fish Factory Arts Space, PenrynOctober 5 – Boogaloo, London

Uncut’s Ultimate End Of The Road Festival 2025 Round-Up!

So that’s us just about back from another incredible year at Larmer Tree Gardens. End Of The Road continues to demonstrate exactly why it’s such an essential festival – with a mind-boggling array of performances from brilliant artists covering a multitude of genres, styles and disciplines. As ever, huge thanks to our crack team comprising Tom Pinnock, Sam Richards and Mark Beaumont, who represented Uncut on site. Advertisement Thanks, also, to all of you who attended our Uncut Q&As – perhaps our best sessions yet – featuring packed crowds for Matt Berninger, Kristin Hersh and Christopher Owens. And now, for your edification, here’s a round up of all our EOTR 2025 blogs… Photo: Gem Harris Photo: Burak Cingi Photo: Burak Cingi Photo: Burak Cingi Photo: Rachel Juarez Carr Photo: Burak Cingi Photo: Rachel Juarez Carr Photo: Burak Cingi Photo: Rachel Juarez Carr Photo: Gem Harris We’re off to End Of The Road Festival 2025 Advertisement “Like Karen O fronting LCD Soundsystem” – 6 of the best new acts to see at End Of The Road 2025 Sharon Van Etten: “Women can headline festivals!” – Plus Rogê, Westside Cowboy and all the highlights from End Of The Road, Day 1 “I can’t get over Keith Richards’ fence” : Matt Berninger Q&A – End… Read More →

Father John Misty closes End Of The Road 2025 with a blitz of bombast

Four days into End Of The Road 2025 and even the weather itself has gone experimental, with passages of blazing summer heat giving way to lengthy bursts of challenging downpour. But this is a festival of stern and uncompromising stuff. As Shovel Dance Collective start the day with some dark, cranky and stirring drone-folk, EOTR remains defiant. Into one sunnier interlude wanders Georgia’s Jake Xerxes Fussell and a soft-stick drummer, here to bestow Americana both light and dark – a wife dies and is buried in the space of a weekend, but also, “I got fresh fish this morning!” – with his elevating guitar intricacies. As careful with his music’s geography as its spiderweb arpeggios, he’s a welcoming player, even inviting Nick Lowe’s “I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass” onto his idyllic porch swing. Advertisement Straight outta Louisville with trucker dust on their heels, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band are similarly sumptuous, but imbued with rather more edge and energy, not least by having a besuited keyboardist jiving and jerking around the stage and indulging in tom-tom freak-outs as if under the impression he’s in At The Drive-In. Instead, Davis’s music is rich in Midwest mythology, from the National-esque… Read More →

12 weird and wonderful things we encountered at End Of The Road 2025

The lifesize portrait of David Lynch welcoming us to the all-new, Red Room-style cinema tent. Kudos to anyone who made it through the entirety of Thursday’s five-film Lynch-athon without losing all grip on reality The scary outback shack that, come midnight, transformed into the site’s most intimate rave den. Key Saturday night floor-filler? Peaches’ “Fuck The Pain Away” Advertisement The surprisingly popular spoon-making workshop. Because who doesn’t need spoons? The on-site entomologist opening his leather case and doling out pre-mixed negronis in plastic test tubes The enterprising 12-year-olds trying to flog us a cassette of their friends’ version of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” Advertisement The Astronauts’ Caravan, where the effects of antigravity were simulated by literally spinning a 1980s caravan full of people like a tombola. Not recommended after sampling any of the below… Best craft IPA names: No Rest For Dancers, Geometry Of Sound and People Money Space Time Keyboard comedian Huge Davies and his terrifying electro-metal anthem about collecting Pokémon: “Put them in the balls! They like it in the balls!” Is it a bird? is it a plane? No, it’s bloke dressed as old-school Superman, zooming through the mud – a pretty daring deed come… Read More →

Christopher Owens: “I didn’t know anything about the world”

There are, it transpires, many things that Christopher Owens can quote by heart. Most psalms of the King James Bible (“the first pop songs, by the way”); passages of Shakespeare; and extended sections of his favourite musical, Man Of La Mancha. Advertisement “I get goosebumps every time I watch it,” he says, before going on to recite almost all of “The Impossible Dream (The Quest)” and run through the film’s full plot and key dramatic scenes, all in order to illustrate the sonic root of his band Girls. It’s a typically elaborate diversion in Owens’ intriguing journey from cloistered cult child to revered cult rocker. “I grew up on the road, kind of, and I feel a little weird when I’m not,” Owens says, detailing his youthful travels around Europe and Asia, and life in the Children Of God cult. “They became obsessed with the fun they had,” he says, referring to the practice of “flirty fishing” which saw members sleep with over 200,000 people in the 1970s and ’80s. “The liberation of nightclubbing and showing people God’s love through sleeping with them. I think there were a lot of people that did it genuinely thinking they were out there showing… Read More →

Tyler Ballgame meets Belle And Sebastian at End Of The Road, Day 3

Line-up clashes? Saturday at End Of The Road takes it to the next level: the stylistic. Case in point. Brighton’s The New Eves, playing their biggest ever show, open the main Woods stage with a wake-up call of jagged, disjointed and shape-shifting crank-folk bedecked with shrieks, yelps and spoken word rants of ancient fantasy hue – “the first sunrise of primordial chaos!” – all while being filmed from the photo pit by a Cossack. They call what they do Hagstone Rock, but it relentlessly defies definition: part primal Velvets rock (right down to stand-up drummer Ella Oona Russell), part motorik Can drone, part Birthday Party clamour, and part classic pop – “Rivers Run Red” is effectively Merseybeat chewed down to the bone and refashioned into a sacrificial headpiece. You might have them tagged as The Last Wicker Party, then they premier a new, weird western song on which Violet Farrer – one of their four singers – performs interpretive twirls and shouts about boy scouts. Advertisement Over on the Garden Stage, meanwhile, New England’s Tyler Ballgame couldn’t be more digestible. Elvis Presley meets Roy Orbison in his fabulous falsetto and his songs sound like memories of 1950s jukebox pop that… Read More →

Titanic and Throwing Muses go cello crazy at End Of The Road, Day 3

As is fast becoming the tradition, the Garden Stage opens with a showcase of solo guitar skills – this time from 18-year-old Muireann Bradley, who specialises in sure-footed, old-time country blues. It’s obviously slightly incongruous to hear a teenager sing “all the friends I ever had are gone” (via Bob Dylan), but rather poignant too – and there’s no doubting Bradley’s commitment to inhabiting the joys and tragedies of these ancient songs. Dressed in dead men’s suits (and dresses), The Golden Dregs take a truckload of typically British disappointment – will you just look at the state of that weather? – and turn it into something transcendent, via the medium of literate country-rock. Frontman Benjamin Woods resembles a young Lloyd Cole, doling out sage advice he’s just too stubborn to take himself. Advertisement The tempest raging outside means that Titanic, the band led by Guatemalan singing cellist Mabe Fratti, pull a bumper crowd in the Folly. But the clamour is thoroughly deserved. Their buoyant art-pop is packed with compelling twists and turns, sometimes knotty, sometimes dreamy, occasionally even danceable. And Fratti’s cello is an impressively versatile instrument: bowed for a lush, thick texture, plucked like a jazz bass or scraped… Read More →

The Who live at Madison Square Garden review: Daltrey and Townshend reign triumphant

Their most anticipated stop of the band’s farewell tour New York fans of The Who can recall numerous Madison Square Garden triumphs by the band throughout their incredible history. Their five night sold out run in 1979 comes to mind, as does the legendary Concert for New York City held a month after 9/11 where most rock fans and critics agree, it was British buskers Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey who stole the show. You can now add one more ionic Who concert to the list. Advertisement It was an unabashed love-fest at the band’s final show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden show last night [August 30, 2025], arguably their most anticipated stop on the band’s The Song Is Over: The North American Farewell Tour. Photo: Sarah Waxberg/ Live Nation Photo: Sarah Waxberg/ Live Nation Photo: Sarah Waxberg/ Live Nation Photo: Sarah Waxberg/ Live Nation Photo: Matt Ramirez/MSG Entertainment Photo: Matt Ramirez/MSG Entertainment The sold-out crowd, most of whom appeared to be in their 40’s and 50’s, sang along at numerous checkpoints of the band’s incomparable canon, with a wistful and energetic Townshend still playing guitar like a man on fire. One of rock’s most prolific and influential songwriters,… Read More →