Two handwritten setlists from the early days of The Beatles are officially going under the hammer courtesy of Bonhams auction house. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: The Beatles Miscellany & Atlas The setlists, among only eight believed to still be in existence, are from gigs the band played in 1960 and 1963. The former, written by Paul McCartney, is from the band’s gig at Liscard’s Grosvenor Ballroom shortly before changing their name from The Silver Beetles to The Beatles. McCartney was the band’s drummer at the time. The latter,...
Black Sabbath will mark 45 years of their seventh album Technical Ecstasy with the release of a huge new box set. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The 1976 album will be repackaged in a five LP or four CD box set, encompassing remastered and alternate mixes of the album from producer Steven Wilson, as well as a host of outtakes and live versions. It will be released on October 1, and priced between £90 and £210. You can take a look at the package, which also includes a booklet, recreated...
Damon Albarn is the latest artist announced for this year’s End Of The Road Festival. He joins a line up that also includes Hot Chip, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Jonny Greenwood, The Comet Is Coming and Shirley Collins. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut As well as Albarn, other new additions include Crack Cloud, Sipho, Balimaya Project, Loraine James and Anna B Savage. Advertisement Also added to the bill are Kiran Leonard, Wesley Gonzalez, BABii, Gwenifer Raymond, Broadside Hacks, Sam Akpro, The Umlauts, Tiberius b, John Francis Flynn, Michael Clark and Joe...
Charlie Watts will miss the Rolling Stones‘ upcoming US tour to allow him to recover from an unspecified medical procedure. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The Stones are set to resume their No Filter tour with a show in St Louis on September 26, but a spokesman for the drummer has confirmed that Watts’ place will be filled by Steve Jordan, a long-term collaborator of Keith Richards. Said Watts, “For once my timing has been a little off. I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...