To celebrate the imminent arrival of Welcome 2 America, the latest issue of Uncut takes a fascinating trip inside Prince‘s archives. Our mission? To piece together some of rock’n’roll’s most legendary lost albums. ORDER NOW: Read the full list of lost Prince albums in the July 2021 issue of Uncut From his earliest releases in the late 1970s until his untimely death in 2016, Prince was obsessed with recording. On tour he recorded every show; at home he was in Paisley Park Studio A as much as possible. He might be trying to assemble his next album or he might...
2021 has become the year of Justin S. Grant. The talented artist launched many tracks throughout the year, such as “Don’t Go!” “Let It Be” and “Run Away” which has set him apart from the crowds. His mesmerizing vocals packed with memorable lyrics have taken the mic one more time to introduce a new and exciting single titled “@ddicted2miPhone.” The American singer and songwriter has proven his talents repeatedly with his unmatched ability to write songs within a vast scope of genres. His debut featured a beautiful experimental pop release, “Don’t Go!” which put Grant ahead of the competition...
Remarkably, given their long shadows and proximity to one another around Nashville, good friends John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas had never recorded together until now. They chose to mark the occasion in style by commandeering RCA’s fabled Studio B – birthplace of the late-’50s Nashville Sound and once home to Elvis, Dolly, the Everlys, Roy Orbison and more. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut The place is referenced, by way of Waylon Jennings, in the evocative The Music Is Hot, a love letter to the sounds of Hiatt’s formative years. But Leftover Feelings travels deeper and wider through...
For John Lennon’s 30th birthday, Yoko Ono presented him with a sensory box. Fingers could be inserted into holes containing different materials: liquid, say, or a spike. It was a hit, though you’d be forgiven for thinking the birthday boy might’ve preferred something less surprising. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut After all, it’d been a turbulent old year. The Beatles were over. Lennon and Ono had embarked on primal scream therapy, during which Lennon had examined his feelings of abandonment and his grief over his mother’s death. To top it all, he had been unexpectedly reunited with...
The night before recording their 1978 album Lanquidity, Sun Ra and his Arkestra filmed a brief live spot for Saturday Night Live. Given a window of only four minutes, Sun Ra crammed three classics into the performance: Space Is The Place, The Sound Mirror, which featured a typically cosmic monologue from Ra himself, and Watusa. With their membership in double figures, the Arkestra couldn’t help but look cramped on the small SNL stage, but the kaleidoscopic whirl they brought to America’s TV sets – spinning dervish dancers, multicoloured robes and shawls, glittering headdresses – still feels uncontainable, even watching...
Nraakors dazzles fans once again, but this time with a collection of a 19-track album labeled “Hoppel Poppel.” The Iowa City rock band boasts tracks that will have you swooning over their energy and unmatched artistic talents. The band is constantly known to match various genres to bring forth an all-new tune, and this album is the true testament to their talents. The lead vocalist, Gigi Macabre, graces the tracks with her theatrical energy leaving behind an unforgettable feeling. The album’s exquisite soundscapes paired with contagious lyrics will have you setting the playlist on repeat. The four member band...
Bobby Gillespie has been taking stock recently. Primal Scream’s inveterate rabble-rouser has written a memoir about his early life and recorded an album of heartworn duets inspired by the country greats. He’s even – finally – come to terms with his early records. But where is all this soul-searching heading? “People want us to take their heads off,” he tells Uncut in our latest issue, out now. “But I don’t know if that’s the kind of music I want to keep on making.” ORDER NOW: Read the full interview with Bobby Gillespie in the July 2021 issue of Uncut...
The new issue of Uncut includes a candid interview with Klaus Voormann about his encounter with a 17-year-old George Harrison, during The Beatles’ formative residencies in Hamburg. The German artist and Plastic Ono Band member tells Graeme Thomson tales involving fish finger diets, late-night phone calls from “Herr Schnitzel”, and the making of George’s very own masterpiece… ORDER NOW: Read the full interview with Klaus Voormann in the July 2021 issue of Uncut The thing to remember about George Harrison is that he was a Gemini. The twin sign. Yin and yang. On Revolver you have “Love You To”...
BUY THE COMPLETE BOB DYLAN HERE The Complete Bob Dylan. Sounds like we’re setting ourselves up to fail here, doesn’t it? There have, after all, been 39 Bob Dylan studio albums, nearly 100 singles, 15 volumes of the Bootleg series, and 11 live albums. There have been movies, acting roles, countless collaborators and sidemen (and women). Many, many books. Uncut itself has presented detailed Dylan covers (and, recently, exclusive Dylan-related covermount CDs). The man, as we’ve lately had confirmed for us on his most recent album, contains multitudes. Advertisement But amid all the stories and scholarship, it seemed to...
“Magic isn’t about pulling rabbits out of hats,” says Ewen Bremner as Alan McGee, fancying himself the dark lysergic mage of EC1, midway through the recent, regrettable Creation Stories biopic. “But it is about making something materialise.” As if on cue, like the shopkeeper in Mr Benn, Aleister Crowley appears in the loo of a south London squat to inform him that “ideas are everywhere – you only have to reach out and grab one”. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: My Bloody Valentine: “We were like the Partridge Family on acid” Sure enough, downstairs...