By any yardstick, Chris Barber was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century British popular music. His death in March, just before his 91st birthday, inspired tributes to a man whose instincts and enthusiasms helped lay the foundations for just about everything that happened in the 1960s and beyond. This set of four CDs, meticulously compiled and copiously annotated by Alyn Shipton, handsomely illustrated and limited to 1,000 copies, presents an unanswerable and probably definitive case for his significance. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Barber played trombone, but that...
Paul McCartney has shared a trippy new video for his latest single, “Find My Way”, featuring Beck. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Paul McCartney – McCartney III review Taken from the Beatles legend’s most recent album, McCartney III: Imagined – a reworking of last year’s McCartney III – the “Find My Way” visuals sees a digitally de-aged McCartney dance the halls of a hotel before being transported to various other locations. The colourful, disco-inspired video – which has a big reveal at the end – was directed by Andrew...
Another unreleased track from Prince’s forthcoming ‘lost’ album Welcome 2 America has been shared – listen to “Hot Summer” below. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Inside the vault: Prince’s legendary lost albums Recorded in 2010, the album was due to be released the following year alongside the legend’s US tour of the same name, which went ahead even without the album. After sitting in a vault for a decade, Welcome 2 America is now set to finally be released on July 30 via Legacy Recordings. Advertisement So far,...
The latest instalment in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series is released on September 17. Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) focusses on Dylan’s albums Shot Of Love, Infidels and Empire Burlesque and will come complete with previously unreleased outtakes, alternate takes, rehearsal recordings, live performances and more. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut You can hear “Too Late (Band Version)”, an outtake from the Infidels sessions, below: Advertisement Uncut has written extensively about this period in Dylan’s career before – click here to read Part One and Part...
Low have shared the latest taste of their forthcoming 13th record Hey What in the form of slow-burning new single “Disappearing”. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut You can hear the track below, along with an elegant video centred around a life model, directed by and starring the multi-disciplinary artist Dorian Wood. Wood said that the video was inspired their personal experience posing for virtual life drawing classes during lockdown. Advertisement “I borrowed a friend’s empty guest room and twice a week I would set up my laptop and lights and...
On a freezing New York night in January 1971, Curtis Mayfield is performing with a new band for the first time. He is also recording a live album. Over four evenings at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, he beds in with the musicians while making Curtis/Live – one of the most engaged and electrifying concert recordings of all time. Mayfield was a multi-faceted genius. Artistic courage was just one of myriad talents. ORDER NOW: Read the full story in the September 2021 issue of Uncut “Curtis said, ‘We’re going to do a live album,’” recalls guitarist Craig McMullen,...
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have announced they will head out on their first-ever UK tour as a duo this autumn. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Review: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage The Bad Seeds duo will play 20 shows across September and autumn in support of their acclaimed album Carnage, which arrived earlier this year. While not a full Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record, the album is the latest from nearly 25 years of collaboration between the pair. Ellis has been a Bad Seeds...
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band have announced details of a new film, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts. Edited from the original 16mm film by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny, the film is composite of two performances shot during two nights at the 1979 MUSE benefit concerts, popularly known as the ‘No Nukes’ concerts, on September 21 and 22, 1979 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The film will be released later this year by Sony Music’s Premium Content Division. Advertisement A film...
Over the past decade, Bob Dylan has been working on an ongoing series of paintings he calls The Beaten Path, devoted to depictions of a particularly American landscape that’s probably on the edge of disappearing forever, but which he stubbornly insists still stubbornly exists, if you only looked: a handmade place of lost highways and forgotten barrooms and city lights in smeary rain; of lonely drive-in movie lots and funky diners and juke joints that all seem to float in some unfixed time that could be anywhere from the early-1930s to early tomorrow morning. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on...
English rockers the Faces are reportedly recording new music, having disbanded more than four decades ago. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Speaking to The Times, and reported by Music News, guitarist Ronnie Wood said he met up with Rod Stewart and Kenney Jones recently, in addition to catching up with Mick Jagger for a separate project. “I saw Mick here last week and Rod and Kenney were here yesterday,” Wood told The Times. Advertisement “Me and Mick have done nine new tracks for the re-release...