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Joni Mitchell The Joni Mitchell Archive Series: The Reprise Albums (1968 1971)
In 1979, Joni Mitchell gave an interview to Rolling Stone, in which she talked about her album Blue, released eight years previously, and still the high-water mark of her career. “There’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals,” she told the magazine. “At that period in my life, I had no personal defences. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that...
Introducing the Ultimate Music Guide to The Doors
BUY THE THE DOORS ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE “The end” is obviously a huge part of the concept of The Doors, and it’s true also that this magazine arrives with you on the 50th anniversary of the passing of the band’s uniquely charismatic lead singer Jim Morrison. But really, the subject of this latest issue of the Ultimate Music Guide isn’t how the music ended, but how it endures. How, 50 years on from their singer’s death – a period of time including two Jim-less albums, regroupings, and legally-challenged reformations of the surviving members – the music of The...
The Doors The Ultimate Music Guide
Marking 50 years since the passing of their legendary singer Jim Morrison, we present the Ultimate Music Guide to The Doors. In-depth reviews of every album. Remarkable contemporary encounters, and also, fantastic new interviews with band members and key players about the band’s incredible legacy. “We’ve got five years,” says Robby Krieger. “We were lucky to get that…” Buy a copy here!
LCD Soundsystem announce 10th anniversary reissue of Madison Square Garden farewell gig
LCD Soundsystem have announced a 10th anniversary repress of their long out-of-print vinyl boxset The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live At Madison Square Garden. ORDER NOW: The August 2021 issue of Uncut The album recording is an unabridged version of the band’s near-four-hour farewell gig, which took place on April 2, 2011, at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden. The same gig was also documented in the Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace-directed film Shut Up And Play The Hits, which followed frontman James Murphy over a 48-hour period, from the day of gig to the morning after the show. Advertisement...
Iconic bass guitar smashed at The Clash gig to join collection at Museum of London
The bass guitar that was memorably smashed by The Clash’s Paul Simonon is to go on permanent display at the Museum of London later this year. ORDER NOW: The August 2021 issue of Uncut Simonon smashed his Fender Precision Bass at New York’s Palladium in September 1979, with photographer Pennie Smith capturing the dramatic moment on her 35mm Pentax camera. The resulting image, which sees Simonon raising the instrument like an axe, became part of rock folklore after it was chosen by frontman Joe Strummer to appear on the cover of The Clash’s 1979 album London Calling. Advertisement As The...
First Look Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground documentary
The Velvet Underground begins with a quote from French poet Charles Baudelaire: “Music fathoms the sky.” It doesn’t explain much about the two hours that follow, but it does make clear that director Todd Haynes is looking at the band from the perspective of a fellow artist rather than an archivist. ORDER NOW: The August 2021 issue of Uncut The director of I’m Not There is trying to understand what the Velvets achieved rather than laying out the facts of where and when they did it. Which is just as well, because the Velvets story is famously slippery. After all,...
Krist Novoselic on Nevermind’s impact: “So much was going on. And then it all just spectacularly blew up”
As part of the cover story in the August 2021 issue of Uncut and in celebration of Nevermind’s impending 30th anniversary, we revisit the era-defining classic in the company of its surviving creators. In this brand new interview, Krist Novoselic traces the album’s remarkable journey from a rented barn in Tacoma to the stage of Seattle’s Paramount Theatre and beyond. ORDER NOW: Read the full cover story with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig in the August 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Dave Grohl looks back on Nevermind sessions: “Nobody thought Nirvana was going to be huge” What do you...
Butch Vig on recording Nevermind: “Little did we know that Nirvana would be putting the nail in the coffin of hair metal”
Jonathan Poneman at Sub Pop called me out of the blue sometime early in 1990. They wanted me to work with Nirvana. He said they would be as big as The Beatles. I thought he was just being cheeky. ORDER NOW: Read the full cover story with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig on Nirvana in the August 2021 issue of Uncut A couple of days later, Bleach turned up at Smart, my studio in Madison, Wisconsin. I thought it was pretty one-dimensional except that one song, About A Girl, which to me did sound like a Lennon–McCartney...
Spirits Rejoice African Spaces
Jazz has always had a strong resonance for millions of South Africans. It might have been music that was created 8,000 miles away but the underlying themes – an artform born out of struggle, a stylistic fusion created in the face of segregation, an attempt to create joy in the face of racism and oppression – had a strong pull for a nation living under apartheid. By the early 1960s, Cape Town, Johannesburg and their surrounding townships had become established centres of a new form of fusion that blended US jazz with indigenous kwela, mbaqanga and marabi music. ORDER...Recent Posts
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