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Sonny Rollins: “Musicians can live a charmed life”
The current issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online here, with no delivery charge to UK addresses – features a rare interview with 90-year-old saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins. In the extract below, the last living legend of bebop discusses the 52nd Street jazz scene, his stint in Rikers Island prison for armed robbery, and how Charlie Parker helped him kick heroin… You were born in Harlem in 1930, during what was known as the Harlem Renaissance. What kind of place was it in your childhood? It was an extraordinary environment. We were surrounded by...
The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings
A sprawling, symphonic rock ensemble from a country that has come to be known for them, The Besnard Lakes have been a constant at the coalface of Canadian independent music for some 15 years now. In this time, the group – which revolves around the creative and romantic partnership of husband and wife Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas – have created a respectable body of work, five albums of dense, textured progressive music, two of which have been nominated for Canada’s Mercury equivalent, the Polaris Prize. Fifteen years, of course, is a long time to have been in a...
Alice Cooper on The Stooges and MC5: “We were three different types of theatre”
When Alice Cooper and his band arrived in Detroit in 1969, they found their natural home: “Freaky people doing freaky things with a big powerful sound!” As Cooper prepares for a spiritual return to his roots on his new album, the latest issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here! – winds the clock back to the Motor City’s wild heyday where Motown, high-energy rock’n’roll and radical politics ruled and Cooper unleashed the full power of his shocking “improv, guerrilla theatre”. “Playing with Iggy and MC5 was great for us,” says Cooper....
The 2nd Uncut Playlist Of 2021
I keeping saying this, but 2021 really is shaping up to be a good year for new music. Lots to enjoy here – and plenty of variety too, including the first fruits of the Jakob Bro/Arve Henriksen/Jorge Rossy collaboration, the soulful return of Valerie June, an unexpectedly brilliant hook up between Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, some cosmic pastoral goodness from Field Works and the VUisms of Whitney K. Plus the Coral, Teenage Fanclub, Femi Kuti and more. Follow me on Twitter @MichaelBonner GETTING YOUR COPY OF THIS MONTH’S UNCUT DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR DOOR IS EASY AND HASSLE...
Have A Taste Of California’s Urban Scene & Watch “Westside” By Southside Yoko & G Perico
Southside Yoko is a young rapper, songwriter and entrepreneur who just dropped his new banger titled “Westside.” The track features G Perico, best known for his tracks “One More Day,” “Toolie” and “Never Miss.” Sonder produced “Westside” and it was released through Southside Yoko’s label, No Parole Entertainment. Music runs in the veins of Yoko’s family, as his uncle was the legendary guitarist and producer of David Williams, who worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Paul McCartney, and more. Black excellence was instilled in Southside Yoko since he was a young boy, a mentality that helped him become...
David Bowie Ultimate Record Collection: Part 3 (1990-2016)
The last part of our Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie trilogy is here now. Beginning with Bowie’s rediscovery of his past in 1990, and progressing all the way to his final album Blackstar, it’s the definitive timeline of his final decades. Buy a copy by clicking here.
Welcome to Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie Part 3 (1990-2016)
BUY THE ULTIMATE RECORD COLLECTION: DAVID BOWIE SERIES HERE In the two volumes of Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie so far, we’ve had the pleasure of conducting you through a chronology of the artist’s work – seen through the eyes of the musicians who were there with him making the music. Through new interviews with early collaborators like Phil Lancaster, Woolf Byrne and Mike Vernon in Part 1, we built an unrivalled oral history of Bowie’s early adventures, and his breakthrough to mature creativity and superstardom. In Part 2 (1977-1989), we uncovered new stories and first-hand accounts about the...
The Clash in New York: “De Niro took us out clubbing”
The new issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here, with no delivery charges for the UK – features an astonishing oral history of The Clash’s 17-date residency at Bond International Casino in New York, during which they caused riots in Times Square, went clubbing with Robert De Niro and kicked off a “punky hip-hop thing” with the city’s newest underground scene. Here’s a little taster: DON LETTS (DJ/filmmaker): They were like four sticks of dynamite on stage. It was a beautiful thing to see these guys in sync. Off stage there...
Cat Stevens Mona Bone Jakon/Tea For The Tillerman 50th Anniversary boxsets
By 1970, Cat Stevens had been absent from the charts for three years. Rendered hors de combat by a life-threatening bout of tuberculosis, the time out also offered an opportunity for a major reset. The likes of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor were ushering in the age of the sensitive acoustic troubadour, and to Stevens their songs sounded so much more profound and poetic than the overblown, melodramatic orchestral pop of “I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun” and “Matthew And Son”. As he slowly recovered, a stream of songs in a more reflective folk-rock vein poured out...Recent Posts
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