Rodrigo Amarante, it could be said, is a student of the world. A Rio de Janeiro native who now calls Los Angeles home, he’s lived in many places, and is also a dedicated reader, watcher and listener who speaks with a philosopher’s contemplation. He embraces life for all its beauty and absurdity, a binary that’s also key to his working method. “Rather than standing on top of what I believe I am, and speaking from there, I decided to discover it, to get inside it, to get dirty,” he explains. “It feels humorous, funny and ridiculous, to fiddle with...
Beholden to no-one but themselves, The Flatlanders’ dogleg career is impossible to second guess. Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock first got together in 1972, but their proto-Americana – a porous blend of country, folk, rock’n’roll and western swing – fell largely on deaf ears outside their home state of Texas. They were done in a little over a year, the band taking on semi-mythic status (their aborted debut eventually landed in 1990) as each member advanced into a successful solo career. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Treasure...
Iggy Pop, Sharon Van Etten, Michael Stipe, St. Vincent, Matt Berninger and many more are all set to contribute to a new tribute album to The Velvet Underground & Nico. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: A Velvet Underground playlist The 1967 album paired the Lou Reed-fronted New York rock legends with German singer Nico, and became one of the most lauded albums of all time. On September 24, Verve Records – the original home of The Velvet Underground – will release I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To...
Lindsey Buckingham steps out into the afternoon heat of west Los Angeles. Surrounded by dogs, he takes the short walk across the yard from his home to his out-house studio. ORDER NOW: Read the full story in the September 2021 issue of Uncut “We’ve got way too many actually,” he explains. “We’ve got one miniature poodle, a miniature Australian shepherd, a white lab and two Pomeranians. Yeah, I think one is enough…” Based around an old reel-to-reel tape machine, the studio appears to be a fairly primitive set-up – at least for a man of Buckingham’s wealth and reputation....
LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy has reflected on his experience collaborating with the late David Bowie on his final album Blackstar, revealing that it “broke his heart” that he wasn’t able to fully integrate himself into Bowie’s set-up. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie Murphy contributed percussion to Bowie’s final studio album, which was released in January 2016, two days before Bowie’s death. Speaking on the latest episode of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Murphy recalled his first encounters with Bowie which led to him...
Walking round town about a month ago with my family, we came across a band busking in the street. Half way through their set – programmed with the casual shopper in mind, so heavy on classic rock anthems like “All Along The Watchtower”, “Have You Ever Seen The Rain?” and “Come Together” – I suddenly realised that this was the first live music I’d seen for 14 months. Jolt over, it made me realise how much I’ve missed the profound pleasure of seeing four people play amplified music together. Long may it continue. ORDER NOW: The September 2021 issue...
CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR The Beatles, Lindsey Buckingham, Big Red Machine, Leon Bridges, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Gunn, Curtis Mayfield, Shannon And The Clams, Mercury Rev, The Sugarcubes, Ripley Johnson, The Beach Boys and The Lovin’ Spoonful all feature in the new Uncut, dated September 2021 and in UK shops from July 15 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music. THE BEATLES: Is it any wonder that The Beatles nearly named their seventh studio album after a magical...
Peter Jackson has explained why Beatles fans are likely to be surprised by his new docuseries Get Back. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: The Beatles Miscellany & Atlas The filmmaker opened up in a new interview about what fans can expect from the forthcoming project in which he’s revived hours of footage from 1969. Discussing the format of Get Back, which focuses more on conversations than music, Jackson said the series will be very “intimate”. Advertisement “I think people will be surprised by the series for two reasons,” Jackson...
Should there be any doubt about the primacy of language in Anthony Joseph’s worldview, there’s cast-iron proof of it in the epic Language (Poem For Anthony McNeill), from his fourth solo album. In what’s essentially a secular riff on the beginning of John’s Gospel, he declares, “It is language which calls all things to creation and language is the origin of the world/The word was a great mass of a black star exploding…” ORDER NOW: The August 2021 issue of Uncut Joseph’s words, meanwhile, don’t so much explode on The Rich Are Only Defeated… as illuminate, recollect, bear witness, question...
It was occasionally said in the distant past that getting on in your career wasn’t so much a question of what you knew as who you knew. It’s a small injustice of the 1960s that The Yardbirds, though having known a thing or two, are indeed still more famed for their storied personnel – their band at separate times included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page – than for their own recorded output. ORDER NOW: The August 2021 issue of Uncut Despite the band’s graduates having sold millions of classic rock albums with music rooted in the British blues...
