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When Stevie Wonder toured with The Rolling Stones: “The building was actually vibrating”
The latest issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here – includes a fascinating survey of Stevie Wonder’s early-’70s, during which he transformed from teen idol to the visionary auteur behind double-album masterpiece, Songs In The Key Of Life. The story begins at Madison Square Garden on July 26, 1972, the final date of The Rolling Stones’ STP Tour across America. Stevie Wonder has just come on stage to play an encore with The Stones and to wish Mick Jagger a happy 29th birthday. Even the nosebleed seats stomp and cheer as...
Luluc Dreamboat
As unexpected as it is to find Luluc closing out 2020 sharing a producer with pop behemoth Taylor Swift, it seems like a fitting end to this liminal, otherworldly year. The kinetic Aaron Dessner beat that opens the Australian duo’s fourth album is as much of a departure from the more muted tones of their previous work as its siblings brought to folklore – and yet, just as those propelled Swift’s heroine east from St Louis, this synthesised pulse also takes the listener on a journey. The opening “Emerald City” began in a world halfway between the Melbourne of...
Paul McCartney McCartney III
Moments of crisis have often been strangely liberating for Paul McCartney’s music. When The Beatles were running on vapours, he retrenched and wrote his disarming debut album, McCartney. Ten years later, after a pot bust, a cancelled tour and a general weariness with Wings, he broke free to make McCartney II in 1980. These are both great albums and big ones, but they seem to have defined themselves very clearly as a “type” in Macca’s mind, and in his canon. Rather than “proper” records (today he uses the word “commercial”) if it’s called McCartney somewhere then it’s in some...
Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams Plastic Bouquet
Like the rest of us, Marlon Williams heard Kacy Lee Anderson sing and thought she was from a different time. While on tour in Europe, the Kiwi singer-songwriter was listening to the radio and hearing lots of new music, but one song stood out: “Springtime Of The Year”, by Anderson and her cousin/musical partner Clayton Linthicum. He was entranced by the sound of Kacy’s voice, by the melody of the song, by Clayton’s studied guitar playing, by the warm production. Marlon assumed it must be an unearthed track from the 1960s, recorded by a contemporary of Sandy Denny or...
The Kinks Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One
The Kinks’ story wouldn’t be the ripping yarn it is without some turbulence. Or rather, a lot of turbulence. Even when compared to the other giants of the ’60s and ’70s, The Kinks arguably attracted the heaviest of weather, forever forcing them to ride out one storm after another. And few other periods competed with the dire straits that surround Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One. Lawsuits, personal turmoil, mishaps, brilliant music that stubbornly failed to chart – the litany of woes was long. But with the victory they eventually extracted from defeat’s jaws, The Kinks once...
Graham Nash on Neil Young: “It’s incredible how prolific he was”
The brand new issue of Uncut is in UK shops now or available to buy online by clicking here! Our incredible cover feature is a deep dive into 40 of Neil Young’s greatest songs, in which members of Young’s extended musical family – including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Nils Lofgren, Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot, Poncho Sampedro, Spooner Oldham, Niko Bolas, Daniel Lanois, Jim Keltner and Micah Nelson – give up their intimate secrets about his mercurial recording practices. We discover the origin of “Don’t spook the horse!”, enjoy a cameo from Marlon Brando, pay heed to Young’s studio direction...
Andy Keels Rides His Own Wave On New Power Track “Get Up Stand Up”
English singer-songwriter Andy Keels has just recently released a second solo single, “Get Up Stand Up,” a few weeks after having dropped his debut solo track “Dead To Me,” in which he spoke about betrayal and the sadness of losing some of the closest people to him. Andy Keels creates from the heart and everything seems to stem from his intuition and creative visions. Authentic and raw, his sound resembles him and offers a straightforward reflection of his own state of being. It was the case on “Dead To Me” and is once again beautifully displayed on his new...
Neil Young, 2021 Preview, Syd Barrett in the new Uncut
Click here to buy a copy of the new issue online Welcome to the final edition of Uncut for 2020. Before we go any further, I’d like to thank everyone on the team for their continued amazing work across all our titles – Marc, John, Tom, Sam, Mick, Michael, Mike, Phil, Kevin, Johnny, Mark and Lora. Looking back across the issues we’re put out in the last 12 months, the quality of every magazine has, I believe, been of such a high standard you wouldn’t necessarily think we’d all been working from front rooms, back rooms, spare bedrooms or...
Uncut – February 2021
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR Neil Young, Uncut’s 2021 Preview, Captain Beefheart, Syd Barrett, The Weather Station, Cocteau Twins, Stevie Wonder, Nancy Sinatra, Buzzcocks and Tom Morello all feature in the new Uncut, dated February 2021 and in UK shops from December 10 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music. NEIL YOUNG: We count down his 40 greatest songs, with help from Young’s extended musical family – David Crosby, Graham Nash, Nils Lofgren, Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot, Poncho Sampedro, Spooner Oldham,...Recent Posts
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