As we know from the the title of her current hit album, Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is A Complicated Woman. And right now, she’s also a very busy one: following a triumphant headline set at End Of The Road, Taylor and her amazing bonnet-clad dancers are about to embark on a massive UK tour. Most of the dates are long-since sold out, but an extra show has been added in Gateshead and new seats released for Sheffield, so you might be lucky… Taylor will round off the year by publishing her first ever book, also titled A...
EVERY PRINT EDITION OF OUR NOVEMBER 2025 ISSUE COMES WITH A FREE CD CURATED BY PULP AND FEATURING CLASSICS FROM THE ROUGH TRADE VAULTS BY THE FALL, CABARET VOLTAIRE, ROBERT WYATT, GALAXIE 500, JONATHAN RICHMAN AND MORE! PULP: It’s been a vintage year for Pulp: a No 1 album with More, a triumphant world tour, the deluxe reissue of Different Class, a Mercury Prize nomination… and now their first UNCUT cover story. Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks and Mark Webber reflect on the 40 songs that define their extraordinary trajectory from Sheffield outsiders to pop’s most unlikely national...
We went to the press viewing for the new David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse. Here’s 10 things we learned there… warning: contains spoilers! 1 From Apple to the end, Bowie kept everything The archive contains 90,000 objects. These date back to Bowie teens, including his July 1968 rejection letter from Apple, signed by Peter Asher (“As we told you on the phone, Apple is not interested in signing David Bowie… we don’t feel he is what we are looking for at the moment”). A more recent revelation are the copious notes, written on coloured stickies, for...
“I’ve always been fascinated with the drone of open-string guitars, like in Nick Drake’s music or Neil Young’s or Joni Mitchell’s,” says Brad Mehldau, widely considered one of the greatest living jazz pianists, talking about what first attracted him to the music of Elliott Smith. “But there’s also a very Beatlesy aspect – so many beautiful, finely wrought songs that Elliott wrote on the piano, things like ‘Everything Means Nothing To Me’. He was a very sophisticated harmonist at a time when it wasn’t at the forefront in pop music. There was a lot of cool hip-hop. Grunge was...
On November 7, Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings will release a 5-LP/4-CD + Blu-ray boxset containing The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s landmark 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love in stereo, mono and Atmos formats, along with 40 bonus studio and live tracks, 28 of which are previously unreleased. Listen to one of those previously unreleased tracks, “Stone Free / Up From The Skies (Demo)”, below: Advertisement Produced by Janie Hendrix, original Experience recording engineer Eddie Kramer, and John McDermott, Bold As Love includes stereo and mono mixes of Axis: Bold As Love, remastered from the original mixes created by Hendrix,...
Wings release a new, self-titled anthology on November 7 through Capitol Records / MPL. Personally overseen by Paul McCartney, the compilation is released on 3 x LP Limited Edition Colour Vinyl, 2 x CD edition and 1 x CD and 1 xLP editions. Advertisement All physical formats come with a booklet including an introduction from McCartney. 3 x LP and 2 x CD editions include an expanded 32-page booklet featuring photographs, artwork, paintings and information about the band. The artwork for WINGS was overseen alongside McCartney by Hipgnosis‘ Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, with additional editorial by Uncut contributor Pete Paphides and original artwork by Humphrey Ocean...
There was unfinished business… Before it was about sonic cathedrals, sex vampires and superhold hairspray, goth was the invention of distressed souls going slowly mad in cramped suburban homes on the southern fringes of London. It was David Bowie haunted by his brother’s asylum in Coulsdon’s Cane Hill Hospital on “The Bewlay Brothers”. It was Robert Smith wandering out of the new town dream of Crawley into the ancient European night of “A Forest”. And, most of all, it was Siouxsie And The Banshees divining an uncanny psychic vortex in a Chislehurst sitting room on “Happy House” and “Christine”....
Holograms could be the answer… Take it with a pinch of salt, but it’s a tough time to be a Fleetwood Mac fan. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are still at loggerheads after the guitarist was turfed out of the band in 2018 – Nicks declared she was “no longer willing to work with him”; he suffered a heart attack soon after being fired – and the window has all but shut on what’s left of a Fleetwood Mac classic lineup reunion now that each member is pushing 80 and Christine McVie has gone. Holograms could be the answer. ...
David Bowie was working on a secret project at the time of his death in 2016, as reported by the BBC. ‘The Spectator’ was envisaged by Bowie to be an “18th Century Musical” based on the daily periodical of the same name, published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London from 1711 to 1712. Advertisement A series of post-it notes relating to the plot of ‘The Spectator’ were left stuck to the wall of Bowie’s study in New York. The room was always locked – only Bowie and his personal assistant had a key – so the project...
On August 29, Kris Kolls officially introduced herself to the global pop stage with the release of “You Know.” The Russian-born, Istanbul-based artist blends years of training and performance into a debut that feels polished yet deeply personal. The track is smooth and atmospheric, built on floating synths and a steady pulse, but it’s her vocals that command attention. Distinctive and magnetic, Kris Kolls delivers each line with precision, shifting easily between moments of intimacy and bursts of power. In the song, she captures the confidence of a love that doesn’t need outside validation, singing about being “ahead, outta...