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The new Uncut: the Rolling Stones, Drag City CD, Patti Smith, Peter Green RIP, Gillian Welch and more
Here at Uncut, we write a lot about transformative events in a band or an artist’s career. Those critical moments where a creative leap takes place, or when an adverse situation is overcome or how a new collaborator brings fresh and revelatory perspectives. CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR I’m pleased to report that you’ll find all of these covered in this month’s issue of Uncut. For our cover story, Mick and Keith (plus assorted eyewitnesses) whisk us back to Jamaica in late 1972 – a time when the Rolling Stones found themselves...
Introducing the Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to Prince
As you’ll read in our deluxe, fully-updated Ultimate Music Guide, in his lifetime Prince was an artist whose creativity ran to films, gruelling concert tours, productions and compositions for other artists, as well as the trifling matter of his own 30 plus studio albums. His was a journey which found him exploring different musical combinations, pushing erotic boundaries – all of which he maintained while in the full glare of celebrity’s beam. Prince’s was a singular vision and a vast creativity. His outpouring of ideas was difficult to completely accommodate in traditional releases at the peak of his fame...
Prince The Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide
With a new, expanded Sign O’ The Times incoming we present the deluxe, remastered Ultimate Music Guide to a musical revolutionary. From Prince’s first recordings to his superstar years and the Vault recordings beyond. In-depth reviews of every album. Archive interviews, rediscovered. A pop life, in full. Click here to buy Advertisement
The 9th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2020
If it’s currently as hot where you are as it is here in London, then hopefully this playlist will give you the opportunity to stretch out somewhere cool and enjoy the music. We bring you the return of Uncut favourites Garcia Peoples and Songhoy Blues; a posthumous single from The Pretty Things’ final album (Phil May RIP); ambient doyenne Sarah Davachi’s first ever vocal track (inspired, she says, by Black Sabbath); more reliably great stuff from Bill Callahan, The Waterboys and A Certain Ratio; plus a couple of terrific pan-generational hookups, in the form of John Cale guesting with...
Fontaines DC: “The most normal things become absolutely terrifying”
Previously published in Uncut’s February 2020 issue 2019 was a breakthrough year for Fontaines DC, with their Mercury Prize-nominated debut earning effusive praise from the likes of Johnny Marr. Not bad going for a band whose earliest ambition was to be the “punk Beatles”. Dave Simpson joins Dublin’s boisterous, literary-minded quintet on a rainy night in Manchester, as they begin their largest tour to date. He discovers a band who, despite struggling to come to terms with success, already have their second album in the bag. “If we hadn’t written new music, we probably would have broken up,” they...
Stream Dysphoria By Hipster Conspiracy: Available On All Streaming Platforms
Dysphoria, the new debut album by US-based transgender artist Hipster Conspiracy is now available on Spotify and all major streaming platforms. She is thrilled to announce the release of her first work, which also marks the beginning of a new chapter in her life, a succession of unfortunate episodes in which she had to battle depression, substance abuse, mental illness, and most importantly, her acceptance of her transgender identity. This cross genre ear candy blends indie-rock with Hip-Hop, an unusual mix that she has succeeded to fuse with a rare perfection. A singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Hipster Conspiracy is...
Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas
In years of yore, you could be relatively sure that an album bearing its author’s name was their first: Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Madonna. These days, an eponymous record often comes later, as a statement. If the hoary old saw about debuts – having your whole life up to that point to write it, but just a handful of harried months to write your second – is true, it’s also true that when recording that debut, everyone needs a helping hand, from producers, engineers or A&Rs. Often it’s only once an artist learns the ropes of the studio, label...
Desolation Center
Screaming over the primitive chug of “Flower” as demented-looking hobbit people cluster around in the middle of the California desert, Kim Gordon screeches out the song’s bad-hippie mantra: “The word is ‘fuck’.” Deep into their Charles Manson trip as they made their West Coast debut at the Gila Monster Jamboree on January 5, 1985, the Sonic Youth captured in shaky footage in Stuart Swezey’s Desolation Center look like they are performing an occult ritual rather than an off-grid rock show. Struck by the idea of “putting on shows as a form of artistic expression”, the 20-year-old Swezey started seeking...
Dion Blues With Friends
Tear-stained teen idol in the 1950s, fringe-jacketed folk troubadour in the ’60s, streetwise urban soul poet in the ’70s, pew-rattling gospel testifier in the ’80s. Dion Francis DiMucci has worn coats of many colours during his lengthy career, but his most favoured tones have always been blue. Despite the unassuming title, it’s clear this album is a long-standing passion project, which, in all honesty, may not have garnered anywhere near as much attention were it not for the level of A-list assistance. It’s by no means the first time Dion’s corralled famous pals and fans to boost a record’s...Recent Posts
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