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Sly & The Family Stone preview ‘unearthed’ 1967 live album

A rare live recording of Sly & The Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967, is being released on Friday, July 18 on CD, LP and as a digital download. You can hear “I Gotta Go Now / Funky Broadway” from the album below. Advertisement THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 is the earliest live recording of the original Family Stone line-up, a full year before their chart breakthrough with “Dance To The Music”. Sly & The Family Stone served as the house band at Redwood City, CA’s Winchester Cathedral from December 16, 1966, to April 28, 1967. Advertisement The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 was recorded in the early hours of March 26, 1967, by Sly & The Family Stone’s first manager, Rich Romanello. After signing to Epic Records later that year, Romanello put the 7-inch analog tapes into storage where they sat for thirty-five years. The reels were rediscovered in 2002 by Sly & The Family Stone archivists Edwin and Arno Konings and restored by co-producer… Read More →

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Cate Le Bon announces new album, Michelangelo Dying

Cate Le Bon returns with a new studio album, Michelangelo Dying, which is released by Mexican Summer on September 26. You can hear “Heaven is no feeling” below. Advertisement THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE [embedded content] The tracklisting for Michelangelo Dying is: JeromeLove UnrehearsedMothers of RichesIs It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?Pieces of My HeartAbout TimeHeaven Is No FeelingBody As A RiverRide (feat. John Cale)I Know What’s Nice Advertisement Cate Le Bon will also tour the album…. Thursday, October 9 – Cardiff, UK @ Llais, Wales Millennium CentreFriday, October 10 – Manchester, UK @ New Century Saturday, October 11 – Leeds, UK @ Howard Assembly Rooms Monday, October 13 – Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke’s Tuesday, October 14 – York, UK @ The Crescent Wednesday, October 15 – Gateshead, UK @ Glasshouse Friday, October 17 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk Thursday, November 6 – Madrid, ES @ MonFriday, November 7 – Barcelona, ES @ Paral·lel 62 Sunday, November 9 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique Monday, November 10 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Wednesday, November 12 -Berlin, DE @ Säälchen Thursday, November 13 – Hamburg,… Read More →

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Rock It From The Tombs

As Queens Of The Stone Age release a new stripped-down concert film, Josh Homme recounts his “near-life experience” in the Paris catacombs… “About 18 years ago, I was trying to go to the catacombs on a day off in Paris, and the line was three hours long. So the un-humble beginnings [of this performance] was like, ‘How do we cut this line?’ Perhaps the greatest gift of playing in a band is that it gives us access to such incredible locations and situations. There’s no end to the juicy stories about the catacombs. There’s been talk of secret meetings and late night raves, but we’re the first people to legally play there. It feels really good for me to do something legal! Advertisement THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE “The catacombs is the star of the show, so all the decisions we made were about respecting the space. First of all, you can’t plug anything in – we had an electric piano that was hooked to a car battery. The floors were wet in… Read More →

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The 5th New Music Playlist Of 2025

A lot to dig into here, as usual. The return of Big Thief and Cate Le Bon are both pretty big deals in our world, but there’s an unexpected treat from Pavement (which reminded me of an old office conversation about favourite covers of “Whitchitai-To“; I think the Supremes version won…), the Al Jardine x Neil Young hook up, ambient Americana from the Barry Walker Unit, psych jams from Bitch Magnet offshoot We Contain Multitudes… plus more from Uncut office favourites including S.G. Goodman, Case Oats and Eve Adams. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement BIG THIEF“Incomprehensible” PAVEMENT“Whitchitai-To” [embedded content] CASE OATS“Bitter Root Lake” Advertisement AL JARDINE“My Plane Leaves Tomorrow (Au Revoir)” [embedded content] CATE LE BON“Heaven Is No Feeling” THOM YORKE“Dialing In” [embedded content] BARRY WALKER UNIT“High In The Hummocks” MARISSA NADLER“New Radiations” [embedded content] EVE ADAMS“Nowhere Now” SUPERCHUNK“Is It Making You Feel Something” [embedded content] DRUGDEALER + WEYES BLOOD“Real Thing” CHAMELEONS“Saviours Are A Dangerous Thing” [embedded content] NILÜFER YANYA“Where To Look” PATTY GRIFFIN“Back At The Start” [embedded content] WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES“Atkins”… Read More →

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Marc Ribot – My Life In Music

Tom Waits’ go-to guitarist on his journey through blues, punk, jazz and beyond: “The musicians are caught up in a ritual”… THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement WILSON PICKETT“Land Of 1000 Dances”ATLANTIC, 1966“…Midnight Hour” was one of the first three tunes I learned with my junior high school band, which was called, by the way, Love Gun. We were very ambitious 15-year-olds! Wilson’s music, in particular “Land Of 1000 Dances”, worked to get people into a dancing frenzy. It’s about dancing, it’s self-referential. But there’s something about it that transcends itself. On Horses, Patti Smith quotes an entire verse of “Land Of 1000 Dances”, and she was also somebody who’s aiming for this ritual hallelujah. That said, Wilson Pickett was not a nice man. I toured with him for a month in 1982 and I witnessed him and his bodyguard being violent with members of the band. I escaped through my ability to play country music licks on guitar. ALBERT AYLERLive At Slug’s SaloonESP-DISK, 1982The Lounge Lizards, the band I was working with… Read More →

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Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

After 2010’s The Age Of Adz, on which Sufjan Stevens ditched his signature indie-folk banjo and recorders for glitchy beatscapes and experimental pop, Carrie & Lowell landed as a hushed and heartbreakingly raw excavation of the darkness that enveloped him following his mother Carrie’s death in 2012. Its songs, attempts to make sense of her troubled life and their relationship, are among the most forlorn in his catalogue. They’re also some of the loveliest. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement In the decade since its release the album has lost none of its soulful resonance or soft-glowing beauty. It’s now been updated with seven bonus tracks and a new essay in which Stevens addresses both his mother’s historical anguish and his own. That knot involves his inheritance of her depression as well as the vulnerability that overwhelmed him after her passing. He also passes harsh judgement on his creative response at the time, describing his attempt to map his memories of Carrie using music as “foolhardy” and the result as “a hot mess”…. Read More →

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Pulp – More

Do you remember the first time? Isn’t that the question that’s implied in every reunion tour, comeback album or immersive holographic experience? This summer you have the opportunity to see Oasis, AC/DC, ELO and 5ive for maybe the last time, each offering the promise that they’ll recapture something of their elusive 20th-century magic and the slim chance they might transport you fleetingly back to your long lost youth. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement You can’t blame audiences for seeking nostalgia, nor can you begrudge musicians the chance to enjoy a late career victory lap and one last payday, but unsentimentally you can count the number of bands who have reformed to significant artistic effect on the fingers of one hand. Madness with The Liberty Of Norton Folgate? The Specials with Encore? Suede with their bruised midlife quartet? It’s an exclusive club that Pulp now join with some aplomb on More, their eighth and perhaps finest album. It should be no surprise that they’ve taken their own sweet time in delivering their masterpiece…. Read More →

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Big Thief announce new album, Double Infinity

Big Thief have announced that their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, will be released by 4AD on September 5. Listen to first single and album opener “Incomprehensible” below: Double Infinity was recorded last winter at the Power Station, New York City, by Dom Monks. Guest musicians on the record include Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen, Joshua Crumbly, June McDoom, Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery and Mikey Buishas. The album will be released digitally and on cassette, CD, and standard black vinyl. Limited green and ‘Sparkle’ vinyl editions will be available via indie retailers and Big Thief/4AD webstores respectively. Check out the tracklisting below and pre-order here. A1. IncomprehensibleA2. WordsA3. Los AngelesA4. All Night All DayA5. Double InfinityB6. No FearB7. Grandmother [ft. Laraaji]B8. Happy With YouB9. How Could I Have Known

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When Bruce Springsteen Came To Britain

Just about everybody who’s been to a Bruce Springsteen show has a story, and Hazel Wilkinson’s is particularly lovely one. She was a teenager when her brother queued all night for tickets to see Springsteen and the E Street Band at Manchester Apollo in May 1981, on the European leg of the River tour. They were at the front of the stalls when, two songs into the second half, Bruce sang “Sherry Darling”. During the saxophone solo he peered down at Hazel, called her up, and danced across the stage with her for a minute or two. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement “I looked into his eyes and he was looking into mine,” she remembered. He took her hand and kissed it before making sure she was escorted safely back to the floor. “I stood there and thought, ‘Did that really happen? Was I imagining it?’ I was 17 years old, I was just finding my way, I wasn’t that popular or that confident. It was that moment of being seen, being… Read More →

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Strange Life

“I’m not sure we should have agreed to this,” Stephen Malkmus muses during the extraordinary new documentary Pavements. “Has there ever been a good movie about a rock band?” There certainly hasn’t been a rock doc like this one, which eschews convention at every stage in favour of meta-realities and roleplay, echoing the band’s own approach on albums like Wowee Zowee. “It’s a sprawling record with lots of different ideas positioning for your attention,” explains guitarist Scott ‘Spiral Stairs’ Kannberg. “The movie is sort of like that. Here’s this band… and what’s real and what’s not?” THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement Pavement’s label Matador commissioned the project from director Alex Ross Perry, known for caustically witty, literary films such as 2014’s Listen Up Philip. “Originally when we agreed to have a film made, we didn’t really want to be in it,” says Kannberg. Perry responded with radical, wild substitutions, intercutting an off-Broadway Pavement musical, a deliberately clichéd rock biopic – with Stranger Things’ Joe Keery as an anguished, dickish Malkmus – and… Read More →

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Robert Forster – Strawberries

The ability to draw out the extraordinary from the everyday is one evergreen hallmark of engaging songwriting. Robert Forster has been sketching self-contained emotional vignettes and spinning semi-autobiographical yarns since his days in The Go-Betweens, the Antipodean high-water mark of guitar jangle. On his ninth solo album, Strawberries, Forster once again knits together the ordinary and the remarkable, furring the edges with a craftsman’s dexterity. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement Take “Breakfast On The Train”, among the most involving songs this storied chronicler of the heart has ever penned. Beginning with just his guitar and laconic drawl, Forster spins out the tale of a night of loud hotel sex into a poignant epic – funny, dry, full of detail, told in retrospect over nearly eight elegant minutes as other musicians swell surreptitiously around him. Aristotelian unities are at play – one night, plus breakfast; various locations in Edinburgh, selective contexts, nothing extraneous. “Fuck!” exclaims one of the lovers in the morning, a rare instance of earthy language in Forster’s catalogue, in sharp… Read More →

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John Fogerty unveils Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years

To celebrate reclaiming full ownership of his back catalogue – as well as his 80th birthday yesterday, and his upcoming Glastonbury appearance – John Fogerty has announced Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years, an album of classic Creedence songs, re-recorded with backing from his sons Shane and Tyler Fogerty. Advertisement Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years will be released by Concord on August 22. Listen to “Up Around The Bend,” “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” and “Porterville” now: “For most of my life I did not own the songs I had written,” says Fogerty. “Getting them back changes everything. Legacy is my way of celebrating that – of playing these songs on my terms, with the people I love.” The 20-track collection was produced by Fogerty and his son Shane, with executive production by his wife Julie. Both Shane and Tyler Fogerty perform throughout the album, along with Matt Chamberlain, Bob Malone, Bob Glaub and Rob Stone. It was mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Advertisement Pre-order/pre-save Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years here and peruse the tracklisting below: Up Around The Bend Who’ll Stop The Rain Proud Mary Have You Ever Seen The Rain Lookin’ Out My Back Door Born On… Read More →

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Alan Sparhawk – With Trampled By Turtles

“I can please myself with the things that I seek out,” declared Alan Sparhawk on “Station”, from last year’s extraordinary White Roses, My God. It read like creative self-affirmation with a note of shock, as he moved forward in the wake of Mimi Parker’s death and the resulting end of Low. In recent years those “things” he’s been seeking have included laid-back funk (as played with his son Cyrus, in Derecho Rhythm Section), mutant electro-funk (in the quartet Damien, also with Cyrus) and doom-sludge riffery (with Feast Of Lanterns). Now, a record from a very different collaborative beast, with a longer history. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement Sparhawk’s relationship with progressive, bluegrass/country-folk types Trampled By Turtles stretches back to their early days when they were mentees and mates of Low in Duluth, Minnesota. Sparhawk produced the Turtles’ Wild Animals in 2014 and they’ve played together many times, most crucially in the summer of 2023. When he was fathoms deep in grief, the sextet invited him to ride along for some tour dates… Read More →

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Inside our latest free CD – The New Sounds, 15 tracks of the month’s best music

Alan Sparhawk, Matt Berninger, Nathan Salzburg, Witch, Peggy Seeger and more feature on our latest free Uncut CD. The 15-track compilation, titled The New Sounds, showcases some of the month’s best music and comes with the Uncut dated July 2025. Advertisement See below for more on the tracklisting… ORDER A COPY FROM US HERE 1 Alan SparhawkNot BrokenWe open with a mighty cut from Sparhawk’s second post-Low album, With Trampled By Turtles. Stately, poised and still earthy, it can’t help but recall his beloved former band, especially when his and Mimi Parker’s daughter Hollis chimes in on vocals.. Advertisement 2 BC CamplightWhere You Taking My Baby?Brian Christinzio is going from strength to strength, and his seventh album A Sober Conversation is his deepest and most captivating yet. It’s all about contrasts: here, over a peppy, poppy slice of infectious power-pop, the Manchester-based American sings of confronting his abuser. 3 Matt BerningerBonnet Of PinsGet Sunk is the second solo album from The National’s Berninger, and it finds him in typically arresting form. Here he’s channelling his most accessible side, following the vibes of The War On Drugs and Petty and the Heartbreakers back to the source of classic rock. 4 Peggy SeegerSlowNearing 90, the legendary folk singer –… Read More →

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Introducing…The History Of Rock, 1969

The latest issue of our archival magazine. This month, it’s 1969… Advertisement A word much in use this year is “heavy”. It might apply to the weight of your take on the blues, as with Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin. It might mean the originality of Jethro Tull or King Crimson. It might equally apply to an individual – to Eric Clapton, for example the Beatles are the saints of the 1960s, and George Harrison an especially “heavy person”. This year heavy people flock together. Clapton and Steve Winwood join up in Blind Faith. Steve Marriott and Pete Frampton meet in Humble Pie. Crosby, Stills and Nash admit a new member, Neil Young. Supergroups, or more informal supersessions, serve as musical summit meetings for those who are reluctant to have their work tied down by the now antiquated notion of the “group”. Trouble of one kind or another this year awaits the leading examples of this classic formation. Our cover stars the Rolling Stones this year part company with founder member Brian Jones. The Beatles, too, are changing – how, John Lennon wonders, can the group hope to contain three contributing writers? Advertisement The Beatles diversification has become problematic. While… Read More →

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Rodney Crowell announces new album, Airline Highway

Rodney Crowell has announced details of a new studio album, Airline Highway, which is released via New West Records on August 29. You can hear “Taking Flight” from the album below. Advertisement THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE The album includes spots from Ashley McBryde, who co-wrote and sings on “Taking Flight”, Lukas Nelson who co-wrote and sings “Rainy Days in California”, Blackberry Smoke guitarist Charlie Starr sings on “Heaven Can You Help”, while Rebecca and Megan Lovell from Larkin Poe add harmonies and slide guitar throughout. “This record is a document of me falling in love with these musicians,” says Crowell. “That’s one of the great perks of this job — falling in love with the people you’re playing with. And we caught that on tape.” Advertisement [embedded content] The tracklisting is: Rainy Days In California (Feat. Lukas Nelson)Louisiana Sunshine Feeling Okay (Feat. Larkin Poe)Sometime ThangSome Kind Of WomanTaking Flight (Feat. Ashley McBryde)Simple (You Wouldn’t Call It Simple)The Twenty-One Song Salute (Owed to G.G. Shinn and Cléoma Falcon) (Feat. Tyler Bryant)Don’t Give Up… Read More →

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Modern Nature share “Pharaoh” from new album, The Heat Warps

Modern Nature return with a new album, The Heat Warps, released by Bella Union on August 29. You can hear “Pharaoh” from the album below. Advertisement THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE “Pharaoh’ is a song about the men we’re conditioned to respect and follow and it’s a song about the people who inspire us to think differently,” says Jack Cooper. “It’s as much about Pharoah Sanders as it is about the kings and politicians we’re meant to believe in. It’s difficult to stay aware of the world around you without becoming despondent. ‘Pharaoh’ makes the case for finding a personal philosophy and trying to live a life that might inspire others, or at the very least not hurt them.” Another influence on the album was Andrew Weatherall. Before he passed away, he’d played Modern Nature on his NTS show and Cooper was thrilled that he liked them. He made it an aim to make a record Weatherall might have played to his friends late at night. “His motto ‘Fail we may, sail we must’ is… Read More →

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WIN! Tickets to the Amateur Photographer Festival of Outdoor Photography worth £100

Our friends at Amateur Photographer are hosting a Festival of Outdoor Photography at the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London, UK from May 30 to June, 1 2025 – and you could win tickets to the event. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement The event will include inspiring talks, photo walks, hands-on workshops and other interactive activities covering everything to do with outdoor photography. Confirmed expert speakers include wildlife and bird photography experts Tesni Ward, Rachel Bigsby and Tim Flach, renowned landscape photographers Liam Man and Quintin Lake, street specialists Nick Turpin and Damien Demolder. Plus there’s Chris Coe and Bella Falk on travel and Peter Dench talking about documentary photography. Advertisement Plus as a special promotion we have a code UNCUT40 that gives you access to 40% off the full price of all tickets. The event takes place at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington museum district. So whether you’re an experienced photographer looking to refine your skills or a budding enthusiast eager to explore the world of outdoor photography, each day will cover a wide range of expertise and interests. Amateur Photographer magazine is the UK’s biggest-selling photography magazine…. Read More →

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Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s Land Of Hope And Dreams EP

Bruce Springsteen has released a new, six-track digital EP, the Land Of Hope & Dreams EP. Listen to it below. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement Drawn from recordings made in Manchester on May 14, the EP opens with Springsteen’s address from the start of the show. YOU CAN READ THE UNCUT REVIEW OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN LIVE IN MANCHESTER ON MAY 14, 2025 BY CLICKING HERE “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Advertisement “Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.” Springsteen’s comments due ire from President Trump, who described him as “highly overrated” and “dumb as a rock”, later accusing him of participating in an “illegal election scam” for Kamala Harris. The tracklisting for the EP is: Land Of Hope And… Read More →

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Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes – Expansion

On 1975’s Expansions, American jazz musician and composer Lonnie Liston Smith took the big leap. It’s an album that’s rightly feted as key to a very open, dynamic form of jazz-funk fusion, one that’s less about tricksy musicianship, more about texture, space and groove. Of course, the various players that joined Smith – the members of his band, the Cosmic Echoes – were excellent musicians in their own right, but the joy of Expansions is its subordination of ego, the way the players are all in service to the rhizomatic flow of the seven songs here, whether vamping on a groove, or pivoting around a riff or simple, see-sawing chord change. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement Expansions was both popular in its own time while having ongoing influence on British dance music. The former makes some degree of sense – in the mid-’70s, an album like this could well have offered succour to various subcultures, licking their wounds after the social and cultural battles that played out across the late ’60s and… Read More →

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Introducing…The Ultimate Music Guide to Lou Reed!

This doesn’t seem like a very Lou Reed kind of place. We’re in Cleveland, Ohio – but it’s not so much the location that’s in question as the occasion. This, in 2015, is the induction ceremony of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, which has posthumously accepted Lou as a member. Advertisement Patti Smith has just presented the award to Laurie Anderson, and now Laurie begins a gracious 13 minute speech which seems to guess what we’re thinking and tells us that actually we’re wrong: Lou would have loved all this. Maybe that’s hard to square, knowing what we know about the confrontational character who appears in so many of the interviews in this magazine. Lou Reed? Among the industry backslapping? But Anderson continues, and she would know. Lou would love to have taken his place alongside heroes of his. Artists like Otis Redding, Dion and Doc Pomus. Musicians who he never tired of checking out, like BB King. They’re not all inductees themselves, but let’s also consider the great artists that Lou played with, or championed, or was friends with! We’re talking Ornette Coleman, Metallica, Anonhi, Hal Willner… As you’ll read in the pages of this 148-page deluxe… Read More →