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Chrissie Hynde announces duets album featuring Alan Sparhawk, Cat Power and Dave Gahan
Chrissie Hynde has announced details of a new album, Duets Special, due for release on October 17 via Parlophone under the name Chrissie Hynde & Pals. Collaborators include Alan Sparhawk, Cat Power, Dave Gahan and Debbie Harry. She’s released the first single “Always On My Mind” featuring Rufus Wainwright, which you can hear here. Advertisement Says Hynde, “I never thought about doing a Duets album before. I think the idea came about in 2023. I was talking to Jörn, Rufus Wainwright’s husband, on the phone. I think we were recommending novels to each other and for some reason I said hey, maybe Rufus and...
The 7th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2025
I’m not long back from holiday with a pretty substantial pile of upcoming releases to work through. This playlist includes some pickings from the first batch – as usual, a mix of old faces (including two from our recent Album Of The Month stars, Big Thief) and new discoveries. Chief among the latest finds are Greazy Alice, who I imagine you’ll read plenty about soon in Uncut… Not for this playlist, but there’s also a bunch of archival reissues coming from around the same period – early/mid 00s – including Cripple Crow, The Disintegration Loops and These Were The...
Is Bob Dylan recording again?
Bob Dylan has reportedly been back in the recording studio. On Friday, August 8, White Lake Studios in Colone, New York posted a statement on its Facebook page reading, “Legendary music icon, Bob Dylan, along with members of his band, spent . … The studio team had been preparing for the visit in advance and work diligently to ensure discretion and privacy throughout the sessions. … Details of Dylan’s two day visit were not publicly disclosed.” Advertisement Dylan’s last studio album, Rough And Rowdy Ways, was released in June 2020. Meanwhile, Dylan is currently appearing...
Oasis: 10 things we learned from the band’s triumphant Edinburgh show
The city is swamped with sportswear They’re selling Stoke Roses t-shirts in Primark. The Oasis industry has overtaken Edinburgh for the band’s three shows at the city’s Murrayfield stadium. If you forgot to book for the official Oasis 25 pop up shop on upscale George Street, don’t worry! Primark will do you a Manchester City or Happy Mondays t-shirt for £12. In a central vintage shop, a bucket hat – “official merchandise,” I’m told – will set you back £25. More competitively, some of the city’s entrepreneurial traders are selling t-shirts of uncertain provenance for £10. Inside Murrayfield itself,...
The 20 Greatest Fictional Bands In The Movies… Ranked!
With Spinal Tap soon to return to our screens, plug yourself in for Uncut’s guide to the 20 best fictional bands in the movies… 20: THE BANG BANG, Brothers Of The HeadOdd, Seventies-set mockumentary, from a novel by Brian Aldiss and directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe – who made Lost In La Mancha, about Terry Gilliam’s aborted attempt to film Don Quixote. Brothers Harry and Luke Treadaway play conjoined twins who form a punk rock band. Advertisement 19: THE ONEDERS, That Thing You DoPersonal project from Tom Hanks – his only film as writer and...
The Pogues: “Every step we took seemed to be a logical continuation of the journey”
The Pogues often gave the impression that they somehow managed to pull together a career out of chaos and disorder. As it transpires, Pete “Spider” Stacy thinks the band were more thoughtful in their approach than it may have otherwise appeared. “Every step we took seemed to be a logical continuation of the journey,” he says, as he looks back at the band’s discography. Originally the band’s tin-whistle player, Stacy co-founded the Pogues with Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer and James Fearnley in North London in 1982, going on to become their reluctant frontman after MacGowan left in 1991. By...
Cory Hanson’s I Love People reviewed: subversive American songcraft from the Wand mainman
The benefit of having two vehicles is that you can drive one through the dirt while keeping the other pristine. Cory Hanson first came to our attention a decade or so ago as the frontman of Los Angeles group Wand, whose melodies were always a little sweeter and more soaring than the rest of the scuzzy West Coast psych-rock scene they came up in. Hanson has now found a way to follow his muse in two opposing directions, by interspersing Wand albums – increasingly dense, ominous and unpredictable, as on last year’s Vertigo – with solo records of impressive...
Patty Griffin Crown Of Roses reviewed: a sublime masterclass in understatement
Three decades after debut Living With Ghosts, Patty Griffin’s songwriting only seems to grow richer and more intense with time. The only drawback, if we’re being pedantic here, is that sometimes you have to wait for it. Discounting 2022’s Tape – a bunch of home demos and rarities – Crown Of Roses is her first new album in six years. Griffin’s regular producer and bassist Craig Ross returns too, as does guitarist David Pulkingham, with another long-term ally, drummer Michael Longoria, completing her core band. It’s a musical understanding that feels deeply intuitive, draping these songs in delicate textures...
“I thought Ozzy Osbourne was the devil!”
Growing up in a small Tennessee town in the late 1980s, I thought Ozzy Osbourne was the devil. Not just devilish or evil, but the Dark Lord made flesh and bone. He looked the part, of course, with his perpetually bugged-out eyes, wild hair, and that maniacal grin. And he certainly sounded like the devil. I got a shiver whenever I heard snippets of “Crazy Train” or “War Pigs” or even “Changes” blaring from the cars and boomboxes of the older boys at my school, all of whom were conceived during the heyday of Black Sabbath. Ozzy had that...Recent Posts
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