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Becoming Led Zeppelin

There’s a touching moment in Becoming Led Zeppelin when Robert Plant is played a tape of a previously lost interview with his old friend John Bonham. Bonzo is talking with huge fondness about his bandmates and Plant’s weathered face breaks into a huge grin as he listens – later there’s a similar reaction from Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW All three living members of the band are interviewed in Bernard MacMahon’s long-awaited documentary of Zep’s early years, but there’s something very moving about the footage of Bonham, which was recorded close to the point of impact rather than with the benefit of 50 years’ hindsight. As Bonham relates his affection for his bandmates, it’s a reminder that everything we know about Zeppelin – the hardness of their music, image, management, approach to outsiders, attitude towards partying – might not be the full story. Advertisement MacMahon is a Londoner who made his breakthrough with the American Epic series that explored the roots of US music – folk, blues and country, but also Hawaiian,… Read More →

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Black Sabbath’s original line-up to play final show at Villa Park in July

Black Sabbath have announced a mammoth farewell show at Villa Park, Birmingham, on July 5. Entitled Back To The Beginning: The Final Show, it will feature the original Sabbath line-up of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward playing together for the first time in 20 years. Advertisement Ozzy Osbourne will also perform a brief solo set before fronting Black Sabbath for what is billed as his ‘final bow’. “It’s my time to go Back to the Beginning….time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” says Osbourne. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham Forever.” Back To The Beginning will feature support sets from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Anthrax and Mastodon – plus appearances from the likes of Billy Corgan, Duff McKagan, Sammy Hagar, Slash, Tom Morello and Wolfgang Van Halen in what is described by music director Morello as “the greatest heavy metal show ever.” Advertisement Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT on Friday February 14 from here. All profits from the show will be shared equally between the following charities: Cure Parkinson’s,… Read More →

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Bob Marley – Album By Album

From Uncut’s March 2019 issue [Take 262]. Bob Marley’s bandmates and collaborators chart the musical evolution of a reggae superstar… Advertisement “All the albums are great,” proclaims Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett as he casts an eye over The Wailers’ mighty back catalogue. “I played on them all, and I love them all.” Still touring with an incarnation of the band that includes guitarist Donald Kinsey, the original Wailers’ bassist guides Uncut through the records that delivered reggae from the ghettos of Kingston to stadia around the world, making Bob Marley a superstar in the process. Featuring rifts, shootings, spliff-related studio disasters exile, fish curries and ultimately tragedy, with supporting roles for Chris Blackwell and his Island team, as well as latter-day Wailers’ guitarist Junior Marvin, the band’s story is hardly lacking in drama. Through it all, the music developed and deepened. “With each album, we changed something,” says Family Man, who has lived up to his nickname by fathering 14 children. “I and I were in deep meditation of the works we were doing. We rehearsed, meditated, prepared ourselves every day to record, making sure we never missed a beat.” THE WAILERSCatch A Fire(Island, 1973) Having recorded with Lee Perry,… Read More →

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Big Thief release new EP Passionate Relation, to support LA wildfire charities

Big Thief have released a new five-track digital EP, Passionate Relation. Proceeds go to support charities helping LA communities affected by the recent fires. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW The band say, “Our hearts are broken for everyone affected by the fires in California. We’ve put together some of our favorite unreleased songs into an EP called Passional Relations, only available on our webstore, and all proceeds will go toward providing relief for those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles.” The majority of the proceeds will be donated to the Plus1LA Fires Fund, which directly supports organisations working on the ground to address critical needs like housing, education, animal welfare and more. Advertisement The rest will go to local musicians, artists and community members who need extra support during this time. “Our hope is that these contributions will not only help address the crucial and immediate needs of affected communities but also help sustain the work, identity, and culture of the artists within them.” The tracklisting for the EP is: Imagination (recorded by Dom Monks, 2020)Light As Light (recorded by Dom… Read More →

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David Byrne & St Vincent: “Get out of your comfort zone!”

From Uncut’s October 2012 issue [Take 185]. We travel to David Byrne’s office in New York to meet Byrne and Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, to discuss their collaborative album, Love This Giant… Advertisement It could be the heat doing crazy things to my brain, but as David Byrne paces around the office of his record label, Todo Mundo, I am struck by a strange thought. In his blue and white wide-wale seersucker trousers with matching braces, short-sleeve white cotton shirt and white flip-flops (to say nothing of his white hair and gradually whitening eyebrows), David Byrne resembles nothing so much as a giant ice lolly. No-one, not even a freeze pop, wants to be in New York City in the middle of July, and today is why. It’s 100° Fahrenheit with 65 per cent humidity: walking in Manhattan is like trudging through a swamp of other people’s sweat and diesel exhaust. Then there’s the smell. Even on the genteel streets of Todo Mundo’s SoHo neighborhood, which is otherwise populated by swanky Comme Des Garçons boutiques, the fumes of dead rodents exude their unmistakable perfume like the devil’s own bougainvillea. Although he rode his bike to work through these stifling… Read More →

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Ticket to Ryde

If you really want to get away from it all, Chale Abbey might be the spot. Situated on the southern tip of the Isle Of Wight, the studio is housed within a fabulous 16th Century barn, all original oak trusses and natural stone walls. “It’s out in the middle of nowhere and a 10-minute walk to the coast,” enthuses multi-instrumentalist Jordan Lehning, flipping his phone camera to give Uncut a virtual pan of the studio. “We’re in the control room now. It’s just beautiful, totally isolated. A great place to make a record.” Even if it means travelling all the way from Nashville, which is where Lehning, Andrew Combs, Dominic Billett and Romford-born Spencer Cullum are usually based. Their new group, Echolalia, is rounded out by bassist Eli Beaird, multi-instrumentalist Juan Solorzano and Lehning’s brother Jason on synths and engineering duties. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW “A few years ago I told Jordan about this magical place, so we ended up booking some days to record here,” explains Cullum, peering over Lehning’s shoulder. The pair loved Chale Abbey… Read More →

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Songhoy Blues – Héritage

When Tinariwen popularised the idea of desert blues in the West, bandmembers’ previous participation in Tuareg rebel warfare lent their music heroic romance, conjuring images of nomad players as comfortable with a machine gun as a guitar, and finally manifesting The Clash’s fanciful notion of combat rock. The blues’ feedback loop from West Africa through American slavery to Hendrix seemed satisfyingly complete in their dusty grooves. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Songhoy Blues followed broadly in this musical tradition, but are from a different time and place, and tell a significantly different tale. The Songhoy people originate from the region around the River Niger in Northern Mali which was conquered first by Tuareg rebels then music-loathing Islamists. Guitarist Garba Touré escaped to the capital Bamako in 2012, forming the descriptively named Songhoy Blues with exiled compatriots. Touré was steeped in Hendrix, and (unlike Tinariwen, initially) John Lee Hooker and BB King’s US blues, alongside hip-hop and a multiplicity of Malian styles, forming the basis of the band’s crowd-rousing electric attack. As their participation in the brutal documentary First… Read More →

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Chris Eckman – The Land We Knew The Best

This fabulous album is a timely reminder that Chris Eckman has been making sometimes spectacularly singular music since at least the early ’90s, when The Walkabouts, formed in 1984 by Eckman with singer Carla Torgersen, famously became the first non-grunge band to sign with Sub Pop. The label was otherwise awash with bands of incredibly hairy young men in shorts who all sounded angry, frustrated, easily upset. There was a lot of tortured wailing set to loud, bulimic guitars; much monumental riffing. Compared to the heavy musical footprints left by grunge superstars like Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden, The Walkabouts on their 1990 debut, Scavenger, stepped more lightly across a musical landscape they made increasingly their own that entertained as well as punk, aspects of folk-rock, country, the blues. You suspected they’d be happier in the studio with Cowboy Jack Clement or David Briggs than Butch Vig or Steve Albini, more likely to cite Kris Kristoffersen, Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young as influences than Black Flag or Black Sabbath. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW This wasn’t hipster… Read More →

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Inside our free Uncut CD – Wilco’s Noisy Ghosts, a companion to A Ghost Is Born

Wilco have compiled another spectacular CD for Uncut: Noisy Ghosts, hooked around their upcoming A Ghost Is Born anniversary edition, is available for free with the March 2025 issue of Uncut. “This record isn’t like any other record we’d done before,” says Jeff Tweedy of Wilco’s fifth album. “That’s the sort of thing I value in my own record collection. Those are the records that are the most unique.” Advertisement A Ghost Is Born grew out of an intense period of upheaval for the band, who undertook a series of wild schemes and unusual creative exercises at Soma Electronic Sound Studios in Chicago. “I was already doing some cut-up techniques and free writing and things like that, which I really enjoyed,” says Tweedy. “I discovered that I liked the stuff that I didn’t think about more than the stuff that I did think about. With the sessions for Ghost, I was trying to find ways to extend that to the band and get everybody else to buy into it.” It didn’t take much persuading. Those Soma experiments allowed them to reconsider what a Wilco album could be, to the extent that they made up a series of fictional albums in… Read More →

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Marianne Faithfull: “It’s a miracle, really…”

Advertisement From Uncut’s June 2021 issue (Take 289). As she prepares to release her 22nd studio album, She Walks In Beauty, rock’s grand dame discussed recovery, Romantic poetry and how the ’60s weren’t all they were cracked up to be… The old St Joseph’s Convent School, a red-bricked, broad-lawned building founded by the Sisters of St Marie Madeleine Postel, lies close to the centre of Reading. Marianne Faithfull first came here at the age of eight. By sixth form, her main enthusiasm was English Literature. “I sat somewhere near the middle – near the front, but not exactly at the front,” she says. “It wasn’t a very big class, but it was very important to me.” This Spring, Faithfull releases her 22nd studio album, She Walks In Beauty, a spoken-word collection of some of her favourite Romantic poetry, scored by the composer and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, with contributions from Nick Cave, Brian Eno and Vincent Ségal. It is a crowning moment in her career; the product of a long-held ambition to interpret works by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and their contemporaries that she has carried close since St Joseph’s. Cave calls it “the greatest Marianne Faithfull album ever. And that’s saying… Read More →

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Bob Dylan plots Spring tour dates and Outlaw Festival shows

Bob Dylan has announced a huge run of dates for 2025, both his own shows and as part of this year’s Outlaw Festival. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW He plays 20 shows with his band, beginning in March 25 in Tulsa, followed by 34 dates on the Outlaw Festival 10th anniversary tour. Dylan and Willie Nelson co-headline each show alongside a rotating cast of special guests including Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Billy Strings and more. Click here for ticket details for Dylan’s shows. Advertisement You can find about full line-up details and tickets for the Outlaw Festival here. Bob Dylan’s tour datesMarch 25 – Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa TheaterMarch 26 – Little Rock, AK @ Robinson CenterMarch 28 – Springfield, MO @ Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing ArtsMarch 29 – Wichita, KS @ Century II Concert HallMarch 30 – Topeka, KS @ Topeka Performing Arts CenterApril 1 – Omaha, NE @ Orpheum TheaterApril 2 – Sioux City, IA @ Orpheum TheatreApril 4 – Mankato, MN @ Mayo Clinic Health System Event CenterApril 5 – Eau Claire, WI… Read More →

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Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt announce collaborative album, Loose Talk

Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt have announced details of a collaborative album, Loose Talk, which is released on March 28. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW The album follows on from “Star“, a Ferry/Barratt collaboration that appeared on Ferry’s Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 last year. The first release from Loose Talk is “Orchestra“, which you can hear below. Advertisement [embedded content] Says Ferry, “The whole experience of making Loose Talk has had an interesting newness about it. It seems to have opened a whole new chapter in my work. There’s a really strong mood to the work that Amelia does and I was very conscious of not getting in the way of her words. Hopefully, together, we’ve created something neither could do on our own. “The nearest I ever got to doing pieces like this before would maybe be back in Roxy with ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache‘ and ‘Mother Of Pearl‘. To some extent, those are kind of spoken monologues. I’m pleased that when we’ve played Loose Talk to people, they’ve said, ‘Oh, this sounds really different.’… Read More →

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Paul Weller curates soul music comp for Ace Records

Paul Weller has curated a 26-track compilation for Ace Records called That Sweet Sweet Music, featuring some of his favourite soul cuts from the likes of Betty Davis, Baby Huey, Richie Havens, Syl Johnson and The Dells. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW “Years before I went out looking for soul music, it found me,” writes Weller in the liner notes. “Soul soundtracked my early life. I filled the C90 tapes we swapped with our mates and the mixtapes we sometimes did to impress girls… it feels weird to me that the act of putting together a simple mixtape is something you can’t do any more. So the opportunity to put together this collection is doubly welcome.” That Sweet Sweet Music will be released on CD and vinyl on March 28. Pre-order it here and peruse the tracklisting below: Advertisement Side 101 God Made Me Funky – The Headhunters02 Spanish Twist – The I. B. Special03 Breakaway – The Valentines04 Top Of The Stairs – Collins & Collins05 Dont Let The Green Grass Fool You – The Spinners06 Black… Read More →

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Uncut – March 2025

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Advertisement Every print edition of this issue of Uncut comes free with an exclusive Wilco CD called Noisy Ghosts, featuring tracks taken from their upcoming A Ghost Is Born 20th-anniversary edition along with one track unique to this compilation WILCO: Uncut meets Jeff Tweedy and his cohorts in Chicago to unearth the triumphs and tribulations behind Wilco’s artistic triumph, A Ghost Is Born. “If you don’t have any kind of struggle in your life, how do you learn anything..?” JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: Sixty years on, Grace Slick and her former co-conspirators recall taking the counterculture to the masses. “We felt that we were on the crest of a wave,” we learn. “Of course, you think it’s going to last forever.” Advertisement PATTERSON HOOD: The Drive-By Trucker reactivates his long-dormant solo career. “I just have to follow what my gut tells me,” he says. “That’s all I can do.” THE ZOMBIES: Colin Blunstone, Rod Argent and their bandmates look back in wonder. “The enjoyment and the applause has made it all worthwhile,” they confide. “It was something we never expected to see in 1968…” GANG OF FOUR: As the… Read More →

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Marianne Faithfull has died

Marianne Faithfull has died aged 78, at home in London, in the company of her family, according to a statement quoted by BBC News. THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Faithfull rose to prominence during the 1960s, with the 1964 single “As Tears Go By” and her self-titled debut album the following year. She also starred in a number of films, including The Girl On A Motorcycle (1968), while her relationship with Mick Jagger put her at the heart of the London in-crowd. She struggled with addiction and homelessness during the 1970s, returning in 1979 with Broken English, which re-established her as a potent musical force. Faithfull continued to record, enjoying successful creative partnerships with long-term producer Hal Willner as well as Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Her later run of albums included career highlights like Easy Come, Easy Go (2008) and Give My Regards To London (2014). Her final album, 2021’s She Walks In Beauty, a collaboration with Warren Ellis, found her putting Romantic poetry to music.

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Dennis Bovell – Sufferer Sounds

He went by many names. Blackbeard. The Dub Band. African Stone. The 4th Street Orchestra. Dennis Matumbi. Today, though, they simply call him Dennis Bovell MBE. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Bovell was one of the central figures in the great flowering of homegrown UK reggae in the 1970s and ’80s, and surely the most adaptable. A multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, sound system selector, chart hitmaker, architect of lovers rock, and an in-demand producer for everyone from dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson to post-punk groups like The Pop Group and The Slits – Bovell did it all, and has the box of dusty dubplates to prove it. Despite that silver he picked up in the Queen’s 2021 Birthday Honours, you could convincingly argue that Bovell hasn’t received the full recognition he deserves. Blame that rash of pseudonyms, perhaps – or that many of his productions probably got cut to acetate, played out at a dance and then filed away, their destiny having been realised. Well, if Bovell has been in any way overlooked, Sufferer Sounds is a major step to… Read More →

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Purple Bird

Friendship. Concord. Openness and generosity. If folk is an innately community-minded music, then these are surely its cornerstones, not only practically but idealistically, too. They’re certainly qualities that have shaped Will Oldham’s career of 30-odd years. Though the title of his debut album may have conjured an enigmatic loner squaring up to life’s bleak truth, possibly from a backwoods shack in Kentucky, There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You was recorded with Slint’s Brian McMahan and Britt Walford, among others and released under the name Palace Brothers. In the four years following, Oldham teamed up with countless different musicians, using variations on the “Palace” theme. Despite a self-confessed tendency toward isolation, he’d started as he meant to go on. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW So to his umpteenth album as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, which follows 2023’s endearingly down-home Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You. It sees Oldham’s collaborative spirit fully – though differently – charged and his hermetic questing further settled as a mix of compassion, lived wisdom and domestic contentment. None of which precludes existential… Read More →

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Introducing the new Uncut: Wilco, Jefferson Airplane, Patterson Hood, White Stripes and more

CLICK HERE TO ORDER A COPY Advertisement The relationship between Uncut and Wilco stretches back to our very first issue in 1997. There, in the reviews pages alongside album releases from The Jam, Mark Eitzel, Prefab Sprout, Paul McCartney, Laura Nyro, Supergrass and Melvin Van Peebles, Uncut contributor Tom Cox caught Wilco live at Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Hall as they toured in support of Being There. “Suddenly, the whole thing explodes into clanging feedback and it’s as though the conflicting energies of punk and country have been tossed into a giant nuclear reactor,” Tom wrote. Since then, of course, Wilco have become an institution here at Uncut – a band who have continued to surprise and delight us in equal measure during an unbroken run of remarkable records and stunning live shows. While Wilco have always striven to be forward-looking, these past few years have seen them reach several notable milestones – not least the 20th anniversaries of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2022 and now A Ghost Is Born. We couldn’t let such momentous occasions go unmarked, so as we honoured Yankee Hotel Foxtrot with a cover, we’re delighted to give its successor similar red-carpet treatment. And once again, Wilco have… Read More →

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Win tickets to see Becoming Led Zeppelin

Advertisement We have TWO pairs of tickets to give away to see Becoming Led Zeppelin. THE FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING THE BAND, THE YARDBIRDS, SHARON VAN ETTEN, KEITH RICHARDS, THE VERVE, ASWAD AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Featuring never-before-seen footage, performances and music, director Bernard MacMahon’s film explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, the film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group. Advertisement After an exclusive IMAX release on February 5 and 6, the Led Zeppelin documentary will open in UK cinemas nationwide from February 7. You can buy cinema tickets here. [embedded content] We have TWO pair of tickets to give away for the screening at the BFI IMAX Waterloo on February 5, 2025 at 6:10pm. To enter, click the link and answer the question below. The first two correct entries picked at random will win the tickets. Closing date: Monday, February 3 at 10am GMT. Billed as The Yardbirds, where did Led Zeppelin’s first ever concert on September 7, 1968 take place? Terms & Conditions The competition closes on Monday, February 3, 2025.Winners will be notified as soon as possible… Read More →

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Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to perform R.E.M’s Fables Of The Reconstruction on UK tour

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy And Friends have announced a 2025 UK tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s 1985 album, Fables of the Reconstruction. THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW After the pair’s acclaimed, sold out run honouring R.E.M.’s debut album Murmur — which saw the four original members of R.E.M. come together for the first time in 17 years at the tour’s Athens stop in America — the Fables tour will bring Shannon & Narducy together again for a run of live UK dates. On the tour, Shannon and Narducy — alongside Jon Wurster (drums), Nick Macri (bass), Dag Juhlin (guitar) and Vijay Tellis-Nayak (keyboards) — will play Fables of the Reconstruction in full each night in addition to many other R.E.M. songs. The dates are: August 19 – Gorilla, ManchesterAugust 20 – The Garage, GlasgowAugust 22 – The Garage, LondonAugust 23 – The Garage, LondonAugust 25 – Rescue Rooms, NottinghamAugust 26 – Thekla, Bristol Tickets go on general sale on Friday, January 31 at 10am GMT, and are available here. Watch Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy perform the Fables of the Reconstruction track “Driver 8” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon below.

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Paul McCartney and Wings’ Venus And Mars gets 50th Anniversary vinyl edition

Wings‘ fourth studio album Venus And Mars is being reissued to mark it’s 50th anniversary. THE FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING THE BAND, THE YARDBIRDS, SHARON VAN ETTEN, KEITH RICHARDS, THE VERVE, ASWAD AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Released on March 21 by MPL and UMe, a new half speed master edition cut at by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios is available to pre-order here. The album reproduces the original UK pressing, with recreations of the original “Venus and Mars are alright tonight” circular sticker and “comparative sizes of sun and planets” bookmark sticker. It comes with two posters with photography by Aubrey Powell and Sylvia de Swaan. The original album artwork by Hipgnosis has been meticulously recreated and presented in a gatefold sleeve. Venus And Mars will also be available to stream in Dolby Atmos for the first time, newly mixed by Giles Martin and Steve Orchard. Tracklisting for Venus And Mars is: Side OneVenus and MarsRock ShowLove in SongYou Gave Me the AnswerMagneto and Titanium ManLetting Go Side TwoVenus and Mars – Reprise Spirits of Ancient Egypt Medicine Jar Call Me Back Again Listen to What the Man Said Treat Her Gently – Lonely Old People Crossroads