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Loretta Lynn: “If you’re good to the ghosts, they’ll be good to you”

From Uncut’s March 2016 issue (Take 226). We meet the Queen of Country in her haunted Tennessee mansion and look back on her spectacular career… Welcome to Hurricane Mills, the second-most-haunted house in Tennessee and, for the past 50 years, home of the supernaturally gifted Loretta Lynn. Here, the Queen Of Country Music looks back on her sparkling career, her wayward spouse, her legendary friends — from the Cash family to Jack White — and the spirits that surround her to this day. Advertisement There is no mistaking the route that leads to Loretta Lynn’s estate in Middle Tennessee. At five-mile intervals along the freeway that bisects the Volunteer State from East to West, there are folksy billboards showing the Queen Of Country Music in a red, checked cowboy shirt. Her head is tilted to one side, her well-appointed brown curls grazing her collarbone, while the hoarding invites you to “Visit the Legend Loretta Lynn in Hurricane Mills”. In fact, more than 500,000 people come through the doors of Lynn’s antebellum mansion each year. Lynne recalls the Sunday afternoon in 1966 when she and her late husband, Oliver “Doolittle/Mooney” Lynn, got lost on the back roads of Humphreys County. “I… Read More →

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Uncut – February 2025

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Every print copy of this issue comes with a free 15-track CD featuring brand new music from The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sunny War and more. Meanwhile, inside the magazine… Advertisement THE BAND: 50 years on from the release of The Basement Tapes, Uncut invites compatriots, aficionados and heads – including JASON ISBELL, RICHARD THOMPSON, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, ELVIS COSTELLO, VAN MORRISON, MARGO PRICE, STURGILL SIMPSON – to celebrate the 30 greatest songs of ROBBIE ROBERTSON, RICK DANKO, GARTH HUDSON, RICHARD MANUEL and LEVON HELM. THE VERVE: Before Urban Hymns briefly made them the biggest band in Britain, THE VERVE summoned some of the most rapturous rock music of the ’90s, fuelled by a prodigious diet of booze, drugs, Rosicrucianism, home-delivered lasagne and lashings of self-belief. Luckily, they lived to tell the tale: “We wanted that rock’n’roll life. It was all that mattered.” SHARON VAN ETTEN: With her new band THE ATTACHMENT THEORY set to make their debut, SHARON VAN ETTEN reveals how she found fresh inspiration in collaboration. “How can I keep doing what I’ve been doing, but try new things?” Advertisement BLUE ÖYSTER CULT:… Read More →

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Introducing the new Uncut: The Band, The Verve, Sharon Van Etten, The Moody Blues and more

CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY Advertisement Back in the dim and distant days of June last year, Will Hermes emailed me from Woodstock, where he was interviewing Mercury Rev for us. After several stop-offs at sites of interest, they found themselves in the studio belonging to Aaron Hurwitz, “where they tracked Levon and Garth for Deserter’s Songs”, wrote Will. “Classic Woodstock, truly like stepping back in time. FYI, this was sitting on a coffee-table when we arrived unannounced…” Attached to the email was a photo of Uncut’s April 2005 issue, with The Band on the cover. As you can imagine, it’s deeply satisfying to find traces of our history lingering in such hallowed spaces. Of course, in 2005, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson were all still with us; now it’s only Garth. In fact, we started discussing a new Band cover shortly after Robbie’s death in August 2023, which became more advanced as we headed towards this year’s 50th anniversary of the release of The Basement Tapes. Rather than retell familiar tales from The Band’s story, we asked some of our favourite artists to choose their favourite songs, including Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Jason Isbell and Sturgill… Read More →

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Tributes paid to Johnnie Walker

Tributes have been paid to Johnnie Walker, who died on January 31, 2024 aged 79. Walker had retired from a long career in broadcasting at the end of October. His death was announced on air by fellow BBC Radio 2 DJ, Bob Harris, who described Walker as an “incredible, warm, wonderful, superb broadcaster” who “was passionate about his music”. Advertisement On Twitter/X, Robert Plant wrote, “so long Johnnie Walker, all across the years ..a defender and gatekeeper of great musical taste .. a cool, kind man who kept the bar high for all of us who loved him ….” Also on Twitter/X, Joan Armatrading wrote, “RIP Johnnie Walker and thank you. Thank you for all you did for my music and the many other musicians you brought to the public’s attention. I loved talking with you on your shows. I will miss you. You will be very missed by many x” And Rick Wakeman wrote, “Johnnie Walker was a great friend and stunningly influential within radio. We talked about Caroline a lot and his overall radio knowledge and experiences were second to none. A privilege to have been able to call him a true friend. Radio Heaven now has a… Read More →

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Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury

Neil Young has pulled out of this year’s Glastonbury, saying he believes the festival, which is partnered with the BBC, is now “a corporate turn-off”. Writing on his Neil Young Archives website, he said, “The Chrome Hearts and I were looking forward to playing Glastonbury, one of my all-time favorite outdoor gigs. We were told that the BBC were now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in. It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way i remember it being. Thanks for coming to see us the last time! “We will not be playing Glastonbury on this tour because it is a corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be. “Hope to see you on one of the other venues on the tour.” Young last played Glastonbury in 2009. Young’s latest band The Chrome Hearts – comprising guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick, drummer Anthony LoGerfo and Spooner Oldham on keyboards – recently finished an album at ShangriLa Studios in Malibu with producer Lou Adler.

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Uncut’s Best New Albums of 2024

50OREN AMBARCHI/JOHAN BERTHLING/ANDREAS WERLIINGhosted IIDRAG CITY2022’s improvised mindmeld between Aussie experimental guitarist Ambarchi and the Swedish jazz rhythm section of Berthling and Werliin proved so successful that the trio reconvened for this lively sequel. Their telepathy now honed, Ghosted II was groovier and hookier than its predecessor, Berthling’s propulsive basslines providing structure and drive for Ambarchi’s shimmering bliss-outs. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW 49STILL HOUSE PLANTSIf I Don’t Make It, I Love UBISONThe post-rock trio, formed a decade ago at the Glasgow School Of Art, rocketed out of the improv underground with a fissile breakthrough album that recalled Life Without Buildings, Labradford and the slanted, enchanted skronk of Bill Orcutt. But tracks like the standout “Silver Grit Passes Thru My Teeth” were thrillingly all their own work. 48DAVID GILMOURLuck And StrangeSONYWorking with a new producer (Charlie Andrew, notable for his work with prog upstarts Alt-J) and new musicians (including Tom Herbert, bass player with Polar Bear), Gilmour sounded reinvigorated on his fifth solo album – never more so than on a startling cover of the Montgolfier Brothers’ magnificently bleak… Read More →

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Uncut’s Best Reissues, Live Albums and Compilations of 2024

30ROYAL TRUXTwin InfinitivesFIREDiving straight in at the deep end, Fire kicked off their Royal Trux vinyl reissue series with this synapse-mangling 1990 double LP which found America’s most gloriously fucked-up rock’n’roll band careering wildly toward the outer limits of convention, taste and sanity. A work of deviant high art or the sound of two people having a breakdown? Let’s say both. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW 29JOHN LENNONMind Games: The Ultimate CollectionCAPITOL/UMeIn 1973, Lennon’s fourth album – which he himself described as “an interim record between being a manic, political lunatic to back to being a musician again” – failed to make the UK Top 10. Half a century later, it was refreshed by this sumptuous box set comprising multiple new mixes, unreleased outtakes, instrumentals, studio chatter and a lavishly detailed coffee-table book. 28OASIS Definitely Maybe (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)BIG BROTHERAs an aperitif for the forthcoming reunion tour, Oasis’s swaggering debut was reissued with bonus material telling the full messy story of its creation, including eight tracks from the 1993 Monnow Valley sessions and another seven from the January 1994… Read More →

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Ringo Starr joins Paul McCartney onstage at London’s O2 Arena

Ringo Starr joined Paul McCartney onstage at the London’s O2 Arena last night (December 19) for the final 2024 date of Macca’s Got Back tour. The former Beatles bandmates teamed up in the encore for a run through “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club (Reprise)” and “Helter Skelter”. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Earlier in the show, McCartney had welcomed Rolling Stone Ron Wood onto the stage to play “Get Back”. There was a third surprise special guest: McCartney’s long-lost Hofner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen from him in 1972 but returned earlier this year. “And here to make its first stage appearance in 50 years… is my original bass!” declared McCartney. “I haven’t played it in 50 years.” Read Uncut’s review of Paul McCartney’s Got Back tour in Manchester (December 14) here.

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Send us your questions for Vashti Bunyan!

It’s fair to say that Vashti Bunyan’s musical career hasn’t followed a conventional path. After a faltering attempt to make it as a pop singer in Swinging London, she dropped out of the rat race and journeyed by horse-drawn wagon to the Isle Of Skye, an experience that informed her startling 1970 debut Just Another Diamond Day, recorded with assistance from members of Fairport Convention and The Incredible String Band. Advertisement THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW It proved to be Bunyan’s last recording for more than 30 years, until her rediscovery by freak-folk luminaries such as Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Animal Collective prompted a remarkable renaissance, leading to her 2005 Max Richter-producer comeback album Lookaftering and its 2014 follow-up Heartleap. Lookaftering is about to be reissued for its 20th anniversary, augmented by a host of demo versions, alternate takes and live performances. But before that, Vashti has kindly agreed to undergo a gentle grilling from you, the Uncut readers. So what do you want to ask a wandering soul? Send your questions to audiencewith@uncut.co.uk by Friday January 3 and… Read More →

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Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Still Barking

Hedonism and angst, heartbreak and rapture, bombast and tenderness – rock music does them all with an often startling brilliance. Humour? Not so much. Randy Newman – possibly the whip-smartest, funniest songwriter who has ever lived – was once asked by this reviewer why rock’n’roll has such an under-developed funny bone. His answer was simple: rock stars take themselves far too seriously and want to be remembered for saving the world rather than playing it for laughs. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement There are exceptions that prove the rule, of course – Frank Zappa managed to be a serious musician and to inject a caustic wit into the Mothers Of Invention’s early records. Yet no rock’n’roll band has ever set out with quite such an endearingly eccentric, consistent and overarching objective to make us laugh as the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Over 17 CDs and three DVDs this extravaganza of countercultural hilarity is the ultimate guide to the Bonzos’ unique mix of highbrow surrealism, lowbrow smut, seaside postcard humour with a psychedelic twist, slapstick, vaudeville and mordant satire, all… Read More →

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Bridget Hayden And The Apparitions – Cold Blows The Rain

The Yorkshire moors, wrote the novelist Emily Bronté, were a place to walk where your own nature would lead you. If only Emily could had lived in the age of Spotify and earbuds, she could have had the ideal soundtrack as she hiked away from the shadowy region, whose unsustaining vastness waxes drear. That soundtrack being Cold Blows The Rain, the first album which prolific vocalist and freeform avant rocker Bridget Hayden has released with this trio, The Apparitions. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement It’s difficult to escape the shadowy regions of the Calder Valley, as the prevailing climate – as the album title implies – is in a mostly minor mode. Fretting drizzle and moky fogs. About a half hour’s drive south west of the Bronte village of Haworth, just on the other side of the untamed moor that Emily took as the setting for her novel Wuthering Heights, lies Todmorden. It’s here in West Yorkshire that Hayden, and the Todfellows’ Hall where these songs were recorded in 2022, and the Basin Rock label that’s now releasing them,… Read More →

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Paul McCartney, Co-op Live, Manchester, December 14

“This opening is pretty good,” says Paul McCartney, having already burned through “A Hard Day’s Night”, Wings double “Junior’s Farm” and “Letting Go”, plus “Drive My Car”. “I’m going to take a little moment to enjoy it for myself.” Hands clasped in front of him, leaning back as if to admire a work of art in a gallery, McCartney has every right to indulge in a spot of jocular self-appreciation. Tonight’s show in Manchester – his first UK gig since headlining Glastonbury in 2022 – is a triumph on every level. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement He’s here at the 23,500-capacity Co-op Live (playing the first of two sold-out performances) as part of the European leg of his global Got Back tour, having wound through Latin America over the last couple of months. This week, two nights at London’s O2 beckon. “It’s good to be back,” he declares, clearly in the mood for a celebration. And a celebration is exactly what we get. A jubilant “Got To Get You Into My Life” plays out against a backdrop of animated… Read More →

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Listen to Neil Young’s Christmas playlist

Neil Young has posted a Christmas playlist on his YouTube channel. Running to an hour and three quarters, it includes Young’s own material – including tracks from Harvest, After The Goldrush, American Stars ‘n’ Bars and Harvest Moon – as well as music taken from Seven Gates: A Christmas Album (later reissues as Christmas At The Ranch), a 1994 collection by his long-serving collaborator Ben Keith which featured Young alongside Johnny Cash, Nicolette Larson, J.J. Cale and others. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement [embedded content] The tracklisted, as reported by Louder, is: Greensleeves (Archives Volume II: 1972–1976)Winterlong (Early Daze)Hitchhiker (Hitchhiker)Xmas Time’s A Comin’ (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)Winter Winds (Archives Volume III: 1976–1987)Heart Of Gold (Harvest)Silver Bells (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)When God Made Me (Prairie Wind)Ave Maria (Christmas At The Ranch)Harvest Moon (Harvest Moon)Les Trois Cloches (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)Blue Xmas (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)Old Man (Harvest)It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)Star of Bethlehem (American Stars & Bars)Little Drummer Boy (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)Lotta Love (Comes A Time)Dreamin Man (Harvest Moon)After the Gold Rush (After… Read More →

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Gram Parsons remembered: “He was too much of a purist…”

From Uncut’s February 2011 issue (Take 189). Summer 1972, GRAM PARSONS had patented his Cosmic American Music with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, but failed to see any of the profits. Now, thrown out of The Rolling Stones’ inner circle, he launches himself as a solo artist. On the 40th anniversary of his solo debut, Uncut’s David Cavanagh hunted down Parson’s closest collaborators to tell the untold story of an American legend’s last act… The Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall is not the sort of place you’d expect to find Gram Parsons. Home to the southernmost tip of the British mainland, the Lizard is a remote landscape steeped in Daphne Du Maurier, shipwrecks and smugglers. But it was here that Parsons came in 1971, licking his wounds after being banished by Anita Pallenberg from Villa Nellcôte in the south of France. On the peninsula, Gram exchanged Babylonian debauchery with the Stones for peace and quiet with an old friend in a 14th-Century farmhouse. “It’s extremely rural,” explains Ian Dunlop, Gram’s mid-‘60s comrade in the International Submarine Band, who still lives on the peninsula today. “There’s no glamour. No music industry. We’re in the hinterlands. In those days it was… Read More →

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Jeff Beck: “I was a good bowler, but I just wanted to crack a six…”

From Uncut’s August 2016 issue (Take 231): a conspiratorial chat with JEFF BECK, in which the guitar maestro looks back on a lifetime reinventing rock music… In a sunlit room on the top floor of a Bayswater mansion block, a laptop sits open on a table, a small wodge of Blu-Tack stuck over its camera. “A friend in the FBI told me to do that,” says Jeff Beck, and he’s not joking. One of rock’s most famous lone wolves, Beck rails at Newspeak, double-think and government surveillance. Everything Orwell predicted has come true, he maintains, “and like mugs we pay Apple to spy in our homes.” He hates the EU, the Obama administration and political correctness. Beck turns 72 on June 24, but has the physical electricity of a much younger man. His classic posture is a tense slouch, one arm draped behind his head, fiddling with a handful of hair. He laughs often, but he eyes are challenging. Next to the laptop sits a bound copy of BECK01, a book of photographs illustrating his twin passions for guitars and cars. Alongside photos of hot rods he’s built over the years are pictures from his five-decade music career: with The… Read More →

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Joanna Newsom: arc of a diver

It’s time for breakfast in LA with JOANNA NEWSOM. In this extract from Jaan Uhelszki’s interview with Newsom in Uncut’s November 2015 issue (Take 222), she prepares to reveal the mysteries of her magical fourth album, Divers… East of the Hollywood sign and a mile and a half straight downhill from the three imposing Art Deco orbs of the Griffith Observatory lies Los Feliz. It’s a town whose history is stowed discreetly beneath the lacy purple jacaranda and ancient pepper trees that line its well-scrubbed sidewalks. This is where Walt Disney drew his first sketches of Mickey Mouse and where Courtney Love first showed her “Celebrity Skin”, stripping off at Jumbo’s Clown Room for the lordy sum of $300. Since 2008 or so, the hipster glitterati have been increasingly congregating here in their hoodies, yoga pants and cross-bodies, clutching paper cups from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and sharing counter space with the likes of Ryan Gosling, Scarlett Johansson and Dakota Johnson. But Los Feliz wasn’t always such an appealing place. Two days after killing Sharon Tate and four others at Roman Polanski’s Beverly Hills home, Charles Manson’s followers travelled east 11 miles and brutally murdered grocery store owner… Read More →

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Tangled Up In Cool: Bryan Ferry on Bob Dylan

In 2006, with work on a much-anticipated new Roxy Music LP on hiatus, BRYAN FERRY recorded a collection Bob Dylan covers – The Dylan Album. In this extract from our interview with Ferry in Uncut’s March 2007 issue (Take 118), Stephen Troussé meets the Geordie Jay Gatsby to discuss soul boys, jazz clubs, Dylan and more… I’m sitting down in Bryan Ferry’s west London studios, checking back through my notes one last time before we begin to talk about his new album, when the man himself appears – still that distractedly dashing mix of minor Royal, dreamy academic and doomed romantic: the Geordie Jay Gatsby. Ever the stickler for accessories and minor details, he comments approvingly on my chunky new notebook. Oh, I tell him, it’s one of those stupidly overpriced ones that try and con you out of believing that you’re joining the ranks of Picasso and Hemingway simply by owning one. “Ah yes,” he says, taking out his own. “I have to use these slim things. They fit into my jacket pocket, but there’s not much room for many details…” Advertisement You could take this as a classic Ferry comment – the dapper poet, unwilling to spoil the… Read More →

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The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time…Ranked!

Expand your collection and hear more great music… How do you go about making a great album? We can know them when we hear them, enjoy the music down the decades, and – best of all – discover a new one when one sneaks up on us unexpectedly. But with the best will in the world, the readers and compilers of publications like ours are probably always destined to guess at this magic from the outside, forever pressing our noses up against the glass. Advertisement If, like Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, you were actually behind that glass contributing to the greatness of albums like Avalon or For Your Pleasure, then you’ve clearly got a much better idea. But as the genial musician/producer explains to us on the following pages, that doesn’t mean that you’re not prey to unexpected forces while you’re doing so. You might be fighting a misfiring tape machine. Or you might find tension. While one person thinks they’re making a commercial record, another (like, say, Brian Eno) might think that they’re making something a bit more avant garde. But that, as Phil tells us, isn’t necessarily a problem. “When there is some tension in the creative process,… Read More →

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Kraftwerk, Psychedelic Furs, Jesus & Mary Chain for Forever Now festival

Kraftwerk, The The, Death Cult, Billy Idol, Johnny Marr, The Psychedelic Furs, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Happy Monday are among the names announced for Forever Now, a brand new one-day festival launching at The National Bowl, Milton Keynes on June 22, 2025. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW The line-up also includes The Damned, Public Image Ltd, Berlin, Theatre of Hate, Chameleons and The Motels. The festival title, of course, comes from the title of the Furs’ second album. Says the band, “Forever Now started as an idea…then became a song….then an album…and has lived on through the years. Now it’s also become a gathering of some legendary musicians on one day in one place, which we are proud to be part of…” Tickets for Forever Now are available from here.

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Elvis Costello to revisit “early songs” on tour

Elvis Costello & The Imposters are heading out on an American tour in 2025, performing Costello’s early repertoire from My Aim Is True to Blood & Chocolate. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement Joined by Charlie Sexton, Radio Soul! The Early Songs Of Elvis Costello tour opens in Seattle on June 12 and runs through to July 12 in Miami Beach. Elvis Costello & The Imposters, joined by Charlie Sexton, is excited to announce the ‘Radio Soul! The Early Songs Of Elvis Costello’ Tour! These summer shows will feature numbers drawn from ‘My Aim Is True’ to ‘Blood & Chocolate’, along with other surprises. pic.twitter.com/fxNSN7ZUWz — Elvis Costello (@ElvisCostello) December 10, 2024 “For any songwriter, it has to be a compliment if people want to hear songs written up to 50 years ago,” says Costello. “You can expect the unexpected and the faithful in equal measure. Don’t forget this show is ‘Performed by Elvis Costello & the Imposters’, an ensemble which includes three people who first recorded this music and two more who bring something entirely new.” Advertisement He continued:… Read More →

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Julia Holter – My Life In Music

LA’s musical magic realist reveals her loud city songs: “There’s sorrow and ecstasy and all the feelings” THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement LINDA PERHACS Parallelograms KAPP RECORDS, 1970 Advertisement One of the first shows I ever played was a big Linda Perhacs event in 2009. I met her there, and I got really deep into her music. I loved how she was just her own person. Even though she was part of a scene in Topanga Canyon, she was on her own plane. Her sense of melody and harmony is kind of incredible, and she made this record out of nowhere. There are definitely elements of the harmonies of that period, but I think Linda’s always been a visionary. I worked with her for a long time and her music has inspired me in a lot of ways. It has a very unique sensitivity to tone, to sound, to timbre, and her lyrics are so evocative. SIMONE FORTI Al Di Là SALTERN, 2018 I’ve become acquainted with Simone Forti through Tashi [Wada, Holter’s husband and collaborator]. She’s an important… Read More →