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Inside the making of A Complete Unknown: “Bob Dylan’s recollections were critical”

Next month, James Mangold’s film A Complete Unknown opens in cinemas, bringing to the big screen the early years of BOB DYLAN, from folk interloper to his electric apostasy at Newport in 1965. In this extract from from Uncut’s January 2025 issue, we discover how much involvement Dylan himself had in this cinematic undertaking.. CLICK HERE TO READ UNCUT’S REVIEW OF A COMPLETE UNKNOWN Advertisement LOS Angeles, 2020. Although the city is in lockdown, a coffee shop has been opened for the morning for the exclusive use of two illustrious customers. James Mangold, the director of Walk The Line, is there to meet Bob Dylan, who has been quarantining in town since his Never Ending Tour was mothballed due to the pandemic. Sitting opposite one another in a booth, they are there to discuss Mangold’s plans for a movie based on Dylan’s first years in New York. The implication is his decision to go electric will eventually be titled A Complete Unknown. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW “On that very first meeting, as we sat together drinking coffee, one of… Read More →

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A Complete Unknown

When the wild, rambling film of Rolling Thunder Revue was released back in 2019, it came with the subtitle “a Bob Dylan story by Martin Scorsese”, in what felt like a nod to the endless stream of franchise extensions that come tagged as “a Star Wars story” or “a Mad Max saga”. It cutely suggested that, with the MCU floundering, the 2020s might see a full flowering of the Bob Dylan Extended Universe, with movies, miniseries and, eventually, collectable figurines dedicated to the lost highways, side quests and minor characters of “My Back Pages“. 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 If so, then A Complete Unknown is the A New Hope of the Bobiverse, telling our hero’s journey in time honoured fashion. A young farmboy, raised in the wastelands of the midwest, heeds the call of a shambling, hermetic mentor (Woody Guthrie), and travels to the distant planet of Greenwich Village, 1961, where he absorbs the force of the folk revival. He falls in with an eccentric band of rogues (Dave Van Ronk, Albert Grossman, Johnny Cash), meets what seems… Read More →

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Inside this month’s free Uncut CD – Nocturnes: the month’s best new music

Mogwai, Eddie Chacon, The Innocence Mission, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions and Euros Childs all appear on the latest free Uncut CD. The compilation, entitled Nocturnes, comes with the January 2024 issue of Uncut, and showcases the month’s best new music. Advertisement See below for more on the full tracklisting… ORDER A COPY DIRECT FROM US HERE 1 Brown SpiritsMind Rocker (Part 1)We kick off our exploration of this month’s best new music with a slice of grooving motorik garage from Melbourne’s Brown Spirits. The duo’s latest offering, Cosmic Seeds, continues their journey into kraut-centred deep space, but with an extra helping of analogue funk. Advertisement 2 Rose City BandRadio SongRipley Johnson doesn’t change the formula on Rose City Band’s new album, Sol Y Sombra, but there’s no need when he’s creating choogling, rolling delights like this, with lilting pedal steel and a psychedelic propulsion. 3 Bridget Hayden & The ApparitionsShe Moved Through The FayreTodmorden-based Hayden is best known for her work with experimental and noise music, yet her spectacular new LP, Cold Blows The Rain, is a collection of spectral, dour traditional folk, with the singer and multi-instrumentalist playing Lankum at their own doomy, magisterial game. 4 Straw Man… Read More →

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Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet – The Way Out Of Easy

Jeff Parker is best known to rock fans as a key member of the Chicago post-rock ensemble Tortoise, someone who adds a rigour, virtuosity and high-gloss to their proggy instrumentals. But he’s also spent more than three decades exploring many different types of music. The Chicago scene from which Parker emerged in the 1990s was characterised by unusual collaborations between musicians from different genres, all playing together in odd combinations. As well as working with Tortoise, Parker would find himself playing regular sessions with the minimalist gumbri player Joshua Abrams, electronic explorers Isotope 217 and various free jazz musicians, including the likes of trumpeters Rob Mazurek and Jaimie Branch, saxophonist Matana Roberts and drummers Hamid Drake, Chad Taylor and Makaya McCraven. 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 Parker relocated to Los Angeles around a decade ago, where he has found himself at the nexus of a burgeoning scene which is, in its own way, as diverse as Chicago’s, where members of bands like Bright Eyes, Grizzly Bear and Shabazz Palaces might rub shoulders with genre-transcending musicians such as Carlos Nino,… Read More →

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White Denim – 12

White Denim have always been a difficult band to pin down. Since their 2008 debut album Workout Holiday, they’ve run the gamut from raucous garage rock to taut indie via touches of psychedelia, prog, soul and Southern boogie. However, on 12, they have arrived at something else altogether. Sucking up aesthetic influences from the UK new wave scene via groups like Scritti Politti, Orange Juice and Aztec Camera, while absorbing the masterful dub productions of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Dennis Bovell, along with studying the songwriting chops of Nick Lowe and Jonathan Richman, they have come up with an album of shimmering pop, slick art-rock, sunshine funk and eccentric soul. “Some will see it as a dramatic shift,” says the band’s ostensible leader and creative director, James Petralli. “But I think it’s part of a natural evolution.” 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 The album is the result of a period of change in Petralli’s life. He relocated his family to Los Angeles from Austin and, coupled with the restrictions of lockdown, he had to eschew his typical approach of… Read More →

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Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten and Caribou to play End Of The Road 2025

Headliners Father John Misty, Self Esteem and Caribou are among the first names revealed for the End Of The Road festival’s 2025 edition, taking place at its usual home of Larmer Tree Gardens on the Dorset/Wiltshire border on August 28-31. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Sharon Van Etten will headline the festival on the opening night (Thursday 28) with her new band The Attachment Theory, while Throwing Muses, Goat, Rosali and Lisa O’Neill are also due to appear. Affirming their commitment to music from across the globe, the first batch of names announced for the festival includes Syrian bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan, Colombian electronic singer-songwriter Ela Minus and South African “future ghetto funk” artist Moonchild Sanelly. Also on the line-up are Mount Kimbie, Joy Orbison, Geordie Greep, These New Puritans, John Maus, Emma-Jean Thackray, Tropical Fuck Storm and Black Country, New Road, with many more names to come over the coming months. Weekend tickets are available now from here.

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Introducing the new Uncut: Kate Bush, 2025 Preview, The Damned, Quincy Jones and more

Before I dig into this, a couple of bits of housekeeping. Firstly, apologies to Nick Hasted, who we inadvertently omitted to credit for last month’s Nick Cave cover story. Secondly, a quick heads up to all print subscribers that this issue comes with a second CD – the latest instalment in our ongoing Selected Works series, this one celebrating Cassandra Jenkins. You might have noticed Cassandra’s recent album My Light, My Destroyer in our Albums Of The Year and we’re delighted to have been able to further support her work on this rather special, 5-track CD. If you’ve come to Cassandra’s music belatedly, this is a great way to catch up with some of her earlier recordings. ORDER A COPY DIRECT FROM US HERE Advertisement There’s a lot going on inside our January 2025 issue, of course – including our Kate Bush cover story, Alastair McKay’s hilarious double-header with The Damned’s chief mischief makers, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies, Nick Hasted’s definitive dive into James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and Neil Spencer’s peerless adieu to Quincy Jones. But for us, the big piece of work this month is our annual review of the year to come. A… Read More →

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Uncut – January 2025

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Every print copy of this issue comes with a free 12-track CD featuring brand new music from Mogwai, Rose City Band, Songhoy Blues, The Innocence Mission, Euros Childs, Eddie Chacon and more. Meanwhile, inside the magazine… Advertisement KATE BUSH: In this revelatory lost interview from 2011, Kate Bush holds forth on fame, the internet, pop music, fantastical creatures and the time she nearly burned her house down… BOB DYLAN: With James Mangold’s early-years biopic A Complete Unknown soon to open in cinemas, we discover how Dylan is still actively rewriting his own history THE WEATHER STATION: Tamara Lindeman talks exclusively to Uncut about the disassociation and despair that fuelled her ultimately revitalising new album, Humanhood Advertisement THE DAMNED: Punk miscreants Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies look back at their most diabolical misadventures with a fondness that’s led to their recent, triumphant reconciliation QUINCY JONES: We explore the super-producer’s incredible legacy, spanning everything from big band jazz to era-defining pop 2025 PREVIEW: Looking forward to next year’s essential releases from the likes of Lana Del Rey, Brian Wilson, Pulp, Big Thief, LCD Soundsystem, The Waterboys, Patterson Hood and… Read More →

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CMAT, Candi Staton and Lyle Lovett to be honoured at the UK Americana Awards

The first winners of January’s UK Americana Awards have been announced, with Candi Staton to receive the International Lifetime Achievement Award, Lyle Lovett the International Trailblazer Award, and CMAT the UK/Ireland Trailblazer Award. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement A host of other award-winners will be revealed at the ceremony – taking place at London’s Hackney Church on January 23 – with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Waxahatchee, Bonny Light Horseman, Brown Horse, Katherine Priddy, Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves and Hurray For The Riff Raff all among the nominees (see the full list below). The ceremony is the culmination of UK Americana Week powered by Sweet Home Alabama, with a number of showcase gigs taking place across Hackney from January 20-23 featuring the likes of Chloe Foy, Ferris & Sylvester, Willie Watson, Robert Vincent and many more. You can view the full line-up and buy tickets for all events here. UK ARTIST OF THE YEARElles Bailey Ferris & SylvesterHannah WhiteKatherine PriddyRobert VincentThe Heavy Heavy Advertisement UK ALBUM OF THE YEARElles Bailey – Beneath The Neon GlowHannah White – Sweet RevolutionKathryn Williams &… Read More →

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Fontaines DC, Aviva Studios, Manchester, November 29 

There’s a sea of people bouncing in green balaclavas, beers are flying, sweat is dripping, bodies are hoisted up on top of shoulders, and people are lovingly embracing one another. The mood is palpably jubilant this evening, as Fontaines DC kick off their three-night residency in Manchester. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement This 2,000-capacity space is a comparatively intimate setting to the rest of their arena tour dates, so to have this relatively up-close environment – in which the screech of guitars and rumble of bass feel tangible, and singer Grian Chatten’s kilt flaps away just inches from fans’ faces – already feels like it might be the end of an era for the group. You can understand their successful trajectory. Over the course of three albums they have pulled off the impressive feat of balancing music that is smart, literary and experimental but also accessible, melodic and bursting with the kind of anthemic choruses that feel increasingly absent in contemporary guitar music. They are the rare kind of band that act as a bridge between young kids, ageing millennial… Read More →

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Jennifer Castle – Camelot

Historically, pop music has often reached into Arthurian legend for a handy metaphor. It is, after all, a symbolist’s paradise – the enchanted vale of Van Morrison’s “Avalon Of The Heart”, for instance, or David Crosby’s Californian hippie dream reflected back as “Guinnevere”. The Moody Blues’ spellbound evocation of Camelot on “Are You Sitting Comfortably?”, perhaps. Or, more literally, Rick Wakeman’s preposterous chainmail folly on ice. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement This ongoing thread of references in song – from Nat King Cole to Nas, Stevie Nicks to The Streets – tends to follow a pattern. Much like its depictions in literature, TV and film, Camelot is invariably viewed as shorthand for a certain kind of glorious perfection, a mythic crucible of courage and nobility, the embodiment of utopia. Monty Python notwithstanding, of course. By contrast, Jennifer Castle’s Camelot, as mapped on her seventh album, is something altogether more nuanced. Hers is a battleground of opposing tensions, set against the divisive times of the present. There are ambiguities and contradictions, ecstatic visions and crises of faith. And a… Read More →

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Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition)

“The popular song is a very efficient and effective means of getting across ideas,” declares Talking Heads’ original typewritten ‘Statement Of Intent’, reproduced as part of this reissue package. “Without seeming pretentious, the band would like to think that music and the popular song (as a specific case) has the potential to inspire constructive feelings in the listener. The band hopes that their songs and presentation will inspire confidence in the audience. Words the band would hope can be associated with their ‘image’ are: sincerity, honesty, intensity, substance, integrity and fun.” THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement These don’t sound like the ideals of a blank generation. Even amongst the supposedly iconoclastic denizens of CBGB, there was a widespread fixation with a well-established Stones/Stooges MO of leering, leather-clad hedonism and/or messianic self-destruction (which, as Tina Weymouth noted wearily, tended to come with a side-order of decidedly old-fashioned sexism). Fresh from the progressive Rhode Island School Of Design, Talking Heads surveyed this not-so-radical scene and quickly deduced that if punk really was going to provide some kind of new feeling,… Read More →

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The Beatles: Beatles ’64

“It’s not culture,” says Paul. “It’s having a laugh.” A first look at the new Fabs film… Following on from the Get Back series, The new Beatles collaboration with Disney+ is Beatles 64, which is available from today. A film produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by David Tedeschi, it focuses on the Fabs in February 1964, when they visited the USA for the first time. Most notably, to play on the Ed Sullivan show, which helped spread Beatlemania across the USA. Advertisement Drawing heavily on the footage shot by David and Albert Maysles in New York and on tour, the film contains the Beatles you know, but have possibly never met in such high picture quality. Yes, you’re right, Peter Jackson’s MAL AI team have had a hand in it. Tedeschi’s film also gathers reactions and reflections from people who witnessed the phenomenon at first hand, whether they found it life-changing or (as one young jazz fan describes it) “disgusting”. Here are our Top 10 Fab moments from the film. Press conference Advertisement John is an interestingly recessive presence in the film. At the press conference on arrival in the US, though, he presents the best example of his… Read More →

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Arts council

Art Garfunkel (83) is on the phone singing “Old Friends” to his son, Art Garfunkel Jr (33). “The old men,” he whispers, easing into a gentle croon, “lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun. You know the little niceties, Junior? One of us sings ‘waiting for the sun’. The other sings ‘waiting for the sunset’…” Art Sr slides into the melody again: “The sounds of the city/ Sifting through trees…” THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement The voice is more seasoned than on Simon & Garfunkel’s 1968 LP, Bookends. Art Sr is singing to illustrate how the words have acquired a new inference on Garfunkel & Garfunkel’s collaborative album, Father And Son. “It’s challenging in the middle-eight,” Art Sr admits. “I won’t go for it now”. “Sharing a park bench quietly,” sings Art Jr, a high tenor coming down the line from Germany, “how terribly strange”. “Easy for you to sing,” says Art Sr. Advertisement It is a disorienting thing, listening to this father and son. The voice that sounds like Art Garfunkel is Junior’s; Art Sr’s singing… Read More →

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I’m New Here – One True Pairing

Tom Fleming looks visibly uncomfortable. Wincing slightly and itching his beard, he looks away from our video call before admitting with a rueful grin: “I’m still feeling a bit guilty about being a singer-songwriter. Do you know what I mean? It’s not something I feel is necessarily a viable art form.” As a magazine that features no shortage of such performers, we’re bound to ask: why ever not? “Well, it’s just the cliche of it. I am, you know, one guy with an acoustic guitar a lot of the time… I don’t want to be seen as another moaning white boy.” THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement Male and caucasian Tom Fleming may be, but moaning would be a criminally simplistic way of describing the compelling sounds he makes on his second solo album under the name One True Pairing. Having risen to prominence as bassist and sometime singer of Cumbrian art-rock mavericks Wild Beasts, Fleming was perhaps always going to feel the urge to resist convention. After the band went their separate ways in 2018, he made a… Read More →

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Phil Manzanera – My Life In Music

For your pleasure, the Roxy Music guitarist reveals his most impactful albums: “It was too exciting for words”… THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Buena Vista Social Club WORLD CIRCUIT, 1997 Advertisement I started learning guitar in Havana, being taught by my mum. There was no Bert Weedon’s Play In A Day for me, it was bolero and son. I don’t think my parents had heard about babysitters – they’d often take me to the Tropicana Club and the Sans Souci, with people like Rubén González playing piano and Omara Portuondo singing… and the Buena Vista Social Club album has them on it. I was immensely jealous of Ry Cooder in some ways, because I had gone back to Cuba in 1991-92 and started playing with Cuban musicians. And then this came out and I said, ‘Aw, hang on!’ But obviously I was absolutely delighted that we had them for a brief moment before they all died off. ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis’ Golden Records RCA VICTOR, 1958 This was like his greatest hits to date, so… Read More →

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Surviving Grateful Dead members planned to reunite with Phil Lesh for their 60th anniversary

Bobby Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann had planned to reunite with Phil Lesh to mark the Grateful Dead‘s 60th anniversary in 2025. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement In a joint interview with CBS News’ Anthony Mason, the three surviving members of the Dead revealed they were considering a reunion to celebrate the band’s 60th anniversary next year with Lesh and had scheduled time to rehearse, before his death on October 25. Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart last performed with Lesh at the Fare Thee Well concerts in 2015 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Dead. “I was hoping that we could play with him again one more time,” Kreutzmann said during the CBS interview, which Lesh was originally due to participate in. “So that, that was my sadness… because I know he wanted to play with us again too.” Advertisement “We were kicking it around,” Weir added. “In fact, we were going to get together and kick some songs around tomorrow.” “I was hoping that we could do it,” Kreutzmann said, with Weir adding, “We were going to… Read More →

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Keilene Ignites Empowerment with Fiery Pop-Rock Anthem “Of Course (Fire)”

Pop-rock gets a bold infusion of energy and resilience with Keilene latest single, “Of Course (Fire)” a hard-hitting anthem that channels personal struggles into triumph. Drawing from her library of poetry, Keilene has crafted a track that is both emotionally raw and musically electrifying, delivering a message of strength, self-assurance, and rising above adversity. The lyrics of “Of Course (Fire)” are a striking blend of poetic imagery and fierce determination. Lines like “Fire, of course, coursing through my veins” embody a visceral intensity that mirrors the song’s themes of inner power and rebirth. Keilene’s ability to pair vulnerability with fiery defiance is at the heart of the track, as she weaves a narrative of self-discovery and renewal. The repetition of “Fire!” builds an anthemic momentum, driving home the idea of transformation and empowerment. “Of Course (Fire)” is a testament to Keilene’s versatility as a singer-songwriter. The track combines the grit of rock instrumentation with a polished pop sensibility, creating a dynamic soundscape that underscores the intensity of her performance. Her vocal delivery shifts seamlessly from tender reflection to powerful exclamation, showcasing a range that is both technically impressive and emotionally resonant. The song’s production, enriched by the collaboration with musician… Read More →

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Pentangle announce vinyl box set

Pentangle‘s six studio albums released between 1968 and 1972 are being collected in a vinyl box set for the first time. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement Released by Svart Records on April 16, 2025, Pentangle: The Albums: 1968-1972 rounds up the five albums released on Transatlantic alongside Solomon’s Seal, released by Reprise and the final album with the original line-up: guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, alongside bassist Danny Thompson, drummer Terry Cox and singer Jacqui McShee. This 14 LP boxset includes of bonus material featuring 22 recordings which are previously unreleased on vinyl. Says McShee, “I am honoured to see our work as Pentangle celebrated with this special vinyl boxset release. The collection represents a journey through a significant chapter in music history – one in which we sought to experiment and explore each other’s talents and just enjoy making music together. Advertisement “Each song and album hold a special place in my heart, not only for the music itself but for the incredible memories and experiences that we shared as a band. I hope this release… Read More →

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Act Unnaturally! The Beatles USA Catalogue 1964/1965/1966 explained!

With The Beatles – 1964 US Albums in Mono box set released today, we explore the ways the Fab’s American releases differed from the English originals… THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement 1964 INTRODUCING… THE BEATLES Vee-Jay; January 10, 1964 Advertisement What it is: The US version of Please Please Me, originally scheduled for July 1963 but delayed due to Vee-Jay owner Ewart Abner’s gambling debts. By most reckonings, the most counterfeited album of all time. What’s in/out: The release initially omitted the title track and “Ask Me Why” as Vee-Jay had previously released them as a single. However, when Beechwood Music Inc. halted sales as they owned the publishing rights to “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You”, Vee-Jay swiftly restored the two culled tracks in their place. Highest US chart position: 2 MEET THE BEATLES! Capitol; January 20, 1964 What it is: With Vee-Jay’s financial issues holding up The Beatles’ US release schedule, clamour for the band rising and their second album already released in the UK, Capitol stepped in to release a US version of… Read More →

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Tina Turner – Tina Turns The Country On!/Acid Queen/Rough/Love ExplosionTina Turner

Like Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West before her, and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter after her, Tina Turner’s 1974 foray into country, Tina Turns The Country On! [8/10], is a refreshing illustration of the breadth of her talents. Already successful with her then-husband in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Tina’s solo career began not with the rock-infused R&B that made them famous, but country crossover instead. On its 50th anniversary, the album is ripe for reconsideration, thanks to a reissue with a brand new half-speed master vinyl and first ever CD release. In addition, her next three solo albums – 1975’s Acid Queen [7/10], 1978’s Rough [6/10] and 1979’s Love Explosion [5/10] — are also being reissued on vinyl and CD, all for the first time in 20 years. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement Tina Turner wrote some of her own songs, including the effervescent tribute to her hometown, “Nutbush City Limits”, but it’s her electrifying reimaginings of songs in the classic rock canon that solidified her status as the queen of rock’n’roll. On her solo debut, she draws… Read More →