Johnny Marr has announced that he’ll release a new 22-track live album via BMG on September 19. Advertisement Look Out Live! was recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2024 during his Spirit Power tour. A special guest that night was Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, and you can hear their versions of Electronic’s “Getting Away With It” (Tennant’s first collaboration with Marr back in 1989) and David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” below: Look Out Live! is available on limited edition orange double vinyl (previously only available in indie stores as a Record Store Day exclusive release), on...
To celebrate the incredible life and reassuringly heavy music of Ozzy Osbourne, we revisit a classic Black Sabbath interview from the July 2014 issue of Uncut (Take 206). Riding high on the success of their chart-topping reunion album 13, Ozzy, Tommy and Geezer took us through the formidable Sabbath cannon, album-by-album. Ozzy Osbourne is in high spirits as he calls from Los Angeles. “I’m having the time of my life,” he says, revelling in the success that has greeted the reformation of the classic Black Sabbath lineup for a new album and tour. “We’re having a fucking blast,” he...
RIP Ozzy Osbourne, that most fun-loving of dark princes. Back in our May 2010 issue (Take 156), he kindly consented to answer questions sent in by Uncut readers – and a few famous fans, including Frank Skinner, Sparks and Aston Villa legend Gordon Cowans… Who was your musical hero growing up, and what are you getting me for my birthday?Duff McKagan, Guns N’ Roses What am I getting you for your birthday? Same as you got me, you cunt, which is fuck all. Ha ha! My musical heroes? Well, it’s The Beatles, obviously. That’s why I did those Lennon...
“What does magic mean to me?” wonders an indomitable Genesis P-Orridge, puffing on the oxygen tubes that sprout from h/er reconstructed nose at the start of David Charles Rodrigues’ loving, curious, partial documentary. “The only real answer to any question you have is: the sum total of my life so far.” Advertisement S/he Is Still Her/e doesn’t quite give us that sum total, and feels very much like the authorised story (a large part of it is told by h/er delightfully nonchalant Californian daughters, Genesse and Caresse). But then any proper reckoning with this queer, relentless, experimental life might...
The new issue of Uncut – in shops now and available to order online by clicking here – features a wide-ranging and candid interview with Paul Weller touching on movie acting, King Charles’ coronation, the travails of Kneecap, the revived Sex Pistols, and the musical discoveries behind his new covers album, Find El Dorado. He also looks back at the early days of The Jam, prompted by the recent death of his bandmate, Rick Buckler. Advertisement “I’m just really sad,” says Weller, to Uncut’s Pete Paphides. “I mean, Rick’s passing was a real shock; it was a real fucking...
‘‘Imagine,” Fred Schneider tells Uncut, “one week I’m washing dishes to make ends meet because I’d quit my job to do the band, and then the next week we’re flying to Nassau to record…” At the Bahamas’ luxurious Compass Point Studios over three weeks in early 1979, The B-52s laid down their self-titled debut album. These five skint musicians were a bold signing for Island and Warners, even amid the excitement of post-punk: a deeply strange and subtly transgressive group, they shared as much DNA with the avant-garde, from Sun Ra to Yoko Ono to Captain Beefheart, as with...
Robert Plant has announced that his new album Saving Grace – named after the band he’s been touring with over the last few years – will be released by Nonesuch Records on September 26. Advertisement Hear the first single, a cover of Low‘s “Everybody’s Song”, below: Saving Grace was recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, with vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown. “We laugh a lot, really. I think that suits me. I like laughing,”...
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Advertisement Speaking to Uncut in 2006, Brian Wilson explained the recording process for “Good Vibrations”. The song, he told us, “took six weeks to record, in five different studios. I wrote out each musician’s part on music paper then they all played it together. I found I could work out each part without it being too difficult. It did get tedious, though. The musicians understood it all more or less straight away. Hal Blaine was always right on my wavelength.” Although a relatively understated...
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR EVERY PRINT EDITION OF THIS ISSUE OF UNCUT COMES WITH A FREE COPY OF MOVIN ON – A 10-TRACK CD OF PAUL WELLER RARITIES AND DEEP CUTS! Advertisement PAUL WELLER: The Modfather returns with covers album Find El Dorado, the making of which turned into a revelatory experience for Weller. Over multiple meetings, he takes Uncut through his present, future and past: from a pivotal viewing of That’ll Be The Day, the early days of The Jam and sharing the tour van with a lion, right...
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has announced that his new (triple) solo album Twilight Override will be released by dBpm Records on September 25. Advertisement Hear four songs from it – “One Tiny Flower”, “Out In The Dark”, “Stray Cats In Spain” and “Enough” – below: Twilight Override was recorded and self-produced by Tweedy at his Chicago studio, The Loft, with musicians including James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, Liam Kazar, and Tweedy’s children Spencer and Sammy. “When you choose to do creative things, you align yourself with something that other people call God,”...
