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Pink Floyd: “It’s very evocative and emotional…”
From Uncut’s November 2014 issue . The inside story of the Floyd’s studio swansong, The Endless River… Advertisement On an afternoon in mid-August, Astoria – the houseboat studio owned by David Gilmour – seems deceptively quiet. Moored at the end of a sloping garden along a quiet stretch of the River Thames, Gilmour’s handsome Edwardian vessel is usually shut up during the summer holidays. But not, it transpires, this year. On closer inspection, signs of activity become apparent. In a large conservatory at the top of the riverside garden, coffee mugs and a small frying pan are stacked...
The New York Dolls: “We were kind of lost souls”
From Uncut’s June 2004 issue . The lurid, unexpurgated saga of The New York Dolls, as told to Uncut by the band themselves… Advertisement November 4, 1972. The New York Dolls are backstage at Liverpool stadium, preparing for one of their most prestigious gigs of this, their first UK tour. It is barely six months since their public debut, yet here they are about to open for no less a rock luminary than Lou Reed. The group that Melody Maker hailed as “the best rock ‘n’ roll band in the world” before they’d signed a deal or recorded...
Neil Young announces Coastal album and film
Neil Young has confirmed details of Coastal, the album and tour documentary recorded during Young’s 2023 solo tour of the same time. Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW The documentary, filmed by Daryl Hannah, will screen in cinemas worldwide on one night only on April 17. You can find more information here. Meanwhile, the 11-track album Coastal: The Soundtrack features Young on guitars, piano and harmonica and is released the following day, on April 18, via Reprise. Advertisement Coastal: The Soundtrack will be released on...
Fugazi: in on the film maker
While watching old Fugazi concert videos on YouTube one evening, Jeff Krulik had a brainwave. “There was a lot of footage online shot by fans, and I was reminded how powerful Fugazi were as a live entity,” he says. “I had the idea of stringing this footage together to recreate the concert experience.” The result became We Are Fugazi From Washington DC, a unique “non-documentary” that celebrates the band’s close relationship with their audience. Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS...
The Beta Band reunite
The Beta Band have announced details of a UK and North American tour. The shows will feature the Steve Mason (guitar / vocals), Richard Greentree (bass), John Maclean (samples / keyboard) and Robin Jones (drums). Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW A deluxe vinyl reissue of The Three E.P.’s is also due via Because Music on July 11 via Because Music. The tour will be the first time the band have played together since they broke...
Watch R.E.M. reunite to play “Pretty Persuasion”
The four original members of R.E.M. reunited on Thursday, February 27 and Friday, February 28 to perform “Pretty Persuasion” at the 400 Watt club in their hometown of Athens, Georgia. Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry took to the stage during two Athens dates on Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy‘s current tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the band’s Fables Of The Reconstruction album. When Shannon and...
Kim Deal, Barbican Hall, London, March 1, 2025
As one deal falls apart spectacularly in the Oval Office, a very different kind of Deal is bringing it all together across that big, beautiful ocean. US indie slacker heroine Kim Deal has taken over the 2,000-capacity Barbican Hall for her sold-out debut solo UK show and packed the stage with 25 musicians, including a nine-piece string section, four horns and the Shards vocal quintet, as well as her six-piece band. It’s a big splash for the modest star – the overheads must be eye-watering – but Deal wants to do justice to her excellent solo album Nobody Loves...
Beautiful Monsters: Makes My Blood Dance’s Genre Rebellion “Time and a Place”
Brooklyn’s musical mutineers, Makes My Blood Dance have returned to terrorize genre purists with their latest single “Time and a Place,” which dropped just now. It’s another middle finger to convention from the self-proclaimed “DiscoMetal” architects who refuse to color within the lines. Recorded with producers Mikal Blue (OneRepublic) and Brett “Epic” Mazur (Crazy Town), the track is a disorienting cocktail of contradictions—screaming guitars and pulsing beats, vulnerability and aggression, all crashing together like colliding planets. It’s messy, it’s jarring, and that’s precisely the point. Lead vocalist EV0’s lyrics cut deeper than their previous work: “How can I compete/There...
David Johansen: “I can look back and say, ‘Yeah, that was really something…’”
From Uncut’s July 2023 issue, Uncut’s final interview with David Johansen, the New York Dolls frontman turned bouffant nightclub act, country-blues singer and more… Advertisement THE APRIL 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING LED ZEPPELIN, JASON ISBELL, BRYAN FERRY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, THE WATERBOYS, DAVID BOWIE, MADDY PRIOR AND MORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Sipping PG Tips from a dainty blue-and-white teacup, David Johansen considers the long, strange journey that has taken him from high-heeled frontman of the New York Dolls to bouffant nightclub act, country-blues singer and beyond. “There are certain phases in the history of New York, especially...Recent Posts
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