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Watch a video for The Lemonheads’ new single, “Deep End”
This autumn, The Lemonheads will release Love Chant – their first album of original material in almost two decades. Advertisement THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE As a taster for the album, they’ve today released a video for the song “Deep End”, which features Evan Dando’s old Massachusetts muckers Juliana Hatfield and J Mascis. Watch it below: “Deep End” was co-written with Dando’s long-time writing partner Tom Morgan of Smudge. It will be released on...
Send us your questions for Billy Idol!
Billy Idol’s punk credentials are impeccable. As a member of the infamous Bromley Contingent, he was there for all the major Sex Pistols set-tos, before stepping up to front Generation X – one of the first punk bands to appear on Top Of The Pops. Advertisement THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Moving to America in the early ’80s, he spearheaded the ‘second British invasion’, racking up solo Top 10 hits on both sides of the pond....
Mick Jagger is producing a new film about the young Miles Davis
Snowfall’s Damson Idris is set to play the young Miles Davis in a new film about the jazz legend’s first trip to Paris in 1949 and his subsequent romance with the actor and singer Juliette Gréco. Advertisement THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Miles & Juliette will be directed by Bill Pohlad – the man behind Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy – and produced by Pohlad’s own River Road Entertainment and Mick Jagger’s Jagged Films, in...
Peter Capaldi My Life In Music
The post-punk Time Lord on the albums that shaped his universe: “Heard once, it stays forever” THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Advertisement FRANK SINATRAThat’s LifeREPRISE, 1966I don’t really remember my parents ever going out to buy a record, but somehow there was a collection of battered albums under the record player. They would often have nights when drink was taken and fun was had, and this album would always go on. You’d never describe an album...
Köln you dig it?
Plenty of music biopics are unable to use songs by the artists they depict. Some, like the 2020 Bowie-related movie Stardust, struggle as a result; others, like Backbeat or Nowhere Boy, find ways to tell a more introspective tale. “For me, it was a beautiful obstacle to overcome,” says Ido Fluk, the Israeli writer and director of Köln 75, which dramatises the events surrounding Keith Jarrett’s famous Köln Concert without being able to feature a single note of his music. “It’s about this legendary concert where a pianist has to improvise for an hour on a broken piano. As...
Yusuf/Cat Stevens unveils his official autobiography
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has announced that his long-awaited memoir, Cat On The Road To Findout, will be published in the UK on September 18, and in North America on October 7. Advertisement THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE The book is billed as “an extraordinary soul-baring journey through the triumphs, trials, and transcendental quest of one of music’s most enigmatic figures of our time” that will reveal “the intimate story of his deeply emotive transformation… from his folk-troubadour...
Queens Of The Stone Age announce Alive In The Catacombs
Queens Of The Stone Age have revealed details of their new stripped-down concert film, recorded live in the Paris catacombs in July 2024. Advertisement THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Alive In The Catacombs features songs from across the Queens Of The Stone Age back catalogue, performed largely acoustically – save for an electric piano connected to a car battery – and augmented by a small string section. Watch the trailer below: Queens Of The...
Introducing…The History Of Rock: 1968!
With Pete Townshend announcing The Who’s farewell US tour, now seems a good time to remind ourselves of when the band made one of their earliest trips to the continent. You can read all about it in The History Of Rock: 1968, the latest in our series of premium magazines curated from the archives of NME and Melody Maker. Advertisement Pete in 1968 is a big fan of America. Amazing microphone systems. Great groups like Moby Grape. Their own bus, “equipped with all modern conveniences like scotch and beer”. Even the fact that they’re staying in poky hotels hasn’t...
The Who announce farewell North American tour
The Who have revealed that their upcoming North American tour will be their last. At a press conference today (May 8) at London’s Iconic Gallery, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend announced details of The Song Is Over: The North American Farewell Tour, which kicks off in Florida on August 16, ending in Las Vegas on September 28. Advertisement THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE “Well, all good things must come to an end,” said Pete Townshend. “It...Recent Posts
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