The Who have parted ways with their drummer Zak Starkey, just one month after he was sacked and swiftly reinstated, The Guardian reports. 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 Starkey has been the band’s drummer since 1996. In an Instagram post on Monday, May 19, Pete Townshend announced that Starkey was no longer performing with The Who. “After many years of great work on drums from Zak the time has come for a change,” Townshend’s post...
On a mild night in Hollywood, Bob Dylan is still not ready for his close-up. When the 83-year-old strikes up his band, stationed behind his upright piano and mumbling his way through his Oscar-winning 2000 single “Things Have Changed”, the screens on either side of the Bowl remain defiantly dark. They do eventually flicker into life a handful of songs later, but even then only to offer a fixed wide shot of Dylan at centre stage with his bandmates grouped around him like a Roman phalanx. As an audience, we perhaps sense we are being kept at arm’s length....
In rock’s house there are many mansions. Soft and progressive, hard, and – as we celebrate in this new magazine – heavy. Advertisement You might want to split hairs with what we’ve done here. But in the run-up to their final performance this summer, we’ve allowed Black Sabbath, our cover stars, to be our guide to our 200 excellent heavy selections in this publication. This doesn’t only mean Sabbath themselves, of course – or indeed the key records by the other foundational heavy rock groups like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. We find room for selections by those groups...
Benmont Tench doesn’t name his pianos as such, but he lovingly distinguishes each of the keyboards he plays on his latest album. “Mr Tench’s piano” is a Steinway B. So is “the Village Recorder’s piano” used in the eponymous studio. “Mr Wilson’s piano”, belonging to producer Jonathan Wilson, is a 1913 Steinway A3. You get to know all these keyboard characters and more on The Melancholy Season, the gorgeous, heart-warming second solo album by a musician better known as a sought-after Los Angeles session player and lifetime member of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF...
The ethereal voice of Julee Cruise is as essential to the world of Twin Peaks as cherry pie and Dale Cooper’s dreams, yet we may have never heard it if visionary director David Lynch had more funds. He really wanted to include This Mortal Coil’s cover of Tim Buckley’s “Song To The Siren” in Blue Velvet, but he couldn’t afford the rights. Composer Angelo Badalamenti, who in short order would become Lynch’s go-to for the rest of their careers, was tasked with writing an original piece of music for the movie instead, given little instruction beyond its eventual title...
Bruce Springsteen has spoken recently about the responsibility of the artist in a turbulent world and he wastes no time putting those words into action tonight. He opens with an extraordinary monologue in which he calls on “the righteous spirit of art, of music, of rock ’n’ roll in dangerous times”, rails against how the country that he loves has fallen into “the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration” and concludes by asking “all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom...
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...
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....
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...
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...
