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Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt announce collaborative album, Loose Talk

Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt have announced details of a collaborative album, Loose Talk, which is released on March 28. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW The album follows on from “Star“, a Ferry/Barratt collaboration that appeared on Ferry’s Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 last year. The first release from Loose Talk is “Orchestra“, which you can hear below. Advertisement Says Ferry, “The whole experience of making Loose Talk has had an interesting newness about it. It...
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Paul Weller curates soul music comp for Ace Records

Paul Weller has curated a 26-track compilation for Ace Records called That Sweet Sweet Music, featuring some of his favourite soul cuts from the likes of Betty Davis, Baby Huey, Richie Havens, Syl Johnson and The Dells. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW “Years before I went out looking for soul music, it found me,” writes Weller in the liner notes. “Soul soundtracked my early life. I filled the C90 tapes we swapped with our mates and the...
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Uncut March 2025

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Advertisement Every print edition of this issue of Uncut comes free with an exclusive Wilco CD called Noisy Ghosts, featuring tracks taken from their upcoming A Ghost Is Born 20th-anniversary edition along with one track unique to this compilation WILCO: Uncut meets Jeff Tweedy and his cohorts in Chicago to unearth the triumphs and tribulations behind Wilco’s artistic triumph, A Ghost Is Born. “If you don’t have any kind of struggle in your life, how do you learn anything..?” JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: Sixty years on, Grace Slick...
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Marianne Faithfull has died

Marianne Faithfull has died aged 78, at home in London, in the company of her family, according to a statement quoted by BBC News. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Faithfull rose to prominence during the 1960s, with the 1964 single “As Tears Go By” and her self-titled debut album the following year. She also starred in a number of films, including The Girl On A Motorcycle (1968), while her relationship with Mick Jagger put her at the heart of...
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Dennis Bovell Sufferer Sounds

He went by many names. Blackbeard. The Dub Band. African Stone. The 4th Street Orchestra. Dennis Matumbi. Today, though, they simply call him Dennis Bovell MBE. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Bovell was one of the central figures in the great flowering of homegrown UK reggae in the 1970s and ’80s, and surely the most adaptable. A multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, sound system selector, chart hitmaker, architect of lovers rock, and an in-demand producer for everyone from dub poet...
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy The Purple Bird

Friendship. Concord. Openness and generosity. If folk is an innately community-minded music, then these are surely its cornerstones, not only practically but idealistically, too. They’re certainly qualities that have shaped Will Oldham’s career of 30-odd years. Though the title of his debut album may have conjured an enigmatic loner squaring up to life’s bleak truth, possibly from a backwoods shack in Kentucky, There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You was recorded with Slint’s Brian McMahan and Britt Walford, among others and released under the name Palace Brothers. In the four years following, Oldham teamed up with...
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Introducing the new Uncut: Wilco, Jefferson Airplane, Patterson Hood, White Stripes and more

CLICK HERE TO ORDER A COPY Advertisement The relationship between Uncut and Wilco stretches back to our very first issue in 1997. There, in the reviews pages alongside album releases from The Jam, Mark Eitzel, Prefab Sprout, Paul McCartney, Laura Nyro, Supergrass and Melvin Van Peebles, Uncut contributor Tom Cox caught Wilco live at Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Hall as they toured in support of Being There. “Suddenly, the whole thing explodes into clanging feedback and it’s as though the conflicting energies of punk and country have been tossed into a giant nuclear reactor,” Tom wrote. Since then, of course, Wilco...
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Win tickets to see Becoming Led Zeppelin

Advertisement We have TWO pairs of tickets to give away to see Becoming Led Zeppelin. THE FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING THE BAND, THE YARDBIRDS, SHARON VAN ETTEN, KEITH RICHARDS, THE VERVE, ASWAD AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Featuring never-before-seen footage, performances and music, director Bernard MacMahon’s film explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, the film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group. Advertisement After an exclusive IMAX release on February 5 and 6, the Led Zeppelin documentary will open in...
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Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to perform R.E.M’s Fables Of The Reconstruction on UK tour

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy And Friends have announced a 2025 UK tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s 1985 album, Fables of the Reconstruction. Advertisement THE MARCH 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING WILCO, A FREE WILCO CD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, PATTERSON HOOD, THE WHITE STRIPES AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW After the pair’s acclaimed, sold out run honouring R.E.M.’s debut album Murmur — which saw the four original members of R.E.M. come together for the first time in 17 years at the tour’s Athens stop in America — the Fables tour will bring Shannon & Narducy together again for a run of live UK dates. On the tour,...
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Paul McCartney and Wings’ Venus And Mars gets 50th Anniversary vinyl edition

Wings‘ fourth studio album Venus And Mars is being reissued to mark it’s 50th anniversary. THE FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT, STARRING THE BAND, THE YARDBIRDS, SHARON VAN ETTEN, KEITH RICHARDS, THE VERVE, ASWAD AND MORE IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW Advertisement Released on March 21 by MPL and UMe, a new half speed master edition cut at by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios is available to pre-order here. The album reproduces the original UK pressing, with recreations of the original “Venus and Mars are alright tonight” circular sticker and “comparative sizes of sun and planets” bookmark sticker. It...
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