We have a pair of tickets to give away to see Sturgill Simpson as his current tour hits the UK and Europe. 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 tour – in support of last year’s excellent album Passage du Desir, recorded as Johnny Blue Skies – kicks off at the Limelight in Belfast on February 28 then heads to Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, London and Bristol, before heading into mainland Europe. You can find the full tour dates...
Rick Buckler has died aged 69. News of the drummer’s passing was confirmed by his former The Jam bandmates, Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton. 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 In a statement posted to his social platforms, Weller wrote: “I’m shocked and saddened by Rick’s passing. I’m thinking back to us all rehearsing in my bedroom in Stanley Road, Woking. To all the pubs and clubs we played at as kids, to eventually making a record. What...
Jim Keltner may well be the most storied session drummer alive today. Indeed, even to call him a session musician undersells the key role he’s played on records by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ry Cooder, Steely Dan, Carly Simon, Richard Thompson, Eric Clapton, Roy Orbison and hundreds more. 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 He was part of Joe Cocker’s infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen jaunt, he joined Booker T & The MG’s when...
Onstage at the 40 Watt club, Patterson Hood regales hundreds of Heathens with a story about moving to Athens, Georgia, on April Fool’s Day in 1994. As he tells it, he arrived in town and walked directly to this very club, which was already renowned as one of the best rock venues in the South. Cracker and Counting Crows were playing a double bill, and while he didn’t have money to buy a ticket, the doorman let him sneak past. It’s a fond memory of a formative experience, and the fact that he’s recounting it onstage at the 40...
In his introduction to this latest Ultimate Music Guide, Graham Nash lets fly a rather surprising opinion. Advertisement “I’m not so sure that the story of CSNY could ever really be told,” he tells us. “There have been a couple of new books about us recently, but it feels like both of them are just lists of how we fucked up. I didn’t sense the incredible joy that we felt, being in love with each other and in each other’s music, creating this body of work that travelled around the world.” Like Neil Young and David Crosby, Nash has written...
The second wave of names added the bill for 2025’s End Of The Road festival includes The National’s Matt Berninger (playing a solo set), dreampop cellist Mabe Fratti and Saharan guitar legend Bombino. 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 festival provides an opportunity to see plenty of artists recently championed in the pages of Uncut, including Bridget Hayden And The Apparitions, former Girls frontman Christopher Owens, mystical Cornish singer-songwriter Daisy Rickman, Ezra Feinberg, Florist, Jim Ghedi and...
Bon Iver’s new album SABLE, fABLE will be released by Jagjaguwar on April 11. The first three tracks will be familiar from last year’s SABLE EP, but whereas those songs are “sparse and solitary”, the rest of the album “looks towards a vibrant future filled with light, purpose and possibility”. 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 was produced by Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack, and was primarily recorded at Vernon’s April Base studio in Wisconsin. Guests...
Small Faces’ posthumous 1969 compilation The Autumn Stone will be reissued in expanded form on March 28, to kick off the 60th anniversary celebrations of Immediate Records. Curated by drummer Kenney Jones, the new reissue is a joint release with his own Nice Records. 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 Newly mastered by Nick Robbins, it boasts a number of previously unreleased and rare versions of Small Faces songs, including stripped-down acoustic mixes and live tracks. Advertisement As...
Patti Smith has announced a number of 2025 live dates at which she’ll play her 1975 classic album Horses in full. 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 Smith will be accompanied by two members of her original group, Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, along with current bandmates Tony Shanahan and Jackson Smith. The Horses tour is set to gallop into Dublin, Madrid, Bergamo, London, Brussels, Oslo and Paris this autumn, as well as nine cities in the...
Perhaps one of the minor, less explored planets of the George Clinton universe, the Brides started out as an offshoot of characters in the storyline of Parliament’s 1976 loose concept album The Clones of Dr Funkenstein. Featuring, for the purposes of this debut long player, the pairing of Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry, the duo were marketed as a more radio-friendly prospect than typical P-Funk fare. 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 It worked a treat on curtain-raising...
