Next month, James Mangold’s film A Complete Unknown opens in cinemas, bringing to the big screen the early years of BOB DYLAN, from folk interloper to his electric apostasy at Newport in 1965. In this extract from from Uncut’s January 2025 issue, we discover how much involvement Dylan himself had in this cinematic undertaking.. CLICK HERE TO READ UNCUT’S REVIEW OF A COMPLETE UNKNOWN Advertisement LOS Angeles, 2020. Although the city is in lockdown, a coffee shop has been opened for the morning for the exclusive use of two illustrious customers. James Mangold, the director of Walk The Line,...
When the wild, rambling film of Rolling Thunder Revue was released back in 2019, it came with the subtitle “a Bob Dylan story by Martin Scorsese”, in what felt like a nod to the endless stream of franchise extensions that come tagged as “a Star Wars story” or “a Mad Max saga”. It cutely suggested that, with the MCU floundering, the 2020s might see a full flowering of the Bob Dylan Extended Universe, with movies, miniseries and, eventually, collectable figurines dedicated to the lost highways, side quests and minor characters of “My Back Pages“. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT...
Mogwai, Eddie Chacon, The Innocence Mission, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions and Euros Childs all appear on the latest free Uncut CD. The compilation, entitled Nocturnes, comes with the January 2024 issue of Uncut, and showcases the month’s best new music. Advertisement See below for more on the full tracklisting… ORDER A COPY DIRECT FROM US HERE 1 Brown SpiritsMind Rocker (Part 1)We kick off our exploration of this month’s best new music with a slice of grooving motorik garage from Melbourne’s Brown Spirits. The duo’s latest offering, Cosmic Seeds, continues their journey into kraut-centred deep space, but with...
Jeff Parker is best known to rock fans as a key member of the Chicago post-rock ensemble Tortoise, someone who adds a rigour, virtuosity and high-gloss to their proggy instrumentals. But he’s also spent more than three decades exploring many different types of music. The Chicago scene from which Parker emerged in the 1990s was characterised by unusual collaborations between musicians from different genres, all playing together in odd combinations. As well as working with Tortoise, Parker would find himself playing regular sessions with the minimalist gumbri player Joshua Abrams, electronic explorers Isotope 217 and various free jazz musicians,...
White Denim have always been a difficult band to pin down. Since their 2008 debut album Workout Holiday, they’ve run the gamut from raucous garage rock to taut indie via touches of psychedelia, prog, soul and Southern boogie. However, on 12, they have arrived at something else altogether. Sucking up aesthetic influences from the UK new wave scene via groups like Scritti Politti, Orange Juice and Aztec Camera, while absorbing the masterful dub productions of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Dennis Bovell, along with studying the songwriting chops of Nick Lowe and Jonathan Richman, they have come up with an...
Headliners Father John Misty, Self Esteem and Caribou are among the first names revealed for the End Of The Road festival’s 2025 edition, taking place at its usual home of Larmer Tree Gardens on the Dorset/Wiltshire border on August 28-31. THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH, QUINCY JONES, THE WEATHER STATION, THE DAMNED AND OUR ESSENTIAL 2025 PREVIEW – ORDER YOUR COPY NOW Advertisement Sharon Van Etten will headline the festival on the opening night (Thursday 28) with her new band The Attachment Theory, while Throwing Muses, Goat, Rosali and Lisa O’Neill are also due to appear....
Before I dig into this, a couple of bits of housekeeping. Firstly, apologies to Nick Hasted, who we inadvertently omitted to credit for last month’s Nick Cave cover story. Secondly, a quick heads up to all print subscribers that this issue comes with a second CD – the latest instalment in our ongoing Selected Works series, this one celebrating Cassandra Jenkins. You might have noticed Cassandra’s recent album My Light, My Destroyer in our Albums Of The Year and we’re delighted to have been able to further support her work on this rather special, 5-track CD. If you’ve come...
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Every print copy of this issue comes with a free 12-track CD featuring brand new music from Mogwai, Rose City Band, Songhoy Blues, The Innocence Mission, Euros Childs, Eddie Chacon and more. Meanwhile, inside the magazine… Advertisement KATE BUSH: In this revelatory lost interview from 2011, Kate Bush holds forth on fame, the internet, pop music, fantastical creatures and the time she nearly burned her house down… BOB DYLAN: With James Mangold’s early-years biopic A Complete Unknown soon to open in cinemas, we discover how Dylan...
The first winners of January’s UK Americana Awards have been announced, with Candi Staton to receive the International Lifetime Achievement Award, Lyle Lovett the International Trailblazer Award, and CMAT the UK/Ireland Trailblazer Award. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement A host of other award-winners will be revealed at the ceremony – taking place at London’s Hackney Church on January 23 – with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Waxahatchee, Bonny Light Horseman, Brown Horse, Katherine Priddy, Jason Isbell, Kacey...
There’s a sea of people bouncing in green balaclavas, beers are flying, sweat is dripping, bodies are hoisted up on top of shoulders, and people are lovingly embracing one another. The mood is palpably jubilant this evening, as Fontaines DC kick off their three-night residency in Manchester. THE REVIEW OF 2024, NICK CAVE, ALICE COLTRANE, ELVIS COSTELLO, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, CASSANDRA JENKINS AND MORE STAR IN THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER A COPY HERE! Advertisement This 2,000-capacity space is a comparatively intimate setting to the rest of their arena tour dates, so to have this relatively up-close environment – in...
