Uncut’s Best New Albums of 2024
50OREN AMBARCHI/JOHAN BERTHLING/ANDREAS WERLIINGhosted IIDRAG CITY2022’s improvised mindmeld between Aussie experimental guitarist Ambarchi and the Swedish jazz rhythm section of Berthling and Werliin proved so…
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Uncut’s Best Reissues, Live Albums and Compilations of 2024
30ROYAL TRUXTwin InfinitivesFIREDiving straight in at the deep end, Fire kicked off their Royal Trux vinyl reissue series with this synapse-mangling 1990 double LP which…
Ringo Starr joins Paul McCartney onstage at London’s O2 Arena
Ringo Starr joined Paul McCartney onstage at the London’s O2 Arena last night (December 19) for the final 2024 date of Macca’s Got Back tour.…
Send us your questions for Vashti Bunyan!
It’s fair to say that Vashti Bunyan’s musical career hasn’t followed a conventional path. After a faltering attempt to make it as a pop singer…
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Still Barking
Hedonism and angst, heartbreak and rapture, bombast and tenderness – rock music does them all with an often startling brilliance. Humour? Not so much. Randy…
Bridget Hayden And The Apparitions – Cold Blows The Rain
The Yorkshire moors, wrote the novelist Emily Bronté, were a place to walk where your own nature would lead you. If only Emily could had…
Paul McCartney, Co-op Live, Manchester, December 14
“This opening is pretty good,” says Paul McCartney, having already burned through “A Hard Day’s Night”, Wings double “Junior’s Farm” and “Letting Go”, plus “Drive…
Listen to Neil Young’s Christmas playlist
Neil Young has posted a Christmas playlist on his YouTube channel. Running to an hour and three quarters, it includes Young’s own material – including…
Gram Parsons remembered: “He was too much of a purist…”
From Uncut’s February 2011 issue (Take 189). Summer 1972, GRAM PARSONS had patented his Cosmic American Music with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers,…
Jeff Beck: “I was a good bowler, but I just wanted to crack a six…”
From Uncut’s August 2016 issue (Take 231): a conspiratorial chat with JEFF BECK, in which the guitar maestro looks back on a lifetime reinventing rock…
Joanna Newsom: arc of a diver
It’s time for breakfast in LA with JOANNA NEWSOM. In this extract from Jaan Uhelszki’s interview with Newsom in Uncut’s November 2015 issue (Take 222),…
Tangled Up In Cool: Bryan Ferry on Bob Dylan
In 2006, with work on a much-anticipated new Roxy Music LP on hiatus, BRYAN FERRY recorded a collection Bob Dylan covers – The Dylan Album.…
The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time…Ranked!
Expand your collection and hear more great music… How do you go about making a great album? We can know them when we hear them,…
Kraftwerk, Psychedelic Furs, Jesus & Mary Chain for Forever Now festival
Kraftwerk, The The, Death Cult, Billy Idol, Johnny Marr, The Psychedelic Furs, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Happy Monday are among the names announced for Forever Now, a brand…
Elvis Costello to revisit “early songs” on tour
Elvis Costello & The Imposters are heading out on an American tour in 2025, performing Costello’s early repertoire from My Aim Is True to Blood…
Julia Holter – My Life In Music
LA’s musical magic realist reveals her loud city songs: “There’s sorrow and ecstasy and all the feelings” THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT FEATURES KATE BUSH,…
Inside the making of A Complete Unknown: “Bob Dylan’s recollections were critical”
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…
A Complete Unknown
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…
Inside this month’s free Uncut CD – Nocturnes: the month’s best new music
Mogwai, Eddie Chacon, The Innocence Mission, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions and Euros Childs all appear on the latest free Uncut CD. The compilation, entitled…
Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet – The Way Out Of Easy
Buy The Way Out Of Easy Jeff Parker is best known to rock fans as a key member of the Chicago post-rock ensemble Tortoise, someone…