Mick Ronson once fell asleep on me during an interview, the glam rock guitar god nodding off towards the end of what had become quite an emotional late night outburst…
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Notes From The Great Escape Festival
Things aren’t due to kick off for a couple of hours at the Pavilion Theatre where throughout this year’s Great Escape Festival Uncut is hosting a splendid line-up. So early…
Playing Bass With Elvis, Dylan, The Doors & More…
Jerry Scheff is surely not an unfamiliar name to readers of Uncut. I’d wager a horse most of you have more than one album in your collection that feature him…
The John Peel Archive
Like many music fans of a certain age, John Peel turned me on to a lot of music I may otherwise only have stumbled upon much later, if at all.…
Simone Felice Band, London Bush Hall, April 27, 2012
Simi Stone was a member of the now apparently retired The Duke & The King, alongside Simone Felice. Tonight she’s opening for Simone at the Bush Hall, a solo turn…
Dexys, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, John Lydon, Neil Young in new Uncut
The new Uncut is on sale from Thursday, and we’re blushingly pleased with it. Dexys are on the cover, and we have an exclusive interview with Kevin Rowland in advance…
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones, London Jazz Café, April 20, 2012
When he first toured the UK with The Blasters, in 1981 or thereabouts, Dave Alvin was a swaggering young yahoo in rockabilly duds with a 50s quiff, attitude to spare…
No Last Waltz: A Tribute To Levon Helm By Simone Felice
A couple of years ago when I was in Woodstock to interview Simone Felice and his band, The Duke & The King, Simone drove me around the mountains where he’d…
Chuck Berry makes a mark on Uncut
If you can't quite make it out, that’s Chuck Berry’s signature, top left in the picture above of a couple of pages from the April issue of Uncut. It was…
Dave Alvin And The Blasters
Dylan at the Hop Farm Festival, Springsteen and Paul Simon in Hyde Park, the Great Escape Festival in Brighton, as mentioned last week, a ton of great bands at the…
Uncut At The Great Escape Festival With Beth Jeans Houghton, EMA, Willy Mason, Hans Chew
This year’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton is almost upon us, running from May 10-12 at a 30 venues across the town and featuring somewhere in the region of 300…
The new Uncut, Jack White, the Stones, Pete Townshend
The new Uncut isn't on sale until Thursday, which is March 29. But here’s a quick run-down on what’s in it, which is a lot, so you may want to…
The Byrds, Will Oldham, Gregg Allman, Townes Van Zandt and other music tomes
The groaning noise behind me is coming from shelves that have recently started to buckle from the almost daily addition to them of new music books, the majority of them…
Dr Feelgood, Dexys and more
I can’t believe it, either, but we seem to be already at that point in the month when I start by telling you that we’re hard at work finishing off…
Dawes, London Borderline, March 5, 2012
A few weeks shy of a year ago, I was at the 12 Bar Club in London’s Denmark Street, the Tin Pan Alley of pop legend, to see a young…
The War On Drugs, London Electric Ballroom, February 28, 2012
They start with the tropical strum of “Buenos Aires Beach”, from their debut album Wagonwheel Blues, whose balmy unfolding might strike you as an inappropriate opener for a chilly night…
The New Uncut And REM Ultimate Music Guide
Readers with a regular subscription received their copies of the new-look Uncut over the weekend, ahead of it going on sale generally. Thanks to those among them who have responded…
Simone Felice, Richmond Fontaine and Alejandro Escovedo Headline ‘The Uncut Sessions’
We've just finished work on the first issue of the new-look Uncut, which among other things new to the magazine features a widely re-worked reviews section, which without wanting to…
The Lost Genius Of Paul Siebel
After spending last weekend catching up with what seems like a veritable deluge of great new music, I had a yen for some old favourites this weekend, among them two…
The Ballad Of Kurt Vile And Some More Great New Music
A little over a month into 2012 and great new albums seem to be a-popping up all over the shop, something arriving in the post every day almost that either…