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Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!

Allan Jones Tue, 14/05/2013 - 1:03pm

“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. I wasn’t particularly influenced by my contemporaries. They weren’t very good.”

The 19th Uncut Playlist Of 2013

John Mulvey Tue, 14/05/2013 - 11:05am

Playing the Daft Punk album this morning (it’s streaming on iTunes if you haven’t found it yet), which is quite interesting. Bits of it are astonishing, I’d say (“Get Lucky” of course, “Contact”, “Giorgio By Moroder” especially). I am finding it hard, though, to completely sign up to a record that intermittently reminds me of Christopher Cross record. Evidently, I still carry traces of ‘80s indie militancy.

First Look - Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring

Michael Bonner Fri, 10/05/2013 - 12:13pm

Sofia Coppola always seem to have had an uneasy relationship with celebrity.

The Man Who Fell To Earth! The Hunger! SpongeBob SquarePants! Our guide to David Bowie on film

Michael Bonner Wed, 08/05/2013 - 12:32pm

The unveiling of Bowie's latest video earlier today prompted me to dig out this piece I originally wrote for our Bowie Ultimate Music Guide, about Bowie on film...

Willie Nelson and friends, including Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Paul Simon and Merle Haggard

Allan Jones Tue, 07/05/2013 - 1:14pm

There’s a great video on uncut.co.uk at the moment of Neil Young singing ‘Happy Birthday’ in affectionate celebration of Willie Nelson, who was, astonishingly, 80 last month.

The 18th Uncut Playlist Of 2013

John Mulvey Tue, 07/05/2013 - 11:03am

Various malign forces conspired to prevent me from posting this playlist in its rightful timeslot last week; apologies for that. But better late than never, I guess, and some fine new arrivals here from, among others, Duane Pitre, Bitchin Bajas, The Cairo Gang and Houndstooth.

Lou Barlow: “Thee Oh Sees set my brain on fire..."

John Mulvey Thu, 02/05/2013 - 11:23am

Since Thee Oh Sees start their UK tour tonight in Liverpool (then Leeds on the 7th, Cardiff (8), London (9), and Camber Sands ATP at some point between the 10th and the 12th), today seems a good time to post this excellent piece about the band by Lou Barlow.

Boards Of Canada interviewed: "We're too busy to give a shit!"

John Mulvey Wed, 01/05/2013 - 11:40am

Been meaning to post this piece for a while, since the whole clandestine operation around the new Boards Of Canada album, “Tomorrow’s Harvest”, began. It’s an interview I did with the duo in February 2002, around the release of “Geogaddi”. NME billed it erroneously as “Boards Of Canada’s first ever interview” at the time, which was pushing it a bit…

'Blame it on Jack White...' Introducing BP Fallon & The Bandits

Allan Jones Tue, 30/04/2013 - 1:04pm

The last time I had occasion to write about my old friend BP Fallon in Uncut was in March, 2010, when he’d just released his debut single, produced by Jack White and released by Jack’s Third Man Records as the first in the label’s new Spoken Word-Instructional record Series. “Fame #9” was backed with “BP Fallon Interview By Jack White” and “I Believe In Elvis Presley”, on which White played some viperish slide guitar, with The Raconteurs’ Patrick Keeler on drums. There was also a video, featuring some of BP’s many friends, including Kevin Shields, Bobby Gillespie and Gemma Hayes.