Uncut

For this week’s archive feature, we delve back into Uncut’s July 2011 issue (Take 170) – just before the release of Bon Iver’s second album – to find Vernon sunning himself in California, consorting with Kanye and shaping up as “the Neil Young of our generation”. What happened? “For Emma… is the past,” he says. “This is the present, and it’s more colourful and inviting.” Words: Alastair McKay

Footage of a rare gig Morrissey performed with former Smiths members after he left the band to go solo has emerged online. Watch it below.

Springsteen & I, a new fan-made documentary celebrating 40 years of Bruce Springsteen's music, is set to be broadcast around the world this summer. Scroll down to watch the trailer now.

The Georgians' major-label debut - even more thrilling and subversive a quarter of a century on...

Neil Young Journeys is released on DVD on June 10 - and to celebrate we have a great competition. We are delighted to be able to offer a pair of stall tickets to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Alchemy Tour on August 19 at London's 02 Arena.

Paul McCartney has written a letter in support of Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina, who has announced that she is going on hunger strike after being refused the right to attend her own parole hearing. McCartney has also written another letter in support of jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who was last month denied parole. The letters have been sent to Russian officials, asking them to consider releasing the two incarcerated women. Excerpts from the letters have been posted at PaulMcCartney.com. His letter concerning Alyokhina reads:

Arctic Monkeys played a brand new song called "Do I Wanna Know?" at their first live show in almost a year, which took place at the Majestic Ventura Theater in Ventura, California last night (May 22). The band opened their set with the new track. Click below to watch fan-shot footage of the performance. Sporting a silver tuxedo jacket, Alex Turner then led the band through a run of classic tracks from throughout their career.

Keith Richards has admitted he owes library fines going back 50 years. Richard told The Sun that hanging out by the bookshelves was one of his favourite pastimes as a teenager. "It was a place where you get a hint there was a place called civilization," he said of the library in Dartford, Kent. "I still owe fines from about 50 years ago." According to the newspaper, the cost could be as much as £20,000.

Parliament and Funkadelic mastermind George Clinton lets us into his P-Funk world in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out on Thursday, May 23).

Trevor Bolder has died at the age of 62. He passed away from cancer yesterday (May 21), according to reports. He had been suffering from the disease for four years. Bolder joined David Bowie's backing band in 1971, playing on four of Bowie's key early Seventies albums - Hunky Dory, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane and Pin Ups alongside guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Woody Woodmansey.