Emotional times, as this is Allan’s last day as editor of Uncut. Before we get down to that, though, here…
Wild Mercury Sound
The 19th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
A new office this week, although a good few crates remain. These, though, are the tunes that’ve sensitively assisted our…
The 18th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
Scene of some devastation this morning, as we’re surrounded by crates, packing for a move to new offices on the…
Track Premiere: Hiss Golden Messenger’s “Brother, Do You Know The Road?”
Sometimes great songs fall by the wayside, for whatever reason, and over the past year or so it’s felt that…
The 17th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
So much good here this time out, after missing a playlist last week for various reasons. Where to start?
Q&A: Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires
A month or so back, I sent Lee Bains III a few questions for a Q&A to run alongside my…
Reviewed! Neil Young, “A Letter Home”
About ten years ago, I had a series of conversations with some people preparing a new edition of Harry Smith’s…
The 16th Uncut Playlist Of 2014: hear new Neil Young, Jack White and much more…
Beyond the Ebay landfill mountains of luminous “Ghostbusters” singles, there were a weird few days this week when it seemed…
The 15th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
One of the books I’ve enjoyed most in the past couple of years is “Pulphead”, a collection of John Jeremiah…
The 14th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
Bit of a rush in the face of deadlines this morning, but a strange list – not all of it…
Reviewed: Hurray For The Riff Raff’s “Small Town Heroes”
To be a fan of Gillian Welch, as many Uncut readers will appreciate, requires an uncommon degree of faithfulness and…
The 13th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
Some highlights to see/hear this week: Neil Young playing “Thrasher” for the first time (technically, second time I think) in…
The 12th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
Lots to get stuck into this week, though I think it’s worth drawing special attention to the superb William Tyler…
The 11th Uncut Playlist Of 2014
After a very long wait, the second album on Matthew E White’s Spacebomb label has turned up… and it may…
The Tenth Uncut Playlist Of 2014
I’ve alluded a few times in recent weeks to the excellence of the forthcoming “Spiderland” boxset, and especially to the…
The Ninth Uncut Playlist Of 2014
Being a bit of a broken record here: a proliferation of Hurray For The Riff Raff albums this week, since…
Q&A: Real Estate
One of the things I wrote in the new issue of Uncut (full details here) is a longish review of…
The Eighth Uncut Playlist Of 2014
Another song this week from what’s rapidly shaping up to be one of my favourite 2014 albums, Hurray For The…
The Seventh Uncut Playlist Of 2014
For a while this week, it looked like I might be able to post a playlist entirely consisting of new…
The Sixth Uncut Playlist Of 2014
Another one of the annoying redacted albums uncovered this week, in the shape of Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, on the…