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Son Volt – Electro Melodier

Rob Hughes
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Son Volt – Electro Melodier
Had everything gone as planned, Jay Farrar might still be looking back rather than forwards. Last year marked 25 years since Trace, his debut album as leader of Son Volt, the band he founded after the demise of alt.country avatars Uncle Tupelo. But global events meant that the anniversary tour never...

Had everything gone as planned, Jay Farrar might still be looking back rather than forwards. Last year marked 25 years since Trace, his debut album as leader of Son Volt, the band he founded after the demise of alt.country avatars Uncle Tupelo. But global events meant that the anniversary tour never happened, forcing the singer and guitarist to hole up and contemplate an uncertain future instead.

The upshot of his new labour is Electro Melodier, a rich, impassioned set of songs that essay a global nation in flux. Farrar didn’t intend to follow one political record (2019’s Union) with another, but he says, “it always seems to find a way back in there”. These sentiments reach their most powerful expression on Living In The USA, which addresses a homeland built on spurious notions of freedom, choking on fossil fuels and offering up the rule of law to the highest bidder. “Where’s the heart from days of old?” he despairs. “Where’s the empathy?/Where’s the soul?” Equally scornful, The Levee On Down shames American history – specifically Andrew Jackson and his role in the Cherokee removal – and its bloodied legacy.

Yet Electro Melodier is finely weighted between anguish and hope. The Globe, a fiery throwback to Son Volt’s earliest days, draws sustenance from the age of protest, sensing very real change on the street. And for all its low-key blues and accompanying background hiss, War On Misery is essentially a call for togetherness and compassion. Stylistically, in keeping with recent works, the album aims for the spot where folk, blues and country converge. Farrar’s acoustic guitar is an unwavering presence, though multi-instrumentalist Mark Spencer (on slide, lap steel and organ) provides much of the texture and shade. Diamonds And Cigarettes is a prime example, with Laura Cantrell duetting with Farrar on a salute to his wife of 25 years and “all the hard lessons with no regrets”. Against a backdrop of disquiet, Electro Melodier is ultimately mindful of counting life’s blessings, “friends to care for and places to be”.

Sault – Nine

John Lewis
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Sault – Nine
In a 2019 interview, the singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka credits his producer and main collaborator Inflo for giving him the confidence to appear on camera. “I was always terrified of pushing myself and appearing in videos,” says Kiwanuka. “But Inflo told me how important it was for fans to...

In a 2019 interview, the singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka credits his producer and main collaborator Inflo for giving him the confidence to appear on camera. “I was always terrified of pushing myself and appearing in videos,” says Kiwanuka. “But Inflo told me how important it was for fans to see the artist they’re listening to. It helps them connect.”

Would that Inflo took his own advice. Inflo is a producer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, whose real name (according to his label’s listing at Companies House) is believed to be Dean Wynton Josiah Cover. For all his deliberate anonymity he’s actually quite a big name in the biz: he’s won Mercury and Ivor Novello awards for co-writing and producing albums for Kiwanuka and the London rapper Little Simz; he took The Kooks in a funkwards direction on their (rather good) 2014 album Listen, and he’s also written, arranged and produced for artists as diverse as Jack Peñate, Tom Odell, Jungle, Belle & Sebastian, The Saturdays, Max Jury and Portugal The Man.

But, even better than all these achievements, Inflo is also the main figure behind an enigmatic Brit-soul collective called Sault. They’ve done no interviews, no photo sessions and have no press agent, so their albums appear to leak out without warning. In 2019 came two albums named, rather confusingly, 5 and 7. Two more followed in 2020: Untitled (Black Is), released in June, and Untitled (Rise), released in September. There are standout tracks on all four albums: Rise featured the plaintive piano-led, Donny Hathaway-ish Little Boy, the poetic punk-funk of The Beginning And The End and the dreamy disco of Strong” Black Is included the trance-like Afro-funk of I Just Want To Dance and the Afrobeat of Bow (featuring Kiwanuka); while the first two LPs featured some cracking punk-funk oddities. But really, there are barely any duff Sault tracks.

Using assorted singers and poets, they seem to change in genre from track to track, drawing from half a century of soul, funk and other black music, inviting comparisons with one of those “anthology” projects like Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modelling School or Mr Jukes (indeed, Inflo was initially rumoured to be Damon Albarn or Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton).

Where Sault’s two 2020 albums addressed the George Floyd murder and the BLM protests with a host of US poets and singers, Nine is a much more London-centric affair. The only American voice on the LP is a sample of an African-American woman on You From London, gleefully identifying someone as British before asking them if they know the Queen, eat “crumpets and shit” and have bad teeth. An immediate counterpoint comes from a slack-jawed, London-accented rhyme from Little Simz, which references Oyster cards, Overground lines and shopping at Morrisons.

It’s one of many street-level voyages through the capital, starting with two white-knuckle rides through its grimier postcodes.London Gangs uses a twitchy synth bass, a funky
ride-cymbal pattern and some discordant post-punk bass riffs to tell a thrillingly grim story of revenge, crippling pride and horrific peer pressure; Trap Life is a tale of knife crime and police suspicion based around a monstrously funky breakbeat. Both sound weirdly similar to Gorillaz songs (something that will only fuel the Albarn rumours) and flirt with the sonic tropes of grime and hip-hop, but there is none of rap’s traditional braggadocio here. The thugs and gangsters on display are sweet and tender hooligans, viewed through the female gaze, their arrogance a mask for crippling insecurity. The only male voices on
the album are interviews with young black Londoners, who tell despairing tales of broken homes, murdered fathers and the stresses caused by petty gangland rivalries.

Some American critics have compared Sault to Soul II Soul and they certainly share a celebration of black London, but any Daisy Age positivity has been replaced by a weariness and anger. On the gorgeously string-drenched Bitter Streets, Cleo Sol sings a sorrowful hymn to a once-sensitive boyfriend who “made friends with a gun”; “Alcohol” is a wonderfully drowsy old-school soul ballad in 6/8 about the pain caused by alcoholism. The only optimism here comes from identifying problems and defiantly working through them. Light’s In Your Hands is a piano-led ballad about how a young man from a troubled home has the power to reinvent himself; the title track, 9, is a Noel Gallagher-esque dirge about a child from a broken home, which springs to life when it suddenly morphs into a joyous slice of Rotary Connection soul positivity. “One day you’ll make it, one day you’ll be free”, sings an ecstatic Cleo Sol. “Before you lose yourself, don’t forget to dream”.

Summer Of Soul (… Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Stephen Troussé
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Summer Of Soul (… Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
“Do you remember the Harlem Cultural Festival?” the interviewer asks, and 50 years on, by the distant looks on some faces, you sense even people who were there are still not sure if it was all some hazy, childhood ’60s summer dream. After all, until recently it had left barely a ripple in the...

“Do you remember the Harlem Cultural Festival?” the interviewer asks, and 50 years on,
by the distant looks on some faces, you sense even people who were there are still not sure if it was all some hazy, childhood ’60s summer dream. After all, until recently it had left barely a ripple in the wider culture, overshadowed by Woodstock happening a couple of hundred miles north and the ongoing political turmoil of 1969.

“The Harlem Cultural Festival was, indeed, a meaningful entity,” the journalist Raymond Robinson wrote at the time, “but was it fully appreciated? The only time the white press concerns itself with the black community is during a riot or major disturbance…” Sure enough the tapes of these six incredible free shows that took place in Mount Morris Park through June, July and August of 1969 have languished in a Westchester basement for more than 50 years.

What’s brought to light in Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s thrilling and timely doc, is a revelation: an event that rewrites everything you thought you knew about postwar pop. Here in a park on 124th Street, as Apollo 11 landed on the moon and the Panther 21 Trial rolled on, as the long mourning of MLK continued and the heroin epidemic burgeoned, more than 300,000 gathered to witness a stunning staging of the Black American musical diaspora: from blues to jazz to soul, Motown and Sly Stone’s psychedelic fantasia.

But in one sense the music is secondary. Witnesses agree they’d never seen so many black people together before. The event was put together by eccentric, enigmatic lounge singer turned cultural hustler Tony Lawrence, under the patronage of Republican mayor John Lindsay and with the sponsorship of Maxwell House. The police were largely absent, with the Panthers providing security. The crowd is wonderful: grooving old guys in trilbies, jiving matriarchs, dapper dudes in dashikis. “When I looked into the crowd I was overtaken with joy,” says Mavis Staples, still moved 50 years later.

The music is, of course astonishing. Stevie Wonder, still only 19 but greeted as a conquering hero, spiffed up in a gold cravat, like some regency dandy, casually playing the most incendiary drum solo you’ve heard, while a courtier holds a brolly above him. Nina Simone, a visiting dignitary from cosmic Wakanda, firmly but politely asking whether we’re willing to smash “white things”. Sly And The Family Stone, and their white drummer Greg Errico in particular, slowly winning over the crowd before blowing their minds with an irresistible Higher. And then there’s Mavis Staples, humbly accepting the gospel torch from Sister Mahalia Jackson, as they’re driven to inspired glossolalia in memory of Martin Luther King…

And what about David Ruffin, a snazzy, lanky crow, leading the crowd with an unearthly falsetto on My Girl, and Gladys Knight burning up I Heard It Through the Grapevine? Maybe the weirdest triumph of all are the 5th Dimension, dolled out in creamsicle orange and Big Bird Yellow, surely the whitest sounding group of 1969, dazzling the crowd with Let the Sunshine In.

“We were creating a new world,” one woman remembers thinking, “Harlem was our Camelot.” With Summer Of Soul, that myth feels close enough to touch.

David Crosby – For Free

Terry Staunton
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David Crosby – For Free
The renewed and reinvigorated Crosby’s twilight productivity continues apace as he approaches his 80th birthday this August. For Free is his fifth album since Croz, 2014’s comeback after a 20-year absence from the studio, again with the guiding hand of his multi-instrumentalist and producer son ...

The renewed and reinvigorated Crosby’s twilight productivity continues apace as he approaches his 80th birthday this August. For Free is his fifth album since Croz, 2014’s comeback after a 20-year absence from the studio, again with the guiding hand of his multi-instrumentalist and producer son James Raymond and the same core of musicians, now dubbed the Sky Trails Band.

Yet, while the record’s 10 tracks are elegantly shaped by players plucked from a younger generation, there are strong contributions of both pen and performance by more veteran figures from the main man’s past too, not to mention a sleeve portrait painted by Joan Baez. The title track first saw service on its writer Joni Mitchell’s 1970 album Ladies Of The Canyon, stripped back here as an intimate piano ballad with Texan singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz as duet partner.

It’s a number that Crosby has intermittently sung live over the past 50 years, its lyrical eavesdropping simplicity appealing “because I love what it says about the spirit of music and what compels you to play”. That compulsion, to play for free, was the ethos behind the self-financed Croz and the collections that followed, a desire to pursue one’s art regardless of its commercial potential.

Tapping into that lifelong joy for what he does informs the opening River Rise, co-written by Raymond and Michael McDonald, the latter weighing in with exquisite harmonies. It’s a sweet and gentle evocation of the California-soaked vibes of those days when he, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash first discovered the beauty in the blend of their voices.

Early explorations of what became a signature sound are also recalled on the self-penned I Think I, as are the pitfalls that tended to befall Crosby along the way, examined through older eyes (“They don’t tell you when you arrive/All the things you need to stay alive/There’s no instructions and no map/No secret way past the trap”). It’s tempting, on more than one occasion, to view its maker as a sage-like figure imparting the wisdom of both triumphs and wrong turns.

Crosby is just as confessional and articulate a writer on Shot At Me, a Laurel Canyon guitar-pickin’ resolution to keep to the straight and narrow (“You’ve got to find your lifeline and pick up your thread/And tell your story before you’re dead”). However, don’t be tricked into thinking the album should be filed on the same shelf as motivational guides or self-help manuals. There remains a rather playful appetite for self-deprecation here, an endlessly attractive willingness to laugh at one’s own shortcomings and foibles.

It’s not all self-reflection and navel-gazing; For Free is awash with illustrations of Crosby’s talent to tell stories as a detached observer, whether or not he wrote the story himself. The slick, mid-tempo Rodriguez For A Night is cinematically rich in its sketches of outlaws, angels and drugstore cowboys, and would have sat neatly on its composer Donald Fagen’s own solo high-water mark, The Nightfly. Even here, though, Croz the narrator is feasibly singing about a version of his younger playboy persona (“I confess he had some qualities that might attract a foolish girl/An effortless charisma, and a clever way with the world”).

Fagen fashioned the song specifically for Crosby, a showcase for his friend’s often underappreciated jazz phrasing, the laconic punctuation of the vocal mirroring the sharps and flats of the brass melody (also in evidence on the lost love lament Secret Dancer). However, if any one man has the most assured handle on the singer’s strengths, it’s Raymond, assembling eloquent but unobtrusive musical mosaics that fit Dad like a glove.

He’s no slouch as a writer, either, drawing upon what one imagines is eyewitness accounts of the older man’s past indiscretions. Boxes floats along on a wave of, to use a divisive phrase, yacht rock, seemingly at odds with a lyric that touches on recurring struggles (“I’ve tried so often to summon my better angels but they’re over the horizon once again/I already tried to lock them all away/ Up high where the blood runs thin”).

Raymond is also responsible for arguably the most emotionally affecting song on the album, closer I Won’t Stay For Long (its “one, two, three” count-in the sole contribution of another erstwhile casualty Brian Wilson, but that’s by the by). Inspired by Marcel Camus’s 1959 film Black Orpheus, a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and his attempt to bring his wife Eurydice back from the dead, Crosby inhabits the rawness of the lyric with both the stately grandeur of a Shakespearian thespian and the smoky 3am introspection of Sinatra in his prime.

“I’m standing on the porch like it’s the edge of a cliff/Beyond the grass and gravel lies a certain abyss,” he sings, on what he calls his “painfully beautiful” favourite track on the album. It’s a commanding performance bringing down the curtain on a set of songs that, in the space of an economical 40 minutes, crystallise everything that makes Crosby such an alluring, vital and still relevant force.

Rory Gallagher has been voted Ireland’s greatest musical artist

Cillian Breathnach
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Rory Gallagher has been voted Ireland’s greatest musical artist
Rory Gallagher has been voted Ireland’s Greatest Music Artist by the listeners of Dublin’s national independent radio station Newstalk. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Rory Gallagher’s solo debut gets deluxe box set treatment The ...

Rory Gallagher has been voted Ireland’s Greatest Music Artist by the listeners of Dublin’s national independent radio station Newstalk.

The guitarist came out at the very top of the list, ahead of artists such as U2, Thin Lizzy, Christy Moore and Van Morrison. The full list of nominees was chosen via a combination of submissions from Newstalk listeners and an expert panel.

Gallagher was born in 1948 in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, and raised in Cork. His first band, Taste, was a blues rock power trio. After they disbanded, Gallagher embarked on his solo career, during which he released numerous solo studio records and collaborations with musicians such as Muddy Waters and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Gallagher died of liver failure at the age of 47 in 1995. There are numerous tributes to him dotted around Ireland, including a statue in his county of birth and a bronze model of his Fender Stratocaster in Dublin, under the sign for a street named in his honour.

Newstalk revealed the full top ten from the poll, which is as follows:

  1. Rory Gallagher
  2. U2
  3. Thin Lizzy
  4. Aslan
  5. Luke Kelly
  6. Cranberries
  7. Christy Moore
  8. Van Morrison
  9. Sinéad O’Connor
  10. Hozier

Listen: Phoebe Bridgers shares “Kyoto” remixes from Glitch Gum, Bartees Strange and The Marias

Cillian Breathnach
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Listen: Phoebe Bridgers shares “Kyoto” remixes from Glitch Gum, Bartees Strange and The Marias
Phoebe Bridgers has shared three new remixes of her track "Kyoto", taken from her acclaimed 2020 record Punisher. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Uncut The three new versions of the track arrive courtesy of Glitch Gum, Bartees Strange and The Marias. Glitc...

Phoebe Bridgers has shared three new remixes of her track “Kyoto”, taken from her acclaimed 2020 record Punisher.

The three new versions of the track arrive courtesy of Glitch Gum, Bartees Strange and The Marias.

Glitch Gum

Glitch Gum’s new remix of the track follows Bridgers hearing his hyperpop cover of “Kyoto” last year. Glitch Gum said of the mix in a statement: “All I know is one day, when I was in between Zoom classes last fall, I thought, ‘Man, what if Phoebe Bridgers did hyperpop?’ That idea turned into a 30-second snippet of ‘Kyoto’, which turned into a full song, which turned into working with Phoebe and her team to make this little quarantine project come full circle in ways I could never even fathom.”

Take a listen below.

Bartees Strange

Bartees Strange says of his version of “Kyoto”, “I wanted to find a way to make this song hit in a completely different way, but still retain some of the big and small moments that make the song special to me.

“At first I was thinking through how I could use the stems, but the more I got into it the more I wanted to take it somewhere else entirely. Crushing tune, glad I could mess around with it.”

The Marias

The Marias said of their own “Kyoto” mix: “I remember seeing Phoebe years ago at an open mic here in Los Angeles, and I knew right off the bat that she was really special. Working on this remix was a sort of full-circle moment for us. ‘Kyoto’ is an amazing song as-is, so with the remix we were just curious to see what it would sound like with the vocal slowed down and adding some of our favourite synth sounds behind it.”

For reference, you can check out the original track below, complete with its expertly green-screened music video.

Queen’s Roger Taylor shares new song “We’re All Just Trying To Get By” featuring KT Tunstall

Charlotte Krol
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Queen’s Roger Taylor shares new song “We’re All Just Trying To Get By” featuring KT Tunstall
Roger Taylor has released the first single from his forthcoming new solo album, Outsider – listen to "We’re All Just Trying To Get By" below. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Brian May says Freddie Mercury would still be playing with Quee...

Roger Taylor has released the first single from his forthcoming new solo album, Outsider – listen to “We’re All Just Trying To Get By” below.

The song, which features KT Tunstall, is the first taste of Taylor‘s first new album in eight years. “We’re All Just Trying To Get By” was written during “the dark depths of lockdown” but looks at the positives of being human and our need to survive.

Taylor said of the track: “I tried to highlight the great things in life. It’s the simplest statement really. It’s what every life force on Earth is doing: just trying to get by and proliferate and exist. That’s all we are trying to do, from plants to animals to humans, trying to survive. For all our troubles and everything, every sort of life is all just trying to get by. Also, of course, we are in the middle of a bloody pandemic… I mean, even the coronavirus is just trying to get by too!”

He added of Tunstall‘s involvement: “The track was all finished and it was suggested it might be nice if we got KT involved. I love what she did, I think it really adds to the track.

“And she’s very clever. I think people forget that she was really the pioneer as far as I know of looping, the looping technique which obviously Ed Sheeran is brilliant at and has made very popular. But I remember her doing it, what, 15 years ago? Fantastic. She’s a very talented singer and musician and it’s lovely to have her on the track. It’s a very nice partnership.”

Tunstall said: “It was the coolest surprise Roger getting in touch during lockdown and asking me to lend my vocals to this great and meaningful song. What a pleasure to work with such a brilliant writer and musical hero.”

Outsider will be released on October 1 on the following formats: 1LP 180g Black Vinyl, 1LP 180g Transparent Blue Colour Vinyl, 1x Transparent Blue Colour Cassette, 1CD, Digital Download and streaming. Pre-order here.

The Queen drummer is set to play cuts from his new record alongside Queen classics on a 14-date UK tour this autumn.

The tour kicks off on October 2 at Newcastle’s O2 Academy before wrapping up at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on October 22 – see full details here.

Neil Young launches his Official Bootleg series

Michael Bonner
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Neil Young launches his Official Bootleg series
Neil Young has finally announced a release date for the first instalment of his Official Bootleg series. Although Young first disclosed his plans for the series last July - it was originally meant to launch in April 2021 - he has at last confirmed a release date for Carnegie Hall December 1970. ...

Neil Young has finally announced a release date for the first instalment of his Official Bootleg series.

Although Young first disclosed his plans for the series last July – it was originally meant to launch in April 2021 – he has at last confirmed a release date for Carnegie Hall December 1970.

A solo acoustic show, the Carnegie Hall release will be available from October 1. You can pre-order it on vinyl and on CD. Subscribers to Young’s Archives will be able to hear the album in full 48 hours before it goes on sale, when it streams on the site.

Forthcoming highlights in the series include Under The Rainbow, November 5, 1973 – the Santa Monica Flyers show at London’s Rainbow theatre during the Tonight’s The Night tour – and a Ducks show from August 1977.

Tracklisting for Carnegie Hall December 1970 is:

Down By The River
Cinnamon Girl
I Am A Child
Expecting To Fly
The Loner
Wonderin’
Helpless
Southern Man
Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
Sugar Mountain
On The Way Home
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Old Man
After The Goldrush
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
Cowgirl In The Sand
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
Birds
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
Ohio
See The Sky About To Rain
Dance Dance Dance

Rory Gallagher’s solo debut gets deluxe box set treatment

Michael Bonner
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Rory Gallagher’s solo debut gets deluxe box set treatment
Rory Gallagher's self-titled debut is due for a 50th anniversary box set. The album will be released on September 3 by UMC. It arrives on various formats including a deluxe 5-disc box set comprising 4 CDs and 1 DVD featuring previously unreleased tracks, rare outtakes, BBC Radio sessions, a hardb...

Rory Gallagher‘s self-titled debut is due for a 50th anniversary box set.

The album will be released on September 3 by UMC. It arrives on various formats including a deluxe 5-disc box set comprising 4 CDs and 1 DVD featuring previously unreleased tracks, rare outtakes, BBC Radio sessions, a hardback book, plus a rare never-before-released concert Pop Deux filmed in 1971 for French television. The album will also be released on single-disc orange vinyl (BBC Sessions) and 3-disc black vinyl package.

You can pre-order the album by clicking here.

Formats are below:

4CD+1DVD Deluxe Set / Super Deluxe Digital

CD1
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition

CD2
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
Wave Myself Goodbye – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 1
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 2
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 2
I Fall Apart – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2

CD3
Hands Up – Alternate Take 1
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 3
Hands Up – Alternate Take 4
Hands Up – Alternate Take 5
Hands Up – Alternate Take 6
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 1
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 2
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 2
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 3
It’s You – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 1
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 2
Can’t Believe It’s True – Alternate Take 1

CD4
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Laundromat – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
I Fall Apart – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Hands Up – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
In Your Town – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
Just The Smile – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
Laundromat – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
(*Off Air Recording)

DVD
Interview
Hands Up
Wave Myself Goodbye
It Takes Time
Sinner Boy
For the Last Time
The Same Thing
I Fall Apart

2CD
CD1
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition

CD2
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 1
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Laundromat – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
I Fall Apart – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
(*Off Air Recording)

3LP
SIDE A
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition

SIDE B
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition

SIDE C
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam

SIDE D
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2

SIDE E
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2
I’m Not Surprised – Alternate Take 1

SIDE F
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
Laundromat – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
I Fall Apart – Live On BBC “Sounds Of The Seventies” / 1971*
(*Off Air Recording)

D2C 1LP Colour Vinyl – John Peel Sunday Concert 28/08/1971
SIDE A
Hands Up – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
For The Last Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
In Your Town – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971

SIDE B
Just The Smile – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
Laundromat – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971
It Takes Time – Live On BBC “John Peel Sunday Concert” / 1971

Deluxe Digital HD / Deluxe Digital MFiT / Deluxe Digital Standard
Laundromat – 50th Anniversary Edition
Just The Smile – 50th Anniversary Edition
I Fall Apart – 50th Anniversary Edition
Wave Myself Goodbye – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hands Up – 50th Anniversary Edition
Sinner Boy – 50th Anniversary Edition
For The Last Time – 50th Anniversary Edition
It’s You – 50th Anniversary Edition
I’m Not Surprised – 50th Anniversary Edition
Can’t Believe It’s True – 50th Anniversary Edition
Gypsy Woman – Tangerine Studio Session
It Takes Time – Tangerine Studio Session
I Fall Apart – Tangerine Studio Session
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 3
At The Bottom – Alternate Take 4
Advision Jam
Laundromat – Alternate Take 1
Just The Smile – Alternate Take 1
Wave Myself Goodbye – Alternate Take 2
Hands Up – Alternate Take 2
Sinner Boy – Alternate Take 3
For The Last Time – Alternate Take 1
It’s You – Alternate Take 2

Introducing the new issue of Uncut

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Introducing the new issue of Uncut
The last time I saw Nick Cave in concert was at the Royal Albert Hall, seven years ago. Billed as a solo show, it naturally featured Warren Ellis along with veterans from several Bad Seeds line-ups. There was a piano, too - but for the most part, I remember Cave uncontained, striding up and down the...

The last time I saw Nick Cave in concert was at the Royal Albert Hall, seven years ago. Billed as a solo show, it naturally featured Warren Ellis along with veterans from several Bad Seeds line-ups. There was a piano, too – but for the most part, I remember Cave uncontained, striding up and down the front of the stage, occasionally dragging microphone stands and sundry pieces of equipment into the crowd as he encouraged audience members to listen to his heartbeat. This was May 2015, since when a lot has happened both to Cave and elsewhere in the world.

Cave and the Bad Seeds’ transformation over the course of Push The Sky Away, Skeleton Key and Ghosteen has been remarkable, not least for the way that the band have grappled with new creative directions and working practises. Although it’s hardly been surprising: as Cave himself once noted, “The game is never won / By standing in any one place for too long”. Many of these latest career developments – especially on Skeleton Key and Ghosteen – are discussed by Cave and the Bad Seeds in this month’s cover story. We learn about lost songs, near-forgotten gems and sundry sonic outcasts that may not have made the official tracklisting for either of those albums, but whose genesis and development shines a light on what exactly Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do and how they do it. There are also, I’m pleased to report, a lot of big laughs to be had here: check out the wild times on “King Sized Nick Cave Blues”. “By any measure, a flat-out lyrical triumph,” Cave assures us. “You can’t buy that stuff!”

Elsewhere, there’s more new interviews with The Specials, Kacey Musgraves, Ry Cooder, Shabaka Hutchings, Supergrass, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, David Crosby, Low, Caravan and Kenney Jones – who lifts the lid on a bounty of Small Faces’ discoveries. A typically busy issue, in other words. And if you ever make it to Essaouira, a port city on the coast of Morocco, best follow Nick’s advice and check out the funky spice shop on Place Moullay Hasan…

The Rolling Stones announce 40th anniversary editions of Tattoo You

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The Rolling Stones announce 40th anniversary editions of Tattoo You
The Rolling Stones are to mark the 40th anniversary of their Tattoo You album with a number of special editions. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October issue of Uncut The album will be accompanied by nine previously unreleased tracks, including "Living In The Heart Of Love", wh...

The Rolling Stones are to mark the 40th anniversary of their Tattoo You album with a number of special editions.

The album will be accompanied by nine previously unreleased tracks, including “Living In The Heart Of Love“, which you can hear below:

The newly-remastered set is released on October 22 via Universal Music. Deluxe formats will also include Lost & Found: Rarities and Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982.

The unreleased tracks also include versions of Jimmy Reed’s “Shame, Shame, Shame” and Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away” as well as a ‘reggae-tinged’ version of “Start Me Up“.

You’ll find the full tracklisting for the various editions below. You can pre-order by clicking here.

Standard CD
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Deluxe 2CD
+ 20 page booklet including essay from Kevin Howlett & Jeff Slate

CD 1 – Tattoo You (2021 Remaster)
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

CD 2 – Lost & Found: Rarities
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

4CD Super Deluxe Boxset
Includes 4 x CDS (CD1 – Remastered Album, CD2 – Bonus 9 Tracks + CD 3 & 4 – “Still Life” (Wembley Stadium Concert 1982)
+ Keith Richards Picture Disc + 124 Page Book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions & world tour + interviews with producer Chris Kimsey & photographer Hubert Kretzschmar + Lenticular Art

CD 1 – Tattoo You (2021 Remaster)
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

CD 2 – Lost & Found: Rarities
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

CD 3 & CD 4 – “Still Life” (Wembley Stadium Concert 1982)

1. Under My Thumb
2. When The Whip Comes Down
3. Let’s Spend The Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Neighbours
6. Black Limousine
7. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
8. Twenty Flight Rock
9. Going To A Go Go
10. Chantilly Lace
11. Let Me Go
12. Time Is On My Side
13. Beast Of Burden
14. Let It Bleed

1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
2. Band Introductions
3. Little T&A
4. Tumbling Dice
5. She’s So Cold
6. Hang Fire
7. Miss You
8. Honky Tonk Women
9. Brown Sugar
10. Start Me Up
11. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
12. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

1LP Standard
180g Black Vinyl

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

2LP Deluxe Black Vinyl
180g Double Black Vinyl in Gatefold sleeve

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Side C
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away

Side D
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

2LP Deluxe Clear Vinyl (The Rolling Stones Store Exclusive)
180g Double Clear Vinyl in Gatefold sleeve

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Side C
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away

Side D
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

5LP Super Deluxe Boxset
Includes 5 x 180g Heavyweight Vinyl. (LP1 Brand New 2021 Remaster of Tattoo You, LP2 Lost & Found: 9 Previously Unreleased Tracks, LP3, 4 & 5 “Still Life” Live At Wembley Stadium 1982)
Plus 124 page hardback book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions & world tour + interviews with producer Chris Kimsey & photographer Hubert Kretzschmar + Lenticular Art

Side A
1. Start Me Up – Remastered 2021
2. Hang Fire – Remastered 2021
3. Slave – Remastered 2021
4. Little T&A – Remastered 2021
5. Black Limousine – Remastered 2021
6. Neighbours – Remastered 2021

Side B
7. Worried About You – Remastered 2021
8. Tops – Remastered 2021
9. Heaven – Remastered 2021
10. No Use In Crying – Remastered 2021
11. Waiting On A Friend – Remastered 2021

Side C
1. Living In The Heart Of Love
2. Fiji Jim
3. Troubles A’ Comin
4. Shame Shame Shame
5. Drift Away

Side D
6. It’s A Lie
7. Come To The Ball
8. Fast Talking Slow Walking
9. Start Me Up (Early Version)

Side E
1. Under My Thumb
2. When The Whip Comes Down
3. Let’s Spend The Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Neighbours

Side F
6. Black Limousine
7. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
8. Twenty Flight Rock
9. Going To A Go Go

Side G
1. Chantilly Lace
2. Let Me Go
3. Time Is On My Side
4. Beast Of Burden

Side H
5. Let It Bleed
6. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
7. Band Introductions
8. Little T&A

Side J
1. Tumbling Dice
2. She’s So Cold
3. Hang Fire
4. Miss You
5. Honky Tonk Women

Side K
6. Brown Sugar
7. Start Me Up
8. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
9. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Uncut – October 2021

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Uncut – October 2021
CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Specials, Kacey Musgraves, Supergrass, Caravan, Buena Vista Social Club, David Crosby, Low, Shabaka Hutchings, and Van der Graaf Generator all feature in the new Uncut, dated October 2021 and in UK shops from Aug...

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Specials, Kacey Musgraves, Supergrass, Caravan, Buena Vista Social Club, David Crosby, Low, Shabaka Hutchings, and Van der Graaf Generator all feature in the new Uncut, dated October 2021 and in UK shops from August 19 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Moroccan opium dens! A song called “Jazzmen”! “I spend my days pushing Elvis Presley’s belly up a series of steep hills”! As a new compilation featuring previously unreleased material from Nick Cave’s most recent studio albums emerges from the vaults, Peter Watts takes a dive into a remarkable secret history – a rich and strange phantasmagoria of lost songs, near-forgotten gems and other sonic outcasts. Our guides are Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos, Thomas Wydler and Mick Harvey along with Cave himself. “You can’t buy that stuff!” he tells us…

OUR FREE CD! TOMORROW’S SOUNDS TODAY: 15 fantastic tracks from the cream of the month’s releases, including songs by The Limiñanas/Laurent Garnier, The Felice Brothers, Low, Devin Hoff and Sharon Van Etten, The Stranglers, Little Simz, Sarah Davachi, Matthew E White and more.

This issue of Uncut is available to buy by clicking here – with FREE delivery to the UK and reduced delivery charges for the rest of the world.

Inside the issue, you’ll find:

THE SPECIALS: The No 1 success of Encore proved The Specials remain a vital force – but what are Terry Hall, Horace Panter and Lynval Golding doing for, well, an encore? Taking a stand against the “heavy atmosphere” of the last 18 months, they have recorded a set of protest songs by artists as diverse as Frank Zappa, Big Bill Broonzy and Chip Taylor. “All we can do is try and raise awareness,” they tell Peter Watts. “That’s our role.”

KACEY MUSGRAVES: By confronting Nashville conservatism, she became the outspoken queen of “galactic country” – but how will magic mushrooms, “insane spiritual welfare” and a rose-strewn bed that resembles “some Brian Wilson shit” help Kacey Musgraves sort out her next “Big Bang explosion of ideas”? She tells Stephen Deusner, “Sometimes I contradict myself from one song to the next…”

CARAVAN: Join us at the bar in The Millers Arms, before genial host Pye Hastings takes us on an evocative tour of Caravan’s old haunts around Canterbury. Along the way, Sam Richards hears how wigwams, Brussels sprouts and a bypass near Sevenoaks helped them become the enduring, if unlikely, heroes of prog. “The problems of the world didn’t really affect us… We lived in our own little bubble.”

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB: In 1996, Ry Cooder assembled the Buena Vista Social Club and turned Havana’s forgotten musical aristocracy into unlikely stars. Twenty-five years on, the magic of the joyous, bittersweet album they recorded together is stronger than ever. But how did its curator and venerable cast navigate power cuts, food shortages and meetings with Fidel Castro? “We got in there and did great things,” Cooder tells Graeme Thomson.

SMALL FACES: Kenney Jones reveals his plans to restore the lost treasures of the Small Faces.

DAVID CROSBY: As new album For Free caps a remarkable renaissance, Croz recalls jamming with Hendrix, being “stupefied” by The Beatles… and the making of High Noon.

SUPERGRASS: The making of “Richard III”.

SHABAKA HUTCHINGS: Album by album with the Brit saxophonist.

LOW: Duluth duo’s intense 13th album Hey What masterfully combines the difficult with the beautiful.

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In our expansive reviews section, we take a look at new records from The Stranglers, Pokey LaFarge, Saint Etienne, Little Simz, José González, Arushi Jain, and more, and archival releases from Van der Graaf Generator, Joan Shelley, Rory Gallagher, Whipping Boy, Charles Mingus and others. We catch Roger and Brian Eno, and Chrissie Hynde live; among the films, DVDs and TV programmes reviewed are Respect, Censor, New Order and Pig; while in books there’s Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer.

Our front section, meanwhile, features Small Faces, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, John Grant, and Adia Victoria, while, at the end of the magazine, Pat Metheny reveals the records that have soundtracked his life.

You can pick up a copy of Uncut in the usual places, where open. But otherwise, readers all over the world can order a copy from here.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album track listing and Uncut cover story revealed!

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album track listing and Uncut cover story revealed!
Nick Cave is on the cover of the new issue of Uncut, on sale today – August 19, 2021. In the issue, we trace the secret history of Cave and the Bad Seeds via their new album B-Sides & Rarities Part II and uncover a treasure trove of lost songs, near-forgotten gems and sundry sonic outcasts. ...

Nick Cave is on the cover of the new issue of Uncut, on sale today – August 19, 2021.

In the issue, we trace the secret history of Cave and the Bad Seeds via their new album B-Sides & Rarities Part II and uncover a treasure trove of lost songs, near-forgotten gems and sundry sonic outcasts.

Cave himself, along with assorted Bad Seeds, guides us through a personal selection of the ones that got away. Many of these songs were originated during sessions for their most recent albums, Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen, as the band have grappled with new creative directions and working practises.

Cave and The Bad Seeds will release B-Sides & Rarities Part II on October 22. This is the companion volume to 2005’s B-Sides & Rarities. It will be available on double vinyl, double CD, deluxe double CD and all digital platforms.

B-Sides & Rarities Part I and Part II will also be released together as a limited edition deluxe 7 vinyl box set including 83 rare tracks and exclusive sleeve notes.

All compiled by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, B-Sides & Rarities Part II contains 27 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006 – 2020.

You can hear a previously unreleased song “Vortex” here:

Taken from B-Sides & Rarities Part II, “Vortex” was written and recorded in 2006 by Cave, Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos.

“I always liked the original B-Sides & Rarities more than any of our other albums,” says Cave. “It’s the only one I’d listen to willingly. It seems more relaxed, even a bit nonsensical in places, but with some beautiful songs throughout. There is something, too, about the smallness of certain songs that is closer to their original spirit.

“B-Sides & Rarities Part II continues this strange and beautiful collection of lost songs from The Bad Seeds. I love the final side of the last disc because it reveals the small and fragile beginnings of some of my favourite Bad Seeds songs. ‘Waiting For You‘ complete with bizarre ‘canning factory’ rhythm track, a gorgeous ‘Life Per Se‘ deemed too sad for Skeleton Tree, and ‘Earthlings’ that some consider the finest track of the Ghosteen sessions.”

You can pre-order B-Sides & Rarities Part I and Part II by clicking here.

St. Vincent is a one-woman street parade in new “Daddy’s Home” video

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St. Vincent is a one-woman street parade in new “Daddy’s Home” video
St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) has shared a music video for the title track from her latest album Daddy's Home. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Watch the new trailer for St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein’s ‘metafictional’ film Th...

St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) has shared a music video for the title track from her latest album Daddy’s Home.

In the Bill Benz-directed clip, Clark rides on the back of a truck down a street, singing and playing guitar. Towards the end of the video, a newspaper flashes onscreen with the headline “DADDY HOME: Singer alleges daddy’s home from back of truck”.

The video is available to watch exclusively on Facebook for now, ahead of its arrival on YouTube this Friday (August 20). Watch it here.

Her sixth studio album as St. Vincent, Clark released Daddy’s Home back in May. In Uncut‘s 8/10 review, we said: “Listening to Daddy’s Home brings a sense of exhalation, a filling out, an openness, that is as unexpected as it is wonderful. Yes she’s still arch and meta and provocative, still complex and mischievous and ambitious. But on this record, Annie Clark seems to stand just a little closer.”

Last week, Clark released the full-length trailer for The Nowhere Inn, her forthcoming feature film with Sleater-Kinney‘s Carrie Brownstein.

The film is described as “a metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent’s music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to detail the friendship, the project, and the duo’s creative lives”.

George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass cover art recreated with giant garden gnomes

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George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass cover art recreated with giant garden gnomes
The cover art for George Harrison's classic album All Things Must Pass has been recreated in the form of a large gnome installation. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: 50th anniversary of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass celebrate...

The cover art for George Harrison‘s classic album All Things Must Pass has been recreated in the form of a large gnome installation.

A special boxset edition of the late Beatles guitarist’s third solo record (1970) arrived earlier this month to mark its 50th anniversary. The collection boasts demos of 30 tracks from the album sessions, including a handful of songs that didn’t make the final cut.

To further commemorate the five-decade milestone, Harrison‘s widow Olivia and son Dhani Harrison have contributed to a new mini-documentary that documents the process of bringing the All Things Must Pass cover to life.

Collaborating with floral artist Ruth Davis, the pair created “a massive gnome” at Duke Of York Square in Chelsea, London.

“We knew we wanted to recreate the album cover, but we also loved the idea of having some naughty gnomes roaming about London,” Davis explained in the clip. “It was almost a bit like a treasure hunt – so one will be at Abbey Road, which will lead people to the main one.”

She added that the aim of the project was “to recreate the story in a really fun but poignant way”. Dhani, meanwhile, reflected on his late father’s “connection with nature” and fondness for gardening.

Upon the finished product being unveiled towards the end of the clip, Olivia Harrison described the piece as “the most joyous thing I’ve ever seen”, adding that George would be “over the moon”.

The installation is on display to the public at Duke Of York Square until this Friday (August 20) – you can watch the mini-documentary in full above (via George Harrison‘s official YouTube channel).

Released on August 6, the 50th anniversary edition of All Things Must Pass was executive produced by Dhani Harrison. The classic album has been completely remixed from the original tapes by engineer Paul Hicks.

End Of The Road announce Comedy and Literature line-ups

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End Of The Road announce Comedy and Literature line-ups
End Of The Road have announced the comedy and literature programmes at this year’s festival. The line-up includes Simon Amstell, Josie Long, Shaparak Khorsandi, Sam Lee and Sophie Heawood. They join the festival’s musical bill who include Stereolab, Sleaford Mods, Damon Albarn, Jonny Green...

End Of The Road have announced the comedy and literature programmes at this year’s festival.

The line-up includes Simon Amstell, Josie Long, Shaparak Khorsandi, Sam Lee and Sophie Heawood.

They join the festival’s musical bill who include Stereolab, Sleaford Mods, Damon Albarn, Jonny Greenwood, The Comet Is Coming and Shirley Collins.

The festival takes place between September 2 – 5 at its usual home in Larmer Tree Gardens.

Uncut will be hosting events in the Big Top Tent on Friday, September 3, as well as a number of Q&As on site during the festival – check back here for further details!

The complete comedy and literature line-ups are:

COMEDY
Simon Amstell
Josie Long
Shaparak Khorsandi
Flo & Joan
Jordan Brookes
Rob Auton
Cally Beaton
Tom Ward
Crybabies
Alison Spittle
Micky Overman
Jenny Collier
Ignacio Lopez
Garrett Millerick
Mary Bourke
David Hoare
Jon Levene
Ronan Leonard

LITERATURE
Sam Lee
Philip Hoare
Sophie Heawood
Melissa Harrison
Will Burns
Rebecca Schiller
Heavenly Records At 30 With Robin Turner & Guests
Lucy Jones
Miranda Ward

The final music line-up for End Of The Road Festival is:

HOT CHIP
KING KRULE
SLEAFORD MODS
DAMON ALBARN (SPECIAL GUEST)
STEREOLAB
JONNY GREENWOOD
LITTLE SIMZ
JOHN GRANT
THE COMET IS COMING
ARAB STRAP
ARLO PARKS
GIRL BAND
SHIRLEY COLLINS & THE LODESTAR BAND
FIELD MUSIC
SQUID
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
ROMARE
DRY CLEANING
RICHARD DAWSON
WARMDUSCHER
ANNA MEREDITH
JANE WEAVER
KIKAGAKU MOYO
ALTIN GUN
CRACK CLOUD
HEN OGLEDD
GIRL RAY
ALICE BOMAN
SORRY
SCALPING
VANISHING TWIN
BIG JOANIE
THE GOON SAX
JIM GHEDI
SIPHO
LONELADY
JERKCURB
DARREN HAYMAN
AHMED FAKROUN
MODERN NATURE
BILLY NOMATES
PENELOPE ISLES
KATY J PEARSON
JUST MUSTARD
GWENNO & ANGHARAD DAVIES perform live score to “Bait”
ANTELOPER (Jaimie Branch & Jason Nazary)
FENNE LILY
W. H. LUNG
BDRMM
KEELEY FORSYTH
WILLIAM DOYLE
DANA GAVANSKI
AUNTIE FLO (DJ)
ALL WE ARE
STUDIO ELECTROPHONIQUE
TENESHA THE WORDSMITH
TRASH KIT
SARATHY KORWAR
AOIFE NESSA FRANCES
PVA
BALIMAYA PROJECT
JOHN
THE GOA EXPRESS
PAN AMSTERDAM
JUNIOR BROTHER
ELIJAH WOLF
CAROLINE
LORAINE JAMES
YARD ACT
RED RIVER DIALECT
LAZARUS KANE
DRUG STORE ROMEOS
ZULU ZULU
THE GOLDEN DREGS
ANNA B SAVAGE
KIRAN LEONARD
CHUBBY & THE GANG
MODERN WOMAN
WU-LU
WESLEY GONZALEZ
BABii
ME REX
BINGO FURY
CMAT
REGRESSIVE LEFT
GWENIFER RAYMOND
EVE OWEN
JONNY DILLON
BROADSIDE HACKS
THE UMLAUTS
LEE PATTERSON
SLEEP EATERS
SAM AKPRO
TIBERIUS B
MARTHA ROSE
PAT T SMITH
MERMAID CHUNKY
OLDBOY
WILLY TEA TAYLOR
JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN
MICHAEL CLARK
FORTITUDE VALLEY
MELIN MELYN
JAMES LEONARD HEWITSON
JOE GODDARD (DJ)
TOM RAVENSCROFT (DJ)

Ahead of new album Hey What, Low release new single and video “More”

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Ahead of new album Hey What, Low release new single and video “More”
Iconic slowcore/indie act Low have released "More", a new single ahead of their upcoming record Hey What. The ambitious track arrives alongside an equally striking video directed by Julie Casper Roth. READ MORE: Low share new single “Disappearing”, announce UK and Ireland tour Hey What ...

Iconic slowcore/indie act Low have released “More”, a new single ahead of their upcoming record Hey What. The ambitious track arrives alongside an equally striking video directed by Julie Casper Roth.

Hey What is Low’s thirteenth album, and will be released on 10 September. It’s their third with producer BJ Burton, and features cover art designed by Peter Liversidge. Hey What follows 2018’s acclaimed LP Double Negative.

Check out the new video for “More” below.

Hey What can be preordered here. Its full tracklist is as follows:

1. “White Horses”
2. “I Can Wait”
3. “All Night”
4. “Disappearing”
5. “Hey”
6. “Days Like These”
7. “There’s a Comma After Still”
8. “Don’t Walk Away”
9. “More”
10. “The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off)”

The band has also announced a 2022 US tour. Check out the list of dates:

March 2022

22 – Bloomington, IN, Bishop
25 – Birmingham, AL, Saturn
26 – Atlanta, GA, Terminal West
28 – Washington, DC, Miracle Theatre
29 – Philadelphia, PA, World Cafe Live
31 – New York, NY, Webster Hall

April 2022

1 – Providence, RI, Columbus Theater
2 – Montreal, QC, Theatre Fairmount
4 – Toronto, ON, The Axis Club
5 – Detroit, MI, Loving Touch
8 – Madison, WI, High Noon Saloon

Megadeth’s touring bassist shares behind-the-scenes images of tour rehearsals

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Megadeth’s touring bassist shares behind-the-scenes images of tour rehearsals
Megadeth's touring bassist James LoMenzo has shared behind-the-scenes images of the band rehearsing for their upcoming Metal Tour Of The Year. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut LoMenzo was recently appointed as the replacement for Megadeth co-found...

Megadeth‘s touring bassist James LoMenzo has shared behind-the-scenes images of the band rehearsing for their upcoming Metal Tour Of The Year.

LoMenzo was recently appointed as the replacement for Megadeth co-founder and former bassist David Ellefson, who parted ways with the group in May following allegations of grooming an underage girl (he previously denied the claims).

The new bassist first joined the band in 2006, contributing to the studio albums United Abominations (2007) and Endgame (2009).

Now, LoMenzo has taken to Instagram to give fans a sneak peek of Megadeth‘s upcoming tour with Lamb Of God, which kicks off this Friday (August 20) and runs until October (the full schedule can be found here).

“I want to take a moment to sincerely thank all my friends and the amazing Megadeth fans who took the time to wish me well this week,” he captioned a trio of shots.

“Tour prep has been a blast, it’s great to be playing with Dave [Mustaine, frontman] again! I’m finding that with Kiko [Loureiro] and Dirk [Verbeuren], Megadeth feels like a Locomotive bearing down the tracks.”

He added: “I can’t wait to see you all out there on The Metal Tour of the Year!” You can see the post above.

Speaking in a statement last week, Mustaine said that he and the band “cannot wait to start crushing North America”. LoMenzo, meanwhile, told fans he was “super stoked” to be rejoining Megadeth.

Last month, Dave Mustaine announced the title of Megadeth‘s 16th studio album: The Sick, The Dying And The Dead. He also shared a snippet of the title track. A release date for the record has not yet been confirmed.

Garbage announce 20th anniversary reissue of Beautiful Garbage

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Garbage announce 20th anniversary reissue of Beautiful Garbage
Garbage have announced a reissue of their album Beautiful Garbage to mark its 20th anniversary. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Released on October 1, 2001, the Shirley Manson-fronted band's third studio effort includes the singles "Androgyny", "...

Garbage have announced a reissue of their album Beautiful Garbage to mark its 20th anniversary.

Released on October 1, 2001, the Shirley Manson-fronted band’s third studio effort includes the singles “Androgyny”, “Breaking Up The Girl” and “Shut Your Mouth”. It landed at Number Six in the Official UK albums chart.

The special reissue of the record will arrive exactly two decades on from its initial release – on Friday October 1, 2021 – and is set to boast a previously unheard version of the album’s lead single “Androgyny” (listen below).

Available to pre-order in a range of formats here, the new version of Beautiful Garbage will feature the original album in remastered audio as well as B-sides, demos, remixes and memorabilia.

“We wanted to celebrate the release of our third album in the same manner as we have celebrated the 20th anniversaries of our previous two records, as we cherish this third child of ours just as much as its predecessors,” Manson explained in a statement.

“Over time it has garnered more and more respect from our fans, with many of the songs remaining in rotation in our live sets to this day. We’ve always felt incredibly proud of this record and felt it was in many ways very much ahead of its time.”

She continued: “Twenty years down the line, we are all exceedingly grateful to have such well-crafted songs in our discography and are very proud that against all the odds we are still standing and can give our beloved album the tribute it so very much deserves.”

Garbage previously marked the two-decade milestones of their self-titled debut in 2015 and its follow-up, Version 2.0, in 2018. The band also performed a series of live shows to mark each anniversary.

This year saw Garbage release their seventh studio effort, No Gods No Masters.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis reportedly record soundtrack for Marilyn Monroe film Blonde

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis reportedly record soundtrack for Marilyn Monroe film Blonde
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have reportedly recorded a soundtrack for Andrew Dominik's film Blonde, about Marilyn Monroe, that is slated for release next year. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Nick Cave recalls eerie story involving Nick...

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have reportedly recorded a soundtrack for Andrew Dominik‘s film Blonde, about Marilyn Monroe, that is slated for release next year.

That’s according to The Guardian, which also reports that Cave and Ellis will perform songs from albums including Carnage and Ghosteen for a new music film by Dominik.

Cave and Ellis had previously worked with the director and screenwriter on his 2016 documentary One More Time With Feeling, which chronicles the recording of Cave‘s Skeleton Tree in the aftermath of his son Arthur’s death.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Credit: Gaelle Beri/Redferns via Getty Images

Blonde is due to be released next year though no firm date has been set. The production is a biographical film based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, which was released in 2000.

The Netflix movie stars Ana De Armas in the titular role, joined by Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, and Adrien Brody, among others.

Meanwhile, Cave and Ellis have announced that they will head out on their first-ever UK tour as a duo this autumn.

The Bad Seeds duo will play 20 shows across September and autumn in support of their acclaimed album Carnage, which arrived earlier this year.

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