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Nick Cave’s advice on getting old: “Grow a porn star moustache and learn the electric guitar – it worked for me”

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Nick Cave’s advice on getting old: “Grow a porn star moustache and learn the electric guitar – it worked for me”
Nick Cave has given one of his fans some advice in his inimitable style after being asked for his “perspective on getting old”. READ MORE: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Album By Album ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut The artist offered his perspective on his Red Hand Files ...

Nick Cave has given one of his fans some advice in his inimitable style after being asked for his “perspective on getting old”.

The artist offered his perspective on his Red Hand Files website, where he regularly answers questions sent in by his fans.

In his latest post on the site, Cave responded to a fan from Lanaken, Belgium who asked: “I’m struggling a bit with the fact I’m turning 40 in a week. Some people say ‘You’re in the brightest part of your life’, others say you are an ‘old man’. What is your perspective on getting old?”

Cave replied: “My advice to you is to grow a porn star moustache and learn the electric guitar – it worked for me – and try to hang in there until you’re 60.

“Then you’ll find you don’t have to worry about what people say any more and, as a consequence, life becomes a whole lot more interesting.”

Cave, who is 63, continued by speaking about his experience of now being in his 60s.

“Entering your 60s brings with it a warm and fuzzy feeling of freedom through redundancy, through obsolescence, through living outside of the conversation and forever existing on the wrong end of the stick,” he said.

“What a relief it is to be that mad, embarrassing uncle in the corner of the room, a product of his age, with his loopy ideas about free speech and freedom of expression, with his love of beauty, of humour, chaos, provocation and outrage, of conversation and debate, his adoration of art without dogma, his impatience with the morally obvious, his belief in universal compassion, forgiveness and mercy, in nuance and the shadows, in neutrality and in humanity – ah, beautiful humanity – and in God too, who he thanks for letting him, in these dementing times, be old.”

Last month Cave shared the full version of his song “Letter To Cynthia” online – a track inspired by a fan letter that was sent to him on Red Hand Files.

Introducing the Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to PJ Harvey

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Introducing the Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to PJ Harvey
BUY THE PJ HARVEY ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE Demo in the 1990s wasn’t an especially aspirational word. When PJ Harvey released her debut album Dry with an accompanying record called Demonstration, however, she elevated the whole enterprise from implying an occasionally half-baked means of securi...

BUY THE PJ HARVEY ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE

Demo in the 1990s wasn’t an especially aspirational word. When PJ Harvey released her debut album Dry with an accompanying record called Demonstration, however, she elevated the whole enterprise from implying an occasionally half-baked means of securing a gig into a much bolder statement.

In Harvey’s view her actual “finished” album came to seem something of a compromise, defanged and domesticated by familiarity. These initial versions, she seemed to be saying, were how the songs were meant to be heard.

As you’ll read in Stephen Troussé’s in-depth review of the new PJ Harvey vinyl releases of the demos she made to prepare each of her albums, the demos reveal an intrinsic part of Polly Harvey’s creative work, a process from which she has never wavered in the unbelievable 30 years of recording since the release of her debut single, Dress in 1991.

The vision for the record is in place from the start – there might be small issues with fidelity and arrangement to resolve, but the core sound and vision for the record is already utterly intact. That might on the one hand entail the raw proposals for Dry (these, tellingly, were slated to be called Dryer), or the (even more) haunting demos for White Chalk. Or in a more lateral sense, it might mean the live, public-facing Somerset House Sessions for what became Hope Six Demolition Project.

Last year, guitarist Joe Gore told Uncut’s Peter Watts about his work on the breakthrough album To Bring You My Love in 1995. Gore had come from the USA bringing with him strong chops, a top-end fuzzbox, and a determination to use both. It wasn’t to be. As Gore recalled: “She said to me, can you just play it a bit more like I played it?”

This singularity of vision is what you’ll discover more about in this deluxe, anniversary Ultimate Music Guide. Along the way you’ll read in-depth reviews of every album, and archive features which reveal how PJ Harvey’s original quest for extremity (something that links the brutality and noise of Rid Of Me, with the ghostlike delicacy of White Chalk getting on for 15 years later), has since fine-tuned itself into polemical folk rock and a hope for making impactful work. “I want to give something back of worth,” she told Uncut in 2013. “I want to make something worthwhile and meaningful.”

So far so good, then. What happens next will be worth waiting for.

Buy a copy of the magazine here. Missed one in the series? Bundles are available at the same location…

PJ Harvey – Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide

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PJ Harvey – Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide
Meet ze monsta! Presenting the definitive, deluxe 148-page guide to PJ Harvey, from Dry and Dorset to Afghanistan and the Hope Six Demolition Project. All the albums, reviewed. The best archive interviews, rediscovered. The new demos, considered and admired at length. Buy a copy here!...

Meet ze monsta! Presenting the definitive, deluxe 148-page guide to PJ Harvey, from Dry and Dorset to Afghanistan and the Hope Six Demolition Project. All the albums, reviewed. The best archive interviews, rediscovered. The new demos, considered and admired at length.

Buy a copy here!

David Gilmour reveals he is working on a new album

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David Gilmour reveals he is working on a new album
David Gilmour is working on a new album that he hopes will be out in the next year or two. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut Gilmour, speaking together with his wife Polly Samson, revealed the forthcoming album in a new interview with Rolling Stone. “I’m hoping that I will have...

David Gilmour is working on a new album that he hopes will be out in the next year or two.

Gilmour, speaking together with his wife Polly Samson, revealed the forthcoming album in a new interview with Rolling Stone.

“I’m hoping that I will have an album ready in the next year or two; I’m not that fast,” the 75-year-old guitarist said. He explained that lockdown was “one of the problems” hindering the record’s production.

“Getting other people in to listen, to help, and to play on things has been kind of impossible in the last year,” Gilmour said. “I do look forward to actually playing some songs with a bunch of actual musicians at some point.”

Gilmour’s last release, Yes, I Have Ghosts, was a single to support the launch of his wife’s novel A Theatre For Dreamers. The acoustic guitar-driven song was the Pink Floyd guitarist’s first release in five years since his solo studio album, Rattle That Lock.

While Gilmour’s upcoming album will feature acoustic guitar and “more harp”, it will also mark his return to the electric guitar.

“I will play electric guitar again,” he said. “But the electric guitar I’m currently playing is just not quite as ‘rock god’ as one might expect.”

As for whether Gilmour has plans to tour in the future, he said he hasn’t “given that a moment’s thought”: “At this very moment, playing to a group of 10,000 people, tightly packed together in an arena, is a nightmare, so I wouldn’t want to do that. So we’ve got to let a little time pass.”

Watch Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen’s live TV debut of “Like I Used To”

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Watch Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen’s live TV debut of “Like I Used To”
Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen on Tuesday (June 8) performed their track “Like I Used To” on TV for the first time – you can watch their Tonight Show performance below. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut The two artists released their collaborative song, which was produced by ...

Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen on Tuesday (June 8) performed their track “Like I Used To” on TV for the first time – you can watch their Tonight Show performance below.

The two artists released their collaborative song, which was produced by John Congleton, last month.

Van Etten and Olsen recorded their live performance of “Like I Used To” for the Tonight Show at the LA music venue Zebulon.

The two artists’ live setup included drummer Rhys Hastings and guitarist Emily Elhaj (who usually play as part of Olsen’s backing band), as well as Van Etten’s keyboardist Charley Damski, guitarist Nicole Lawrence and drummer Griffin Goldsmith.

Watch the performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon below:

Watch AC/DC’s new video, for “Witch’s Spell”

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Watch AC/DC’s new video, for “Witch’s Spell”
AC/DC have released a music video for their new single, "Witch’s Spell". ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Review: AC/DC – Power Up The video, which features animations by production company Wolf & Crow, shows the rock ’n’ roll icons performing on a set of ta...

AC/DC have released a music video for their new single, “Witch’s Spell“.

The video, which features animations by production company Wolf & Crow, shows the rock ’n’ roll icons performing on a set of tarot cards and while trapped inside a crystal ball.

Watch the video for “Witch’s Spell” below:

The clip comes ahead of AC/DC’s tie-in with Record Store Day 2021, for which they’ll release a limited-edition picture disc featuring “Witch’s Spell” on one side, and another Power Up single, “Through The Mists Of Time“, on the other.

AC/DC released Power Up, their 17th studio album in November last year. In Uncut‘s 8/10 review of the record, we said: “There being no imaginable mileage in comparing any of Power Up to anything but previous AC/DC albums, it’s a solid second-tier AC/DC record: it’s no Highway To Hell or Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, but it wouldn’t be at all embarrassed by the company of, say, Ballbreaker or The Razor’s Edge.“

Buena Vista Social Club album reissued for 25th anniversary

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Buena Vista Social Club album reissued for 25th anniversary
Buena Vista Social Club, the landmark 1996 celebration of Cuban music, is being reissued by World Circuit for its 25th anniversary on September 17. The deluxe version of the remastered album comes with 19 previously unreleased tracks and alternate takes from the original sessions at Havana’s EG...

Buena Vista Social Club, the landmark 1996 celebration of Cuban music, is being reissued by World Circuit for its 25th anniversary on September 17.

The deluxe version of the remastered album comes with 19 previously unreleased tracks and alternate takes from the original sessions at Havana’s EGREM/Areito studios in March 1996, convened by Juan de Marcos González, Ry Cooder and Nick Gold. Watch a video for one of those, “Vicenta”, below:

“Vicenta” is vocal duet between Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo, written by Segundo, which follows the story of a 1909 fire which destroyed almost all of the village of La Maya, close to Santiago de Cuba, where Ochoa was born.

“Buena Vista Social Club brought together great musicians from the golden age of Cuban music and successfully took our traditional music to the rest of the world,” recalls Ochoa. “It allowed me to be recognised internationally by the sones, guarachas, and boleros I had been doing since I was young. It also made me reconnect with musicians with great experiences whom I admired. Buena Vista brought us together through music, and we were a well-run family. On this 25th anniversary, we will remember with deserved pride those great legends who will always be present among us.”

Producer and guitarist Ry Cooder says: “The Buena Vista boys fly high and never lose a feather. If you miss the boat this time, you’ll have the blues forever.”

Peruse the tracklistings for the various formats of Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition and pre-order here.

Tracey Thorn: “Global superstardom? It’s tiring”

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Tracey Thorn: “Global superstardom? It’s tiring”
Tracey Thorn is well aware of the absurdity of the situation that she and her Everything But The Girl partner Ben Watt found themselves in after Missing scaled charts around the world in the mid-’90s. “I remember thinking, ‘This is brilliant, I’ve loved it, but I couldn’t live like this f...

Tracey Thorn is well aware of the absurdity of the situation that she and her Everything But The Girl partner Ben Watt found themselves in after Missing scaled charts around the world in the mid-’90s. “I remember thinking, ‘This is brilliant, I’ve loved it, but I couldn’t live like this forever.’ We’d already been along a road with some real ups and downs, so it was almost like someone waving a magic wand and saying, ‘After all that, you’re gonna have the fun of an absolutely massive fuck-off hit!’ Then we did the follow-up record, which was successful again, then I retired. Global superstardom? It’s exhausting!”

Her retirement has been unusually productive: as well as three solo albums and a Christmas record, Thorn has also written four non-fiction books, with the latest, My Rock’n’Roll Friend, charting her long friendship with Go-Betweens drummer Lindy Morrison with typical humour and emotional depth. “A few people had said to Lindy, ‘You should write a book,’ and she went, ‘I don’t want to do that.’ I said quite jokingly to her, ‘I’ll write a book about you.’ Then I thought, ‘Hang on, that could be really interesting…’”

On a grey spring day, Thorn is on a video call with Uncut to answer your questions on the book, her newfound interest in gardening, her work with Paul Weller, what’s next for her music and more. “I imagined music would be something I just did for a while,” she says. “Back then I was imagining that what I was studying at university – English – was what I’d do as my career. I’ve kind of ended up there in the end, I just took a circuitous route.”

If you could become friends with and write a biography of any deceased female musician, who would it be?

Dusty, I think – imagine being actual friends with Dusty! Judee Sill is really interesting, but it’s all a bit dark. The good thing about Lindy is that she’s this incredibly outspoken, no-filter person. It’s great raw material. I didn’t want it to be all worthy and miserable – there is some anger in there but also just the sense of: ‘Here she is, this fucking amazing woman who I want to celebrate.’ Dusty’s story has been told, but if I’d been friends with her and had all these great anecdotes about going clubbing with her, that would just be fabulous.

Have you found the publishing industry friendlier towards women than the music industry?

There are certainly more women in it! My editor now is a man, but I think he’s almost the only man I work with. Whereas in the music business, so much of the time I was surrounded by men. The literary audiences are different too – I did a book event and the organiser looked out at the crowd and said, “Oh, it’s nice to see some men here!”

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW IN UNCUT JULY 2021

King Crimson to tour North America in 2021 with the Zappa Band

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King Crimson to tour North America in 2021 with the Zappa Band
King Crimson are planning to hit the road this summer in a North American tour called Music Is Our Friend. They’ll be supported by the Zappa Band on a number of dates. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut Music Is Our Friend is set to kick off July 22 in Clearwater, Florida with a sho...

King Crimson are planning to hit the road this summer in a North American tour called Music Is Our Friend. They’ll be supported by the Zappa Band on a number of dates.

Music Is Our Friend is set to kick off July 22 in Clearwater, Florida with a show at the Ruth Eckerd Hall, and end on September 11 in Washington DC at The Anthem.

Along the way, the prog-rock legends plan to hit the states of Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Colorado, Utah, California, Arizona, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp will be joined by bassist Tony Levin, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jakko Jakszyk, multi-instrumentalist Mel Collins and three drummers: Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey.

The California Guitar Trio will support King Crimson for the first leg of the tour, while the Zappa Band will join the second.

The Zappa Band comprises singer-guitarist Ray White, multi-instrumentalists Mike Keneally and Robert Martin, bassist Scott Thunes, guitarist Jamie Kime, and drummer Joe “Vaultmeister” Travers.

In a statement announcing the tour, Fripp said: “The Crimson Beast of Terror has woken from its enforced slumbering and is venturing out to stomp flat the psyches of innocents not yet experienced in the hammering onslaught of King Crimson’s uncompromising pounding – bish! bish! bish!”

Listen to Lucy Dacus’ new single “Brando”

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Listen to Lucy Dacus’ new single “Brando”
Lucy Dacus has shared new single "Brando", the latest to come from her forthcoming album Home Video. ORDER NOW: Read the full review of Lucy Dacus' Home Video in the July 2021 issue of Uncut In a statement, Dacus explained that the song was inspired by a "very dramatic friend [she] had in h...

Lucy Dacus has shared new single “Brando“, the latest to come from her forthcoming album Home Video.

In a statement, Dacus explained that the song was inspired by a “very dramatic friend [she] had in high school whose whole personality was the media he consumed.”

“He showed me a lot of amazing movies and music, but I think he was more interested in using me as a scrapbook of his own tastes than actually getting to know me. He claimed to know me better than anyone else but I started to feel like all he wanted from me was to be a scene partner in the movie of his life.”

Watch the lyric video for “Brando“, which also includes the song’s tablature, below:

Dacus is also asking fans to submit videos of themselves dancing to the song for a chance to be in its official music video. “Skateboarding, ice skating, rollerblading and the like” are also encouraged. More details on that are available here.

“Brando” is the fourth track to be released from Home Video ahead of its arrival this month, following on from previous singles “VBS“, “Hot & Heavy” and “Thumbs“.

The singer’s third album is set to arrive on June 25 via Matador. Home Video will follow her 2018 record Historian and her 2019 EP. In 2018, Dacus also released the self-titled debut EP as part of boygenius, her band with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker.

Brian Eno launches new Sonos Radio HD station, The Lighthouse

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Brian Eno launches new Sonos Radio HD station, The Lighthouse
Brian Eno yesterday (June 8) launched a new Sonos Radio HD station, called The Lighthouse, which will delve into his extensive archive of work. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut The Lighthouse will see Eno exclusively share unreleased music from his archive, covering pieces written a...

Brian Eno yesterday (June 8) launched a new Sonos Radio HD station, called The Lighthouse, which will delve into his extensive archive of work.

The Lighthouse will see Eno exclusively share unreleased music from his archive, covering pieces written and composed earlier from his career until now. “The music that will be broadcast from The Lighthouse covers a pretty broad period,” he said in a statement.

“The earliest track we have at the moment is from 1990. We will be adding more pieces as time goes on. New pieces will be entering the mix and some of that will go back even further. You will be listening to a sequence of tracks which will be randomly generated, chosen by chance so there is the possibility of odd, I hope exciting collisions – things that are very slow next to things that are very fast next to things that have no tempo, no pulse at all.”

Eno’s station will include a series of three programs, each hosted by the musician and starting with Program 1. In them, he will give insight into the unreleased material and explain why he has decided to open up his archive to the world.

Fans can tune into Program 1 on The Lighthouse from today on Sonos Radio HD or for free to all Sonos customers through the in-app Sonos Sound System archive. Listeners everywhere can also hear the show on Mixcloud.

Eno joins a range of fellow acclaimed musicians including Björk, The Chemical Brothers, FKA Twigs and D’Angelo in curating a station for Sonos Radio.

Big Thief announce UK and European tour dates for 2022

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Big Thief announce UK and European tour dates for 2022
Big Thief have announced a UK and European tour for early 2022. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut The four-piece – Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik – will play 23 headline shows from January to March next year, concluding with a trio of gigs at the O...

Big Thief have announced a UK and European tour for early 2022.

The four-piece – Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik – will play 23 headline shows from January to March next year, concluding with a trio of gigs at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London.

In the UK, Big Thief will also perform in Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol, while a date in Dublin is also set for February 26.

You can see Big Thief’s upcoming UK and European tour dates below.

January 2022

31 – Aeronef, Lille, France

February 2022

1 – La Cigale, Paris, France
4 – Rock School Barbey, Bordeaux, France
5 – Sala Apolo, Barcelona, Spain
7 – Le Transbordeur, Lyon, France
8 – La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
9 – Kaufleuten, Zurich, Switzerland
10 – Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
12 – MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
13 – Huxleys, Berlin, Germany
15 – VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark
16 – Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany
18 – Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany
19 – Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
21 – Ronda, Utrecht, Netherlands
22 – De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands
24 – Manchester Academy 1, Manchester
25 – Barrowland, Glasgow
26 – National Stadium, Dublin
27 – O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol

March 2022

2 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
3 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
4 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London

Tickets for Big Thief’s upcoming UK and European tour go on general sale on Friday (June 11) at 9am BST / 10am CET, while a fan and O2 pre-sale begins tomorrow (June 9) at 9am BST / 10am CET. You can find out more ticket information here.

Sinéad O’Connor retracts retirement announcement

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Sinéad O’Connor retracts retirement announcement
Sinéad O’Connor has backed down on her intention to retire, mere days after her initial announcement. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut Over the weekend, the singer announced her retirement from music and touring in a series of tweets, confirming that her forthcoming album No Veter...

Sinéad O’Connor has backed down on her intention to retire, mere days after her initial announcement.

Over the weekend, the singer announced her retirement from music and touring in a series of tweets, confirming that her forthcoming album No Veteran Dies Alone, will be her last release.

“This is not sad news. It’s staggeringly beautiful news. A warrior knows when he or she should retreat. It’s been a forty year journey. Time to put the feet up and make other dreams come true,” O’Connor said on Saturday (June 5).

Now, the artist has said she will not be retiring and that her initial announcement was a “knee-jerk reaction” to some triggering interviews with UK and Canadian broadcasters, who she referred to as “pigs in lipstick”. She also confirmed she will still be performing all shows currently booked in 2022, apologising to fans and industry workers “for the fright”.

“All interviewers were asked to please be sensitive and not ask about child abuse or dig deep into painful shit about mental health which would be traumatising for me to have to think about. Every fuggin time I go to sell a record for 30 years, it’s ‘aren’t you mental? aren’t you an asshole? aren’t you invalid?’,” O’Connor said.

“I said I was retiring. As I have said many times before in knee-jerk reactions when I was young and made the butt of media abuse on the grounds I’m legally vulnerable. The hugest misconception (I’m always asked this but never answer) of ‘Sinead O’Connor’ is that she is Amazonian. I’m not. I’m a five-foot, four-inch soft-hearted female who is actually very fragile.

“But I love my job. Making music that is. I don’t like the consequences of being a talented (and outspoken woman) being that I have to wade through walls of prejudice every day to make a living. But I am born for live performance and with the astonishing love and support I have received in the last few days and will continue to receive from Rob Prinz and all at ICM, as well as many managers and buyers and fans, I feel safe in retracting my expressed wish to retire.”

O’Connor criticised the BBC’s Woman’s Hour show after her interview with host Emma Barnett last Tuesday (June 1), who mentioned that The Telegraph‘s music critic Neil McCormick had once described the singer as “the crazy lady in pop’s attic”. On Twitter, O’Connor called the interview “extremely offensive and even misogynistic”.

“Last Tuesday it was unnecessary and hurtful for Woman’s Hour of all people, to remind me of the awfully abusive statement written about me by an Irish man for a UK paper,” O’Connor said in the new statement.

“When people wonder what derailed my career? The UK and Irish UK papers’ constant abuse and invalidation of me on the grounds I may or may not have been diagnosed by them as ‘mad’. As if mad makes you invalid.”

No Veteran Dies Alone will follow on from 2014’s I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss and arrive in January next year, with no firm date set. She told the New York Times in a recent interview that it will comprise seven songs. Her memoir, Rememberings, is out now.

Lindsey Buckingham announces new self-titled solo album

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Lindsey Buckingham announces new self-titled solo album
Following his split from Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham has announced that his new self-titled solo album – his first in a decade – will be released by Reprise on September 17. Hear the first single “I Don’t Mind” below: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Ny3qiqGxrdJujXB1nviYa “...

Following his split from Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham has announced that his new self-titled solo album – his first in a decade – will be released by Reprise on September 17.

Hear the first single “I Don’t Mind” below:

“‘I Don’t Mind’, like many of the songs on my new album, is about the challenges couples face in long-term relationships,” says Buckingham. “Over time, two people inevitably find the need to augment their initial dynamic with one of flexibility, an acceptance of each others’ flaws and a willingness to continually work on issues; it is the essence of a good long term relationship. This song celebrates that spirit and discipline.”

Talking about the album as a whole, he says: “I wanted to make a pop album, but I also wanted to make stops along the way with songs that resemble art more than pop. As you age, hopefully you keep getting a little more grounded in the craft of what you’re doing. For me, getting older has probably helped to reinforce the innocence and the idealism that hopefully was always there.”

You can pre-order Lindsey Buckingham here and peruse his US tourdates below:

9/1/2021 The Pabst Theater – Milwaukee, WI
9/3/2021 Mystic Lake – Mystic Showroom – Prior Lake, MN
9/4/2021 Four Winds Casino Resort / Silver Creek Event Center – New Buffalo, MI
9/7/2021 Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall – Munhall, PA
9/8/2021 Riviera Theatre – North Tonawanda, NY
9/9/2021 The Academy of Music – Northampton, MA
9/11/2021 The Chevalier Theater – Medford, MA
9/12/2021 The Music Hall – Portsmouth, NH
9/14/2021 Warner Theatre – Washington, DC
9/16/2021 The Town Hall – New York, NY
9/18/2021 Tropicana Casino & Resort – Atlantic City, NJ
9/19/2021 Santander Performing Arts Center – Reading, PA
9/21/2021 Knight Theatre – Charlotte, NC
9/22/2021 Woodruff Arts Center – Symphony Hall – Atlanta, GA
9/24/2021 Bijou Theatre – Knoxville, TN
9/26/2021 Ponte Vedra Concert Hall – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
9/27/2021 Ruth Eckerd Hall – Clearwater, FL
9/29/2021 King Center for the Performing Arts – Melbourne, FL
9/30/2021 Parker Playhouse – Fort Lauderdale, FL
12/2/2021 The Theatre at Ace Hotel – Los Angeles, CA
12/3/2021 Magnolia Performing Arts Center – El Cajon, CA
12/5/2021 Fox Tucson Theatre – Tucson, AZ
12/8/2021 The Paramount Theatre For the Performing arts – Austin, TX
12/9/2021 Majestic Theatre – Dallas, TX
12/11/2021 Smart Financial Centre – Sugar Land, TX
12/13/2021 Von Braun Center – Mars Music Hall – Huntsville, AL
12/15/2021 Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO
12/17/2021 The Criterion – Oklahoma City, OK
12/18/2021 Orpheum Theatre – Wichita, KS
12/20/2021 Boulder Theater – Boulder, CO

The 5th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2021

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The 5th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2021
It's been far too long since we've done one of these, a terrible oversight for which we apologise profusely. Hopefully this bumper crop of superb new tunes will help make up the shortfall. As always, there's a tonne of excellent new music here: a standalone single from the incomparable White Deni...

It’s been far too long since we’ve done one of these, a terrible oversight for which we apologise profusely. Hopefully this bumper crop of superb new tunes will help make up the shortfall.

As always, there’s a tonne of excellent new music here: a standalone single from the incomparable White Denim; Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg covering a song from the Superwolves album; Laura Marling at her poppiest; the returns of Matthew E White and Mega Bog; and plenty of lesser-known delights, including an astonishing performance from Korean duo Dal:um. Enjoy!

WHITE DENIM
“Crystal Bullets”
(English Mallard)

JOAN SHELLEY & NATHAN SALSBURG
“Watch What Happens”
(Drag City)

LUMP
“Climb Every Wall”
(Chrysalis/Partisan)

MEGA BOG
“Station To Station”
(Paradise Of Bachelors)

AMIINA
“Beacon”
(Amiina)

MODERN WOMAN
“Offerings”
(End Of The Road)

ORCHESTRE TOUT PUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP
“So Many Things (To Feel Guilty About)”
(Bongo Joe)

COTS
“Flowers”
(Boiled Records)

COCHEMEA
“Burning Plain”
(Daptone)

DAL:UM
“TAL”
(Glitterbeat)

BALIMAYA PROJECT
“Soninka/Patronba” (feat. Mariam Tounkara Koné)
(Jazz Re:Freshed)

MATTHEW E WHITE
“Genuine Hesitation”
(Domino)

CHORUSING
“Watching The Beams”
(Western Vinyl)

ELENA SETIÉN
“Unfamiliar Minds”
(Thrill Jockey)

PEGGY GOU
“Nabi (feat. OHHYUK)”
(Gudu)

SVEN WUNDER
“Prussian Blue”
(Piano Piano)

BADGE ÉPOQUE
“Galactic Whip”
(Telephone Explosion)

Morrissey, Blondie and Bauhaus to headline Cruel World 2022 festival

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Morrissey, Blondie and Bauhaus to headline Cruel World 2022 festival
The line-up for the rescheduled Cruel World festival in 2022 has been unveiled. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut Morrissey, Blondie and Bauhaus will lead the line-up alongside Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs, Violent Femmes, Public Image Ltd and more. You can see ...

The line-up for the rescheduled Cruel World festival in 2022 has been unveiled.

Morrissey, Blondie and Bauhaus will lead the line-up alongside Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs, Violent Femmes, Public Image Ltd and more. You can see the full list of names below.

From the company behind Coachella, the first edition of the festival was meant to take place in 2020 but was postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The event has also changed locations: instead of the Grounds at Dignity Health Sports Park in Los Angeles, the festival will take place at Brookside Golf Club in Pasadena.

The event’s new date is May 14, 2022 and tickets for the event goes on sale this Friday, June 6 here.

Last month (May 31), Morrissey unveiled details of a new album, which he said was “the best album of my life”.

Bonfire Of Teenagers, the Smiths singer’s first since leaving his label deal with BMG, will be sold to the highest record label bidder. No release date has yet been announced.

Bruce Springsteen will return to Broadway this summer

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Bruce Springsteen will return to Broadway this summer
Bruce Springsteen's acclaimed show will head back to Broadway starting June 26, while a social media post said that “additional performances” will take place up until September 4 at the St. James Theater. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut At the time of publishing, the show is set...

Bruce Springsteen‘s acclaimed show will head back to Broadway starting June 26, while a social media post said that “additional performances” will take place up until September 4 at the St. James Theater.

At the time of publishing, the show is set to become the first to open on Broadway since the coronavirus closed down performances in March 2020.

As reported in the New York Times, “audience members will be required to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination along with their tickets to enter the [theatre]. Entry times will be staggered, and attendees will be required to fill out a Covid-19 health screening within 24 hours of the show.”

The shows will run on June 26, 29 and 30, July 1-3, 6-10, 13-17 and then August 17-20, 24-28 and 31. The final shows will take place September 1-4. All ticketing info and dates can be found here. Tickets go on sale this Thursday (June 10) at 5pm BST (12pm ET).

In a statement released before his first performance on Broadway, Springsteen said he wanted the show to be “as personal and intimate as possible”. He said: “I chose Broadway for this project because it has the beautiful old theatres, which seemed like the right setting for what I have in mind.

“In fact, with one or two exceptions, the 960 seats of the Walter Kerr Theatre is probably the smallest venue I’ve played in the last 40 years.”

The musician dedicated his first performance of Springsteen On Broadway to the late Tom Petty, who died just two days before the Broadway show began its run.

Neil Young is working on an album with Crazy Horse

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Neil Young is working on an album with Crazy Horse
Neil Young has confirmed that he is currently working on a new album with his longtime collaborators Crazy Horse. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Review: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Writing in his regular updates pos...

Neil Young has confirmed that he is currently working on a new album with his longtime collaborators Crazy Horse.

Writing in his regular updates posted to his personal website The Neil Young Archives, Young revealed that he has five songs already ready for a new album, and that “recording with the Horse will begin soon”.

Prompted by a fan letter that expressed keenness to see Young and Crazy Horse live again after such a long break, he added that touring isn’t back on the cards just yet. He wrote: “No gigs planned until I am sure the audience is safe.”

The word that Young is holding off on booking concerts with Crazy Horse comes after a long period off from touring for him and the band. Young had made a statement that he would be finally open to hitting the road again in early 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic put paid to most concerts and festivals worldwide.

Young and Crazy Horse have collaborated since the late 1960s, working together on classic albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After The Gold Rush. Most recently, in 2019, they released Colorado.

Jackson Browne: “I’ve always been connected with people who are trying to make things better”

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Jackson Browne: “I’ve always been connected with people who are trying to make things better”
Jackson Browne hasn’t had much sleep. “Last night I was playing until three in the morning,” he explains, via Zoom, from the tastefully appointed kitchen that adjoins his home studio in Los Angeles. “I’ve been working on a song for a movie and you have to sort of chase it where it goes....

Jackson Browne hasn’t had much sleep. “Last night I was playing until three in the morning,” he explains, via Zoom, from the tastefully appointed kitchen that adjoins his home studio in Los Angeles.

“I’ve been working on a song for a movie and you have to sort of chase it where it goes. It’s so great, because I’ve got this place where I can come at all hours. It’s next to my writing room, where I have a mattress.”

The convenience of having his own studio, for a perfectionist like Browne, also means there’s a temptation to meddle. Downhill From Everywhere, his new album, should have been out earlier this year, but he heard a few things on the test pressing that he didn’t like. “So I bought myself the time to do some little changes and experimenting,” he says. “That’s happened over the years, but there’s always that moment where you finally have to let go.”

We’re primarily here to talk about the album, which is as insightful, melodic and artfully measured as anything Browne has put his name to in the past 25 years. But the course of our two-hour conversation follows all manner of digressions and tangents, from the people he’s known –Tim Buckley, Nico, Warren Zevon, the Eagles, Lowell George and more – to activism, legacy, songwriting as therapy and starting out solo. He even calls back a couple of weeks later, to clarify something he feels may have been open to misinterpretation first time around.

At 72, a bewhiskered Browne, in dark shades, suits the elegantly weathered look. Talk of his pre-fame days in Greenwich Village elicits a memory of Harry Smith’s ubiquitous Anthology Of American Folk Music. “As a matter of fact,” he muses, “the older I get the more I look like Harry Smith. You know that picture where he’s mixing vodka and milk because he has an ulcer? He looks so funky, he hasn’t shaved, his hair’s thinning. He comes to mind from time to time, whenever I look at myself in the mirror.”

Grey hair notwithstanding, Browne doesn’t look a whole lot different from the boyish figure who first rose to prominence in Southern California in the early ’70s. He was then at the nexus of what Linda Ronstadt called “an artistic Shangri-La”, the eloquent new generation of singer-songwriters who coalesced around the Troubadour in LA. Literate and sophisticated, Browne’s friends and admirers included the Eagles, who aspired to the same level of insight as timeless landmarks like For Everyman, Late For The Sky and The Pretender.

Much of those same qualities are still evident on Downhill From Everywhere, which finds Browne transitioning further into the themes he’s pursued over the years: the intangibles of romantic love, despair, hope, political division, environmental issues, memory, the flow of time. Some songs rock hard, others tap into euphonic balladry and temperate folk-soul. There’s even a detour into Catalan rumba. “I have a band of players that I call on regularly and I really like what we ended up with on this record,” he says. “We really went through it together.”

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW IN UNCUT JULY 2021

The Rolling Stones join campaign calling for better streaming revenues for artists

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The Rolling Stones join campaign calling for better streaming revenues for artists
The Rolling Stones have joined Tom Gray’s #BrokenRecord campaign which is calling for better streaming revenues for artists. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut Back in April, over 150 artists – including Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Chris Martin, Noel Gallagher and Wolf...

The Rolling Stones have joined Tom Gray’s #BrokenRecord campaign which is calling for better streaming revenues for artists.

Back in April, over 150 artists – including Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Chris Martin, Noel Gallagher and Wolf Alice – signed an open letter to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking to help reform the streaming economy.

That letter reportedly received an “interested but non-committal reply” from a junior minister in the business department.

The campaign has now enlisted the help of the Stones, Tom Jones, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, Emeli Sandé, Alison Goldfrapp and Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, as well as the estate of the late Clash frontman Joe Strummer, in the hope that they can effect change.

The addition of the new signatories means that four of the eight performers Johnson chose for his Desert Island Discs in 2005 are now urging him to take action: members of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Clash, as well as Van Morrison.

The Rolling Stones Broken Record campaign
The Rolling Stones have joined the #BrokenRecord campaign. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

“For too long, streaming platforms, record labels and other internet giants have exploited performers and creators without rewarding them fairly,” the letter due to be sent to Downing Street today (June 7) reads. “We must put the value of music back where it belongs – in the hands of music makers.”

It continues: “By addressing these problems, we will make the UK the best place in the world to be a musician, producer or a songwriter, allow recording studios and the UK session scene to thrive once again, strengthen our world leading cultural sector, allow the market for recorded music to flourish for listeners and creators, and unearth a new generation of talent.

“We urge you to take these suggestions forward and ensure the music industry is part of your levelling- up agenda as we kickstart the post-Covid economic recovery.”

You can read the letter in full here.

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Jarvis Cocker has also joined the #BrokenRecord campaign. Credit: Daniel Cohen

Pressure continues to mount to mount following a recent government investigation. Run by the Department for Culture Media and Sport since November last year, Parliament’s Inquiry into the Economics of Music Streaming committee met seven times, hearing from representatives across the industry.

During the various hearings, artists told MPs that low streaming payments were “threatening the future of music” with emerging acts complaining that they faced “massive competition” from classic artists due to algorithms.

Spotify meanwhile, warned that raising subscription prices could push people to online piracy, while MPs accused one major label boss of “living in cloud cuckoo land” after he claimed that artists were happy with the existing music streaming model.

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