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Tom Petty’s She’s The One reimagined as Angel Dream for 25th anniversary

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Tom Petty’s She’s The One reimagined as Angel Dream for 25th anniversary
A reimagined version of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ 1996 album She’s The One has been announced to celebrate its 25th anniversary. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut Entitled Angel Dream, the updated album is a remixed, remastered and reimagined version of the group's Songs...

A reimagined version of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ 1996 album She’s The One has been announced to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Entitled Angel Dream, the updated album is a remixed, remastered and reimagined version of the group’s Songs And Music From The Motion Picture “She’s The One”, set for release on July 2.

Ahead of its official release date, the reissue will be released on limited-edition cobalt blue vinyl this Saturday (June 12) for Record Store Day. You can find out more info about the RSD release here.

The album’s new title is a nod to its opening track, “Angel Dream No.2”, which you can listen to below.

“She’s The One was originally a great way to include some of the songs that didn’t make it on to Wildflowers, but it has its own thing to it, its own charm, and putting it out now in a restructured form makes for a sweet little treat,” Heartbreaker Benmont Tench said of Angel Dream in an interview on SiriusXM’s Tom Petty Radio yesterday (June 10).

“At the time in the studio, it was fun working as a band to improvise the scoring cues for the movie rather than playing to pre-set click tracks and a written score. And it was interesting to try to cut covers of others’ songs for a record, instead of learning covers just for live shows.

“We got a nice vibey version of Beck’s song and I’ve always loved Lucinda’s song ‘Change The Locks‘, so I was more than happy to cut it with our band.  Oh, and this album has Angel Dream on it, one of the loveliest songs Tom ever wrote.”

Petty‘s long-term engineer and co-producer Ryan Ulyate remixed the audio for the reissue and worked with the late musician on the mixes before his passing. The song selection was designed to work as a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album rather than a film soundtrack.

Four unreleased tracks have been added: “One Of Life’s Little Mysteries“, written by Petty; “Thirteen Days“, a JJ Cale cover; “105 Degrees“, another Petty original; and “French Disconnection“, an instrumental in the same vein as those on the original album. An extended version of “Supernatural Radio” has also been included.

Tom Petty
Tom Petty. CREDIT: Getty Images

Petty‘s widow Dana Petty said of the album: “These songs are extremely special. I am grateful this record is getting the recognition it deserves. The remix Ryan Ulyate did sounds amazing, and the unreleased gems are a lovely bonus. Annakim, Adria, and I took a lot of time finding artwork that reflects the mood of the album. I think we finally achieved that with Alia Penner’s work. It is surreal and beautiful, just like life during that time.”

Angel Dream (Songs And Music From The Motion Picture She’s The One) is available for pre-order here. You can see the track listing below.

Side 1:

Angel Dream (No. 2)
Grew Up Fast
Change The Locks
Zero From Outer Space
Asshole

Side 2:

One of Life’s Little Mysteries
Walls (No. 3)
Thirteen Days
105 Degrees
Climb That Hill
Supernatural Radio (Extended Version)
French Disconnection

The original 1996 album included several songs that were left off the final Wildflowers tracklist but were featured on last year’s critically acclaimed Wildflowers & All The Rest collection.

Richard Ashcroft announces two new autumn acoustic shows

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Richard Ashcroft announces two new autumn acoustic shows
Richard Ashcroft has announced two new acoustic shows for the autumn. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut The former Verve frontman has expanded his upcoming tour, which already includes two sold-out dates at the London Palladium on October 16-17. Ashcroft will perform two more “ac...

Richard Ashcroft has announced two new acoustic shows for the autumn.

The former Verve frontman has expanded his upcoming tour, which already includes two sold-out dates at the London Palladium on October 16-17.

Ashcroft will perform two more “acoustic evenings of his classic songs” in Liverpool and London following those Palladium shows later this year.

He’ll head to the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on October 29, before playing at the Royal Albert Hall on November 1.

The four gigs will serve as “a special celebration of [Ashcroft’s] repertoire of songs, which will feature new interpretations of many of his classic solo and The Verve compositions,” according to a press release.

Tickets for the newly announced Ashcroft shows in Liverpool and London will go on sale at 9:30am tomorrow (June 11) from here.

Ashcroft is already set to perform at Nottingham’s Splendour Festival and Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival in July, before another date at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth in August.

Ashcroft’s last release, a cover of John Lennon’s 1973 protest song “Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple)”, arrived back in February.

Elton John says UK will lose “generation of talent” due to post-Brexit touring rules

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Elton John says UK will lose “generation of talent” due to post-Brexit touring rules
Elton John has warned that the UK is in danger of losing “a generation of talent” after the UK government failed to secure a touring breakthrough with the EU. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut The government’s failure to negotiate visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits fo...

Elton John has warned that the UK is in danger of losing “a generation of talent” after the UK government failed to secure a touring breakthrough with the EU.

The government’s failure to negotiate visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits for musicians and crew in Lord Frost’s Brexit deal has long been a topic of discussion.

It has sparked fears that artists will face huge costs to take part in live music tours off the continent which could create a glass ceiling that prevents rising and developing artists from being able to afford to do so.

John shared the post to his Instagram, revealing that he – alongside his partner and Rocket Entertainment CEO David Furnish, promoter Craig Stanley and Lord Paul Strasberger – met with Lord Frost “to spell out the damage the trade agreement he negotiated with Europe is doing to the UK’s music industry”.

“Despite this looming catastrophe, the government seems unable or unwilling to fix this gaping hole in their trade deal and defaults to blaming the EU rather than finding ways out of this mess,” he said.

John described touring as “an essential part” of education for artists, but said it risked becoming prohibitive for artists under the current arrangement.

“The situation is already critical and touring musicians, crews and support staff are already losing their livelihood,” he said.

John went on to explain that he was not concerned with the risk for artists on a similar level to himself, who frequent arenas and stadiums.

“We are lucky enough to have the support staff, finance and infrastructure to cut through the red tape that Lord Frost’s no deal has created,” he said.

Elton added: “During our meeting Lord Frost said trying to solve this issue is a long process.”

“Unfortunately, our industry doesn’t have time. It is dying now. The government have broken the promise they outlined in 2020 to protect musicians and other creative industries from the impact of Brexit on tours to Europe.”

Concluding his statement, Elton said the government risked ruining a “window of opportunity” that had been presented by the way in which the pandemic has halted touring.

“I call on the government to sort this mess out or we risk losing future generations of world-beating talent,” he said.

“This is about whether one of the UK’s most successful industries, worth £111bn a year, is allowed to prosper and contribute hugely to both our cultural and economic wealth, or crash and burn.”

Last weekend, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden was also criticised when he boasted that trade deals with Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein would allow seamless touring – with musicians pointing out that all three countries make up a small proportion of the continent.

Elsewhere, European festival promoters have said that they could be likely to book fewer UK acts as a result of Brexit, while figures from the UK music industry have expressed concern that the impact of the deal on musicians who might not be able to tour Europe could also potentially prevent them from acquiring a visa to play in the United States.

The government was also previously accused of treating the sector like “an afterthought” in Brexit negotiations compared to the £1.2billion fishing industry.

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.

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