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Listen to Jack White’s new song, “Battle Cry”

Michael Bonner
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Listen to Jack White’s new song, “Battle Cry”
Jack White has released a surprise new single called "Battle Cry". Aside from a few chants of “Hey!” at the start, the track is an instrumental – listen below. https://open.spotify.com/album/0QUwls89DamhagkkXj9vvS It is unconfirmed as to whether this is a one-off single or a teaser for his ...

Jack White has released a surprise new single called “Battle Cry“.

Aside from a few chants of “Hey!” at the start, the track is an instrumental – listen below.

It is unconfirmed as to whether this is a one-off single or a teaser for his third solo album. White is currently recording in Nashville, Tennessee.

Speaking to The New Yorker last month (March) for a rare profile feature, White revealed he has a private bowling alley in his house in which he keeps a bowling ball for Bob Dylan.

The New Yorker‘s Alec Wilkinson writes that “each dedicated ball has a name tag, and some of the balls are painted fancifully—Bob Dylan’s has a portrait of John Wayne.”

The piece also reveals a host of rare items that White owns, including Lead Belly’s New York City arrest record, James Brown‘s driving license from the ’80s and a copy of Action Comics No. 1 from June 1938, which includes Superman’s first published appearance.

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Watch Radiohead perform “Where I End And You Begin” for the first time in nine years

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Watch Radiohead perform “Where I End And You Begin” for the first time in nine years
Radiohead performed at Kansas City, Missouri’s Spirit Center last night (April 5), and they played "Where I End And You Begin" for the first time in nine years. They last played the song - from Hail To The Thief - in Tokyo, back in 2008. Watch fan-shot footage below. The band have been digging i...

Radiohead performed at Kansas City, Missouri’s Spirit Center last night (April 5), and they played “Where I End And You Begin” for the first time in nine years.

They last played the song – from Hail To The Thief – in Tokyo, back in 2008. Watch fan-shot footage below.

The band have been digging into their extensive back catalogue in the last week, previously treating Miami fans to a rendition of “The Tourist” and Atlanta fans to “House Of Cards“, from their In Rainbows LP.

Setlist:

‘Daydreaming’
‘Desert Island Disk’
‘Ful Stop’
‘Airbag’
’15 Step’
‘The National Anthem’
‘Separator’
‘All I Need’
‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’
‘Bloom’
‘I Might Be Wrong’
‘Identikit’
‘Weird Fishes / Arpeggi’
‘Idioteque’
‘Where I End and You Begin’
‘Lucky’
‘Present Tense’

Encore 1:
‘Give Up the Ghost’
‘Burn the Witch’
‘Reckoner’
‘Fake Plastic Trees’
‘Nude’

Encore 2:
‘You and Whose Army?’
‘Karma Police’

Encore 3:
‘There There’

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Queen launch their own Monopoly game

Michael Bonner
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Queen launch their own Monopoly game
Queen have launched their own edition of the board game, Monopoly. Monopoly: Queen Edition is released on May 8, 2017 and available for pre-order now. According to a press release, the "game follows in the footsteps of one of the most iconic bands in history, from their humble beginnings on London...

Queen have launched their own edition of the board game, Monopoly.

Monopoly: Queen Edition is released on May 8, 2017 and available for pre-order now.

According to a press release, the “game follows in the footsteps of one of the most iconic bands in history, from their humble beginnings on London’s smaller stages to worldwide success and adoration.”

The game features six collectible Queen tokens inspired by their career and bespoke ‘houses’ and ‘hotels’ designed by the band’s Brian May. The game board features gig venues from throughout Queen’s illustrious history- from the band’s formation in 1970, right up to the 1986 Wembley and Knebworth shows.

Says Brian May, “I think fans will be enchanted by the depth of detail in this special Queen edition of an already well-loved game. We have subtly morphed the traditional property-developing journey of Monopoly into the real-life adventure of a rock band on the road. Players will plot a whole career, based on developing bigger and better shows in venues all around the globe. Join us and conquer the World !!!”

In making the announcement, David Boyne, MD of Bravado UK, said, “We are delighted to have partnered with Winning Moves to help bring these historic music and gaming forces together to create Monopoly; Queen Edition. It has been inspiring to see the band so involved throughout the creative process and Brian and Roger’s input has helped create a truly special and personal version of the iconic game that Queen Fans around the world will love.”

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

The 14th Uncut Playlist Of 2017

John Mulvey
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The 14th Uncut Playlist Of 2017
In a bit of a flap this morning, so not much time for niceties, but lots of good stuff to dig into here, between a new boot of Riley & Cherry’s 1975 Cologne concert and the sublime Michael Mayer mix I’m playing as I type. Please do check out The Weather Station’s live set from Massey Hall,...

In a bit of a flap this morning, so not much time for niceties, but lots of good stuff to dig into here, between a new boot of Riley & Cherry’s 1975 Cologne concert and the sublime Michael Mayer mix I’m playing as I type. Please do check out The Weather Station’s live set from Massey Hall, Mikey Young’s comp of mellow Aussie ‘70s psych, and also Joeything on Soundcloud: 20+ years ago, I often used to go and see a UK hardcore band called Joeyfat, whose default reviews invariably described them as a mix between Fugazi and Pulp. Now they’ve reconfigured as a duo, added a whole heap of Aphex acid into the mix, and work incredibly well as a sort of Sleaford Mods for people (like me) who don’t like Sleaford Mods very much. Give it a go…

Follow me on Twitter @JohnRMulvey

1 Terry Riley & Don Cherry – Duo (B.Free)

2 Gas – Narkopop (Kompakt)

3 Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 4 (Top Dawg Entertainment)

4 Evan Dando – Baby I’m Bored (Fire)

5 Mako Sica – Invocation (Feeding Tube)

6 Tony Conrad – Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain (Superior Viaduct)

7 Hiss Golden Messenger – Parker’s Picks Vol 1: Live At The Parish, Austin, Texas 18/10/2016 (Bandcamp)

8 Lejsovka & Freund – Music For Small Ensemble & Computer (MIE)

9 Guadalupe Plata – Guadalupe Plata (Everlasting)

10 Ifriqiyya Electrique – Rûwâhîne’ (Glitterbeat)

11 Kevin Morby – City Music (Dead Oceans)

12 Vieux Farka Touré – Samba (Six Degrees)

13 The Weather Station Live at Massey Hall | November 27, 2015 (www.liveatmasseyhall.com)

14 Arthur Verocai – Encore (Far Out)

15 Joeythin – Thine EP (Unlabel)

16 Here Lies Man – Here Lies Man (Riding Easy)

17 The Heliocentrics – A World Of Masks (Soundway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQd16e9tDnY

18 Various Artists – Follow The Sun (Anthology)

19 Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)

20 Ragnar Grippe –  Sand (Dais)

21 Feist – Pleasure (Polydor)

22 Michael Mayer – DJ Kicks (!K7)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJktk0QqBo

 

The Beatles unveil 50th anniversary edition of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Michael Bonner
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The Beatles unveil 50th anniversary edition of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles will mark the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with a special edition of the album, featuring 34 previously unreleased recordings. Released on May 26 by Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music, the album has been newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell in stereo and ...

The Beatles will mark the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with a special edition of the album, featuring 34 previously unreleased recordings.

Released on May 26 by Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music, the album has been newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell in stereo and 5.1 surround audio and expanded with early takes from the studio sessions.

“It’s crazy to think that 50 years later we are looking back on this project with such fondness and a little bit of amazement at how four guys, a great producer and his engineers could make such a lasting piece of art,” says Paul McCartney in his newly-penned introduction for the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Anniversary Edition.

“‘Sgt. Pepper’ seemed to capture the mood of that year, and it also allowed a lot of other people to kick off from there and to really go for it,” Ringo Starr recalls in the Anniversary Edition’s book.

For Record Store Day on April 22, Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe will release an exclusive, limited edition seven-inch vinyl single of The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” among the first songs recorded during the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ sessions.

This is the first time Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has been remixed and presented with additional session recordings, and it is the first Beatles album to be remixed and expanded since the 2003 release of Let It Be… Naked.

You can pre-order by clicking here.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Edition releases include:

A CD featuring the new ‘Sgt. Pepper’ stereo mix, complete with the original U.K. album’s “Edit for LP End” run-out groove.

Deluxe: Expanded 2CD and digital package features the new stereo album mix on the first CD and adds a second CD of 18 tracks, including previously unreleased complete takes of the album’s 13 songs, newly mixed in stereo and sequenced in the same order as the album. The second CD also includes a new stereo mix and a previously unreleased instrumental take of “Penny Lane” and the 2015 stereo mix and two previously unreleased complete takes of “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

Deluxe Vinyl: Expanded 180-gram 2LP vinyl package features the new stereo album mix on the first LP and adds a second LP with previously unreleased complete takes of the album’s 13 songs, newly mixed in stereo and sequenced in the same order as the album.

Super Deluxe: The comprehensive six-disc boxed set features:
CD 1: New stereo album mix
CDs 2 & 3:
– 33 additional recordings from the studio sessions, most previously unreleased and mixed for the first time from the four-track session tapes, sequenced in chronological order of their recording dates
– A new stereo mix of “Penny Lane” and the 2015 stereo mix of “Strawberry Fields Forever”
CD 4:
– Direct transfers of the album’s original mono mix and the “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” singles
– Capitol Records’ U.S. promotional mono single mix of “Penny Lane”
– Previously unreleased early mono mixes of “She’s Leaving Home,” “A Day In The Life,” and “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” (a mix thought to have been erased from a tape in 1967, but discovered during archive research for the anniversary edition)
Discs 5 & 6 (Blu-ray and DVD):
– New 5.1 surround audio mixes of the album and “Penny Lane” by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, plus their 2015 5.1 surround mix of “Strawberry Fields Forever”
– High resolution audio versions of the new stereo mixes of the album and “Penny Lane” and of the 2015 stereo mix of “Strawberry Fields Forever”
– Video features: 4K restored original promotional films for “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “Penny Lane,” and “A Day In The Life;” plus The Making of Sgt. Pepper, a restored, previously unreleased documentary film (broadcast in 1992), featuring insightful interviews with McCartney, Harrison, and Starr, and in-studio footage introduced by George Martin.

The tracklisting for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Editions are:

CD
(‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix)
1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She’s Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I’m Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life

Deluxe [2CD, digital]

CD 1: ‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix (same as single-disc CD tracklist, above)

CD 2: Complete early takes from the sessions in the same sequence as the album, plus various versions of “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane”
1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 9]
2. With A Little Help From My Friends [Take 1 – False Start And Take 2 – Instrumental]
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Take 1]
4. Getting Better [Take 1 – Instrumental And Speech At The End]
5. Fixing A Hole [Speech And Take 3]
6. She’s Leaving Home [Take 1 – Instrumental]
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Take 4]
8. Within You Without You [Take 1 – Indian Instruments]
9. When I’m Sixty-Four [Take 2]
10. Lovely Rita [Speech And Take 9]
11. Good Morning Good Morning [Take 8]
12. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Take 8]
13. A Day In The Life [Take 1 With Hummed Last Chord]
14. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 7]
15. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 26]
16. Strawberry Fields Forever [Stereo Mix – 2015]
17. Penny Lane [Take 6 – Instrumental]
18. Penny Lane [Stereo Mix – 2017]

Deluxe Vinyl [180g 2LP]

LP 1: ‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix (same as single-disc CD tracklist, above)
SIDE 1 SIDE 2
1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1. Within You Without You
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
2. When I’m Sixty-Four
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
3. Lovely Rita
4. Getting Better 4. Good Morning Good Morning
5. Fixing A Hole 5. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. She’s Leaving Home 6. A Day In The Life
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!

LP 2: Complete early takes from the sessions in the same sequence as the album
SIDE 3
1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 9 And Speech]
2. With A Little Help From My Friends [Take 1 – False Start And Take 2 – Instrumental]
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Take 1]
4. Getting Better [Take 1 – Instrumental And Speech At The End]
5. Fixing A Hole [Speech And Take 3]
6. She’s Leaving Home [Take 1 – Instrumental]
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Take 4]

SIDE 4
1. Within You Without You [Take 1 – Indian Instruments]
2. When I’m Sixty-Four [Take 2]
3. Lovely Rita [Speech And Take 9]
4. Good Morning Good Morning [Take 8]
5. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Take 8]
6. A Day In The Life [Take 1 With Hummed Last Chord]

Super Deluxe [4CD/DVD/Blu-ray boxed set]

CD 1: ‘Sgt. Pepper’ 2017 Stereo Mix (same as single-disc CD tracklist, above)

CD 2: Complete early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order of their first recording dates
1. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 1]
2. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 4]
3. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 7]
4. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 26]
5. Strawberry Fields Forever [Stereo Mix – 2015]
6. When I’m Sixty-Four [Take 2]
7. Penny Lane [Take 6 – Instrumental]
8. Penny Lane [Vocal Overdubs And Speech]
9. Penny Lane [Stereo Mix – 2017]
10. A Day In The Life [Take 1]
11. A Day In The Life [Take 2]
12. A Day In The Life [Orchestra Overdub]
13. A Day In The Life (Hummed Last Chord) [Takes 8, 9, 10 and 11]
14. A Day In The Life (The Last Chord)
15. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 1 – Instrumental]
16. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 9 And Speech]
17. Good Morning Good Morning [Take 1 – Instrumental, Breakdown]
18. Good Morning Good Morning [Take 8]

CD 3: Complete early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order of their first recording dates
1. Fixing A Hole [Take 1]
2. Fixing A Hole [Speech And Take 3]
3. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Speech From Before Take 1; Take 4 And Speech At End]
4. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Take 7]
5. Lovely Rita [Speech And Take 9]
6. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Take 1 And Speech At The End]
7. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Speech, False Start And Take 5]
8. Getting Better [Take 1 – Instrumental And Speech At The End]
9. Getting Better [Take 12]
10. Within You Without You [Take 1 – Indian Instruments Only]
11. Within You Without You [George Coaching The Musicians]
12. She’s Leaving Home [Take 1 – Instrumental]
13. She’s Leaving Home [Take 6 – Instrumental]
14. With A Little Help From My Friends [Take 1 – False Start And Take 2 – Instrumental]
15. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Speech And Take 8]

CD 4: ‘Sgt. Pepper’ and bonus tracks in Mono
(Tracks 1-13: 2017 Direct Transfer of ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Original Mono Mix)
14. Strawberry Fields Forever [Original Mono Mix]
15. Penny Lane [Original Mono Mix]
16. A Day In The Life [Unreleased First Mono Mix]
17. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Unreleased Mono Mix – No. 11]
18. She’s Leaving Home [Unreleased First Mono Mix]
19. Penny Lane [Capitol Records U.S. Promo Single – Mono Mix]

DISCS 5 & 6 (Blu-ray & DVD)
Audio Features (both discs):
– New 5.1 Surround Audio mixes of ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album and “Penny Lane,” plus 2015 5.1 Surround mix of “Strawberry Fields Forever” (Blu-ray: DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1 / DVD: DTS Dolby Digital 5.1)
– High Resolution Audio versions of 2017 ‘Sgt. Pepper’ stereo mix and 2017 “Penny Lane” stereo mix, plus 2015 “Strawberry Fields Forever” hi res stereo mix (Blu-ray: LPCM Stereo 96KHz/24bit / DVD: LPCM Stereo)
Video Features (both discs):
– The Making of Sgt. Pepper [restored 1992 documentary film, previously unreleased]
– Promotional Films: “A Day In The Life;” “Strawberry Fields Forever;” “Penny Lane” [4K restored]

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Spoon – Hot Thoughts

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Spoon – Hot Thoughts
Spoon’s distinct identity, a deft balance of concision, swagger, vulnerability and taut grooves, coalesced on 2001’s Girls Can Tell. The following year, Austin-based co-founders Britt Daniel and Jim Eno perfected their recipe with the following year’s minimalist masterpiece Kill The Moonlight,...

Spoon’s distinct identity, a deft balance of concision, swagger, vulnerability and taut grooves, coalesced on 2001’s Girls Can Tell. The following year, Austin-based co-founders Britt Daniel and Jim Eno perfected their recipe with the following year’s minimalist masterpiece Kill The Moonlight, an album that still sounds radical a decade and a half later.

After four more beguiling and nervy albums, Daniel and Eno have made another sonic shift as bold and striking as the Girls-Kill segue, but in this case the transition is expansive rather than reductive. 2014’s They Want My Soul – satisfying if unsurprising – was the first to feature co-producer Dave Fridmann, yet it’s on Hot Thoughts that his influence is felt strongest, with Spoon’s standard instrumentation manipulated in a manner analogous to David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti’s audacious treatments on Low – right down to the eerily atmospheric sax-and-drums dialogue “Us”, the album’s “Warszawa”-like instrumental coda.

This new approach is emphatically apparent from the start of the opening title track: a drum machine groove gallops out of an electronic drone, while Daniel’s guitar stabs and pounded celeste get a compressed treatment from Fridmann, locking the licks into the overall sonic architecture. The quantized feel continues through the subdued bridge, coloured by Daniel’s moody piano, whereupon Eno’s drums suddenly appear with the concussive impact of mortar shells and drive the track to its heated conclusion. The surprises continue: playful syncopation on “Do I Have To Talk You Into It” morphs into a brontosaurus stomp, while “Whisperi’lllistentohearit”’s one-note sequencer pattern is sent into overdrive by Eno’s Bonham-muscled eruption at the two-minute mark.

On Hot Thoughts, the dance of sinew and space that has always defined Spoon’s identity has been absorbed into a sonic monolith that moves forward aggressively and relentlessly. And yet the band’s instrumental signifiers are still present, embedded in the throbbing soundscapes – like the shakers that subliminally propel the six-minute, mostly instrumental groove fest “Pink Up”, and the King-Kong-scale handclaps and Thunderclap Newman piano chords that push the groove on “Can I Sit Next To You”.

“I Ain’t The One”, originally conceived as a loner’s parting gesture in the manner of Johnny Cash, has been reimagined by Daniel and Fischel as an understated, achingly regretful ballad of lost chances. Captured in a reverberant room, with overdubbed choirboy harmonies set off by a startlingly assertive rhythmic bridge, the song – centered on what may be Daniel’s most unguarded vocal performance – is as beautiful as anything in the Spoon lexicon.

Daniel’s propulsive piano, another signature move, sets the defiant tone of “Tear It Down”, which in light of current events comes off like a grand, up-to-the-minute protest anthem: “Let them build a wall/I don’t care I’m gonna tear it down/It’s just bricks and ill intentions/They don’t stand a chance/I’ll tear it down”. “Shotgun” doubles down on this confrontational tone behind Daniel’s staccato guitar volleys and wry yet sobering allusions: “You and me dreamin’ ’bout full medical and dental”.

Unlike most of their contemporaries, Daniel and Eno have never wavered in their focus, never lost the plot, never allowed ego to distort their disciplined direction, resulting in one of the most consistent outputs of any 21st-century band. Hot Thoughts finds Spoon at the peak of their considerable powers, their ninth album effortlessly unfolding and gradually revealing its mysteries as they cement their place in the firmament of undeniably great rock bands.

Q&A
Britt Daniel
How much was Bowie on your mind as you were making this record?
I figured this out before he died; I do think Bowie is, to put it bluntly, the guy I’ve ripped off the most [laughs]. I’d hear a song like “Modern Love”, where he starts off right at the top of his range [sings the first line], and I’d want to figure out what that formula was. But I really feel like Bowie has given me more ideas than anyone else. Probably second to Bowie would be Prince, which is a sad coincidence.

After They Want My Soul, which struck me as a summing up of your approach, the new album feels like it’s setting off into uncharted territory.
I think it sounds different from our other records – if it was ground we’d covered before, we tried to stay away from it. What Dave [Fridmann] is interested in doing is fucking things up – making sounds that are abrasive, confrontational or surprising. He always says, “Subtlety is our enemy”. To me, the best way to get somewhere is to have a little bit of intention with a song, but then you throw some things at it that you never could’ve expected. When that happens, the beautiful stuff comes. So I feel really good about where we are now. But it also feels like a very dark time.
INTERVIEW: BUD SCOPPA

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Reviewed: I Am Not Your Negro

Michael Bonner
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Reviewed: I Am Not Your Negro
In June 1979, the author James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent outlining his next project. Called Remember This House, it attempted to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. “I want these three live...

In June 1979, the author James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent outlining his next project. Called Remember This House, it attempted to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. “I want these three lives to bang against and reveal each other,” he wrote, “and use their fateful journey as a means of instructing the people who they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.”

The memoir went unfinished by the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987. In I Am Not Your Negro, filmmaker Raoul Peck has crafted a formidable documentary loosely structured around Baldwin’s notes – read by Samuel L Jackson – alongside archival footage stretching from the Civil Rights movement to the Ferguson riots and Black Lives Matter. The dismal truth, of course, is that in some respects nothing has changed. “History is not the past,” wrote Baldwin prophetically. “It is the present.”

A black, gay man in a country that tolerated neither, in 1948 Baldwin settled in Paris – where he wrote his first two novels, Go Tell It On The Mountain and Giovanni’s Room – only returning to America in 1957 after seeing footage of protestors outside desegregated schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. “I am terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, that is happening in my country,” confessed Baldwin. In 1968, Balwdin is a guest on the Dick Cavett Show being asked by the host “Why aren’t negroes more optimistic – it’s getting so much better?”

“It’s not a question of what happens to the negro,” Baldwin says, prescient as ever. “The real question is what is going to happen to this country.”

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The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Watch Björk’s new video for “Notget”

Michael Bonner
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Watch Björk’s new video for “Notget”
Björk has shared a new music video for Vulnicura track, “Notget”. The video has been directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones. The clip was showcased in VR form last year at the Airwaves Festival in Iceland. It follows the virtual reality videos for “Black Lake” and “Stonemi...

Björk has shared a new music video for Vulnicura track, “Notget”.

The video has been directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.

The clip was showcased in VR form last year at the Airwaves Festival in Iceland.

It follows the virtual reality videos for “Black Lake” and “Stonemilker”.

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Introducing The History Of Rock 1986

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Introducing The History Of Rock 1986
Welcome to 1986! Our latest edition of History Of Rock will manifest in UK stores around Thursday, but you can buy a copy now from our online store (as well as all the previous volumes of The History Of Rock). Prince is our cover star this time out, and here’s John Robinson, as usual, to do the in...

Welcome to 1986! Our latest edition of History Of Rock will manifest in UK stores around Thursday, but you can buy a copy now from our online store (as well as all the previous volumes of The History Of Rock). Prince is our cover star this time out, and here’s John Robinson, as usual, to do the introductory honours…

“Thanks to NME’s C86 cassette, a collection of young and promising guitar bands, this is an unusual year, in that it seems to come with its own soundtrack album already attached.

“In fact, though the music press of that year covers this emerging wave of groups like Primal Scream, some of the most dramatic events of 1986 take place in front of larger audiences, and far closer to the mainstream. From their yobbish first appearances in public, The Beastie Boys quickly prove that their records are serious – and particularly serious about a good time. Mancunians Simply Red and The Smiths both develop wider congregations of ecstatic supporters.

“Our cover star Prince, meanwhile, seems to dominate many people’s thinking. He’s made another excellent album, and another film. He’s working with Miles Davis, and has become a topic of conversation. When in August he plays a run of shows at London’s Wembley Arena, it leaves critics, if not exactly speechless, then at least convinced that these represent an apogee of what might be possible in a rock concert.

“It’s true, he’s not one for saying much. But in his stead, strong musical opinion flourishes from other sources. This year, The Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, The Fall, and the Smiths all make landmark work – and don’t just walk it, but talk it powerfully, too. Ten years on from punk, John Lydon has plenty to say about it, and his great new record. In the world of pop, meanwhile, George Michael and the Pet Shop Boys prove that thoughtful comment and a sense of mission aren’t the preserve of groups with guitars.

“This is the world of The History Of Rock, a monthly magazine which follows each turn of the rock revolution. Whether in sleazy dive or huge arena, passionate and stylish contemporary reporters were there to chronicle events. This publication reaps the benefits of their understanding for the reader decades later, one year at a time. Missed one? You can find out how to rectify that by clicking here.

“In the pages of this 21st edition, dedicated to 1986, you will find verbatim articles from frontline staffers, filed from the thick of the action, wherever that may be.

“At the Hacienda, jousting ego with New Order’s Peter Hook. Being told by Nick Cave that you, and every member of your profession, are scum. At the Brixton Academy, as Morrissey raises a sign to express all that the band’s wry and empathetic music have come to mean in the last three years.

“It says, ‘Two light ales, please…’”

 

 

 

Watch footage from The Who’s special performance of Tommy

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Watch footage from The Who’s special performance of Tommy
The Who performed their 1969 album Tommy in full during their gig at this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust. The gig took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on March 30, where as well as the likes of "Pinball Wizard", "We’re Not Gonna Take It" and "I’m Free", the band also played some rarely-per...

The Who performed their 1969 album Tommy in full during their gig at this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust.

The gig took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on March 30, where as well as the likes of “Pinball Wizard”, “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I’m Free”, the band also played some rarely-performed tracks from the album like “Welcome”, “Miracle Cure” and “Underture”.

Watch fan-shot footage from the gig, and see the full setlist, below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKNmPGs340E

The Who played:

I Can’t Explain
Substitute

Overture
It’s a Boy
1921
Amazing Journey
Sparks
Eyesight to the Blind (Sonny Boy Williamson cover)
Christmas
Cousin Kevin
The Acid Queen
Do You Think It’s Alright?
Fiddle About
Pinball Wizard
Go to the Mirror!
There’s a Doctor
Tommy Can You Hear Me?
Smash the Mirror
I’m Free
Miracle Cure
Sensation
Underture
Sally Simpson
Welcome
Tommy’s Holiday Camp
We’re Not Gonna Take It

Won’t Get Fooled Again
Join Together
Baba O’Riley
Who Are You

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Watch the moving new video for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Steve McQueen”

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Watch the moving new video for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Steve McQueen”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared the new spoken-word video for "Steve McQueen". The visuals in the clip are taken from the recent film One More Time With Feeling, which documented Cave and his band recording their sixteenth album, Skeleton Tree. Directed by Andrew Dominik, the footage sees Ca...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared the new spoken-word video for “Steve McQueen“.

The visuals in the clip are taken from the recent film One More Time With Feeling, which documented Cave and his band recording their sixteenth album, Skeleton Tree.

Directed by Andrew Dominik, the footage sees Cave and his band rehearsing “Girl In Amber” in the studio as the frontman recites his moving “Steve McQueen” poem.

“I’m a housefly called ‘God,’ and I don’t give a fuck/ Here I come up the elevator, 60 floors, hoping I don’t get stuck/ And everyone out here does mean, and everyone out here does pain/ But someone’s got to sing new stars, and someone’s got to sing the rain.”

Watch the video for “Steve McQueen” below.

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

The Isley Brothers – “Inside the group, it was like a police state”

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The Isley Brothers – “Inside the group, it was like a police state”
Originally published in Uncut's September 2015 issue (Take 220) "Harvest For The World’ refers to a peaceful gathering,” explains songwriter Ernie Isley, “where every human being is invited, and where no-one will be hindered in any way from participating.” Originally a vocal trio comprisin...

Originally published in Uncut’s September 2015 issue (Take 220)

“Harvest For The World’ refers to a peaceful gathering,” explains songwriter Ernie Isley, “where every human being is invited, and where no-one will be hindered in any way from participating.”

Originally a vocal trio comprising brothers O’Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald, by the early ’70s, the Isleys (expanded to include Ernie and Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper) were releasing an album a year and scoring a host of hits along the way. “Harvest For The World” stands out as one of their finest, an open-hearted call for equality across the planet. But beneath the luscious, sparkling veneer of the recording, engineered by Stevie Wonder collaborator and synthesiser pioneer Malcolm Cecil, there lies a stranger tale: of briefcases full of money; of Jimi Hendrix’s enduring influence; of older brothers packing powerful handguns and running the band “like a police state”; and of a group of wealthy superstars still rehearsing in their mother’s suburban basement.

“There was no fooling around or running in the studio to speak of,” says Robert Margouleff, who worked with the Isleys and Cecil from 1973’s 3+3 to The Heat Is On two years later. “These guys all dressed to the nines every day. There wasn’t a day that someone came in wearing a slouchy pair of jeans.” As all involved acknowledge today, the message of “Harvest For The World”, propelled into the charts with help from Cecil’s crisp sound, is still an important one. “It’s a very nice thought,” says Ernie Isley, “and hopefully one day that peaceful gathering will happen.”

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CHRIS JASPER (songwriting, keyboards): We did some covers on 3+3 – “Summer Breeze” and “Listen To The Music” – but, as time went on, Ernie and I started writing more. We worked together very well. The band would be on the road part of the year and the other part we’d be recording and writing, so it was a very busy time, to say the least.

MALCOLM CECIL (engineer)): The actual art and the performing in that period was very much between Chris Jasper and Ernie and Marvin Isley. The older brothers were mainly concerned with the vocals. They left the younger brothers to do the main tracking, and relied upon them for the funk and the beat.

JASPER: We all wrote at the Isleys’ mom’s house in Englewood, New Jersey. We had the equipment set up downstairs in the basement, and I left my piano and my keyboard set up and amplified. The bass amp was down there, Ernie’s guitar amps were down there. It was kind of a tight squeeze sometimes. But that’s where we did a lot of our rehearsing and writing.

ERNIE ISLEY (songwriting, guitars, drums): I wanted to get a 12-string guitar, so I went down to a music shop in Manhattan and picked up a Guild 12-string – which I still have – and it sounded really good. I brought it home and started trying it in the basement and happened to come up with the lines, “All babies together/Everyone a seed/Half of us are satisfied/Half of us in need…” Inspiration is everywhere and if anybody happens to have their antenna up and you are fortunate enough to be inspired, you can come up with all kinds of stuff.

Laura Marling – Semper Femina

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Laura Marling – Semper Femina
The title of Laura Marling’s new album – which loosely translates as ‘always a woman’ – is taken from Virgil’s The Aeniad: “Varium et mutabile semper femina”; “a woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing”. It’s a crude but apt summation of Marling’s determination as an art...

The title of Laura Marling’s new album – which loosely translates as ‘always a woman’ – is taken from Virgil’s The Aeniad: “Varium et mutabile semper femina”; “a woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing”. It’s a crude but apt summation of Marling’s determination as an artist to present a moving target. Semper Femina is her sixth album in nine years, the kind of old-school work ethic which complements an equally old-school creative sensibility. Having emerged in the slipstream of Mumford & Sons and Noah & The Whale, she long ago freed herself from the entanglements of any scene, other than perhaps an attachment to the golden age of Laurel Canyon’s music makers.

At 27, Marling has assembled an impressive and unified body of work, making subtle adjustments with each step. Once I Was An Eagle (2013) opened with an audacious five-song suite of drone-poems, raw and richly allegorical; her last album, 2015’s self-produced Short Movie, was harder, jittery, more abrasive. Semper Femina is a further refinement of her art, rooted in a familiar cool classicism yet also distinct, the sound warm, intimate and inviting, punctuated with flashes of ragged guitar and adorned with sumptuous strings.

At a time when the Misogynist-in-Chief stalks the Oval Office, the album’s focus on female identity is both welcome and current, even if Semper Femina is nothing as straightforward as a concept album. As well as Virgil, Marling draws inspiration from psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salome and Rainer Maria Rilke, and namechecks Courbet’s explicit painting L’Origine du Monde, none of which dispels the notion of her having somewhat rarefied tastes. Though she’s a veiled writer, hinting at intimacy without revelation, the abstract nature of these nine unhurried, often very beautiful songs is partly the point. This is an exploration of femininity in all its variants; in its power, mystery and vulnerability; above all, in its mutability.

Opener “Soothing” is a career highlight. The atmosphere is steamy, malevolent, erotically charged, with echoes of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Melody” and Dylan’s “I Can’t Wait” in the off-kilter, up-ended groove. The serpentine bassline is tilted, while Marling is at her most imperious, decreeing that some prior means of intimate access – “your private door to my room” – is now denied. “I banish you with love,” she sings, her voice swooping from high to low.

This suspenseful, rhythmic magnetism is reprised on “Don’t Pass Me By”, which turns out not to be Marling’s take on the Ringo-penned Beatles clomper from the White Album, but closer to Karen Carpenter singing Portishead’s “Glory Box”. A litany of used-to-bes – old guitars and familiar tunes are taken away and stripped to their component parts, to be transformed “into something good” – it features another gorgeous string arrangement and a hypnotic descending chord sequence, plucked out on echoing electric guitar.

These two tracks are so good, slanted and enchanted, the rest of the record’s achievements feel low-key by comparison. “The Valley” is gentle, almost-ambient folk, a late-summer English pastoral sketched in flickering guitars, stacked vocals and a ravishingly lovely sweep of strings. It’s a fond lament, regretting a breach in female friendship, the realisation that confidences now go unshared. While “The Valley” is quietly heartbreaking, the lightly swinging “Next Time” is merely pleasant. “Nothing Not Nearly” is a sturdier affair, arriving with a crunch of distorted guitar and bearing a passing resemblance to Jeff Buckley’s “Lover, You Should Have Come Over”.

Marling splits her time these days between London and Los Angeles; her music can seem similarly polarised. The smouldering, soulful “Wildfire” has a West Coast swagger, despatched in a rich, deeply satisfying bluesy drawl, perfect for cussing out some poor soul’s mama (“kinda sad”) and papa (“kinda mean”). And “Nouel”, a spritely, fingerpicked pen portrait of a muse figure who “sings along to a sailor’s song in a dress that she made,” hardly shies away from those eternal Joni Mitchell comparisons. In contrast, “Wild Once” is an almost parodic display of clipped, actorly Englishness. Here is Marling at her most mannered, and arguably her least engaging. A loose-limbed tone-poem celebrating atavistic impulses, it’s the one track which doesn’t quite hit home.

“Always This Way”, on the other hand, is disarmingly simple and intimate. In gentle tones, Marling toys with rueful autobiography: “25 years, nothing to show from it…” Well, hardly. Semper Femina – while ultimately not quite the radical re-routing it occasional threatens to be – marks an impressive deepening of Marling’s explorations, and a timely testament to change as a positive force.

Q&A
LAURA MARLING
How fully-formed were the themes before you began recording?
It always becomes clear in retrospect. It was what I was interested in around the time I was writing it, so there was some forethought, but it’s not like a concept album. Without being provocative and political for the sake of it, it feels like that’s what’s happening in the world anyway. I was interested in what truly liberates women and what doesn’t.

How did it come together?
It was made in September 2015. I only really write when I’m touring. I like the energy of travel, and the constriction of having to find a space to write. We went straight from the American tour for Short Movie into the studio. It was mostly all of us performing together, and some overdubby guitar bits with Blake, little fancy things.

You produced Short Movie yourself but used Blake Mills this time. Why the change?
When I was producing Short Movie, I found the results weren’t very good, because I was constantly jumping between two roles. I didn’t enjoy it. I have mixed feelings about Short Movie; it was a difficult record to write, make and tour. I’d heard a couple of Blake’s self-produced records of his own music, and a couple of other things he’d produced, and I thought, ‘He’s my generation’s exciting thing!’ He’s got an extraordinary musical palette that he put into play on “Soothing”, and a few other places on the record. That’s his touch. He is brilliant.
INTERVIEW: GRAEME THOMSON

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics for unpublished 1961 song due for auction

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Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics for unpublished 1961 song due for auction
The handwritten lyrics to an unpublished Bob Dylan song are up for auction. Rolling Stone reports that Dylan wrote the lyrics in November 1961, months after he moved to New York. Dylan gave the lyric sheet to musician and one-time roommate, Peter Crago. The opening bid is set at $30,000. The auct...

The handwritten lyrics to an unpublished Bob Dylan song are up for auction.

Rolling Stone reports that Dylan wrote the lyrics in November 1961, months after he moved to New York. Dylan gave the lyric sheet to musician and one-time roommate, Peter Crago.

The opening bid is set at $30,000.

The auction house, Nate D Sanders, have printed the lyrics:

Wisconson is the dairy state
I guess you all know well
I was in Wow Wow Toaster there
The truth to you I’ll tell
It’s milk & cheese & cream
I’ve known ’em all my days
I’m going back to my hometown I’m leaving right aways

I’m a heading out Wisconson ways
2000 miles to go
Madison, Milwakee set’s my heart aglow
I’m a coming to that dairy state
My heart’s a beating fast
I’ll pick my banjo gently there
And twiddle my mustache

There’s thoughts I left there long ago
One a coming now it seems
I’ll tune my banjo than the hills
And feast on milk and cream
And stamp my foot all thru the grass
And never know a care
My homes in Wow Wow Toaster
And I’m a going there”

The song continues on the verso:
”1. These people with you city ways
Are driving me insane to drink
My home’s in Wisconson it’s a better place I think
I’ve been in California
My home’s in Wisconson
And I”m gonna own the town”

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Paul Weller announces details of new album, A Kind Revolution

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Paul Weller announces details of new album, A Kind Revolution
Paul Weller has announced details his new studio album, A Kind Revolution. The album is released on May 12 by Parlophone Records. A Kind Revolution features members of Weller's touring band Andy Crofts and Ben Gordelier with Steve Cradock and Steve Pilgrim on several tracks. Guests include PP Arno...

Paul Weller has announced details his new studio album, A Kind Revolution.

The album is released on May 12 by Parlophone Records.

A Kind Revolution features members of Weller’s touring band Andy Crofts and Ben Gordelier with Steve Cradock and Steve Pilgrim on several tracks. Guests include PP Arnold and Madeleine Bell, Boy George, Robert Wyatt and The Strypes’ guitarist Josh McClorey.

The album was produced and arranged by Jan ‘Stan’ Kybert and Weller and will be released on CD, Special Edition 3 CD set, 12” Vinyl LP, limited Deluxe 10” Vinyl Box Set, Standard & Deluxe Downloads and is available to Stream.

The tracklisting is:

Woo Sé Mama
Nova
Long Long Road
She Moves With The Fayre
The Cranes Are Back
Hopper
New York
One Tear
Satellite Kid
The Impossible Idea

Weller has also announced tour dates for 2018:

February
Sat 17 – Brighton – Centre
Sun 18 – Bournemouth – Bournemouth International Centre
Tue 20 – Plymouth – Pavilions
Wed 21 – Cardiff – Motorpoint Arena
Fri 23 – Leeds – First Direct Arena
Sat 24 – Newcastle – Metro Radio Arena
Sun 25 – Glasgow – The SSE Hydro
Tue 27 – Nottingham – Motorpoint Arena

March
Thu 1 – Manchester – Arena
Fri 2 – Birmingham – Genting Arena
Sat 3 – London – The O2 Arena

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Hear an unreleased version of the Grateful Dead’s “Dancing In The Street” from 1977

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Hear an unreleased version of the Grateful Dead’s “Dancing In The Street” from 1977
On May 8, 1977, the Grateful Dead performed at Cornell University’s Barton Hall. The bootleg recording of this show was considered so significant that it was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2011. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show, Rhino will release...

On May 8, 1977, the Grateful Dead performed at Cornell University’s Barton Hall.

The bootleg recording of this show was considered so significant that it was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2011.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show, Rhino will release the Barton Hall concert separately in multiple formats on May 5. Cornell 5/8/77 will be available as a three-CD set, a limited edition five-LP set (limited to 7,700 copies), as well as digital download and streaming.

Below, you can hear a previously unreleased version of “Dancing In The Street” from the show: the track is available as an instant gratification from March 31 with pre-orders of the album.

You can pre-order by clicking here.

Track Listing for Cornell 5/8/77 is:

Disc One
“New Minglewood Blues”
“Loser”
“El Paso”
“They Love Each Other”
“Jack Straw”
“Deal”
“Lazy Lightning>”
“Supplication”
“Brown-Eyed Women”
“Mama Tried”
“Row Jimmy”

Disc Two
“Dancing In The Street”
“Scarlet Begonias>”
“Fire On The Mountain”
“Estimated Prophet”

Disc Three
“St. Stephen>”
“Not Fade Away>”
“St. Stephen>”
“Morning Dew”
“One More Saturday Night”

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

The 13th Uncut Playlist Of 2017

John Mulvey
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The 13th Uncut Playlist Of 2017
Bunch of interesting new things here; I wish I had something to play you from the Man Forever album, especially the Laurie Anderson or Yo La Tengo collaborations, but I don’t think anything has made public yet. In the interim, please find below a new Kendrick Lamar track; Tunisia’s ultra-intens...

Bunch of interesting new things here; I wish I had something to play you from the Man Forever album, especially the Laurie Anderson or Yo La Tengo collaborations, but I don’t think anything has made public yet.

In the interim, please find below a new Kendrick Lamar track; Tunisia’s ultra-intense Ifriqiyya Electrique; new things from Sufjan Stevens and his gang, and from Sam Amidon; Amber Coffman (this one slipped out a few months ago but I missed it at the time); Lilie Mae Rische (from Jack White’s band); and two tracks from the deluxe expansion of Evan Dando’s wonderful “Baby I’m Bored”. Also don’t sleep on the Kevin Morby track and the Gas teaser. And just remembered, maybe best of all, there’s another new Joan Shelley track…

Follow me on Twitter @JohnRMulvey

1 Gas – Narkopop (Kompakt)

2 Jan Jelinek – Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (Faitiche)

3 Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 4 (Top Dawg Entertainment)

4 Ifriqiyya Electrique – Rûwâhîne’ (Glitterbeat)

5 Man Forever – Play What They Want (Thrill Jockey)

6 Helado Negro – Private Energy (Expanded) (RVNG INTL)

7 Various Artists – Jon Savage’s 1967: The Year Pop Divided (Ace)

8 Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda – World Spirituality Classics, Volume 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)

9 Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister – Planetarium (4AD)

10 Evan Dando – Baby I’m Bored (Fire)

11 Kevin Morby – City Music (Dead Oceans)

12 Wet Tuna – Live At The Root Cellar 1​/​19​/​17 Electric Set (Bandcamp)

13 Lilie Mae – Wash Me Clean (Third Man)

14 Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley (No Quarter)

15 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Simultonality (Tak:Til/Eremite)

16 Amber Coffman – All To Myself (Columbia)

17 Forest Swords – The Highest Flood (Ninjatune)

18 Joni Mitchell – Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (Asylum)

19 75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock (Tak: Til)

20 Jeff Parker – Slight Freedom (Eremite)

21 Sam Amidon – The Following Mountain (Nonesuch)

 

Ask Jason Isbell

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Ask Jason Isbell
Ahead of the release of his new album, The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell will be answering your questions as part of our regular An Audience With… feature. So is there anything you’d like us to ask the singer song-writer? What's his favourite memory of his time in Drive-By Truckers? What was l...

Ahead of the release of his new album, The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell will be answering your questions as part of our regular An Audience With… feature.

So is there anything you’d like us to ask the singer song-writer?

What’s his favourite memory of his time in Drive-By Truckers?
What was life like growing up in Alabama?
Just what is The Nashville Sound?

Send up your questions by noon, Tuesday, April 4 to uncutaudiencewith@timeinc.com.

The best questions, and Jason’s answers, will be published in a future edition of Uncut magazine.

The May 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring our cover story on Buckingham Nicks. Elsewhere in the issue, there’s interviews with Elastica, Mac DeMarco, John Lydon and Mike Love. We take a trip to Morocco – North African destination of The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and more – and look back at the life of Laura Nyro. Our free CD collects great new tracks from Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan Band, Fairport Convention, Thundercat and more. The issue also features Wire on their best recorded work. Plus Future Islands, Lemon Twigs, Sleaford Mods, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, T.Rex, Cosey Fanni Tutti and more, plus 131 reviews

Sparks announce new album, Hippopotamus

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Sparks announce new album, Hippopotamus
Sparks have announced details of a new studio album. The Mael brothers will release Hippopotamus on September 8, 2017 on BMG. Watch the "Hippopotamus" single video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2CJN8rmBE&feature=youtu.be The tracklisting for Hippopotamus is: Probably Nothing Mission...

Sparks have announced details of a new studio album.

The Mael brothers will release Hippopotamus on September 8, 2017 on BMG.

Watch the “Hippopotamus” single video below:

The tracklisting for Hippopotamus is:

Probably Nothing
Missionary Position
Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)
Scandinavian Design
Giddy Giddy
What The Hell Is It This Time?
Unaware
Hippopotamus
Bummer
I Wish You Were Fun
So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln Aside From That How Was The Play?
When You’re A French Director (featuring Leos Carax)
The Amazing Mr. Repeat
A Little Bit Like Fun
Life With The Macbeths

The band have also announced a run of dates in support of the band. Sparks will play:

Monday 07 August — Vega Theater, Copenhagen
Tuesday 08 August — Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway
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Thursday 14 September — Paard van Troje, Den Haag
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Tuesday 26 September — 02 Academy, Bristol
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Jeff Buckley’s handwritten journals to be published in new book

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Jeff Buckley’s handwritten journals to be published in new book
Jeff Buckley's handwritten journals are to appear in print in a new book. Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice is due in spring 2019, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Grace. The book will feature letters, lyrics and photographs from Buckley, reports Rolling Stone. The book will be compiled and edi...

Jeff Buckley‘s handwritten journals are to appear in print in a new book.

Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice is due in spring 2019, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Grace.

The book will feature letters, lyrics and photographs from Buckley, reports Rolling Stone.

The book will be compiled and edited by Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert and biographer David Browne, who wrote Dream Brother: The Lives And Music Of Jeff And Tim Buckley.

“In choosing these pages to share with the world, I’m giving him the chance to speak with his own voice, for the record… and for his fans to see what a sweet, funny, amazing human being he was,” Guibert said in a statement.

An audiobook edition will feature unreleased recordings, including Buckley’s outgoing voicemail message and his list of “100 things to do.”

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