Dr John answers your questions in the new issue of Uncut, out on Tuesday (May 22).
In the piece, the singer, pianist and songwriter touches on subjects as varied as New Orleans voodoo, Methadone and biting off chickens’ heads.
The Night Tripper also tackles questions from famous fans, includin...
Dr John answers your questions in the new issue of Uncut, out on Tuesday (May 22).
In the piece, the singer, pianist and songwriter touches on subjects as varied as New Orleans voodoo, Methadone and biting off chickens’ heads.
The Night Tripper also tackles questions from famous fans, including Paul Weller, Dan Auerbach, Randy Newman and Mike Mills, on getting shot, his iconic stick and ‘gris-gris’ blessings.
Check out An Audience With… Dr John in the new issue of Uncut, out on Tuesday (May 22).
Dr John recently released a new album, Locked Out, produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.
Patti Smith looks back over her whole career, and reveals the inspiration behind her new album Banga, in an unprecedentedly frank interview in the new issue of Uncut, out on Tuesday (May 22).
In the 13-page feature, Smith and her bandmates tell her whole story, from the Chelsea Hotel – via CBGB...
Patti Smith looks back over her whole career, and reveals the inspiration behind her new album Banga, in an unprecedentedly frank interview in the new issue of Uncut, out on Tuesday (May 22).
In the 13-page feature, Smith and her bandmates tell her whole story, from the Chelsea Hotel – via CBGB’s, streams of consciousness, spinal injury, love, retreat, loss and the good advice of Bob Dylan – to the creative rebirth of her new album.
Throughout the piece, the venerated songwriter and poet references an eclectic variety of figures that have influenced her work, such as Amy Winehouse, Christopher Columbus, Patty Hearst, The Byrds and controversial psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.
Read about her remarkable 40-year quest in the new July issue of Uncut, out on Tuesday (May 22).
Neil Young has released a third video from his forthcoming album, Americana.
The video for "Clementine" follows "Jesus' Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain") and "Oh Susannah".
Americana, Young's first album with Crazy Horse since Greendale in 2003, is set for release on June 5.
Young ...
Neil Young has released a third video from his forthcoming album, Americana.
The video for “Clementine” follows “Jesus’ Chariot (She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain”) and “Oh Susannah”.
Americana, Young’s first album with Crazy Horse since Greendale in 2003, is set for release on June 5.
Young has also revealed further live dates alongside the already announced Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from August 10-12.
Neil Young is scheduled to play at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on Sunday, August 5 and Monday, August 6. At this point, interestingly, the show is billed as Neil Young – not Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse will, however, headline the 2012 Voodoo Fest in New Orleans on Halloween weekend, October 26-28.
U2 frontman Bono has become the richest musician in the world [May 19], overtaking Paul McCartney, thanks to the floatation on the stock market of social media site, Facebook.
The U2 singer owns 2.3 per cent of the shares in Facebook through his private equity firm, Elevation Partners.
Bono's shar...
U2 frontman Bono has become the richest musician in the world [May 19], overtaking Paul McCartney, thanks to the floatation on the stock market of social media site, Facebook.
The U2 singer owns 2.3 per cent of the shares in Facebook through his private equity firm, Elevation Partners.
Bono’s share is worth over $1.5 billion (£940 million) and puts him well above Paul McCartney, who was the world’s richest rock star with a fortune of £665 million.
U2 are rumoured to be working on new material with One Direction’s songwriters, according to reports, with Swedish pop svengali Carl Falk, who penned the boyband’s ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ reportedly on board.
A source said of this: “The band are back in the studio getting a feel for new material after the last album ‘No Line On The Horizon‘. Will.i.am had a credit on that and they are looking to explore that direction further. They have been working with Danger Mouse and RedOne. They are excited about getting to work with Carl Falk.”
Belfast festival Titanic Lockdown has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
Organisers said in a statement that ticket sales had been "significantly slower than forecast" and as a result it was "not possible" to go ahead with the two-day festival, the Belfast Telegraph reports.
Anyone who has bought tickets for the event, which was due to take place on June 1 and 2, will be refunded.
The event, which was due to take place at a former shipyard hangar in the Titanic Quarter of the city was set to be headlined by Happy Mondays and New Order, with Ghostpoet, Factory Floor, Lee Scratch Perry and Anna Calvi also scheduled to appear.
A statement on Titanic Lockdown's website read: "Due to poor ticket sales in a challenging economic climate, it is with great regret and disappointment that we must announce the cancellation of the 2012 Titanic Lockdown summer festival." It added:
Despite a huge wave of goodwill, ticket sales have been significantly slower than forecast for an event featuring such high profile acts. As a result, it will not be possible to deliver the event.
Titanic Lockdown is the latest festival to be cancelled in what has been a tough year for organisers. Earlier this month, Rough Beats festival was cancelled due to "financial pressures", while Sonisphere pulled the plug on the Knebworth festival in March citing a "very challenging year" for organisers.
Belfast festival Titanic Lockdown has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
Organisers said in a statement that ticket sales had been “significantly slower than forecast” and as a result it was “not possible” to go ahead with the two-day festival, the Belfast Telegraph reports.
Anyone who has bought tickets for the event, which was due to take place on June 1 and 2, will be refunded.
The event, which was due to take place at a former shipyard hangar in the Titanic Quarter of the city was set to be headlined by Happy Mondays and New Order, with Ghostpoet, Factory Floor, Lee Scratch Perry and Anna Calvi also scheduled to appear.
A statement on Titanic Lockdown’s website read: “Due to poor ticket sales in a challenging economic climate, it is with great regret and disappointment that we must announce the cancellation of the 2012 Titanic Lockdown summer festival.” It added:
Despite a huge wave of goodwill, ticket sales have been significantly slower than forecast for an event featuring such high profile acts. As a result, it will not be possible to deliver the event.
Titanic Lockdown is the latest festival to be cancelled in what has been a tough year for organisers. Earlier this month, Rough Beats festival was cancelled due to “financial pressures”, while Sonisphere pulled the plug on the Knebworth festival in March citing a “very challenging year” for organisers.
Guns N' Roses kicked off their UK and Ireland tour at The O2 in Dublin last night [May 17] with a near three-hour set that did not conclude until just after 1:15am.
Pyrotechnics, six costume changes, a cover of the Pink Panther theme tune and the band's now traditional late arrival on stage marked ...
Guns N’ Roses kicked off their UK and Ireland tour at The O2 in Dublin last night [May 17] with a near three-hour set that did not conclude until just after 1:15am.
Pyrotechnics, six costume changes, a cover of the Pink Panther theme tune and the band’s now traditional late arrival on stage marked the 21-song set that got underway at 10:25pm – nearly an hour and a half after the band’s expected stage time.
Returning to the venue of their now infamous 2010 gig, at which the band were bottled off stage after three songs, Axl Rose ended set-closer ‘Paradise City’ by thanking the Irish crowd for “not throwing shit” at him. The frontman told the crowd: Thanks for coming out, thanks for putting up with my lame ass and thanks for not throwing shit.
Earlier the singer had acknowledged the leg injury he suffered at a party in Russia last weekend telling his Irish fans: “As you may have heard I had a little accident. I’m learning what I can and can’t do. I hope you don’t mind me moving less than usual,” before quipping “although I’m probably moving a whole lot more than I was the last time I was here.”
Despite his comments, Rose showed little sign of the injury on-stage, moving freely as the band dipped into a set that included their greatest hits, a number of cover versions and songs from their 2008 album, Chinese Democracy.
Arriving on stage to Massive Attack’s “Splitting The Atom” and a cascade of pyrotechnics, the band opened with Chinese Democracy before launching into “Welcome To The Jungle” and “It’s So Easy”.
Over the near three-hour set Rose frequently retreated to a tent to the right of the stage – reported to contain an oxygen tank – as his bandmates took turns to take centre stage with solo instrumental cover versions which included The Who‘s ‘Baba O’Riley’ and the Pink Panther theme tune.
Rose himself played a brief cover of Pink Floyd‘s “Another Brick In The Wall” before ‘November Rain’.
Earlier the Dublin crowd had been warmed up by the current incarnation of Thin Lizzy, who took to the stage for a homecoming of sorts and a set of familiar hits including “Jailbreak”, “Dancing In The Moonlight” and “The Boys Are Back In Town”.
Guns N’ Roses played:
‘Chinese Democracy’
‘Welcome to the Jungle’
‘It’s So Easy’
‘Mr Brownstone’
‘Sorry’
‘Rocket Queen’
‘Live And Let Die’
‘This I Love’
‘Motivation’
‘Street Of Dreams’
‘You Could Be Mine’
‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’
‘Another Brick In The Wall’/’November Rain’
‘Don’t Cry’
‘Whole Lotta Rosie’
‘Estranged’
‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’
‘Nightrain’
‘Better’
‘Civil War’
‘Paradise City’
Thin Lizzy will continue to provide support for Guns N’ Roses UK tour, which gets underway at Nottingham Capital FM Arena tomorrow night [May 19].
Black Sabbath have posted a message on their Facebook page, in which they say they will not comment in full on the statement released on Wednesday [May 16] by estranged drummer Bill Ward, though the band have pointedly said "there are two sides to every story".
Ward wrote that he will not be taking...
Black Sabbath have posted a message on their Facebook page, in which they say they will not comment in full on the statement released on Wednesday [May 16] by estranged drummer Bill Ward, though the band have pointedly said “there are two sides to every story”.
Ward wrote that he will not be taking part in any of the Black Sabbath shows set for this summer, releasing a statement on his website, Billward.com, saying that he will not be playing with the band at their Birmingham show on May 19, nor with them at Download Festival on June 10 or at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 3.
In response, Black Sabbath have said that they have enlisted a substitute drummer, writing:
“We have decided not to make any detailed comment on Bill’s latest statement. There are two sides to every story. We have been working hard at rehearsals making excellent progress after Tony’s treatments and we have engaged a substitute drummer for the forthcoming shows. See you at Download.”
Ward previously revealed he was unhappy with the contract for the band’s new album and tour and claimed he would not take part in the new album sessions and shows if a ‘fair agreement’ was not met. As a result of this, the remaining members of the band vowed to carry on without him.
In his new statement, Ward wrote that last month he was offered the chance to play just three songs with the band at Download. He wrote: “I was not willing to participate in that offer. I was not prepared to watch another drummer play a Sabbath set, while I was to play only three songs.”
Ward then said that he was invited to take part in the band’s show in Birmingham this Saturday at the O2 Academy, but that there would be no guarantee that he could play the following two festival shows. He explained: “Again, for me, it’s all or nothing. I had to say ‘no’ to Birmingham on the principle of wanting to play all the shows. Saying no to Birmingham is very difficult for me. My family grew up in Birmingham. Black Sabbath grew up in Birmingham.”
Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch has been honoured by the local government in his home state of New York.
Yauch, who was also known as MCA, was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and succumbed to the disease earlier this month, aged 47.
The rapper, who grew up in New York and lived there throughout his life, w...
Beastie Boys‘ Adam Yauch has been honoured by the local government in his home state of New York.
Yauch, who was also known as MCA, was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and succumbed to the disease earlier this month, aged 47.
The rapper, who grew up in New York and lived there throughout his life, was honoured by the city’s state senate on Tuesday [May 15].
The state senate passed a resolution which declared that it was “mourning the death of famed rapper and activist Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch”, writing that he “exemplified New York” and helped rejuvenate the city during the band’s influential early years.
The senate also praised Yauch’s work outside of the band, which included his pro-Tibet Milarepa Fund and the film distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories. In the resolution, they described him as “a man of colossal talent and charisma”.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Jay-Z, Green Day, Eminem, Weezer, Tom Morello and Slash are among the bands and musicians who have paid tribute to Yauch, who died on May 4.
In this exclusive interview from Uncut’s June 2007 issue, the Beatles legend recalls his controversial time as leader of Wings. “It was a strange period,” he admits… Interview by David Cavanagh
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March 15, 2007. Soho Square is bathed in buoyant sunshine as a few lunchtim...
Guitarist Laurence Juber remembers the band listening to “a lot of reggae, new wave, whatever was in the air”. Things looked promising. But Back To The Egg (1979) saw McCartney’s innate conservatism scupper the experiment. He just couldn’t help inviting some decidedly pre-punk acquaintances – Dave Gilmour, Pete Townshend, John Bonham, Ronnie Lane – to participate in an Abbey Road supergroup (the Rockestra) on a couple of gratuitous blowouts.
Stung by the album’s rejection – it yielded no UK hits – McCartney focused his mind on the upcoming world tour. After the UK, Wings’ next stop was Japan, where the authorities had finally relented and allowed McCartney permission to play 11 sell-out concerts. He and Linda flew into Tokyo’s Narita Airport on January 16, 1980. Just prior, Wings had dispensed with their usual sound equipment team, sending their production schedules awry. “The crazy thing is that I hadn’t allowed enough time to rehearse,” McCartney says. “Normally I’m very good about that. But we were only going to have a week to put the whole Tokyo show together. We were up against it. It was like fate…. closing us down.”
The McCartneys approached airport customs: surely a formality. Television crews and hundreds of fans crowded around to welcome them. But McCartney had forgotten – or perhaps was unaware – that 229g (about half a pound) of top-quality marijuana was packed in his luggage.
He leans forward. “I’ve asked myself, ‘Why was that pot in the suitcase? So… obviously. And so much of it.’ I mean, there was not one hint of discretion. And if you see the film of the arrest, the guy is embarrassed to find it. He almost puts it back and closes the suitcase.”
Juber: “I was standing next to him. I looked at the suitcase. Then I looked at Paul’s face. He’d turned white.”
McCartney was escorted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Office, where he spent 10 days in a cell, subsisting on bread and coffee. He was denied a guitar. Meanwhile, his lawyers tried legal and diplomatic routes to free him.
“It was such a different world,” he says softly. “It was like going to another planet. They would say, highly curious, ‘You are MBE?’ And I’d say ‘Yeah’, hoping that would carry weight. And it sort of did. They were a bit deferential. Then they said, even more curious, ‘You live at Queen’s Palace?’ I said, ‘Well, no, not actually… Well, yes, quite near.’ I was hoping they might let me off if I lived near the Queen’s house. ‘You smoke marijuana?’ ‘Hardly ever.’ They said, ‘Make you hear music better?’ I thought, God, I wonder if that’s a trap.” After some concern that he might go to prison, McCartney received a fine and was made to contribute £184,000 to the ticket refunds for the cancelled tour. He was then deported.
Everyone in the Wings camp was furious with him for sabotaging a potentially lucrative tour, not least Denny Laine. The faithful Laine had been an ever-present since ’71, on a system of retainers and salaries, and had co-written “Mull Of Kintyre” with McCartney. Later, suffering financial hardship, Laine sold McCartney his publishing rights to the song. In 1986 he was declared bankrupt. He now lives in either LA or Las Vegas – it’s not clear from his MySpace page – and does not respond to Uncut’s email requesting an interview.
Wings officially ended in April 1981 when Laine left. By then, McCartney had released the solo LP, McCartney II (hit single: “Coming Up”) and was wondering if the grass in the suitcase at Narita Airport had been subconsciously placed there by himself – as a non-negotiable, unequivocal way of freeing him from the pressure of a 1980 world tour.
“I wondered. I wonder to this day if there was something strange like that. But it would be subconsciously, because I absolutely wasn’t doing it on the surface. It [his post-Wings solo career] was a new start, an enforced new start. [Pause] Or was it? Did I subconsciously force it on myself? I don’t know. I don’t know. It was a strange period.”
Our interview is over. It’s time for me to leave the presidential bubble. McCartney is still ruminating on spooky, subconscious matters as he shows me to the door. He says he recognises me now. I tell him he’s mistaken, we’ve never met. But he’s adamant: we’ve met before. I assure him we haven’t.
“Is that right? Oh. Well, that’s the wonderful thing about senility,” he beams, accompanying me out into reception. “You’re always meeting interesting new people.”
The best I can say in pitiful mitigation of my frequently poor behaviour at the time is that in those days I was not easily embarrassed and usually up for anything, a sorry mix. Anyway, it's October 1976. Patti Smith's just released her new album, Radio Ethiopia.
Because her relationship with the B...
The best I can say in pitiful mitigation of my frequently poor behaviour at the time is that in those days I was not easily embarrassed and usually up for anything, a sorry mix. Anyway, it’s October 1976. Patti Smith’s just released her new album, Radio Ethiopia.
Because her relationship with the British music press has deteriorated badly since Horses, she’s not doing any interviews but will instead be holding a press conference at the Intercontinental Hotel, near Hyde Park. At Melody Maker’s weekly editorial meeting some wag comes up with the fateful wheeze of sending me along with the intention of being as rowdily disruptive as possible, to see what kind of reaction such impoliteness might provoke. Seems like a plan to me. So off I go, getting there early and hitting the bar.
She arrives late, looking like she’s been dragged backwards by the heels through a hedge, her hand bandaged, the result of an accident the previous night at a gig in Paris. Said injury is evidence in her opinion that being in a rock band is like being in the army, which seems fairly preposterous to me. For reasons I can’t recall, we are soon arguing about Blue Öyster Cult, the very mention of whose name has me rolling my eyeballs theatrically and muttering loudly enough for her to hear vague obscenities about poodle-haired short-arses. “My boyfriend’s in Blue Öyster Cult,” she snaps. “So don’t start saying bad shit or I’ll throw my food at you. Except for my boyfriend, they ain’t the best-looking band in the world,” she concedes reluctantly. “But they got the most stamina and heart, and they’ve lived like dogs.”
This makes me laugh derisively and leads to a lot of fractious banter between us including some disparaging remarks about her guitar playing, my description of which as inept she takes raucous exception to. Seething, she picks up the plate of sandwiches in front of her and true to her earlier promise flings it at me. I duck and the plate bounces with an audible clang off the head of the guy sitting behind me, leaving a piece of lettuce on his forehead that he doesn’t notice until I peel it off and slap him with it when he threatens to have me thrown out.
Patti, meanwhile, is loudly defending her new LP. “What do you want from me?” she screeches. “Tell me who you write for and I’ll review the record. ‘Radio Ethiopia’, the cut itself, is a very sensitive, heartfelt and courageous voyage. It’s us improvising alone in a dark studio with a hurricane coming, with the moon shitting on us.”
This is colourful stuff… what else made her such a unique performer?
“Everything I have inside me, whether it’s cosmic or telepathic or my knowledge about Egyptology or having a baby or being raped or beaten up, everything wonderful or horrible that’s ever happened to me. The temple of my experience is my body, and that’s what I use onstage.” She then announces she’s declaring war, presumably on the music press, or that part of it that’s been recently so unkind to her, which makes us all sit up. “Call me the Field Marshall if it makes you feel better,” she shouts. “I’m the Field Marshall of rock’n’roll. And I’m fucking declaring war! My guitar is my machine gun.” And with this, she storms out, faithful retainers scampering in her turbulent slipstream. I’m back at the bar before she gets to the door.
As ever, enjoy the issue and if you want to get in touch you can email me at the usual address: allan_jones@ipcmedia.com
Donna Summer, who was best known for a string of hit singles including "I Feel Love" and "Hot Stuff", died today aged 63.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she released seventeen studio albums during a career which lasted over 30 years. Reports claim that she had been working on a new LP shortly befo...
Donna Summer, who was best known for a string of hit singles including “I Feel Love” and “Hot Stuff”, died today aged 63.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she released seventeen studio albums during a career which lasted over 30 years. Reports claim that she had been working on a new LP shortly before she passed away in Florida following a lengthy battle with cancer.
Inspired in her early teens by Motown girl groups such as The Supremes and later by the likes of Janis Joplin, Summer pursued a career in entertainment and landed roles in several musical productions in Europe as well as work as a studio session singer.
Although her debut single “Sally Go Round The Roses” – released under her birth name Donna Gaines in 1971 – wasn’t a hit, her solo career began to take shape after she met producers Giorgo Mordoer and Pete Bellote, the latter of whom produced her 1974 debut LP, Lady Of The Night.
She found chart success the following year with her single “Love To Love You Baby” – famed for its racy intro which featured her moaning suggestively – which was a Top 5 hit in the UK. It also paved the way for her US breakthrough when an extended version of the single reached No 2 in the US charts while the 1976 album of the same name sold over a million copies.
Summer released a slew of albums in quick succession throughout the ’70s and became one of disco’s most successful artists following the success of albums such as 1977’s “I Remember Yesterday” which included the iconic single “I Feel Love“, but she grew disillusioned with both the genre and her old record label Casablanca. In 1980 she signed a deal with Geffen Records with her first album for the label, ‘The Wanted’, embracing new sounds and movements such as new wave. She would go on to release several albums with the label before they parted ways in 1988.
Summer’s musical output became less frequent after the ’80s. Despite a series of compilations, her 2008 album Crayons was her first album of entirely original material since her 1991 effort Mistaken Identity. She married twice – firstly, to Austrian actor Helmuth Sommer, whose surname she kept and anglicized after their divorce, and later to Brooklyn Dreams singer Bruce Sadano.
Summer, who became a born-again Christian in 1979 – a decision which prompted to stop performing “Love To Love You Baby” for 25 years – had one daughter, Mimi, from her first marriage and two further children, Brooklyn and Amanda, from her marriage to Sadano.
My Bloody Valentine have announced three live dates in Japan.
According to Time Out Japan (via Pitchfork), the band will play three shows in February next year.
The dates are:
02-06 Osaka, Japan - The Hatch
02-07 Tokyo, Japan - Studio Coast
02-08 Tokyo, Japan - Studio Coast
Apart from an appea...
My Bloody Valentine have announced three live dates in Japan.
According to Time Out Japan (via Pitchfork), the band will play three shows in February next year.
The dates are:
02-06 Osaka, Japan – The Hatch
02-07 Tokyo, Japan – Studio Coast
02-08 Tokyo, Japan – Studio Coast
Apart from an appearance at 2008’s Fuji Rock Festival, this will be the first time My Bloody Valentine have played Japan in two decades.
The Band recently reissued remastered CDs of 1988’s Isn’t Anything and 1991’s Loveless, along with a compilation of the band’s early material, EP’s 1988-1991, and are reportedly working on new material.
PJ Harvey has contributed two new songs to a forthcoming documentary, What Is This Film Called Love?
The songs are called "Horses" and "Bobby Don't Steal", and are the singer/songwriter's first new material since her 2011 album, Let England Shake.
Described as a "poetic documentary about the natur...
PJ Harvey has contributed two new songs to a forthcoming documentary, What Is This Film Called Love?
The songs are called “Horses” and “Bobby Don’t Steal”, and are the singer/songwriter’s first new material since her 2011 album, Let England Shake.
Described as a “poetic documentary about the nature of happiness”, What Is This Film Called Love? is the debut feature by critic Mark Cousins.
An unfinished version of What Is This Film Called Love? will be shown on May 27 at this month’s ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror festival in London.
Meanwhile, Harvey has been awarded an Ivor Novello award for Album Of The Year at a ceremony this afternoon [May 17] in London.
Among the other nominees were Adele and Kate Bush.
Slash has unveiled the video to his brand new single, "You're A Lie". Scroll down to watch.
Vocalist Myles Kennedy features on the track, which is the first single to be taken from Slash's forthcoming solo album, Apocalyptic Love, which is set for release on May 21.
The tracklisting for Apocalyp...
Slash has unveiled the video to his brand new single, “You’re A Lie”. Scroll down to watch.
Vocalist Myles Kennedy features on the track, which is the first single to be taken from Slash’s forthcoming solo album, Apocalyptic Love, which is set for release on May 21.
The tracklisting for Apocalyptic Love is:
‘Apocalyptic Love’
‘One Last Thrill’
‘Standing in the Sun’
‘You’re a Lie’
‘No More Heroes’
‘Halo’
‘We Will Roam’
‘Anastasia’
‘Not for Me’
‘Bad Rain’
‘Hard & Fast’
‘Far and Away’
‘Shots Fired’
Yesterday Slash denied claims by former Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland that he was set to re-join Velvet Revolver. Appearing on Minneapolis radio station 93x, the guitarist hit back at comments Weiland’s made at the weekend stating that the original band were getting back together.
“He’s out of his mind,” Slash said of Weiland’s claims. “There’s been a common rumour going around, I know that he’s been positive on that subject. Maybe they know something I don’t know.” He added: “I have absolutely no intention of going back to that… We have no intention of going backwards.”
The band, which includes former Guns N’ Roses members Slash, Matt Sorum, and Duff McKagan has been on the search for a new frontman since Weiland was kicked out of the band in 2008.
Uncut have launched a new iPad app which tells the complete story of one of the greatest rock’n’roll icons of all time, Bruce Springsteen.
'Bruce Springsteen: The Ultimate Music Guide' gives an in-depth overview of The Boss’ entire career, including the release of this year's Wrecking Ball, through a host of fascinating archive features taken from classic issues of NME and Melody Maker, and new reviews of all of his studio albums.
Also included in the app are a bunch of classic photo galleries, video links and playable MP3 samples of every track on his studio albums.
Other highlights include 'Introducing The E Street Band', a fully interactive guide to each member of one of the greatest rock groups ever, and a masterclass in Springsteen collectables and rarities.
The first chapter of 'Bruce Springsteen: The Ultimate Music Guide' is available now for free from iTunes – the other four chapters are available for 69p each.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FWzN_jVA2M
The full contents of the app, available now on iTunes, is:
CHAPTER 1 (FREE)
WECOME TO E STREET (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Introducing Springsteen's players: greatest rock'n'roll band in the world!
1974 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Britain meets rock's "next superstar"
GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
A battle-hardened singer-songwriter emerges fromthe shoreline clubs.
THE WILD, THE INNOCENT & THE E STREET SHUFFLE (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Sprinsteen hones his vision as the E Street band takes shape
CHAPTER 2: 1975-1978
1975 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
The Boss learns to deal with the hype as things get out of hand
1978 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
The NME's Tony Parsons is granted and audience with The Boss...
BORN TO RUN (GALLERY)
An exclusive look at Eric Meola's iconic photographic session for the cover of Springsteen's classic
BORN TO RUN (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
The runaway American dream begins in earnest
DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Springsteen heads for gloomier territory on his fourth LP, tackling blue-collar troubles with resignation not rage
CHAPTER 3: 1980-1984
1981 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Paolo Hewitt meets the man backstage to learn about growing up without selling out
1985 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
It's 1985, and Springsteen returns to Europe for the first time in four years for his biggest shows yet, at Slane Castle
THE RIVER (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
From joyous rock'n'roll to introspective bedsitter blues, Bruce's 20-track epic displays colossal ambition
NEBRASKA (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Back to basics and then some: the sparse 1982 classic, recorded at home in Bruce's garage
BORN IN THE USA (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
The album that took over the world: 30 millions sales later, a fresh look at Springsteen's biggest-selling work
CHAPTER 4: 1987-2002
1996 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Mid-life crisis? Springsteen - playing solo for the first time - gives NME one of his frankest interviews ever in 1996
2002 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Uncut meets The Boss on his farm in New Jersey to talk terrorism, The Rising and the E Street reunion
TUNNEL OF LOVE (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
1987: a deconstructed E Street Band and Springsteen's most personal album so far
THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Speed freaks, bank robbers, rent boys: Springsteen's '95 classic
HUMAN TOUCH/LUCKY TOWN (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Following a long lay-off, The Boss returns, older and wiser, with two LPs
THE RISING (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
A passionate, affecting, intelligent response to 9/11
CHAPTER 5: 2005-2012
2008 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Uncut follows the E Street Band on tour in their Mid-Western heartland, The Boss back at the peak of his powers
DEVILS & DUST (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
2005: Dubya returns tp the White House, and Springsteen files an unflinching study of a nation on its knees
WE SHALL OVERCOME (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
The Seeger Sessions, 2006: one radical US patriot honours another
MAGIC (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Bruce re-engaged with the world on the second of his three Noughties albums with the E Street Band
WORKING ON A DREAM (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Springsteen celebrates the dawning of the age of Obama
The Wrecking Ball (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
An angry Boss attacks big business on his grim but brilliant 17th studio album
The power and the glory! From live 1975-85 to Live in Dublin (THE LIVE ALBUMS)
STOP ME... (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
...If you've heard the one about Uncut, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Spector...
Uncut have launched a new iPad app which tells the complete story of one of the greatest rock’n’roll icons of all time, Bruce Springsteen.
‘Bruce Springsteen: The Ultimate Music Guide’ gives an in-depth overview of The Boss’ entire career, including the release of this year’s Wrecking Ball, through a host of fascinating archive features taken from classic issues of NME and Melody Maker, and new reviews of all of his studio albums.
Also included in the app are a bunch of classic photo galleries, video links and playable MP3 samples of every track on his studio albums.
Other highlights include ‘Introducing The E Street Band’, a fully interactive guide to each member of one of the greatest rock groups ever, and a masterclass in Springsteen collectables and rarities.
The first chapter of ‘Bruce Springsteen: The Ultimate Music Guide’ is available now for free from iTunes – the other four chapters are available for 69p each.
The full contents of the app, available now on iTunes, is:
CHAPTER 1 (FREE)
WECOME TO E STREET (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Introducing Springsteen’s players: greatest rock’n’roll band in the world!
1974 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Britain meets rock’s “next superstar”
GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
A battle-hardened singer-songwriter emerges fromthe shoreline clubs.
THE WILD, THE INNOCENT & THE E STREET SHUFFLE (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Sprinsteen hones his vision as the E Street band takes shape
CHAPTER 2: 1975-1978
1975 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
The Boss learns to deal with the hype as things get out of hand
1978 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
The NME’s Tony Parsons is granted and audience with The Boss…
BORN TO RUN (GALLERY)
An exclusive look at Eric Meola’s iconic photographic session for the cover of Springsteen’s classic
BORN TO RUN (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
The runaway American dream begins in earnest
DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Springsteen heads for gloomier territory on his fourth LP, tackling blue-collar troubles with resignation not rage
CHAPTER 3: 1980-1984
1981 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Paolo Hewitt meets the man backstage to learn about growing up without selling out
1985 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
It’s 1985, and Springsteen returns to Europe for the first time in four years for his biggest shows yet, at Slane Castle
THE RIVER (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
From joyous rock’n’roll to introspective bedsitter blues, Bruce’s 20-track epic displays colossal ambition
NEBRASKA (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Back to basics and then some: the sparse 1982 classic, recorded at home in Bruce’s garage
BORN IN THE USA (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
The album that took over the world: 30 millions sales later, a fresh look at Springsteen’s biggest-selling work
CHAPTER 4: 1987-2002
1996 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Mid-life crisis? Springsteen – playing solo for the first time – gives NME one of his frankest interviews ever in 1996
2002 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Uncut meets The Boss on his farm in New Jersey to talk terrorism, The Rising and the E Street reunion
TUNNEL OF LOVE (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
1987: a deconstructed E Street Band and Springsteen’s most personal album so far
THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Speed freaks, bank robbers, rent boys: Springsteen’s ’95 classic
HUMAN TOUCH/LUCKY TOWN (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Following a long lay-off, The Boss returns, older and wiser, with two LPs
THE RISING (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
A passionate, affecting, intelligent response to 9/11
CHAPTER 5: 2005-2012
2008 (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
Uncut follows the E Street Band on tour in their Mid-Western heartland, The Boss back at the peak of his powers
DEVILS & DUST (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
2005: Dubya returns tp the White House, and Springsteen files an unflinching study of a nation on its knees
WE SHALL OVERCOME (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
The Seeger Sessions, 2006: one radical US patriot honours another
MAGIC (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Bruce re-engaged with the world on the second of his three Noughties albums with the E Street Band
WORKING ON A DREAM (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
Springsteen celebrates the dawning of the age of Obama
The Wrecking Ball (ALBUM BY ALBUM)
An angry Boss attacks big business on his grim but brilliant 17th studio album
The power and the glory! From live 1975-85 to Live in Dublin (THE LIVE ALBUMS)
STOP ME… (ARCHIVE FEATURE)
…If you’ve heard the one about Uncut, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Spector…
A while back, I read somewhere that Ben Chasny’s next Six Organs Of Admittance record would feature the heavy involvement of his old bandmates from Comets On Fire: it would be a kind of Comets reunion, was the speculation, albeit with Chasny in the driving seat rather than Ethan Miller.
Amazing news, which makes it pretty ridiculous that I forgot all about it ‘til yesterday, when the first fruit of the sessions landed. The album is called “Ascent”, and you can hear/download the tremendous opening track, Waswasa, here. I’m not sure quite which Comets are along for the ride, but it sounds like Miller’s there, on day release from Howlin Rain, tracking Chasny’s needling leads with.some deeper rhythms behind the general foot-to-the-gas jamming vibes of it all.
I’ve just got the whole album, which is excellent and deserves a proper listen before I write more. Don’t expect a return to the Comets’ early psych-hardcore thing, though (Chasny touches on some of that in Rangda, I guess; which reminds me there’s a new Richard Bishop album to write about): as “Waswasa” suggests, “Ascent” mostly feels like a continuation of the more classically-structured “Avatar” sound (you could see the overdriven choogle of “Waswasa” as being a sequel of sorts to “Sour Smoke”), obviously mixed with Chasny’s intricate, incantatory and pretty personal way with a song (I’m thinking “Sun Awakens” might be a good reference point).
Playing right now is the monstrous “Close To The Sky”, which plants a fantastically edgy Chasny solo into terrain reminiscent of Crazy Horse, “Down By The River”. Something else reminded me of “LA Woman” yesterday, and a decent contemporary analogue might be Rick Tomlinson’s Voice Of The Seven Thunders. But I’ll write more soon: out in August, I believe.
One more thing to check out today, though. I’ve written before at length about Purling Hiss and chucked about Comets On Fire references with regard to them and Mike Pollize’s parent band, Birds Of Maya – also root of another recent favourite, Spacin’ (click on the link) (Spacin’s “Sunshine, No Shoes” is on the next Uncut CD, by the way, issue out next Tuesday).
Anyhow, Pollize has been guesting with War On Drugs before the current Purling Hiss tour with Wilco, and Adam Granduciel seems to have convinced the band to try a relatively hi-fi approach. You can download the superb result, “Lolita”, here. On a Blue Cheer>Mudhoney>Queens Of The Stone Age>Jeff The Brotherhood trajectory, I think. Great stuff.
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A while back, I read somewhere that Ben Chasny’s next Six Organs Of Admittance record would feature the heavy involvement of his old bandmates from Comets On Fire: it would be a kind of Comets reunion, was the speculation, albeit with Chasny in the driving seat rather than Ethan Miller.
Amazing news, which makes it pretty ridiculous that I forgot all about it ‘til yesterday, when the first fruit of the sessions landed. The album is called “Ascent”, and you can hear/download the tremendous opening track, Waswasa, here. I’m not sure quite which Comets are along for the ride, but it sounds like Miller’s there, on day release from Howlin Rain, tracking Chasny’s needling leads with.some deeper rhythms behind the general foot-to-the-gas jamming vibes of it all.
I’ve just got the whole album, which is excellent and deserves a proper listen before I write more. Don’t expect a return to the Comets’ early psych-hardcore thing, though (Chasny touches on some of that in Rangda, I guess; which reminds me there’s a new Richard Bishop album to write about): as “Waswasa” suggests, “Ascent” mostly feels like a continuation of the more classically-structured “Avatar” sound (you could see the overdriven choogle of “Waswasa” as being a sequel of sorts to “Sour Smoke”), obviously mixed with Chasny’s intricate, incantatory and pretty personal way with a song (I’m thinking “Sun Awakens” might be a good reference point).
Playing right now is the monstrous “Close To The Sky”, which plants a fantastically edgy Chasny solo into terrain reminiscent of Crazy Horse, “Down By The River”. Something else reminded me of “LA Woman” yesterday, and a decent contemporary analogue might be Rick Tomlinson’s Voice Of The Seven Thunders. But I’ll write more soon: out in August, I believe.
One more thing to check out today, though. I’ve written before at length about Purling Hiss and chucked about Comets On Fire references with regard to them and Mike Pollize’s parent band, Birds Of Maya – also root of another recent favourite, Spacin’ (click on the link) (Spacin’s “Sunshine, No Shoes” is on the next Uncut CD, by the way, issue out next Tuesday).
Anyhow, Pollize has been guesting with War On Drugs before the current Purling Hiss tour with Wilco, and Adam Granduciel seems to have convinced the band to try a relatively hi-fi approach. You can download the superb result, “Lolita”, here. On a Blue Cheer>Mudhoney>Queens Of The Stone Age>Jeff The Brotherhood trajectory, I think. Great stuff.
Dirty Projectors have announced the tracklisting to their forthcoming LP, Swing Lo Magellan, which will be released via Domino on July 9.
The tracklisting is:
Offspring Are Blank
About to Die
Gun Has No Trigger
Swing Lo Magellan
Just From Chevron
Dance For You
Maybe That Was It
Impregnable ...
Dirty Projectors have announced the tracklisting to their forthcoming LP, Swing Lo Magellan, which will be released via Domino on July 9.
The tracklisting is:
Offspring Are Blank
About to Die
Gun Has No Trigger
Swing Lo Magellan
Just From Chevron
Dance For You
Maybe That Was It
Impregnable Question
See What She’s Seeing
The Socialites
Unto Caesar
Irresponsible Tune
You can hear “Gun Has No Trigger” here; http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/dirty_projectors-gun_has_no_trigger
The album was written, recorded, produced and mixed by frontman Dave Longstreth.
It will be their first full length studio album since 2009’s Bitte Orca.
Historically fascinating post-Beatles mish-mash...
Recorded under a hostile gaze – Paul was The Man Who Split The Beatles, after all, and had even sued his bandmates – 1971’s Ram was McCartney’s real return to the pop arena after his demo-faced debut.
The publicity for this latest reissue, full of extras and flummery, calls it “legendary” but it’s not that, just occasionally brilliant and historically fascinating. The main problem for listeners used to the coherence of the Beatles is that, from the brilliant (the anti-Lennon “Too Many People”, the mini-Abbey Road of “Admiral Halsey/Uncle Albert” to the ordinary (the boogie of “Smile Away”, the woogie of “Monkberry Moon Delight”), nothing quite gels. Even the single “Back Seat Of My Car”, which is better than 90% of Let It Be, seems to chase its tail for four minutes.
That said, separated from its era and the defensiveness (“We believe that we can’t be wrong”) which spawned it, Ram sounds great (the remaster adds nothing) and we don’t have to compare it to Imagine or All Things Must Pass.
EXTRAS: 7/10 This reissue also contains several decent unreleased or rare songs from the period, as well as the single “Another Day” (subject of Lennon’s imminent ire in “How Do You Sleep”), but also the bizarrely great Thrillington album, McCartney’s 1997 orchestral version of Ram.
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Historically fascinating post-Beatles mish-mash…
Recorded under a hostile gaze – Paul was The Man Who Split The Beatles, after all, and had even sued his bandmates – 1971’s Ram was McCartney’s real return to the pop arena after his demo-faced debut.
The publicity for this latest reissue, full of extras and flummery, calls it “legendary” but it’s not that, just occasionally brilliant and historically fascinating. The main problem for listeners used to the coherence of the Beatles is that, from the brilliant (the anti-Lennon “Too Many People”, the mini-Abbey Road of “Admiral Halsey/Uncle Albert” to the ordinary (the boogie of “Smile Away”, the woogie of “Monkberry Moon Delight”), nothing quite gels. Even the single “Back Seat Of My Car”, which is better than 90% of Let It Be, seems to chase its tail for four minutes.
That said, separated from its era and the defensiveness (“We believe that we can’t be wrong”) which spawned it, Ram sounds great (the remaster adds nothing) and we don’t have to compare it to Imagine or All Things Must Pass.
EXTRAS: 7/10 This reissue also contains several decent unreleased or rare songs from the period, as well as the single “Another Day” (subject of Lennon’s imminent ire in “How Do You Sleep”), but also the bizarrely great Thrillington album, McCartney’s 1997 orchestral version of Ram.
Leonard Cohen has announced an additional date to his UK show, A Day At The Hop Farm.
Cohen will now play Sunday, September 9 in addition to the previously announced show on Saturday, September 8.
Both shows are part of his world tour and will be Cohen’s only UK dates in 2012.
Meanwhile, Bob Dy...
Leonard Cohen has announced an additional date to his UK show, A Day At The Hop Farm.
Cohen will now play Sunday, September 9 in addition to the previously announced show on Saturday, September 8.
Both shows are part of his world tour and will be Cohen’s only UK dates in 2012.
Meanwhile, Bob Dylan plays at Hop Farm Festival on Saturday June 30. Other acts include Peter Gabriel, Suede, Patti Smith and Ray Davies.
Doug Dillard, the pioneering country rock banjo-player, has died aged aged 75, according to reports.
Dillard had first found fame in the Dillards, a bluegrass group formed with his brother Rodney, who made regular appearances on successful American sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show, where they played ...
Doug Dillard, the pioneering country rock banjo-player, has died aged aged 75, according to reports.
Dillard had first found fame in the Dillards, a bluegrass group formed with his brother Rodney, who made regular appearances on successful American sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show, where they played a fictional band called ‘The Darlings’.
After leaving the Dillards in 1968, Doug Dillard teamed up with former Byrd, Gene Clark, to form Dillard & Clark.
Dillard & Clark released two albums – The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (1968) and Through The Morning, Through The Night (1969) – which are both considered country rock classics.
The musicians who played on Dillard & Clark’s two albums reads like a Who’s Who of country rock’s A list: The Byrds‘ Chris Hillman and Michael Clark, The Eagles’ Bernie Leadon and Flying Burrito Brothers’ Sneaky Pete Kleinow.
Two tracks from Through The Morning, Through The Night – the title song itself and “Polly” – were later covered by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on their 2007 album, Raising Sand.
In 2011, Dillard had been admitted to a Nashville hospital suffering from a collapsed lung.
According to country and bluegrass website The Boot, a family spokesperson confirmed that Dillard was taken to a Nashville emergency room on Wednesday night [May 16] and died shortly thereafter.
Also included in the app are a bunch of classic photo galleries, video links and playable MP3 samples of every track on his studio albums.
Other highlights include 'Introducing The E Street Band', a fully interactive guide to each member of one of the greatest rock groups ever, and a masterclass in Springsteen collectables and rarities.
The first chapter of 'Bruce Springsteen: The Ultimate Music Guide' is available now for free from 
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