Audience

Prince played a secret, hour-long show at Electric Ballroom in Camden, London last night [February 4]. Scroll down to watch footage below. Described as an “open soundcheck”, the performance was announced following a clandestine ‘press conference’ at the home of London-based singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas, who was in attendance at the venue.

As he prepares to release his new concert film, Peter Gabriel: Back To Front, Peter Gabriel is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature. So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask the legendary musician? Does he ever get self-conscious watching himself on film performing? Is he planning to release new music any time soon? Does he still have any of his famous costumes from the Genesis days?

The Ramones, the Small Faces, Neil Young and Stephen Malkmus all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated March 2014 and out now.

The new issue of Uncut arrives in UK shops this Friday – though subscribers should hopefully find their copies plonking through the letter box a day or two early. We celebrate 40 years of the Ramones with an extensive cover story by Peter Watts, who’s interviewed surviving band members as well as many of their co-conspirators, friends and peers. To compliment Peter’s terrific piece, we’ve compiled a list of the 50 Greatest American Punk Albums (plus singles and compilations), from the pivotal years of 1975 to 1983.

His many fans will no doubt wonder at the absence of anything by Wayne County from the list of Top 50 American punk albums we've compiled as part of this month's cover story on the Ramones. After all, Wayne – who by 1980 was Jayne County, following the necessary surgery – was with his band Queen Elizabeth part of the same Max's Kansas City, Mercer Arts Center and Club 82 scene that nurtured the early New York Dolls.

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Morrissey will release a new album later this year. The singer has signed a new, worldwide record deal with Universal Music’s US-based Harvest Records. In a statement, he said he was "thrilled" to sign the contract.