Audience

Christine McVie has rejoined Fleetwood Mac. The news was broken on Saturday night [January 11] by Mick Fleetwood during a concert in Hawaii. According to a report on Consequence Of Sound, Fleetwood told the audience at Uncle Willie K's BBQ Blues Fest in Maui,”This is the worst kept secret there is, but Christine McVie will be rejoining Fleetwood Mac.”

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery...

Sometimes, with Bill Callahan, the focus on his records is so unwaveringly on his lyrics, it is tempting to treat them as recited poetry rather than actual music. On an old Smog record like “The Doctor Came At Dawn”, say, the music seems barely there; just a little shading to point up the melodic undertow of a baritone that often wanders closer to speech than song.

A never-before-heard Talking Heads song from 1976 has surfaced online. Click below to listen.

1972 - when Al Green ruled the world...

Religious dissidents and juvenile delinquents, Greenwich Village and Potsdamer Platz, doomed soldiers and vacuous celebrities... David Cavanagh files the epic, definitive review of The Next Day. From Uncut's April 2013 (Take 191) issue. _______________

So this, I think, might be a new thing: not so much a live recreation of a classic album, but a live recreation of the sessions which resulted in a classic album. A show predicated not just on evocative songs recorded 25-odd years ago, but on a nostalgia for outtakes that – up until a month or so ago, at least – most of the crowd in the Hammersmith Apollo tonight had never even heard.

Today (December 18), Keith Richards is 70 years old – to celebrate the Stone's landmark birthday, here's a classic interview from the Uncut archive (January 2004, Take 80), originally published to mark the guitarist's 60th birthday. Jon Wilde hooks up with Richards to discuss his favourite Rolling Stones songs, the importance of Max Miller jokes and going without sleep for nine days…

As he prepares to release his new film, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch 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 film director? Joe Strummer, Tom Waits, Jack White, Iggy Pop... are there any other rock stars he'd like to cast in his films? What are his memories of the No Wave scene in late Seventies New York? What was it like working with Neil Young on Dead Man and Year Of The Horse?

“You Brits need an injection!” rages the Australian in the gents’ toilet.