Sly Stone has a memoir coming, titled Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). ORDER NOW: Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut It is published in the UK on October 17 by White Rabbit and in the US by AUWA Books – a new imprint launched by Questlove. Written with Ben Greenman, who has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson among others, Thank You… will include a foreword by Questlove. The book was created in collaboration with Sly Stone’s manager Arlene Hirschkowitz. “For as long as I can remember folks have been asking me to tell my story, I wasn’t ready ..read more

Marc Bolan and T. Rex‘s 1973 is under the microscope in a new box set from Demon. ORDER NOW: Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream? is released on May 26 by Demon. The 4CD and 5LP sets include the Tanx and Zinc Alloy albums, along with the non-album hit singles & B-sides, including “Children Of The Revolution”, “Solid Gold Easy Action”, “20th Century Boy” and “The Groover” as well demos and outtakes from both albums. The sets also focus on Bolan’s initial forays into soul music and highlights from the unfinished album he wrote ..read more

Fatoumata Diawara, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom and The Murder Capital are among the artists to have been added to the 2023 End Of The Road Festival line-up. ORDER NOW: Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut The news comes as Final Tier tickets are available at the festival website. End Of The Road returns this August 31 – September 3 at Wiltshire’s Larmer Tree Gardens. Also joining this year’s event are Deerhoof, Allah-Las, 75 Dollar Bill, H. Hawkline, Sessa, Sylvie and more. As previously reported on Uncut, Wilco, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Future Islands and ..read more

Lankum‘s new record, False Lankum, is one of the best of 2023 so far. Their third album proper, it finds the experimental Dublin group dragging folk into the future, with tape loops, pedals and droning noise elevating their sea-bound songs. Here, in this extended Q&A, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ian Lynch discusses the record, the ‘traditional’, Martello towers and the songs’ “maritime connection”. __________________________ UNCUT: It’s been a while since The Livelong Day. How did your writing and recording process change in this time? IAN LYNCH: The Livelong Day came out in Octobe ..read more

In the May 2023 issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to order online by clicking here – you can see some exclusive, unseen Elliott Landy photos of The Band from across his various sessions with the group as they fashioned their unique and influential sound up in Woodstock at the tail-end of the 1960s. The pictures are taken from Landy’s forthcoming second volume of The Band Photographs 1968-69; you can sign up for the Kickstarter campaign or pre-order the book here. You’ll have to buy the magazine to see all the pictures, but here’s a longer version of our interview with Elliott about t ..read more

There is mild confusion ahead of time as to whether this is a regular Dean Wareham show, as suggested by his own tour itinerary, or whether it’s one of the ‘Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500’ sets he’s been doing recently, which is how it’s billed on the venue’s website (it doesn’t help that they’ve then embedded a Spotify playlist by an entirely different artist called DEAN). When Wareham ambles onstage with his four-piece band (including long-term life and musical partner Britta Phillips on bass and BVs), he embraces the ambiguity, starting with Galaxie 500’s “Flowers” before playing three son ..read more

The great reset has arrived. After two exhausting albums of political ranting, Van Morrison appears to have got everything off his chest and gone back to basics. Moving On Skiffle sees him working through 23 covers of early country, gospel, folk and blues numbers that he first encountered at Belfast’s Atlantic Records during the skiffle craze of 1956–57. Whether his own versions can be considered skiffle is a moot point, despite the constant buzzing presence of Alan Wicket on washboard. ORDER NOW: Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Van Morrison first talked about rec ..read more

A few songs into Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s fifth album, there’s an extraordinary sound. It’s not a musical one, however – at least not in the conventional sense. In the final moments of “The Widow”, a loose-limbed exercise in Headhunters-style jazz-funk, most of the instruments abruptly fall away, leaving only a final series of plaintive piano chords and the twittering of birds outside (a child’s laughter and a few noisy frogs are discernible too). It’s as if a window has been flung open to allow the air and the light in. Since this moment of ordinary magic is generated by a band whose recor ..read more

Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense documentary is returning to cinemas 39 years on from its original release. ORDER NOW: Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: David Byrne’s American Utopia review The film, directed by Jonathan Demme, captured the band at the height of their powers in 1983. Stop Making Sense was shot in Hollywood at the Pantages Theater, with the band touring in support of their fifth album, Speaking in Tongues. The entire concert was a tightly choreographed production and something unique at the time. The film’s release was announced via a Twee ..read more

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Yardbirds, the British band who gave rise to Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. From rave-ups at the Marquee, via psychedelic sonics, all the way to Led Zeppelin. “Pop group are you? Why you got to wear your hair long?” Buy a copy of the magazine here. Missed one in the series? Bundles are available at the same location… The post The Yardbirds – Ultimate Music Guide appeared first on UNCUT ..read more