HERE’S Irmin Schmidt, explaining the mercurial brilliance of Can in full flight. “Even if we improvised onstage, we always went in the same direction,” he tells us on page 19 of our new issue. “In a way that it became a music that was not just bullshit. It was not some kind of jamming and everything falls apart. It was always something very connected.” You can witness the fruits of the group’s potent psychic bond on this month’s Uncut CD – a sampler showcasing Can’s indispensable live series, as they improvise freely and at length in cities as far-flung as Stuttgart and Birmingham. On these fi ..read more

HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME David Gilmour, Beth Gibbons, Jefferson Airplane, T Bone Burnett, Slowdive, Mark Knopfler, Royal Trux, Mdou Moctar, The Beatles, Isobel Campbell, Buffalo Tom, Eddy Grant, The Decemberists, Anita Pallenberg, Willie Nelson and more all feature in Uncut‘s June 2024 issue, in UK shops from April 26 or available to buy online now. All print copies come with a free CD – Can Live 1973-1977 – a must-hear collection of revelatory and uninhibited performances taken direct from the archives of rock’s most forward-looking band! INSIDE THIS MONTH’S UNCUT: DAVID GI ..read more

David Gilmour has announced that his new solo album Luck And Strange will be released by Sony Music on September 6. Gilmour discusses the making of the album at length in the new issue of Uncut, which hits UK shops on Friday (April 26) and is also available to order now directly from us by clicking here. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! As explored in Uncut’s exclusive feature, Luck And Strange was recorded over five months in Brighton and London, with Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Marika Hackman) co-producing. The album features eigh ..read more

The official album of Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1974 film One Hand Clapping, featuring songs recorded live in the studio at Abbey Road, is to be officially released for the first time on June 14. DAVID BOWIE IS ON THE COVER OF THE LATEST UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Some of the material has previously appeared on official McCartney releases, but this is the first time the audio for the film – plus several additional songs recorded off-camera – have been officially issued. One Hand Clapping showcased Wings’ new 1974 line-up, with Paul & Linda McCartney and Denny Laine joined by guitarist ..read more

A new Johnny Cash album, Songwriter – to be released by Mercury Nashville/UMe on June 28 – has been created from a stash of previously unreleased songwriting demos that Cash made in 1993. DAVID BOWIE IS ON THE COVER OF THE LATEST UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The demos were recorded at LSI Studios in Nashville in early 1993, but shelved shortly afterwards when Cash had a career-revitalising encounter with Rick Rubin. They were recently rediscovered by John Carter Cash, who stripped them back to just vocals and acoustic guitar, before inviting previous Cash collaborators (including guitarist Mar ..read more

It’s always a treat to have a new album from Dirty Three, the intrepid instrumental rock trio formed by Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White in Melbourne in 1992. DAVID BOWIE IS ON THE COVER OF THE LATEST UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Love Changes Everything – their first for 12 years – might just be the band’s finest work to date, a sustained blast of redemptive wonder. It’s released by Bella Union on June 28, and you can hear a track from it in Uncut’s latest New Music Playlist. It’s the perfect complement to Ellis’s role as chief berserker in The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and as Nick Cave ..read more

It’s always a treat to have a new album from Dirty Three, the intrepid instrumental rock trio formed by Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White in Melbourne in 1992. Love Changes Everything – their first for 12 years – might just be the band’s finest work to date, a sustained blast of redemptive wonder. It’s released by Bella Union on June 28, and you can hear a track from it in Uncut’s latest New Music Playlist. It’s the perfect complement to Ellis’s role as chief berserker in The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and as Nick Cave’s primary creative foil on a series of significant film scores and sou ..read more

An excellent new “generative” documentary In the opening scene of this hugely enjoyable Brian Eno doc, we find the composer/polymath bopping around in his home studio, thinking about a composition like an ecosystem. As he works, we see him add weather, and even an animal population to his piece. Eventually he tweaks some controls on his screen to alter the prospect of change – how probable it is that a musical phrase will occur again.  Eno’s “generative” – evolving, infinitely changing – way of making music has been the guiding principle for Gary Hustwit’s film. Rather than a whistle stop ..read more

It’s unlikely anyone will hear anything much stranger this year than BrhyM’s “Platypus Wow”. “Got webbed feet, rubber bill, fat-ass tail, furry chill,” a multi-tracked Bruce Hornsby mumbles to a peculiar accompaniment of squawking, cawing woodwind, adding “dark purple-green coloured fur/I’ll stick that ass with my poison spur.” Soon he’s quasi-rapping, joined by mournful strings, unpredictable piano runs and doo-wop harmonies, before concluding, “I light up the world, only for you.” The sentiment might sound Disneyesque, but Disney this is not. DAVID BOWIE IS ON THE COVER OF THE LATEST UNCUT ..read more

Nirvana‘s ambition, Dave Grohl tells Uncut’s Graeme Thomson in this new magazine, was to sell as many records as Sonic Youth and maybe be able to make enough money for the members of Nirvana to get their own apartments.  Of course, what happened with Nevermind surpassed that ambition, to put it mildly. When the album was released in autumn 1991, it sold enough copies for the band to be able to buy apartments for themselves, and in principle, one for everyone they’d ever met besides. Anyone acquainted with the Nirvana story will be aware of the complex and ultimately fatal relationship tha ..read more