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Sly Stone announces memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Sly Stone has a memoir coming, titled Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). 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. Advertisement “For as long as I can remember folks have been asking me to tell my story, I wasn’t ready,” says Stone. “I...

New T. Rex box set asks, Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream?

Marc Bolan and T. Rex‘s 1973 is under the microscope in a new box set from Demon. 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 and produced for the American singer ‘Sister’...

End Of The Road Festival 2023 add more names

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. 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. Advertisement As previously reported on Uncut, Wilco, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Future Islands and Unknown Mortal Orchestra headline this year’s festival. They’ll be...

Lankum on their new False Lankum LP: “What we do isn’t traditional”

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 version of the Q&A that appears in the current issue of Uncut, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ian Lynch discusses the record, the ‘traditional’, Martello towers and the songs’ “maritime connection”. But first, you can hear their new song, “Newcastle“. Advertisement __________________________ UNCUT: It’s been a while since The Livelong Day. How did your writing...

“They were not your usual kind of hippie musicians”

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...

Live review! Dean Wareham, The Garage, London (16/03/23)

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 songs...

Van Morrison Moving On Skiffle

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. Van Morrison first talked about recording a skiffle album in the late 1970s, and in 1998 he recorded The...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra V

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...

Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense documentary is returning to cinemas after 39 years

Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense documentary is returning to cinemas 39 years on from its original release. 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 Tweet which featured frontman David Byrne collecting his famous oversized suit – check it out below. If the suit still...

Little Richard documentary film I Am Everything gets new trailer

A new trailer for rock’n’roll pioneer Little Richard’s upcoming documentary film I Am Everything has been released. Released on Wednesday (March 15), the trailer for I Am Everything offers fans a look at the retrospective film that chronicles the late icon’s life and contributions to music, the queer community and more. The film will feature archival footage from the legend’s career and personal life, as well as never-before-seen interviews with the man himself as well as new interview with musicians, his family and friends and Black and queer scholars – all of whom discuss his cultural impact. Advertisement Watch...