The Kinks’ story wouldn’t be the ripping yarn it is without some turbulence. Or rather, a lot of turbulence. Even when compared to the other giants of the ’60s and ’70s, The Kinks arguably attracted the heaviest of weather, forever forcing them to ride out one storm after another. And few other periods competed with the dire straits that surround Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One. Lawsuits, personal turmoil, mishaps, brilliant music that stubbornly failed to chart – the litany of woes was long. But with the victory they eventually extracted from defeat’s jaws, The Kinks once...
The brand new issue of Uncut is in UK shops now or available to buy online by clicking here! Our incredible cover feature is a deep dive into 40 of Neil Young’s greatest songs, in which members of Young’s extended musical family – including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Nils Lofgren, Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot, Poncho Sampedro, Spooner Oldham, Niko Bolas, Daniel Lanois, Jim Keltner and Micah Nelson – give up their intimate secrets about his mercurial recording practices. We discover the origin of “Don’t spook the horse!”, enjoy a cameo from Marlon Brando, pay heed to Young’s studio direction...
English singer-songwriter Andy Keels has just recently released a second solo single, “Get Up Stand Up,” a few weeks after having dropped his debut solo track “Dead To Me,” in which he spoke about betrayal and the sadness of losing some of the closest people to him. Andy Keels creates from the heart and everything seems to stem from his intuition and creative visions. Authentic and raw, his sound resembles him and offers a straightforward reflection of his own state of being. It was the case on “Dead To Me” and is once again beautifully displayed on his new...
Click here to buy a copy of the new issue online Welcome to the final edition of Uncut for 2020. Before we go any further, I’d like to thank everyone on the team for their continued amazing work across all our titles – Marc, John, Tom, Sam, Mick, Michael, Mike, Phil, Kevin, Johnny, Mark and Lora. Looking back across the issues we’re put out in the last 12 months, the quality of every magazine has, I believe, been of such a high standard you wouldn’t necessarily think we’d all been working from front rooms, back rooms, spare bedrooms or...
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR Neil Young, Uncut’s 2021 Preview, Captain Beefheart, Syd Barrett, The Weather Station, Cocteau Twins, Stevie Wonder, Nancy Sinatra, Buzzcocks and Tom Morello all feature in the new Uncut, dated February 2021 and in UK shops from December 10 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music. NEIL YOUNG: We count down his 40 greatest songs, with help from Young’s extended musical family – David Crosby, Graham Nash, Nils Lofgren, Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot, Poncho Sampedro, Spooner Oldham,...
Presenting the 148-page, Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to Joni Mitchell. Includes archive features, in-depth reviews of every album, and her top 30 greatest songs. This updated version includes articles on the pre-fame Joni and her tentative return to public life in 2020. Buy a copy by clicking here.
BUY A COPY OF THE JONI MITCHELL: DELUXE UMG BY CLICKING HERE Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story is a 2019 film by Martin Scorcese about Bob Dylan’s 1975-6 tour of small auditoriums which served to confound expectations, no doubt to the delight of its ostensible subject, Bob Dylan. Rather than the kind of faithful music documentary in which the director had previously specialised, the movie became a sporadically-amusing shaggy dog story in which Dylan insists he was directed throughout the tour by the mysterious “Van Dorp”. When this wry and self-mythologising mood all gets a bit more...
The boozing depicted in Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round looks like mere middle-class dilettantism – which, of course, it is – compared to the hard living associated with Shane MacGowan. Excess is central to the myth of the Pogues’ founding bard, but it had a catastrophic effect on MacGowan’s creative abilities and his health. Crock Of Gold is the latest film from Julien Temple, who has been documenting the hard cases of the British music scene for decades, with MacGowan the latest subject in a series of portraits that has also featured Ray Davies, Wilko Johnson and Joe Strummer. MacGowan...
Has there been a more iconic bassist in the history of music than William ‘Bootsy’ Collins? The top hat and star-shaped shades make for an instantly recognisable silhouette, but more importantly Bootsy’s strident basslines helped formed the bedrock for what we understand as funk today. After holding it down for James Brown – no mean feat – he hitched a ride on the Funkadelic mothership in 1972, becoming a prominent figure in the P-Funk family. Stretching out as a bandleader with Bootsy’s Rubber Band, songs like “I’d Rather Be With You” provided the blueprint for west coast hip-hop, before...
One of the recent sensations in the hip-hop scene is the female rapper from Central Florida, Priceless Scott, whose recent release, the new EP titled Pressure Makes Diamonds stole the show for good. She makes urban life popping with her unique mixtures of old school hip-hop and her signature style sounds. All six tracks included in the EP are filled with tasty melodicism, a perfect balance of harmonic and power rap, as well as distills atmospheric energy throughout. Each of the tracks has verses deserving to be quoted and remembered. The artist’s lyricism deserves special and detailed attention. “Pull...
