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Noddy Holder wants original Slade line-up to reunite for Glastonbury
Noddy Holder has expressed his hopes of Slade reuniting to take on Glastonbury’s coveted Legends Slot. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut Guitarist Dave Hill is now the only remaining original member of the band, with drummer Don Powell announcing last year that he’d been fired over email after over 50 years with the group. Hill is joined in the current version of Slade by bassist John Berry (who joined in 2003), vocalist and keyboard player Russell Keefe (who joined in 2019) and drummer Alex Bines (who joined in 2020). Advertisement Speaking...
Bill Kreutzmann pulls out of Dead & Company shows in Mexico on doctor’s orders
Dead & Company drummer Bill Kreutzmann will not be appearing at the band’s shows in Mexico over the next two weeks, as his doctor reportedly ordered him to “sit this one out” due to issues with his heart. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The band – composed of surviving Grateful Dead members alongside John Mayer, Jeff Chimenti and Oteil Burbridge – are days away from hosting this year’s edition of their destination festival Playing In The Sand. The first leg of the festival, taking place alongside Mexico’s Riviera Cancún, will run...
Rare Lou Reed demos dropped and withdrawn
A collection of rare Lou Reed demos were released over the holiday period and then quickly withdrawn in an apparent copyright dump. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut According to Variety, RCA/Sony Music uploaded a 17-track album of Lou Reed demos to iTunes in Europe on December 23 titled I’m So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos. It was then removed a couple of days later. Matthew Goody, the author of Needles And Plastic: Flying Nun Records, 1981–1988, took to social media last Thursday (December 30) to point out that the album had been...
David Bowie’s estate sells catalogue for reported $250million
David Bowie’s estate has sold the late singer’s publishing catalogue to Warner Chappell Music for a price reported to be upwards of $250million (£186million). ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: David Bowie’s contemporaries on lost album Toy: “We always felt that they were great songs” That’s according to sources who confirmed the news to Variety on January 3, revealing that a deal has been reached after months of negotiations. The catalogue spans Bowie‘s career from 1968 to 2016, including songs from the musician’s 26 solo studio albums and the two...
Beatles film producer Denis O’Dell has died, aged 98
Denis O’Dell, an acclaimed producer best known for his work on films starring The Beatles, has died at age 98. READ MORE: A Long Rewinding Road – 10 Highlights From The Beatles: Get Back Documentary O’Dell’s passing was confirmed by his son Arran, who told The Associated Press on January 1 that he died of natural causes at his home in Almería, Spain on Thursday December 30. Breaking out into the world of film in the 1940s, O’Dell racked up an impressive catalogue that sported such hits as It’s A Wonderful World (1956), Tread Softly Stranger (1958) and The...
Without Getting Killed Or Caught
Guy Clark’s death in 2016, aged 74, was widely and correctly mourned not merely as the passing of a titan of modern country music, but as something like the end of an era. Though Clark had never become massively famous, he’d written a lot of songs that had, while those who knew of him revered him as a flame-keeper of a particular sort of country – literary and wry, with gentle iconoclastic tendencies. Clark may, more than anyone else, have invented what we now think of as Americana and alt.country. ORDER NOW: Paul Weller is on the cover in the...
Titane
Truly deranged films don’t often come along these days – and when they do, you don’t expect them to win the exalted Palme d’Or in Cannes. That’s why Julia Ducournau’s Titane stands out as a wild exception; she’s also only the second woman to win the prize, 28 years after Jane Campion’s The Piano. Titane is the French director’s follow-up to her acclaimed, all-out feral Raw, a cannibal coming-of-age story. Heroine Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) has had a titanium plate in her head since childhood and now works as an erotic dancer at motor shows, while exploring a sideline in...
Various Artists Sacred Soul of North Carolina
Since Thomas A Dorsey made a business of gospel music soon after the turn of the 20th century, myriad black religious musical traditions have been studied, recorded, compiled and packaged, from the Sacred Harp singing of tiny churches lining the deep South, to highly sample-able gospel funk emanating from Churches Of God In Christ in major Rust Belt cities. Two years ago, footage of Aretha Franklin recording “Amazing Grace” at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972 was released, drawing renewed attention and appreciation for the black church among secular audiences, for its music and...
Big Thief: “We need each other to survive”
July 2020 at Sam Evian’s Flying Cloud studio in the Catskill mountains. It’s only a few months since Big Thief’s world tour to promote their albums UFOF and Two Hands was dramatically curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the band forced to play their final show in the street outside Copenhagen’s Vega concert hall before hightailing it back to America in a state of panic. While the rest of the western world stockpiles toilet roll and adjusts to working from home, Adrianne Lenker chooses to lock down in a remote one-room cabin in western Massachusetts, where – processing the...Recent Posts
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