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Lindsey Buckingham: “We slapped everyone across the face going from Rumours to Tusk!”
Lindsey Buckingham steps out into the afternoon heat of west Los Angeles. Surrounded by dogs, he takes the short walk across the yard from his home to his out-house studio. ORDER NOW: Read the full story in the September 2021 issue of Uncut “We’ve got way too many actually,” he explains. “We’ve got one miniature poodle, a miniature Australian shepherd, a white lab and two Pomeranians. Yeah, I think one is enough…” Based around an old reel-to-reel tape machine, the studio appears to be a fairly primitive set-up – at least for a man of Buckingham’s wealth and reputation....
LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy on working on David Bowie’s Blackstar: “I talked myself out of a job”
LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy has reflected on his experience collaborating with the late David Bowie on his final album Blackstar, revealing that it “broke his heart” that he wasn’t able to fully integrate himself into Bowie’s set-up. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie Murphy contributed percussion to Bowie’s final studio album, which was released in January 2016, two days before Bowie’s death. Speaking on the latest episode of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Murphy recalled his first encounters with Bowie which led to him...
Welcome to the new Uncut: The Beatles, Lindsey Buckingham, Curtis Mayfield and more
Walking round town about a month ago with my family, we came across a band busking in the street. Half way through their set – programmed with the casual shopper in mind, so heavy on classic rock anthems like “All Along The Watchtower”, “Have You Ever Seen The Rain?” and “Come Together” – I suddenly realised that this was the first live music I’d seen for 14 months. Jolt over, it made me realise how much I’ve missed the profound pleasure of seeing four people play amplified music together. Long may it continue. ORDER NOW: The September 2021 issue...
Uncut September 2021
CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR The Beatles, Lindsey Buckingham, Big Red Machine, Leon Bridges, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Gunn, Curtis Mayfield, Shannon And The Clams, Mercury Rev, The Sugarcubes, Ripley Johnson, The Beach Boys and The Lovin’ Spoonful all feature in the new Uncut, dated September 2021 and in UK shops from July 15 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music. THE BEATLES: Is it any wonder that The Beatles nearly named their seventh studio album after a magical...
Peter Jackson explains why Beatles fans will be surprised by new docuseries, Get Back
Peter Jackson has explained why Beatles fans are likely to be surprised by his new docuseries Get Back. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: The Beatles Miscellany & Atlas The filmmaker opened up in a new interview about what fans can expect from the forthcoming project in which he’s revived hours of footage from 1969. Discussing the format of Get Back, which focuses more on conversations than music, Jackson said the series will be very “intimate”. Advertisement “I think people will be surprised by the series for two reasons,” Jackson...
Anthony Joseph The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives
Should there be any doubt about the primacy of language in Anthony Joseph’s worldview, there’s cast-iron proof of it in the epic Language (Poem For Anthony McNeill), from his fourth solo album. In what’s essentially a secular riff on the beginning of John’s Gospel, he declares, “It is language which calls all things to creation and language is the origin of the world/The word was a great mass of a black star exploding…” ORDER NOW: The August 2021 issue of Uncut Joseph’s words, meanwhile, don’t so much explode on The Rich Are Only Defeated… as illuminate, recollect, bear witness, question...
The Yardbirds Yardbirds
It was occasionally said in the distant past that getting on in your career wasn’t so much a question of what you knew as who you knew. It’s a small injustice of the 1960s that The Yardbirds, though having known a thing or two, are indeed still more famed for their storied personnel – their band at separate times included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page – than for their own recorded output. ORDER NOW: The August 2021 issue of Uncut Despite the band’s graduates having sold millions of classic rock albums with music rooted in the British blues...
Joni Mitchell The Joni Mitchell Archive Series: The Reprise Albums (1968 1971)
In 1979, Joni Mitchell gave an interview to Rolling Stone, in which she talked about her album Blue, released eight years previously, and still the high-water mark of her career. “There’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals,” she told the magazine. “At that period in my life, I had no personal defences. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that...
Introducing the Ultimate Music Guide to The Doors
BUY THE THE DOORS ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE “The end” is obviously a huge part of the concept of The Doors, and it’s true also that this magazine arrives with you on the 50th anniversary of the passing of the band’s uniquely charismatic lead singer Jim Morrison. But really, the subject of this latest issue of the Ultimate Music Guide isn’t how the music ended, but how it endures. How, 50 years on from their singer’s death – a period of time including two Jim-less albums, regroupings, and legally-challenged reformations of the surviving members – the music of The...Recent Posts
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