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Uncut June 2021
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR Bob Dylan (plus our exclusive Dylan covers CD), Paul Weller, Marianne Faithfull, Stephen Stills, Spiritualized, Can, The Strokes, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, James, UB40, My Bloody Valentine, the Plastic Ono Band and Sun Ra all feature in the new Uncut, dated June 2021 and in UK shops from April 15 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time an exclusive album of all-new Dylan covers and a previously unreleased track by the man himself. BOB DYLAN: To celebrate his upcoming 80th birthday, we’ve asked...
Introducing the new Uncut… Bob Dylan at 80 and our free 15-track Dylan CD!
Welcome to a very special issue of Uncut, as we celebrate Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday. As you might imagine, it’s an event that we’ve been working towards for some time. In fact, rummaging through my inbox, I’ve found an email exchange with Tom Pinnock from June last year, where we first discussed how we might mark this auspicious event. “Perhaps we should get to work now on a special Dylan CD,” we concluded. So approximately 10 months later, I’m thrilled to unveil Dylan Revisited – 14 covers of Dylan tracks recorded exclusively for Uncut alongside one previously unreleased gem...
A new record pressing plant to open in Middlesborough
A new record pressing plant in Middlesbrough is hoping to create 30 new jobs in the region by the end of the year. Danny Lowe, David Todd and David Hynes have announced Press On Vinyl, located at Middlesbrough’s Tees Advanced Manufacturing Park (TeesAMP). The trio, who have employed a team of 10 people so far, plan to make 100,000 records every month, with priority given to smaller independent labels, and hope to expand their team to 30 employees by the end of the year. Advertisement As Teesside Live reports, Lowe said, “As three local guys we’re really excited to...
George Martin’s ‘Ray Cathode’ tracks to be reissued
Two electronic instrumental tracks from George Martin dating from the early Sixties are being reissued. A collaboration with BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Maddalena Fagandini, “Time Beat” and “Waltz in Orbit” were first released in April 1962 as a Parlophone single, shortly before Martin first met The Beatles. Advertisement They are due to be reissued on May 1 as a limited run of 100 numbered, 12-inch vinyl EPs. The songs have been newly remastered by Craig Leon, with new remixes by SPARKLE DIVISION and Drum & Lace. They are sold exclusively by dublab, with all proceeds benefiting dublab’s nonprofit community radio...
Introducing Uncut’s amazing Bob Dylan covers CD
We are proud to announce that the June 2021 issue of Uncut – in UK shops from April 15 – comes with one of the best free, covermounted CDs we’ve ever given away: Dylan Revisited. To celebrate Bob Dylan‘s 80th birthday, 14 esteemed artists – including The Flaming Lips, Low, Richard Thompson, Courtney Marie Andrews, Cowboy Junkies and The Weather Station – have recorded brand new versions of classic Dylan songs exclusively for us. What’s more, the CD also features a previously unreleased Dylan track! Advertisement CLICK HERE TO ORDER OUR DYLAN REVISITED CD The full tracklisting for Dylan...
Esther Rose How Many Times
Esther Rose has been quietly building a reputation these past few years. Her assured 2017 debut, the self-released This Time Last Night, found its way to Jack White, who was so taken with her voice that he invited her to sing on his latest solo effort, Boarding House Reach. Since then the Detroit-born songwriter (and Crescent City resident for the past decade) has found herself supporting Nick Lowe, Hurray For The Riff Raff and The Deslondes. Released by the ever-discerning Full Time Hobby, How Many Times should go some way to spreading the word further. It’s a record that...
Ballaké Sissoko Djourou
Given he plays an instrument that makes such serene and tranquil music, Ballaké Sissoko has encountered an awful lot of people hellbent on smashing his kora. First, there were the Islamic terrorists who overran northern Mali and destroyed every musical instrument they could find. Happily, Sissoko’s kora escaped this jihadist intolerance, but he was less fortunate at the end of his 2020 American tour, shortly before the world locked down. After he had checked in for his homeward flight, customs officials decided to give his kora a brutal shakedown. On landing in Paris the instrument was returned to him...
Prince’s “lost” album Welcome 2 America is finally getting released
The Prince Estate have announced details of a new release. Dating from 2010, Welcome 2 America is finally due for release on July 30 through Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, and can be pre-ordered here. You can hear the title track below. Advertisement A Deluxe Edition includes the 12-track studio album alongside a complete, previously unreleased live concert film of Prince and the New Power Generation from his “21 Nite Stand” at the April 28, 2011 show at The Forum, Los Angeles. The band for Welcome 2 America were: Prince: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards Tal Wilkenfeld: Bass...
Richard Thompson on the flowering of Fairport Convention
The current issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here, with free P&P for the UK – features an exclusive extract from Richard Thompson’s forthcoming memoir Beeswing in which he recalls how, in 1967, the newly formed Fairport Convention took their first tentative steps into London’s burgeoning underground scene. In addition, Thompson talks candidly to Uncut about the process of writing the book and how he feels now looking back at those naive and exciting early days… RICHARD THOMPSON: “The ’60 and ’70s continue to be musically of great interest to people....Recent Posts
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