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Hear Richard Thompson’s new track, “Singapore Sadie”

Richard Thompson has announced details of his new album, Ship To Shore. You can hear a taster for the album, “Singapore Sadie“, below. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Released on May 31 via New West Records, Ship To Shore is Thompson’s follow-up to his 2018 studio album 13 Rivers and his 2021 memoir Beeswing. Advertisement Produced by Thompson and recorded in Woodstock, NY, the album will be available on standard black vinyl, CD and on digital platforms. A limited “Deep Blue” colour vinyl edition of 500 with...
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Mdou Moctar unveils new album, Funeral For Justice

Mdou Moctar has announced that his band’s new album Funeral For Justice – the follow-up to 2021’s Afrique Victime – will be released by Matador on May 3. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE You can watch a video for the blistering title track below: Advertisement “This album is really different for me,” explains Moctar. “Now the problems of terrorist violence are more serious in Africa. When the US and Europe came here, they said they’re going to help us, but what we see is really different. They...
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Hear T Bone Burnett’s new track, “Waiting For You”

T Bone Burnett will release a new solo album, The Other Side, on April 19 through Verve Forecast. The album – T Bone’s first since 2008’s Tooth Of Crime – features contributions from Rosanne Cash, Lucius and Weyes Blood. You can hear a taster for the album, “Waiting For You“, with Lucius on harmony vocals, below. Advertisement PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE The album is available to pre-order here. Tracklisting for The Other Side is: Advertisement He Came Down Come Back (When You Go Away) (I’m Gonna...
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Watch a video for Shabaka Hutchings’ new track, “End Of Innocence”

UK jazz figurehead Shabaka Hutchings – formerly of the bands Sons Of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming – has released his first new music since quitting the saxophone at the end of last year. “End Of Innocence” is the first single to be taken from his new solo album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, released by Impulse! on April 12. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE While the album mostly features Hutchings playing a range of different flutes, “End Of Innocence” marks a return to his first instrument,...
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Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss for 2024 Outlaw Music Festival Tour

Willie Nelson‘s Outlaw Music Music Festival Tour this year will feature Willie Nelson & Family, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and John Mellencamp among its storied bill. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE “This year’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour promises to be the biggest and best yet with this lineup of legendary artists. I am thrilled to get back on the road again with my family and friends playing the music we love for the fans we love,” said Nelson. Advertisement The festival made its debut in 2016 in Scranton, Pennsylvania...
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Scott Fagan South Atlantic Blues (reissue, 1968)

Tales of contenders who never fulfilled their early promise are plentiful in the music game, but Scott Fagan’s comes with intriguing details – including having sired Stephin Merritt – and an idiosyncratic soundtrack. Raised in the US Virgin Islands, he moved to New York in 1964 and there started co-writing songs with the heavyweight Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman team. Over the next three years, he also penned the songs that were to form his debut album. The “bigger than Presley” success predicted by Fagan’s high-profile manager, Herb Gart, never came to be, while a deal with Atlantic subsidiary ATCO saw...
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Uncut April 2024

HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Pink Floyd and Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, The Beach Boys, Adrianne Lenker, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Shabaka Hutchings, Townes Van Zandt, Jah Wobble, Wayne Kramer, A Certain Ratio and more all feature in Uncut‘s April 2024 issue, in UK shops from February 2 or available to buy online now. Advertisement All print copies come with a free CD – One Of These Days, featuring 15 of the month’s best new music including The Black Keys, Jane Weaver, Ride, Cedric Burnside, Waxahatchee, Pernice Brothers, Jim White and more! INSIDE THIS...
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Introducing the new issue of Uncut

THERE have been many twists in the long-running saga of Pink Floyd, but few could have predicted the events of May 20, 2018. On stage in Camden’s Dingwalls, Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets opened a surprising new chapter in the band’s story, reviving the three-minute pop fantasias and cosmic-progressive freakouts of the Floyd’s foundational years before The Dark Side Of The Moon. In our cover story, Mason looks back on the creation of this magnificent, irregular music, while along with his co-conspirators in the Saucers, he explains how – and why – they’ve brought it back to life. “The...
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Send us your questions for Vini Reilly

Vini Reilly has fans in high places. When God appeared to Tony Wilson in the film 24 Hour Party People, it was to suggest that he release a Durutti Column greatest hits. As the Lord Almighty correctly observed, “It’s good music to chill out to.” The Durutti Column were the first band signed to Factory Records in 1978, although they soon became a de facto Vini Reilly solo project (with staunch assistance down the years from drummer Bruce Mitchell and others). The group’s music – quiet, pensive, beautiful – was in stark contrast to the punk scene Reilly came...
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Introducing the Ultimate Genre Guide: Singer-Songwriter

My first meeting with a giant in the field of singer-songwriting wasn’t in an LA canyon, but somewhere on a hill outside San Francisco. Tasked 25 years ago with interviewing Neil Young for NME, myself and a photographer took a long taxi ride outside the city and up to what was then apparently one of Neil’s incognito hangs – a homey restaurant within a wooded area called the Mountain House. As we pulled up and stepped out of the taxi in our unCalifornian black clothing, we were greeted by a genial voice: “Great,” it announced, wryly. “The English are...