On a freezing New York night in January 1971, Curtis Mayfield is performing with a new band for the first time. He is also recording a live album. Over four evenings at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, he beds in with the musicians while making Curtis/Live – one of the most engaged and electrifying concert recordings of all time. Mayfield was a multi-faceted genius. Artistic courage was just one of myriad talents. ORDER NOW: Read the full story in the September 2021 issue of Uncut “Curtis said, ‘We’re going to do a live album,’” recalls guitarist Craig McMullen,...
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have announced they will head out on their first-ever UK tour as a duo this autumn. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Review: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage The Bad Seeds duo will play 20 shows across September and autumn in support of their acclaimed album Carnage, which arrived earlier this year. While not a full Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record, the album is the latest from nearly 25 years of collaboration between the pair. Ellis has been a Bad Seeds...
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band have announced details of a new film, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts. Edited from the original 16mm film by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny, the film is composite of two performances shot during two nights at the 1979 MUSE benefit concerts, popularly known as the ‘No Nukes’ concerts, on September 21 and 22, 1979 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The film will be released later this year by Sony Music’s Premium Content Division. Advertisement A film...
Over the past decade, Bob Dylan has been working on an ongoing series of paintings he calls The Beaten Path, devoted to depictions of a particularly American landscape that’s probably on the edge of disappearing forever, but which he stubbornly insists still stubbornly exists, if you only looked: a handmade place of lost highways and forgotten barrooms and city lights in smeary rain; of lonely drive-in movie lots and funky diners and juke joints that all seem to float in some unfixed time that could be anywhere from the early-1930s to early tomorrow morning. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on...
English rockers the Faces are reportedly recording new music, having disbanded more than four decades ago. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Speaking to The Times, and reported by Music News, guitarist Ronnie Wood said he met up with Rod Stewart and Kenney Jones recently, in addition to catching up with Mick Jagger for a separate project. “I saw Mick here last week and Rod and Kenney were here yesterday,” Wood told The Times. Advertisement “Me and Mick have done nine new tracks for the re-release...
On the cover of Peace Or Love, the long-awaited fourth album by Eirik Glambek Bøe and Erlend Øye, the Norwegian duo are playing chess on a stylish piece of furniture. It’s not the first time the game has featured on their record sleeves – the art for 2004’s Riot On An Empty Street included a half-played board on the shaggy rug of a chic apartment, while 2009’s Declaration Of Dependence depicted the duo taking a break from a game on a Mexican beach. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Bøe and...
The post-reunion phase of a rock band’s lifespan can be a strange period to navigate. Provided the fans are on board, it is often a chance to make the sort of serious bucks that are out of reach during a band’s first flush. But a reunion often lays out an unwritten contract of expectations between band and fans; we want the nostalgia, we want the hits, do it this way, not that way. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut In this respect, Sleater-Kinney have not entirely followed the letter of the...
Rodrigo Amarante, it could be said, is a student of the world. A Rio de Janeiro native who now calls Los Angeles home, he’s lived in many places, and is also a dedicated reader, watcher and listener who speaks with a philosopher’s contemplation. He embraces life for all its beauty and absurdity, a binary that’s also key to his working method. “Rather than standing on top of what I believe I am, and speaking from there, I decided to discover it, to get inside it, to get dirty,” he explains. “It feels humorous, funny and ridiculous, to fiddle with...
Beholden to no-one but themselves, The Flatlanders’ dogleg career is impossible to second guess. Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock first got together in 1972, but their proto-Americana – a porous blend of country, folk, rock’n’roll and western swing – fell largely on deaf ears outside their home state of Texas. They were done in a little over a year, the band taking on semi-mythic status (their aborted debut eventually landed in 1990) as each member advanced into a successful solo career. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Treasure...
Iggy Pop, Sharon Van Etten, Michael Stipe, St. Vincent, Matt Berninger and many more are all set to contribute to a new tribute album to The Velvet Underground & Nico. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: A Velvet Underground playlist The 1967 album paired the Lou Reed-fronted New York rock legends with German singer Nico, and became one of the most lauded albums of all time. On September 24, Verve Records – the original home of The Velvet Underground – will release I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To...
