This Week's Top Releases

Alice Cooper on The Stooges and MC5: “We were three different types of theatre”

When Alice Cooper and his band arrived in Detroit in 1969, they found their natural home: “Freaky people doing freaky things with a big powerful sound!” As Cooper prepares for a spiritual return to his roots on his new album, the latest issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here! – winds the clock back to the Motor City’s wild heyday where Motown, high-energy rock’n’roll and radical politics ruled and Cooper unleashed the full power of his shocking “improv, guerrilla theatre”. “Playing with Iggy and MC5 was great for us,” says Cooper....

The 2nd Uncut Playlist Of 2021

I keeping saying this, but 2021 really is shaping up to be a good year for new music. Lots to enjoy here – and plenty of variety too, including the first fruits of the Jakob Bro/Arve Henriksen/Jorge Rossy collaboration, the soulful return of Valerie June, an unexpectedly brilliant hook up between Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, some cosmic pastoral goodness from Field Works and the VUisms of Whitney K. Plus the Coral, Teenage Fanclub, Femi Kuti and more. Follow me on Twitter @MichaelBonner GETTING YOUR COPY OF THIS MONTH’S UNCUT DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR DOOR IS EASY AND HASSLE...

Have A Taste Of California’s Urban Scene & Watch “Westside” By Southside Yoko & G Perico

Southside Yoko is a young rapper, songwriter and entrepreneur who just dropped his new banger titled “Westside.” The track features G Perico, best known for his tracks “One More Day,” “Toolie” and “Never Miss.” Sonder produced “Westside” and it was released through Southside Yoko’s label, No Parole Entertainment. Music runs in the veins of Yoko’s family, as his uncle was the legendary guitarist and producer of David Williams, who worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Paul McCartney, and more. Black excellence was instilled in Southside Yoko since he was a young boy, a mentality that helped him become...

David Bowie Ultimate Record Collection: Part 3 (1990-2016)

The last part of our Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie trilogy is here now. Beginning with Bowie’s rediscovery of his past in 1990, and progressing all the way to his final album Blackstar, it’s the definitive timeline of his final decades. Buy a copy by clicking here.

Welcome to Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie Part 3 (1990-2016)

BUY THE ULTIMATE RECORD COLLECTION: DAVID BOWIE SERIES HERE In the two volumes of Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie so far, we’ve had the pleasure of conducting you through a chronology of the artist’s work – seen through the eyes of the musicians who were there with him making the music. Through new interviews with early collaborators like Phil Lancaster, Woolf Byrne and Mike Vernon in Part 1, we built an unrivalled oral history of Bowie’s early adventures, and his breakthrough to mature creativity and superstardom. In Part 2 (1977-1989), we uncovered new stories and first-hand accounts about the...

The Clash in New York: “De Niro took us out clubbing”

The new issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here, with no delivery charges for the UK – features an astonishing oral history of The Clash’s 17-date residency at Bond International Casino in New York, during which they caused riots in Times Square, went clubbing with Robert De Niro and kicked off a “punky hip-hop thing” with the city’s newest underground scene. Here’s a little taster: DON LETTS (DJ/filmmaker): They were like four sticks of dynamite on stage. It was a beautiful thing to see these guys in sync. Off stage there...

Cat Stevens Mona Bone Jakon/Tea For The Tillerman 50th Anniversary boxsets

By 1970, Cat Stevens had been absent from the charts for three years. Rendered hors de combat by a life-threatening bout of tuberculosis, the time out also offered an opportunity for a major reset. The likes of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor were ushering in the age of the sensitive acoustic troubadour, and to Stevens their songs sounded so much more profound and poetic than the overblown, melodramatic orchestral pop of “I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun” and “Matthew And Son”. As he slowly recovered, a stream of songs in a more reflective folk-rock vein poured out...

Farmer Dave & The Wizards Of The West Farmer Dave & The Wizards Of The West

You could get a contact high off “Cave Walls”, the first proper song on the self-titled debut by Farmer Dave & The Wizards Of The West. It opens in a cloud of rumbling guitars, hallucinatory synths and drums mixed to sound thick and gummy. The band flirt with the beat, coming down on either side of it, creating a sense of subtle weightlessness, as though they’re all hovering an inch or two off the ground. “May I be your forever freak”, Farmer Dave sings, projecting a sleepy-stoned charisma as he rambles about kid-sister empresses and sneaks in an Easter-egg...

My Life In Music: Courtney Marie Andrews

BOB DYLAN TELL TALE SIGNS COLUMBIA, 2008 When I was on tour about four or five years ago, I decided to go deeper into Dylan’s catalogue. There’s so much to uncover. I was working with this producer, Mark Howard; he had a lot of sessions that were outtakes for this record, and I became obsessed. I really like the reflective element of it – these are his nostalgic years where he’s kinda an old wise man reflecting on his life. There was a time when I listened to nothing but this record, and it’s become my favourite Dylan record....

KatchUp Presents A New Genre He Invented With New Single “Vini”

Brooklyn, NY-based Haitian-American DJ, producer KatchUp who is also an Engineering Graduate, recently released a song titled “Vini,” a beautiful blend of different genres. Through mixing Kompa, Reggaeton, Soca, and Pop, KatchUp invented a new genre that he calls “Ayimove.” The artist presented the genre in “Vini,” making the release truly revolutionary. He dropped the song together with his label TuGetta. “Vini” reflects the talented rising artist’s Haitian roots delivering extremely warm and sensual soundscapes. The groovy tunes spread positive vibes and create a feel-good atmosphere for the listener. KatchUp claims that he wants to make Haitian music as...