Watch Ryan Adams debut new track “Stay With Me” live

Ryan Adams has debuted a new track entitled "Stay With Me". The singer-songwriter played the song at a gig in Portland, Maine earlier this week, alongside other new tracks, including "Kim" and "Shadows". Click below to watch footage of the performance, via Stereogum.

Courtney Love says production on Kurt Cobain biopic will begin in “next 12 months”

Courtney Love says she hopes filming will start on a mooted Kurt Cobain biopic within the next year. As reported, a film of the late Nirvana frontman's life is set to go into production. Love set the timescale in a new interview with Inquirer Entertainment, in which she also said she won't be deciding who plays her late husband.

Roger Daltrey to help launch model railway museum

Roger Daltrey is backing plans to create an international model railway museum in Ashford, Kent. Daltrey says the proposed museum would be a way of celebrating the fact that the railways were a British invention.

Jack White, Neil Young, Willie Nelson to headline Farm Aid

Jack White, Neil Young and Willie Nelson have been announced as this year's headliners at Farm Aid, reports Rolling Stone. Also appearing on the bill are John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as well as Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jamey Johnson, Delta Rae, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Carlene Carter, Pegi Young & The Survivors, and Insects vs Robots.

The 28th Uncut Playlist Of 2014

There's a song on this new Purling Hiss album, playing again now, that sounds more or less like "Debaser" played by Dinosaur Jr. Along with the intensely spirited debut by Mary Timony's Ex-Hex and a comp of the pre-Beachwood Sparks, Sebadoh-indebted Further, it feels a little like College Rock revisited week. Deep late '80s/early '90s vibes, good times etc.

Slowdive announce two further reunion dates

Slowdive have announced two further reunion gigs for later this year. The band returned to the stage for their first gig in almost 20 years back in May, playing a surprise gig at the Sonic Cathedral label's 10th anniversary party at London's Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen. They have since been touring European festivals, including slots at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Latitude last weekend (July 18). They will now follow this up with dates across Asia and North America, before two nights at London's The Forum in Kentish Town on December 29 and 20.

The Pop Group announce first ever UK tour

The Pop Group have announced their first ever UK tour. The Bristol group - who formed in 1978 and split in 1980 before getting back together again in 2010 - will head out on a seven date tour this October, in support of the reissue in October of their 1980 album We Are Time and Cabinet Of Curiosities, a nine-track compilation of rarities and previously unreleased material.

George Harrison memorial tree killed by infestation of beetles

A tree planted in memory of George Harrison has died after being infested by beetles. The pine in Los Angeles' Griffith Park was planted in 2004 as a tribute Harrison, who passed away in 2001 in the city. A plaque on the tree read: "In memory of a great humanitarian who touched the world as an artist, a musician and a gardener." It also featured a quote from Harrison: "For the forests to be green, each tree must be green."

September 2014

Robert Plant, Tom Petty, King Crimson and Bobby Womack all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated September 2014 (Take 208) and out tomorrow (July 29). We track Plant, on the cover, from the Welsh Marches to the nightclubs of Paris to hear about bee colonies, mountain lions, altercations with Moroccan traffic cops, Bron-Yr-Aur, Jimmy Page, and Plant's extraordinary new solo album.
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