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Fleetwood Mac: ‘Everybody was pretty weirded out’ – the story of Rumours

In this archive feature from Uncut's May 2003 issue (Take 72), rock's greatest living soap opera tell the story of how they went to hell and back to bring the world some of the most popular, and most perfect, hard-centred easy listening music of all time. However, it nearly cost them their sanity. And their lives… Words: Nigel Williamson _________________

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is a companion piece to The Hurt Locker, the previous film from director Kathryn Bigelow and scriptwriter Mark Boal. But while The Hurt Locker viewed the War on Terror in microcosm, focussing on a three-man bomb disposal team during the Iraq war, Zero Dark Thirty tells a bigger story: the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, unfolding across a ten-year period in CIA Black Ops sites, military bases and embassies in destinations as far a field as Pakistan, Gdansk, London and the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Kraftwerk – Album By Album

Former Kraftwerk percussionist Karl Bartos features in the new issue of Uncut (February 2013, Take 189), out now, discussing the upcoming Kraftwerk retrospective shows in London, and his own new solo album, Off The Record. As a companion piece, here’s Ralf Hütter taking us through the high points of Kraftwerk’s discography in a fascinating ‘album by album’ from Uncut's October 2009 issue (Take 149). ___________________

The Flaming Lips preview ‘Freak Night’ concert film – watch

The Flaming Lips have put a preview of their upcoming concert film online – you can watch it at the bottom of this page. The film, titled Freak Night, chronicles the legendary psychedelic band's free concert in Oklahoma City on October 26, and is reportedly available via the band's website next week. No release date has been officially announced. Tweeting stills from the concert movie, frontman Wayne Coyne wrote: "Freaky shit from Freak Night!!!Comes out next week motherfuckers!! Halloween for Christmas!!"

Thurston Moore launches appeal to find stolen guitar

Thurston Moore had his 1960 Fender Jazzmaster stolen on Wednesday (December 12). The incident occurred around midnight at a Philadelphia hotel, reports a message on Sonic Youth's website.

“People drifted off…” Bryan Ferry on Roxy Music’s many bass players

In the current issue of Uncut, I spoke to Bryan Ferry for our An Audience With… feature. Among the reader questions was one from Rob Emery, who asked ‘Why do you think Roxy Music got through so many bass players?’

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne in bomb scare incident

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has revealed that he found himself at the centre of a bomb scare earlier this month. The singer was stopped at Will Rogers airport in Oklahoma City on November 10, after a dead grenade in his hand luggage set off alarms at a TSA checkpoint, reports TMZ. Wayne was on his way to Los Angeles to catch a preview of the new Flaming Lips musical Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, and told police that the grenade was given to him at a party as a joke.
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