A preview of the second volume of The Beatles<'strong>' Live At The BBC collection is being streamed online – listen to it below.
The original collection of recordings was released in 1994, hitting No 1 in the UK charts and selling more than five million copies worldwide within its first six weeks of release. Its follow-up, On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 will be released on Monday, November 11.
A brief moment away from collating Uncut’s end of year album charts to post this: 24 records etc we’ve played over the last couple of days in the Uncut office.
U2 will release two new songs from the forthcoming Nelson Mandela biopic, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom on Record Store Day's Black Friday.
The two new tracks, titled "Ordinary Love" and "Breath", will be released on exclusive 10-inch vinyl on November 29, according to the official Record Store Day website. Modern Vinyl reports that only 10,000 copies of the release will be pressed, while the artwork for the single can be seen above.
After raving about the new Alasdair Roberts and White Fence albums on the past few lists, I’m pleased to have some tracks from them this week, along with really excellent new arrivals from Kevin Morby and Ryley Walker.
In his excellent Uncut review of the Morrissey “Autobiography”, Michael alludes to the get-out clause afforded rock memoirists post-“Chronicles”: why bother obfuscating certain awkward details when you can, by being capricious with time and chronology, just skip the difficult stuff?
Bob Dylan has released a companion app for Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10.
The app, which is free to download at iTunes, holds over 500 pieces of content, including interviews, galleries and timelines; it also comes with one pre-loaded song.
U2 have posted a lyric video for their new song, "Ordinary Love", on their Facebook page.
Scroll down to watch it.
The song, which is taken from the film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, will be available as the A-side of a limited-edition 10-inch vinyl release on Record Store Day's Back to Black Friday event on November 29.
