Led Zeppelin are to kick off a major chronological reissue programme of their entire catalogue on June 2, 2014 with deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, and Led Zeppelin III.

Each album has been remastered by Jimmy Page and will feature a second disc of companion audio comprised entirely of unreleased music related to that album.

“The material on the companion discs presents a portal to the time of the recording of Led Zeppelin,” says Page. “It is a selection of work in progress with rough mixes, backing tracks, alternate versions, and new material recorded at the time”

Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, and Led Zeppelin III will each be available June 3 from Atlantic/Swan Song in the following formats:

Single CD – Remastered album packaged in a gatefold card wallet.

Deluxe Edition (2CD) – Remastered album, plus a second disc of unreleased companion audio.

Single LP – Remastered album on 180-gram vinyl, packaged in a sleeve that replicates the LP’s first pressing in exacting detail. (For example, III will feature the original wheel and die cut holes.)

Deluxe Edition Vinyl – Remastered album and unreleased companion audio on 180-gram vinyl.

Digital Download – Remastered album and companion audio will both be available.

Super Deluxe Boxed Set – This collection includes:

o Remastered album on CD in vinyl replica sleeve.

o Companion audio on CD in card wallet.

o Remastered album on 180-gram vinyl in a sleeve replicating first pressing.

o Companion audio on 180-gram vinyl.

o High-def audio download card of all content at 96kHz/24 bit. (Live tracks are 48kHz/24 bit).

o Hard bound, 70+ page book filled with rare and previously unseen photos and memorabilia.

o High quality print of the original album cover, the first 30,000 of which will be individually numbered.

o Led Zeppelin will also include a replica of the band’s original Atlantic press kit.

The tracklisting for the reissues is:

Led Zeppelin

1. “Good Times Bad Times”

2. “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”

3. “You Shook Me”

4. “Dazed And Confused”

5. “Your Time Is Gonna Come”

6. “Black Mountain Side”

7. “Communication Breakdown”

8. “I Can’t Quit You Baby”

9. “How Many More Times”

Companion Audio Disc

Live At The Olympia – Paris, France, October 10, 1969

1. “Good Times Bad Times/Communication Breakdown”

2. “I Can’t Quit You Baby”

3. “Heartbreaker”

4. “Dazed And Confused”

5. “White Summer/Black Mountain Side”

6. “You Shook Me”

7. “Moby Dick”

8. “How Many More Times”

Led Zeppelin II

1. “Whole Lotta Love”

2. “What Is And What Should Never Be”

3. “The Lemon Song”

4. “Thank You”

5. “Heartbreaker”

6. “Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)”

7. “Ramble On”

8. “Moby Dick”

Companion Audio Disc

1. “Whole Lotta Love”

2. “What Is And What Should Never Be”

3. “Thank You”

4. “Heartbreaker”

5. “Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)”

6. “Ramble On”

7. “Moby Dick”

8. “La La”

9. “Bring It On Home”

Led Zeppelin III

1. “Immigrant Song”

2. “Friends”

3. “Celebration Day”

4. “Since I’ve Been Loving You”

5. “Out On The Tiles”

6. “Gallows Pole”

7. “Tangerine”

8. “That’s The Way”

9. “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp”

10. “Hats Off To (Roy) Harper”

Companion Audio Disc

1. “The Immigrant Song”

2. “Friends”

3. “Celebration Day”

4. “Since I’ve Been Loving You”

5. “Bathroom Sound”

6. “Gallows Pole”

7. “That’s The Way”

8. “Jennings Farm Blues”

9. “Keys To The Highway/Trouble In Mind”

Johnny Marr has said that his future live shows are in jeopardy after he broke his band earlier this month.

The guitarist and singer fell while he was out running in London last week, and now has his hand in plaster (see picture above).

In a statement, Marr said: “I was running pretty fast and just went straight over. I banged my shoulder and then realised my hand was in a bad way. Obviously we’re hoping there’s no long term damage.”

Marr, who is currently touring his 2013 debut solo album The Messenger, said he is still hoping to play his planned future live shows, but these all depend on how well his hand heals.

He stated: “The plan is to do the Leeds Brudenell shows on March 24 and 25 and then the dates I have in South America as long as I can play the guitar when the plaster comes off. Usually that would be after six weeks but I’m hoping it will be OK, it’s a bit up in the air at this point. I may have to start drinking heavily.”

Johnny Marr recently told NME that he will release a new solo album this September. “I’ve got a new record coming out in the end of September, the follow-up to last year’s,” he said. “I wanted to do the second one really quick. For me, it was just about being on tour and wanting to capture the spirit of the band and the audience before it wears off. I’d been touring for 11 months so I wanted to keep that same energy. I didn’t want to overthink it.”

The video for a previously unreleased Johnny Cash track “She Used To Love Me A Lot” has been released – watch it below.

John Hillcoat, the man behind films including The Proposition, The Road, and Lawless, directed the video in homage to the late singer.

“She Used To Love Me A Lot” features on the album Out Among the Stars, a collection of 13 lost Johnny Cash recordings from the early 80s, which will be released on March 31. The tracks, which were recorded between 1981 and 1984, include duets with wife June Carter Cash and Waylon Jennings. The tapes were discovered by archivists at Legacy records and the country legend’s son, John Carter Cash.

The video was filmed over the course of a month across the US. Speaking about the track, John Hillcoat revealed: “The lyrics seemed to speak to America as it is now, to the nation that loved him and to the great divide he fought so hard against. This divide has only grown exponentially since he died, so we wanted to show America under this stark light and as a homage to the very reason Cash always wore black: to the shameful increase of the disenfranchised and outsiders.

“At the same time, we wanted to reference the great man’s own struggle and journey from the love of his life to the burnt out ruins of his infamous lake house home, personal photographs, the cave where he tried to take his life but then turned it all around, the place he last recorded in and his last photo before his passing.”

You can read all about Johnny Cash’s lost decade in the current issue of Uncut.

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Photo credit: Norman Seeff

Neil Young has confirmed that Jack White will appear on his new album.

The album, titled A Letter Home, was recorded at White’s Third Man studios in Nashville and will be released “very soon”, most likely this Spring, Young told Billboard.

Young confirmed that he covers songs from his favourite writers on the album, and that White will feature on two of the tracks. “It’s not ready for prime time yet,” he said. “It’s not really a release yet, but it’s a very unique record. It’s like a time capsule. It doesn’t sound like anything you’ve heard that was made recently. And some great songs, some beautiful music.”

He added: “They’re songs that I love, songs that changed my life, songs that made it so that I understood what someone else was saying to me, songs by greater writers.”

Young previously recorded a version of Bert Jansch’s “Needle Of Death” for Record Store Day 2013 in White’s 1947 Voice-o-Graph booth.

Earlier this week, Neil Young gave a keynote speech at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, during which he launched his high quality digital music service and portable music player Pono.

The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will be playing European tour dates this summer.

Last week, Uncut reported that the band were planning a run of European dates.

Now, the band have announced they will play the Pinkpop Festival on Holland on Saturday 7 June and the TW Classic Festival in Belgium on Saturday 28 June as part of their 14 On Fire tour.

The Rolling Stones will be playing more major shows in Europe in May and June, and these will be announced over the next two weeks.

Mick Jagger commented: “I love festivals in the summertime and can’t wait for the tour to get to Europe.”

Keith Richards added: “Let’s keep this show on the road …the band are in top form so I’m really looking forward to getting back to Europe.”

Keith Richards will release a children’s with his daughter, Theodora, later this year.

The guitarist will release Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar on September 9 after signing a deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Richards’ artist daughter Theordora has illustrated the picture book, which was co-written with Barnaby Harris and Bill Shapiro.

Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar is inspired by Richards’ grandfather, Theodore Augustus Dupree (known as Gus), who was in a jazz big band and provided inspiration for Theodora Richards’ name. Richards first wrote about his grandfather in his best-selling autobiography Life.

Speaking about the book, Richards’ said in a statement: “The bond, the special bond, between kids and grandparents is unique and should be treasured. This is a story of one of those magical moments. May I be as great a grandfather as Gus was to me.”

Richards became grandfather to a baby boy after his daughter Angela Richards gave birth to Otto Reed earlier this year (February 6).

Neil Young launched his high quality digital Pono music player and service yesterday (March 11) at SXSW in Austin, Texas, saying of the player “once you hear this, you can’t go back.”

Young spoke at the Austin Convention Centre and announced his plans for Pono, which yesterday also launched its Kickstarter campaign. At the end of the event, Young revealed that the campaign had already raised over half its target funds of $800,000 in just four hours, “which is pretty cool” he commented. He also explained that ‘Pono’ is the Hawaiian word for ‘righteousness’.

Pono will consist of a digital music service (PonoMusic) and 128GB portable device (PonoPlayer) capable of storing 1-2,000 high resolution songs. The PonoPlayer is described in a press release as a “purpose-built, portable, high-resolution digital-music player designed and engineered in a “no-compromise” fashion to allow consumers to experience studio master-quality digital music at the highest audio fidelity possible, bringing the true emotion and detail of the music, the way the artist recorded it, to life.”

Speaking without notes and pacing back and forth on the large stage, Young explained his reasons for launching Pono, which has been two and half years in the making, and he also explained that he had support from all the major record labels, commenting: “They’re all with us, all the record companies”.

Criticising the rise of MP3 quality sound and explaining that was the reason behind making his own player, Young said: “I’m a fan of listening loud – I love to listen loud… I like to take whatever it is to the limit.” He stated that this was not possible with MP3 and said the music industry also began to slump after its introduction. “Everything started to die – it was because of the MP3 and the cheapening of the quality to where it was practically unrecognisable,” he commented, lamenting albums which were perceived to have been made with ‘filler’ tracks. “The album had no value – only the individual tracks had value,” he stated.

He added: “As a guy who’d been making records for many years at that point, I was pissed off – I love every note, on every song, on every record…. They weren’t just filler.” He then said that the sound of MP3 was ‘shit’: “We were selling shit, but people were still buying it because they like music [but] they were buying Xeroxes of the Mona Lisa.”

Young went on to explain that music adapted to the constraints of MP3. “Instead of being soulful – which it still is – music adapted, it became beat heavy, it became smart, it became tricky. But for me, it was like ‘woah, I don’t want to do that!’… I started thinking it might be a good idea to do something about it”.

He then showed a short film, which saw a host of music world stars commenting on Pono, after listening to the player, including Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Patti Smith, Mumford and Sons, Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello, Mike D of the Beastie Boys and Jack White. Click above to watch the video. “This gives it to you as good as you can get it,” says Tom Petty, whilst Springsteen comments that it has “a closeness and intimacy that digital recordings can lose very quickly.” Elton John says: “I haven’t heard a sound like that since vinyl”.

“Pono plays back whatever the artist decided to do,” added Young. “My body is getting washed, I’m getting hit with something great. It’s not ice cubes, it’s water – I’m listening. I’m feeling.” Pono’s CEO John Hamm also spoke during the session and talked about the triangular shape of the Pono device. “The electronics that fit inside wouldn’t fit in a flat package,” he explained. “It’s a small piece of audio gear, not a mobile device.”

Waging Heavy Peace, released in 2012, Young explained how Pono will help to “save the sound of music”. Young claims in the book that he had emailed Steve Jobs about Pono before his death: “I have consistently reached out to try to assist Apple with true audio quality, and I have even shared my high-resolution masters with them,” he wrote, before stating that his service will “force iTunes to be better and to improve quality at a faster pace”.

“There wasn’t a lot of pre-production for What’s The Story. . .If we were at home, the postman would drop off an envelope and in it would be a cassette saying ‘Noel demos’. You’d get a phone call: ‘There’s the next album. Learn it. See you in a week.’ That’s the way Noel worked. Everyone would figure out the chords – there was no point asking him, he didn’t know the name of the fucking things. ‘It’s one of them where your finger’s up there. . .’”

This is Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, looking back at the somewhat haphazard way one of the biggest-selling UK albums of all time came together in his introduction to the latest instalment in our series of Ultimate Music Guides, this one dedicated to Oasis, who in their illustrious pomp swept all before them before the always-simmering tensions between permanently squabbling siblings Noel and Liam Gallagher, for many years an entertaining if occasionally wearying distraction, came to a brutal climax in August 2009 at the Rock et Seine festival in Paris.

A backstage argument between the two ended with Noel walking out on the band that for just over a decade has held such omnipotent sway over British rock. Two hours later, he released a statement announcing “with some sadness and great relief. . . .I quit Oasis tonight”. Noel went off and formed The High Flying Birds. Liam and what was left of the final Oasis line-up became Beady Eye, with a promise from Liam that they would be “bigger than Oasis”, which is not something they have yet become, despite Liam’s initial post-split bravado.

Anyway, 20 years on from the release of Definitely, Maybe, our Ultimate Music Guide, as ever, brings together a collection of predictably colourful and eventful interviews from the archives of Melody Maker, NME and Uncut , a fantastic trawl that’s supplemented by new, in-depth reviews of every Oasis album and the albums that have followed by High Flying Birds and Beady Eye, plus a full Oasis singles discography, including rarities and most valuable collectables.

Oasis: the Ultimate Music Guide is on sale from Thursday, March 13 and will also available to order online at www.uncut.co.uk/store or download digitally at www.uncut.co.uk/digital-edition.

To get you in the mood here’s a clip of Oasis making their TV debut on The Word from 1994.

Have a good week.

A spokesperson for U2 has denied that the band have pushed back the release date of their 13th studio album to 2015.

Investigations by Billboard last week suggested that the band had pushed the album back to next year. It reported that the band had booked further studio time with producers Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder, who would join the project’s main producer Danger Mouse. It also suggested that U2 had cancelled a tour due to take place in summer 2014.

Speaking to The Guardian, a spokesperson for the band flatly the claims, saying: “U2’s album is planned for this year (2014), is still on track and touring plans haven’t been confirmed yet.”

Following recent appearances at the Golden Globes and the release of new tracks “Ordinary Love” and “Invisible”, which was downloaded for free three million times, speculation had mounted that the band were gearing up to release their next album this year. Following Billboard’s investigation last week, an Interscope representative said the album cannot be considered delayed as a release date was never announced.

The Stooges are recording an album of material without Iggy Pop.

The line-up of James Williamson, Mike Watt, Steve Mackay and Toby Dammit are working on an album, Re-Licked, with a series of guest vocalists including Mark Lanegan and Jello Biafra.

Re-Licked consists of previously unreleased songs written around the time of the Iggy And The Stooges’ 1973 album Raw Power. Pop announced last September that he wouldn’t be working with The Stooges in 2014, but Williamson told Rolling Stone: “Iggy gave me his blessing and wished me success with the album. But it’s a hard pill to swallow when someone is doing all your songs with your band and you’re not on it.”

Pop said in a statement: “I don’t have a problem with anything. This statement about ‘hard pill’ sounds kind of passive aggressive to me…T hese guys are my friends and we’ve all worked together many years. They’re working musicians and they need to play.” Pop’s spokesman additionally claimed the singer wasn’t given the chance to appear on Re-Licked and only learned of the album in December 2013 when a record label rejected the chance to release it.

Since reforming in 2003, the band have released two albums: The Weirdness in 2007 and Ready To Die in 2013.

Neil Young has confirmed a pair of solo shows.

Young, who is due to play four solo shows in Los Angeles, has now announced two shows in Dallas, Texas at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on April 17 and 18.

Tickets for the two-night run will go on sale March 14 and are available here.

Meanwhile, to enter our competition to win a pair of tickets to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse at London’s Hyde Park, click here.

Roddy Frame has announced details of new album, Seven Dials.

Seven Dials will be released on AED on Monday May 5h 2014.

It’s Frame’s first since Western Skies in 2006, was recorded at West Heath Studios in London and co-produced with Seb Lewsley.

The track listing for Seven Dials is as follows:

White Pony

From A Train

Meanwhile, Frame is previewing “Forty Days Of Rain“, which you can hear below.

Neil Young will debut his new digital audio format Pono at South By Southwest tomorrow [March 11]. Details of the service have now appeared online.

A number of news sources – including The Guardian – report that Young will launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for his new PonoPlayer device on 15 March, with early buyers getting a discount on its planned $399 price.

The device will be supported by an online music downloads store called PonoMusic, which will sell files at a higher resolution than rivals like Apple’s iTunes.

Here’s the Pono press release in full:

March 10, 2014 – (Burbank, CA.) – PonoMusic is a revolutionary movement conceived and founded by Neil Young. Our mission is to bring the highest-quality digital music to discerning, passionate consumers, who wish to experience music the way the artists intended, with the emotion, detail, and power intact. “It’s about the music, real music. We want to move digital music into the 21st century and PonoMusic does that. We couldn’t be more excited about bringing PonoMusic to the market,” said Neil Young, founder and chairman of PonoMusic.

PonoMusic encompasses both an online music store (PonoMusic.com) and a playback device (The PonoPlayer). The PonoPlayer is a digital-music experience unlike any other, offering the finest quality, highest-resolution digital music from both major labels and prominent independent labels, curated and archived for discriminating PonoMusic customers. The Pono desktop media management application allows customers to download, manage and sync their music to their PonoPlayer and other high- resolution digital music devices.

“Our goal was to offer the highest quality digital music available from all the major labels with the world’s greatest sounding, user-friendly portable music player. We’ve achieved our goal and we are excited to launch our Kickstarter campaign next week to invite music lovers everywhere to join the PonoMusic community and reserve a PonoPlayer for their own enjoyment,” said John Hamm, CEO of PonoMusic.

The PonoPlayer is a purpose-built, portable, high-resolution digital-music player designed and engineered in a “no-compromise” fashion to allow consumers to experience studio master-quality digital music at the highest audio fidelity possible, bringing the true emotion and detail of the music, the way the artist recorded it, to life. It also features a convenient, easy-to-use LCD touch screen interface that is totally intuitive. The audio technology in the PonoPlayer was developed in conjunction with the engineering team at Ayre, in Boulder Colorado, a leader in world class audio technology.

PonoMusic and Ayre have collaborated their ideas to achieve their goal — to make the power and majesty of music available to everybody. “We are absolutely thrilled to be a part of this project. We will always be grateful to Neil Young for changing the landscape of recorded music,” said Charlie Hansen, CEO of Ayre Acoustics.

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums. Memory cards can be used to store and play different playlists and additional collections of music. The PonoPlayer will be sold at PonoMusic.com for $399 MSRP and is available for pre-order at a discount on Kickstarter.com as of March 15th. PonoMusic recommended earbud and headphone products will also be available for purchase on PonoMusic.com.

David Bowie will release two limited edition picture discs on Record Store Day next month.

The annual celebration of music shops will take place on April 19 and Bowie has outlined plans to release a 7″ picture disc of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” in the UK, while North American fans will be able to purchase the single “1984” on 7″ picture disc.

First released as a single in 1974, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2014 with the new release set to come backed with “Farewell Speech” recorded at the final Ziggy Stardust concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in July 1973.

The track listing for “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” 40th Anniversary 7″ Picture Disc is:

A-Side “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide”

AA-Side “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide inc Farewell Speech” (Live Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture version)

Catalogue No DBROCK40

The track listing for “1984” 40th Anniversary 7″ Picture Disc is:

A-Side “1984”

AA-Side “1984 (Live On The Dick Cavett Show)”

Catalogue No DB401984

These are the latest in the run of Bowie’s 40th anniversary 7″ picture discs, following on from “Starman”, “John I’m Only Dancing”, “The Jean Genie”, “Drive In Saturday”, “Live On Mars”, “Sorrow” and “Rebel Rebel”.

Meanwhile, in this month’s issue of Uncut we celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s album Diamond Dogs. You can find details about it here.

The first trailer for HBO’s forthcoming Bruce Springsteen documentary has been revealed. Scroll down to watch it.

Titled High Hopes, the film follows Springsteen as he works on his latest album of the same name. High Hopes, the album, was released in January 2014 and the trailer shows Springsteen and the E Street Band as they recruit Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello and begin work on the record.

Speaking about his songwriting process in the preview clip, Springsteen says: “I find I’m trying to resolve something internally. That’s really the thrust. It’s where all the fuel for what you’re going to do is.”

High Hopes will air on HBO on April 4.

Morrissey has announced details of his new studio album.

A post on the quasi-official fansite, True To You, reveals the album will be called World Peace Is None of Your Business.

The post continues by saying that a release date has been provisionally set for late June/early July worldwide by Harvest Records thru Capitol. Morrissey is said to be “beyond ecstatic” with the album, all 12 tracks of which were produced by Joe Chiccarelli in France.

At the end of last year, Morrissey’s guitarist Jesse Tobias here told Uncut that the singer had two albums worth of songs ready to record.

Morrissey’s last studio album was Years Of Refusal in 2009.

Neil Young And Crazy Horse will headline this year’s Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time event at London’s Hyde Park on Saturday July 12.

They’ll be joined by special guests The National, Phosphorescent, Caitlin Rose and Ethan Johns.

We’re delighted to be able to offer a pair of tickets to the event.

To enter, just tell us:

Which long out-of-print live Neil Young album is due to be reissued on Record Store Day this year?

Send your entries to uncutcomp@ipcmedia.com. Please include your full name, address and a daytime phone number. The competition closes at noon GMT on Friday, March 14, 2014. The editor’s decision is final.

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