Allan’s off today – something about a cat in the well, I think – so he’s asked me to write this week’s newsletter blog. It’s not an especially difficult task seeing as a new issue of Uncut goes on sale this week. You might have already caught some of our recent news stories on www.www.uncut.co.uk, in which case you’ll already know that our cover stars this month are the Rolling Stones.
The new issue of Uncut, out today (October 23), features The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Donald Fagen and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.
The Stones are on the cover, and inside, Mick Jagger talks to us about the band’s new film, Crossfire Hurricane, their two new songs, and the future of the band.
The story of the group’s groundbreaking, debauched 1972 tour of the US in support of Exile On Main St is also told by the people who were there on the inside.
As he releases his new soundtrack, for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film The Master, Jonny Greenwood is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature.
So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask him?
How does composing soundtracks differ from his work in Radiohead?
Any plans for a follow-up to the brilliant dub reggae comp, Jonny Greenwood Is Controller?
As a fan of the ondes Martenot, has he bought any interesting new musical instruments lately?
Thom Yorke unveiled new tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in Long Island, US, last night at the PS1 Warm Up summer concert series.
Taking to the stage with producer Nigel Godrich, the duo performed new material, which you can watch videos for below, as well as sampling tracks including Azealia Banks' "212" and Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime", according Consequence of Sound.
Last week, Atoms for Peace unveiled the first single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album, which is due in 2013.
The Horrors have revealed that they will start work on their fourth album as soon as the festival season is over.
Guitarist Josh Hayward told NME that the band expect to go off in a new direction for the follow-up to Skying.
He said: "We've started some new material but it's still gestating. I've been telling people the new album is going to sound like Hawkwind, but I'm sure it'll take a big tangent when we get in there. That's what usually happens. It's never a premeditated thing – we just see what's happening when we play together."
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has layed into the way the music industry works, saying it "operates on a dumbing down principle".
The singer, whose band released their new studio album Oceania in June, has said that he believes few bands get to keep their intelligence if they want to be successful, but did name Radiohead as a notable exception.
Jack White's Third Man Records is set to release "Railroad Track", the new single from New Zealand singer, musician and producer, Willy Moon.
The single is released on 7" and digital on August 20 and will be backed with a version of Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang". The video was shot on location in Nashville, which is where White's Third Man recording studio is based.
One encouraging thread in movies this year has been the return of filmmakers of a Nineties vintage. Wes Anderson, Whit Stillman and Todd Solondz have all returned, successfully, from their various sabbaticals.
Potentially topping them all, we now have sight of the imminent return of Paul Thomas Anderson, with his first film since 2007's There Will Be Blood, called The Master.
