Billy

Around the release of his last studio album, "Beware", Will Oldham embarked on a small project. According to the writer Kelefa Sanneh, in a New Yorker profile published in January 2009, Oldham intended, “To promote the album with singles, a photo shoot, and a handful of interviews, if only to prove that record promotion doesn’t really work, at least not for him.”

Debates and collaborations are the order of the day for this year's Leftfield area

He wants a bonuses cap to be introduced

Foo Fighter's Chris Shiflett and Don Letts also perform for Jail Guitar Doors

The more things change, the more he stays the same…

I’m not sure who compiled “Archive From 1959 – The Billy Childish Story”, reducing something like 100 albums’-worth of material down to 51 tracks, but I suspect it may not have been Childish himself.

New visual made for album track I Am Goodbye

Read the full transcript from the Uncut Cover Story here

…now it’s Bonnie ‘Prince’ Belly

Of course the practicalities of listening to music in the Uncut office shouldn’t concern you much, but it’s worth noting that for some weeks, possibly months now, we’ve been grappling with the new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album, “Beware”, widely proclaimed as one of his best ever and yet, round these parts at least, treacherously hard to hear properly.