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Wilco announce special editions of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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Wilco announce special editions of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco have announced seven special editions to mark the 20th anniversary of their beloved album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - including a Super Deluxe Edition featuring 82 previously unreleased tracks. ORDER NOW: Miles Davis is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut You can hear one of those u...

Wilco have announced seven special editions to mark the 20th anniversary of their beloved album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – including a Super Deluxe Edition featuring 82 previously unreleased tracks.

You can hear one of those unreleased tracks below – a live 2002 recording of “Reservations”.

These special editions are due from Nonesuch on September 16. You can pre-order here. The physical editions include a booklet featuring new liner notes by Bob Mehr and interviews with Jeff Tweedy, Glenn Kotche, Jim O’Rourke, and set co-producer Cheryl Pawelski

Deep breath, but here’s the track listing for all seven editions:

11 LP & 1 CD Super Deluxe Edition

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Kamera
Radio Cure
War on War
Jesus, Etc.
Ashes of American Flags
Heavy Metal Drummer
I’m the Man Who Loves You
Pot Kettle Black
Poor Places
Reservations

American Aquarium: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Anniversary (Nothing up My Sleeve)
Venus Stopped the Train
Poor Places
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
American Aquarium
Cars Can’t Escape
Kamera
War On War *
I’m the Man Who Loves You *
Ashes of American Flags
Not for the Season (Laminated Cat)
Shakin’ Sugar
Let Me Come Home
Poor Places
Reservations

*previously issued on a limited-edition vinyl 7”

Here Comes Everybody: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Not for the Season (Laminated Cat)
Remember to Remember (Hummingbird)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Kamera
Radio Cure
War on War
Venus Stopped the Train
I’m the Man Who Loves You
The Good Part
Pot Kettle Black
Ashes of American Flags
Poor Places
Shakin’ Sugar
Reservations
Cars Can’t Escape

The Unified Theory of Everything: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
A Magazine Called Sunset
Remember to Remember (Hummingbird)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Kamera
Radio Cure
War on War
Jesus, Etc.
Ashes of American Flags (Stravinsky Mix)
Heavy Metal Drummer
I’m the Man Who Loves You
Pot Kettle Black
Poor Places
Reservations

Lonely in the Deep End: Demos, Drafts, Instrumentals, Etc.
Love Will (Let You Down)
Lost Poem Demo
I’m the Only One Who Lets Her Down
Has Anybody Seen My Pencil?
The Good Part
A Magazine Called Sunset
A Magazine Called Sunset (Backing Track)
Anniversary (Nothing Up My Sleeve)
Kamera
I’m the Man Who Loves You
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Jesus, Etc.
Reservations (Backing Track)
Let Me Come Home (Synth)
Ooby Dooby

Snoozin’ at The Pageant – Live 7/23/02 at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
I’m the Man Who Loves You
War on War
Kamera
Radio Cure
A Shot in the Arm
She’s a Jar
I’m Always in Love
Sunken Treasure
Jesus, Etc.
Heavy Metal Drummer
Pot Kettle Black
Ashes of American Flags
Not for the Season (Laminated Cat)
Reservations
California Stars
Red-Eyed and Blue
I Got You (At the End of the Century)
Misunderstood
Far, Far Away
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
I’m a Wheel

TRANSMISSION: 9/18/01 Sound Opinions WXRT – Chicago, IL, With Greg Kot & Jim DeRogatis
Interview, Pt. 1
War on War (Live in Studio)
Interview, Pt. 2
Interview, Pt. 3
I’m the Man Who Loves You (Live in Studio) *
Interview, Pt. 4
Should’ve Been in Love (Live in Studio)
Interview, Pt. 5
She’s a Jar (Live in Studio)
Interview, Pt. 6
Ashes of American Flags (Live in Studio)

*previously issued on the “War On War” CD single in the UK

8 CD Super Deluxe CD Edition
82 previously unreleased tracks
(see above track lists)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)
American Aquarium: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Here Comes Everybody: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Unified Theory of Everything: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Lonely in the Deep End: Demos, Drafts, Instrumentals, Etc.
TRANSMISSION CD: 9/18/01 Sound Opinions WXRT – Chicago, IL, With Greg Kot & Jim DeRogatis
Snoozin’ at The Pageant – Live 7/23/02 at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO

7 LP Deluxe Edition
39 previously unreleased tracks
(see above track lists)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)
The Unified Theory of Everything: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Performances from TRANSMISSION – 9/18/01 Sound Opinions WXRT-Chicago, IL with Greg Kot & Jim DeRogatis
Snoozin’ at The Pageant – Live 7/23/02 at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO

Digital Deluxe Edition
39 previously unreleased tracks
(see above track lists)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)
The Unified Theory of Everything: Building Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Snoozin’ at The Pageant – Live 7/23/02 at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
Performances from TRANSMISSION – 9/18/01 Sound Opinions WXRT-Chicago, IL with Greg Kot & Jim DeRogatis

2 LP version
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)

2 CD Expanded Edition
18 previously unreleased tracks

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)
Alternate album version (The Unified Theory of Everything) plus bonus tracks

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Kamera (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Radio Cure (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
War on War (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Jesus, Etc. (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Ashes of American Flags (Stravinsky Mix) (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Heavy Metal Drummer (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
I’m the Man Who Loves You (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Pot Kettle Black (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Poor Places (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Reservations (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
Shakin’ Sugar (American Aquarium Version)
Venus Stopped the Train (Here Comes Everybody Version)
Remember to Remember (Hummingbird) (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
A Magazine Called Sunset (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)
The Good Part (Here Comes Everybody Version)
Not for the Season (Laminated Cat) (Here Comes Everybody Version)
Cars Can’t Escape (Here Comes Everybody Version)

Digital Edition
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)

Uncut 301: Miles Davis, the Stones, The Black Keys, Roxy Music, Mick Head and more

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Uncut 301: Miles Davis, the Stones, The Black Keys, Roxy Music, Mick Head and more
Thanks, first of all, to everyone who’s taken time to write in or message us on our social media with kind words about last month’s 300th issue. As ever, your support means a lot to us and it's hugely satisfying to know that all of our hard work and effort has been appreciated. ORDER NOW: ...

Thanks, first of all, to everyone who’s taken time to write in or message us on our social media with kind words about last month’s 300th issue. As ever, your support means a lot to us and it’s hugely satisfying to know that all of our hard work and effort has been appreciated.

So after all that… what next? How about Miles Davis? For issue #301, we wanted to make a statement, debut a new cover star and tell a story that remains largely untold elsewhere in mainstream music magazines. Davis – an artist who revolutionised music several times over – seemed like the perfect fit, and the period covered in Tom’s excellent cover story captures him during one of his many transformative periods, conveniently pulling him closer into our world that ever before. As Tom notes in his excellent piece, “Like Dylan, like Bowie, Miles contained multitudes”; read more on page 88.

Elsewhere in the issue, you’ll find excellent new interviews with Michael Head, Arooj Aftab, Glen Matlock, The Black Keys, Fatoumata Diawara, the Associates, Sharon Van Etten, Brian Eno and more. Eno’s old sparring partner, Bryan Ferry, has also written at length for us about all eight Roxy Music studio records, while the Stones’ most iconic album is saluted by a panel of heads, including Cat Power, J Mascis, Mike Scott, Adam Granduciel, Jennifer Herrema and Kurt Vile, and we take a peek at Dylan’s upcoming archival exhibition.

Finally, although our 300th issue shenanigans are over, we still have one more anniversary to celebrate this year. I won’t spoil the surprise but do please check out www.uncut.co.uk on May 1 and discover how we plan to mark our 25th anniversary…

Uncut – June 2022

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Uncut – June 2022
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Sharon Van Etten, The Black Keys, Arooj Aftab, Michael Head, The Associates, Roxy Music and Glen Matlock all feature in the new Uncut, dated June 2022 and in UK shops from April 21 or available to buy online now. ...

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Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Sharon Van Etten, The Black Keys, Arooj Aftab, Michael Head, The Associates, Roxy Music and Glen Matlock all feature in the new Uncut, dated June 2022 and in UK shops from April 21 or available to buy online now. This issue comes with an exclusive free CD, comprising tracks featured in Uncut’s free CD.

MILES DAVIS: During the early ’70s, Miles Davis once again pointed the way ahead. Fired up by Hendrix, Sly Stone, James Brown and the righteous spirit of the decade, Miles blew minds and found acclaim among a whole new audience. Fifty years after the pioneering On The Corner, and with eyewitness testimony from his bandmates, Tom Pinnock reveals the raw power of ‘Electric Miles’, as the Dark Magus turned on, tuned in and freaked out. “Man, he had all of the arrows under his belt…

OUR FREE CD! MAIN SOUNDS: 15 of the best new tracks this month, including songs by Sharon Van Etten, The Black Keys, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band and more.

This issue of Uncut is available to buy by clicking here – with FREE delivery to the UK and reduced delivery charges for the rest of the world.

Inside the issue, you’ll find:

THE BLACK KEYS: After the “great reset” of last year’s juke-joint jamboree Delta Kream, The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney sound newly driven on their upcoming 11th album, Dropout Boogie. Sat around the kitchen table in Nashville’s reassuringly hard-to-find Easy Eye Studios, the world’s biggest small band reminisce to Stephen Deusner about their early lives in Akron – detentions, dead-end jobs, lost fingers – and consider how much (or how little) they’ve changed. As one collaborator notes, “They’re like a couple of kids”…

THE ROLLING STONES: A band on the run. A decadent mansion in the South of France. One song called “Bent Green Needles” and another about Brian Jones. A double album that, against all odds, became the creators’ most iconic work. Fifty years since the release of Exile On Main St a crack team of Stones heads – including Cat Power, Adam Granduciel, Billy Gibbons, Mike Scott, Jennifer Herrema, Steve Gunn, J Mascis, Bobby Gillespie and Kurt Vile – dig deep into The Rolling Stones’ very own Basement Tapes. “Exile… has got everything…”

MICHAEL HEAD: Rejoice! After a five-year absence, the return of Michael Head – aka England’s greatest living songwriter – is upon us. Rob Hughes visits the Wirral Peninsula to discover that Head, his demons at bay, has made the perfect comeback with Dear Scott. But what accounts for this renewed sense of purpose? “Just keep fuckin’ going,” he tells us.

AROOJ AFTAB: Arooj Aftab’s stunning Vulture Prince album was one of 2021’s finest releases, a work of refined, minimalist rapture, dedicated to her late brother. But the Brooklyn-based singer and composer is no sensitive artiste. Fresh from winning a Grammy, the self-confessed hedonist tells Sam Richards about the full extent of her ambitions – and why she needs to ride the social whirl in order to make music: “Being in the centre of many energies is inspiring to me…”

GLEN MATLOCK: With a fiery new solo album ready to roll, the Sex Pistols songwriter talks “Anarchy…”, activism and gigging in the DMZ.

THE ASSOCIATES: The making of “Party Fears Two”.

ROXY MUSIC: Album by album with Bryan Ferry.

SHARON VAN ETTEN: Jersey girl turned Pilates mum makes peace with the darkness on devastating sixth album.

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In our expansive reviews section, we take a look at new records from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Bonnie Raitt, The Americans, Kevin Morby and more, and archival releases from ? and the Mysterians, Norah Jones, Neil Young, and others. We catch Yola & Allison Russell and The Who live; among the films, DVDs and TV programmes reviewed are The Northman, Navalny, Playground, Murnia and Casablanca Beats; while in books there’s Rory Sullivan-Burke and Bob Stanley.

Our front section, meanwhile, features Bob Dylan, Ural Thomas, Brian Eno and SST Records’ contribution to 80s underground rock music, while, at the end of the magazine, Fatouwata Diawara shares her life in music.

You can pick up a copy of Uncut in the usual places, where open. But otherwise, readers all over the world can order a copy from here.

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Bob Dylan announces new 2022 North American tour dates

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Bob Dylan announces new 2022 North American tour dates
Bob Dylan has announced a number of new West Coast tour dates in North America this summer – see the full list below. ORDER NOW: Miles Davis is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: A look back at Bob Dylan’s landmark debut album The dates, an extension of the Never En...

Bob Dylan has announced a number of new West Coast tour dates in North America this summer – see the full list below.

The dates, an extension of the Never Ending Tour that Dylan is currently out on the road for, come behind his lauded 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways.

The current set of dates began at the start of March in Arizona and finished up last week (April 14) in Oklahoma City.

The new run of dates began in late May in Washington state, running through until mid-June when Dylan will play a host of Californian dates.

Get tickets for the new shows here and see the full schedule below.

MAY 2022
28 – Spokane, First Interstate Center for the Arts
29 – Kennewick, Toyota Center
31 – Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

JUNE 2022
01 – Seattle, Paramount Theatre
02 – Seattle, Paramount Theatre
05 – Eugene, Hult Performing Arts Center
07 – Redding, Civic Auditorium
09 – Oakland, Fox Theater
10 – Oakland, Fox Theater
11 – Oakland, Fox Theater
14 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre
15 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre
16 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre
17 – San Diego, Civic Theatre

In other Dylan news, Sony Music has acquired all of his back catalogue in a new deal.

The agreement, which was concluded last year and announced in January, will see everything from Dylan’s self-titled debut to his last album Rough And Rowdy Ways jump over to Sony in a deal that’s reportedly worth millions.

Speaking about the deal, Dylan said: “Columbia Records and Rob Stringer have been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records. I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong.”

Later this year, Dylan is set to release a collection of more than 60 essays in a new book. The Philosophy Of Modern Song is set to be released on November 8 via Simon & Schuster.

The making of Spiritualized’s “I Think I’m In Love”

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The making of Spiritualized’s “I Think I’m In Love”
Jason Pierce is weighing up the news that the third Spiritualized album, 1997’s Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, has secured a spot on the list of the greatest albums released in the 25-year life span of Uncut. “It’s nice, and I do like the album,” says Pierce of a record that ...

Jason Pierce is weighing up the news that the third Spiritualized album, 1997’s Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, has secured a spot on the list of the greatest albums released in the 25-year life span of Uncut. “It’s nice, and I do like the album,” says Pierce of a record that many regard as his masterpiece. “It was lots of ups and downs, and some things came easier than others. Some of the goal is to make it believable at the end, but the whole thing is a construct. Smoke and mirrors. That’s the joy of recording.”

“I Think I’m In Love”, the album’s eight-minute opus, is featured on this month’s covermount CD. Although an edited version of the track was later released as the second single from the album, the full-blown album cut offers unfettered access to Spiritualized at their most ecstatic, electric and eclectic.

Partly inspired by epic multi-part song suites by The Beach Boys and The Velvet Underground, “I Think I’m In Love” is a game of two halves. The opening section is a blissed-out space ballad buffeted by dub, soul and American blues stylings, the brooding bassline and synth drones vying with harmonica, melodica and slide guitar streaks. Pierce’s dazed vocals deepen the disassociated feel before the song clicks into focus. The drums find a groove, horns flare and vocals snap, as the singer engages in what Spiritualized guitarist John Coxon calls “a personal dialectic” between swaggering braggadocio and small-hours self-doubt: “I think I’m on fire”, he sings. “Probably just smoking”. The second guessing in the words was, at least partly, authentic self-expression. “There was quite a lot of turmoil [within the band] at the time, but the lyrics aren’t specifically about Jason and his emotional state,” says Coxon. “They’re about the human condition. We all have those insecurities.”

Most of the legwork on both the track and the album was done at Moles Studio in Bath in the summer of 1995, first by Pierce and bassist Sean Cook, before they convened the band to turn embryonic ideas into fully fledged songs, often keeping elements from the demos. After that, Pierce – a notorious perfectionist – worried away at the detail for over a year, obsessing even over the ambitious medical-themed design. “Time is the key to it all,” he says. “If you have enough time, you can achieve anything. I’m not very good at just accepting ‘that’ll do’. I don’t hold to that. I enjoy pushing and pulling things around until you have something that is quite extraordinary.” Time has vindicated his painstaking diligence.

Watch The Who play orchestral “Behind Blue Eyes” on Colbert

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Watch The Who play orchestral “Behind Blue Eyes” on Colbert
The Who are set to begin a two-part North American tour this week, and have appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform an orchestral version of "Behind Blue Eyes". ORDER NOW: Miles Davis is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Pete Townshend’s Top 10 deep cu...

The Who are set to begin a two-part North American tour this week, and have appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform an orchestral version of “Behind Blue Eyes”.

On Friday night (April 15), the band were the musical guests on the show and ran through a grand version of their 1971 track, backed by a full orchestra.

The performance, which you can watch in full below, came in support of the Teen Cancer America organisation, and was recorded during the band’s annual Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall in London last month, which featured Yungblud, Liam Gallagher, Ed Sheeran, The Who themselves and more.

Watch the Colbert performance of “Behind Blue Eyes” below.

The band’s forthcoming tour – dubbed The Who Hits Back! – will begin next week (April 22) in Florida, with the first leg running until the end of May.

The band will then return to the States in October for another run of dates, which take them through until November.

Speaking of the tour, Roger Daltrey said: “Pete and I said we’d be back, but we didn’t think we’d have to wait for two years for the privilege. This is making the chance to perform feel even more special this time around.

“So many livelihoods have been impacted due to COVID, so we are thrilled to get everyone back together – the band, the crew and the fans. We’re gearing up for a great show that hits back in the only way The Who know how. By giving it everything we got.”

See the full list of The Who’s 2022 North American tour dates below.

APRIL 2022
22 – Hollywood, Florida, Hard Rock Live
24 – Jacksonville, VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
27 – Tampa, Amalie Arena
30 – New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz Festival

MAY 2022
3 – Austin, Moody Center
5 – Dallas, American Airlines Center
8 – The Woodlands, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
10 – Oklahoma City, Paycom Center
13 – Memphis, FedEx Forum
15 – Cincinnati, TQL Stadium
18 – Boston, TD Garden
20 – Philadelphia, Wells Fargo Center
23 – Washington DC, Capital One Arena
26 – New York, Madison Square Garden
28 – Bethel, Bethel Woods Center of the Arts

OCTOBER
2 – Toronto, Scotiabank Arena
4 – Detroit, Little Caesars Arena
7 – Belmont Park, UBS Arena
9 – Columbus, Schottenstein Center
12 – Chicago, United Center
14 – St Louis, Enterprise Center
17 – Denver, Ball Arena
20 – Portland, Moda Center
22 – Seattle, Climate Pledge Arena
26 – Sacramento, Golden 1 Center
28 – Anaheim, Honda Center

NOVEMBER
1 – Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl
4 – Las Vegas, Dolby Live at Park MGM
5 – Las Vegas, Dolby Live at Park MGM

The announcement of the tour comes after The Who’s Pete Townshend recently said he’s reluctant to make a new album with the band, because of the “old fashioned way that [they] work”.

Sonic Youth share live album to help benefit Ukraine

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Sonic Youth share live album to help benefit Ukraine
Sonic Youth have shared a live album on their Bandcamp, featuring a set recorded in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 14, 1989. ORDER NOW: Miles Davis is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo: “We kept our lives sane so we could make the music radical” ...

Sonic Youth have shared a live album on their Bandcamp, featuring a set recorded in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 14, 1989.

Following the release of Daydream Nation in 1988, the band performed for the first time in Kyiv when it was still part of the USSR, with other dates in Vilnius, Leningrad and Moscow.

According to a statement on their Bandcamp, “This revisiting of the April 14 set honors that nation’s spirit…and timestamps a moment where new ears got transported for a first time.”

All proceeds from the live album will benefit World Central Kitchen, which has been providing meals in liberated Ukrainian cities.

One of the attendees of the gig was Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, who said: “That SY Kyiv show was life changing for all musicians that were there… we were already attuned to Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, S Pistols and Discharge but these were the new vitamins we needed.

“I made a decision to experience NY right there. Plus my friends VV were opening so i got in free. The fact that it wasn’t shut down half way through like all other punk gigs was the doing of a Ukrainian man named Mikhailo Gorbachev, who set up the atmosphere of political ‘springtime’ and a promise of change.”

Sergey Popovich of Siggy Pop added: “In general, few people said how much the Sonics, with their arrival, promoted the entire soviets, and not just Kyiv. After all, in fact, perhaps, with that tour they hammered the final nail in the coffin of the soviets, and it was as if they let us in Kyiv breathe a mixture that was finally suitable for life.”

The live album includes the tracks “Candle”, “Kissability”, “Silver Rocket” and more. You can buy it here.

Last month, Sonic Youth released In/Out/In, a compilation of rare tracks recorded throughout the 2000s.

The five-track effort bundles two songs recorded at the band’s old stomping grounds – the Echo Canyon studio in New York, which they operated before relocating to Hoboken – in 2000, one tracked during a soundcheck in 2010, and two home recordings minted in 2008.

Earlier this month, Pink Floyd released their first new music in decades to aid the relief effort in Ukraine.

The new track, titled “Hey, Hey, Rise Up”, features a sample of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, the singer of Ukrainian band Boombox, and is the band’s first original music to be released since their 1994 album The Division Bell. All proceeds from the song will go to Ukraine Humanitarian Relief.

Elsewhere, Julian Lennon, son of John Lennon, performed “Imagine” for the first time to help raise money for Ukraine. The cover was done as part Stand Up For Ukraine campaign, a global fund-raising effort broadcast from Warsaw, Poland.

Listen to Phoebe Bridgers’ bold brand new track “Sidelines”

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Listen to Phoebe Bridgers’ bold brand new track “Sidelines”
Phoebe Bridgers just dropped a bright and bold new love song called "Sidelines". Listen to the track below. ORDER NOW: Miles Davis is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Uncut’s Best New Albums Of 2020 – Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher and more Released via Dead Oceans, th...

Phoebe Bridgers just dropped a bright and bold new love song called “Sidelines”. Listen to the track below.

Released via Dead Oceans, the song will appear in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, the TV adaption of the popular Sally Rooney novel, when it premieres on May 15.

Bridgers, a longtime fan of Rooney, was tapped to write the track by Hulu. She penned “Sidelines” with bandmate and collaborator Marshall Vore and Ruby Rain Henley. According to a release, this will be the songwriter’s only original new song of the year.

The song is written from the perspective of someone fearless, before the introduction of love gives them “something to lose”.

“Sidelines” starts slowly, as Bridgers sings “I’m not afraid of anything at all/ Not dying in a fire not being broke again” evenly over keyboards. Then, strings and lush orchestration build as she says: “Not a plane going down/ In the ocean and drowning.”

At the chorus, she admits: “Watching the world from the sidelines/ Had nothing to prove/ ‘Til you came into my life/ Gave me something to lose,” as the beat kicks in.

“Sidelines” was teased earlier this week, when it soundtracked the trailer for Conversations With Friends. The show follows Alison Oliver as Frances, a 21-year-old college student navigating a “series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time”.

This latest TV adaptation is largely from the same creative team behind the first Rooney series, Normal People.

Bridgers is took the stage at Coachella for the first time Friday (April 15). The performance was broadcast as part of the festival’s YouTube livestream.

The songwriter also recently announced a show at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium on June 16. The Queens gig occurs right before she finally brings her critically-acclaimed album Punisher to audiences across the UK and EU.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Barn documentary

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Barn documentary
Thanks to Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary, Beatles fans got to be the proverbial fly on the wall for eight hours, watching the album sessions unfold in what often felt like real time. Actress/filmmaker Darryl Hannah’s Barn, which documents the making of the 2021 Neil Young and Crazy Horse a...

Thanks to Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary, Beatles fans got to be the proverbial fly on the wall for eight hours, watching the album sessions unfold in what often felt like real time. Actress/filmmaker Darryl Hannah’s Barn, which documents the making of the 2021 Neil Young and Crazy Horse album of the same name, doesn’t give viewers quite the same amount of unfettered access; it clocks in at about an hour and a quarter, for one thing. But Jackson didn’t include footage of John Lennon taking an al fresco leak, something which we get to witness Young doing here. That’s the kind of access you get when you’re married to your subject. Think of Barn, then, as an appropriately raw, but occasionally unabashedly beautiful, cinéma vérité experience.

Barn came into being way up in the Rocky Mountains near Telluride, Colorado, and Hannah takes advantage of this rugged, gorgeous setting. Her film is filled with long unbroken imagery of billowing clouds and shimmering alpine lakes, shaggy dogs and craggy peaks — “Natural Beauty”, just like Neil’s old Harvest Moon epic celebrated.

Hannah also takes us into the refurbished 19th-century structure where the album was recorded, a place a little like Crazy Horse themselves in 2021: plenty weather-worn and a little bit ragged, but somehow still standing, defiant and proud. Looking at the band here – Billy Talbot on bass, Ralph Molina on drums and Nils Lofgren on guitar, piano and accordion – the viewer is struck equally by their readily apparent mortality and their collective strength. We’re a long way away from the youthful exuberance of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, but Neil and the Horse have still got plenty of kick left in them.

They’ve also got plenty of deep affection for one another. In a handful of intimate sequences, Hannah lets us eavesdrop on casual conversations between these longtime bandmates as they reminisce about fallen comrades, gently rib one another, and bask in the glow of a half-century-long friendship. The warmth and familial feelings are palpable. Compared to Mountaintop – the film that accompanied Crazy Horse’s 2019 album Colorado – Barn feels positively breezy. Mountaintop’s most memorable scenes featured Young terrorising his engineer, fuming over technical difficulties and looking uncharacteristically stressed out. This time around, the cozy barn environs must’ve made him more comfortable (and perhaps the weed pipe he’s toking on from time to time during the sessions helped too).

Of course, it all comes back to that wild, ineffable music that Young and Crazy Horse can still make – and Barn gives us a wealth of moments that show the band comfortably in its element. We see the songs develop slowly but surely, Talbot, Molina and Lofgren gathered around Neil at the piano, working out harmonies, fiddling gently with arrangements. And then we get to witness those songs somehow come together, the passion and focus visible on each bandmate’s face.

The sequence highlighting “Welcome Back”, one of Barn’s best and most haunting performances, is also the film’s apex: a privileged front-row seat to some kind of unexplainable magic being made. It’s just one static shot, but it’s positively transfixing, as Young plays remarkably expressive guitar, Crazy Horse steadily rising behind him. Even the band seems surprised by what they’ve conjured up. “This is why we’re fuckin’ here,” Neil exclaims afterwards. “Thank you, God! Thank you, myriad of possibilities.”

Various Artist – Saturno 2000 – La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962​-​1983

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Various Artist – Saturno 2000 – La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962​-​1983
In 1970s Mexico, an entire sub-genre of music was created by DJs doing what John Peel used to sometimes – unwittingly – do, which is to play records at the wrong speed. The clubbers of Monterrey and Mexico City loved the uptempo cumbia music coming out of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, b...

In 1970s Mexico, an entire sub-genre of music was created by DJs doing what John Peel used to sometimes – unwittingly – do, which is to play records at the wrong speed. The clubbers of Monterrey and Mexico City loved the uptempo cumbia music coming out of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, but they often found the tempos too fast for the dancefloor. Commercial turntables with variable speed controls, like the Technics SL-1200, were prohibitively expensive, so Mexican soundsystem DJs – or “sonideros” – found ingenious ways of adjusting the electrical circuitry on their sturdy Garrard 88 turntables so that they could slow down 33rpm LPs and play them as low as 25 or 20rpm. This way, rhythms that were usually between 100 and 120bpm could be slowed down to 80-100bpm.

The genre became known as “cumbia rebajada” – “rebajada” meaning lowered, or slowed down – and you’ll find plenty of Mixcloud and Soundcloud websites filled with rebajada playlists that were recorded onto tape. But the best introduction to this proto trip-hop is told by Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros, a 15-track Analog Africa compilation

Most of these are instrumentals, so you don’t have to deal with the weirdness of a slowed-down human voice, but the tempo changes often bring out elements of instruments that aren’t apparent at normal speed.

Online you can find the original version of “La Danza Del Mono” (The Monkey Dance), a sprightly, squeaky track by the Mexican organist Lucho Gavilanes, recorded at 110bpm: the version on Saturno 2000 is slowed down to 93bpm and becomes a darker and more immersive experience. The effect is even more marked on “Capricho Egipcio” (Egyptian Caprice) by the Ecuadorian band Conjunto Típico Contreras: a fast, Arabic-themed barambao which was recorded at 130bpm and has here been slowed down to 105bpm. At this speed, the sprightly accordion now sounds doomy and funereal, while the crisp percussion rattles in a faintly sinister way.

Many of these bands are fronted by tinny Farfisa organs, which sound like exotic analogue synths when slowed down. “La Borrachita” (The Drunkard) by Ecuador’s Junior Y Su Equipo sounds like a BBC Radiophonic Workshop samba, one that chirrups and trills like a digital blackbird; another track by the same band, “Bien Bailadito” (Good Dancing) recalls the early Moog experiments of Perrey & Kingsley. Best of all is “Paga La Cuenta Sinverguenza” (Pay The Scoundrel’s Bill) by Peru’s Manzanita, which has been slowed down from around 120bpm to 103bpm, to the point where a surf guitar, overlaid with echo, tremolo and chorus effects, sounds like it’s been put through Lee “Scratch” Perry’s dub chamber, while the male and female vocals start to sound spooky and androgynous. It’s gleefully disconcerting stuff.

Belle And Sebastian share new single “Young And Stupid”

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Belle And Sebastian share new single “Young And Stupid”
Belle And Sebastian have shared their new single "Young And Stupid" from their forthcoming new album A Bit Of Previous. ORDER NOW: Miles Davis is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The track, which you can listen to below, follows "Unnecessary Drama" and the band's "Shooting At You" ...

Belle And Sebastian have shared their new single “Young And Stupid” from their forthcoming new album A Bit Of Previous.

The track, which you can listen to below, follows “Unnecessary Drama” and the band’s “Shooting At You” in support of victims of the conflict in Ukraine.

The single comes with a message from actor Jon Hamm in reference to the time the Mad Men actor and Zach Galifianakis fed each other sweets on stage with the band at Bonnaroo Festival in 2015.

“In 2015 at Bonnaroo, Belle and Sebastian invited Zach Galifianakis and me up to the stage during their set to toss gummy bears in each other’s mouths. Then [frontman] Stuart [Murdoch] got into the fun and demanded a catch as well,” said Hamm.

“It was dramatic, stupid, and done with style and grace. I know I can speak for Zach when I say ‘I want to thank them for their inclusion of us into their show.’ I know the audience was simply confused, but we were absolutely delighted. Please enjoy this new album with a gummy bear of your choice, and think fondly of all of us.”

The Scottish indie veterans’ first full album in seven years – not including 2019’s soundtrack album for the film Days Of The Bagnold Summer – was recorded in Glasgow, after plans for sessions in Los Angeles were scuppered by the pandemic. It’s the first time the band have recorded in their native city since 2000’s Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant.

Comedian Zach Galifianakis and actor Jon Hamm
Comedian Zach Galifianakis and actor Jon Hamm throw gummy bears at each other at the 2015 Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival on June 13, 2015 in Manchester, Tennessee. Image: FilmMagic / FilmMagic for Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival

A Bit Of Previous will be released on May 7. Check out the full tracklist below:

1. “Young And Stupid”
2. “If They’re Shooting At You”
3. “Talk To Me Talk To You”
4. “Reclaim The Night”
5. “Do It For Your Country”
6. “Prophets On Hold”
7. “Unnecessary Drama”
8. “Come On Home”
9. “A World Without You”
10. “Deathbed Of My Dreams”
11. “Sea Of Sorrow”
12. “Working Boy In New York City”

Belle And Sebastian are also set to embark on an extensive tour across the US and UK this year, with European dates to follow in 2023.

Their British dates, rescheduled from earlier-announced shows for the spring, are as follows:

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Sunday 13 – Cardiff, Great Hall – Student’s Union
Monday 14, Tuesday 15 – London, The Roundhouse
Thursday 17 – Sheffield, O2 Academy
Friday 18 – Liverpool, Olympia
Saturday 19 – Hull, Asylum, Hull University Union
Monday 21 – Aberdeen, Beach Ballroom
Wednesday 23 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall
Thursday 24 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, O2 City Hall
Friday 25 – Manchester, Academy
Sunday 27 – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Monday 28 – Birmingham, O2 Academy
Tuesday 29 – Southampton, O2 Guildhall
Wednesday 30 – Brighton, Dome

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite announces new memoir

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Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite announces new memoir
Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite has announced details of a memoir – find out all about Spaceships over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth below. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Mogwai: Album By Album The book is set to land on September 1 v...

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite has announced details of a memoir – find out all about Spaceships over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth below.

The book is set to land on September 1 via White Rabbit Publishing, and will tell the story of Braithwaite’s childhood in Scotland, through his musical beginnings and decades-long career with Mogwai.

“I am immensely proud to be working with White Rabbit on my first book Spaceships Over Glasgow,” Braithwaite said in a statement.

“The process of researching it and writing it has been challenging but one that I’ve really enjoyed. It’s incredibly exciting to be able to share it with the world.”

Lee Brackstone of White Rabbit added: “From his early years in thrall to the giants of alternative music like MBV, JAMC and Sonic Youth to improbable sonic misadventures on tour with one of the greatest psychedelic bands of the present day, Mogwai, Stuart Braithwaite’s memoir is a funny and righteous celebration of a life lived on the road and in the studio, dedicated to the pursuit of aural (and occasionally) psychic enlightenment and obliteration.”

See the cover of Spaceships over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth below.

Mogwai

Elsewhere, Mogwai are set to head out on a rescheduled set of UK and European tour dates at the end of the month.

The Glasgow band were due to start their tour on January 27 in Milan, with a date scheduled at London’s Alexandra Palace on February 25. However, they then pushed back the gigs to April and May due to the current surge in cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

The band will now start their tour in Copenhagen on April 30, heading to London’s Alexandra Palace on May 27. All original tickets will remain valid, however a new date for their Utrecht show is still to be confirmed.

The Scottish group released their 10th studio album As The Love Continues back in February 2021, going on to score their first-ever UK Number One with the project. In celebration of achieving the feat, they later confirmed a special homecoming show for November.

In October, they won the 2021 Scottish Album Of The Year (SAY) award for As The Love Continues, beating out the likes of Biffy Clyro, Stanley Odd and The Snuts, and were also nominated for the 2021 Mercury Prize.

David Bowie film Moonage Daydream featuring unseen footage confirmed by estate

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David Bowie film Moonage Daydream featuring unseen footage confirmed by estate
Details of forthcoming David Bowie film Moonage Daydream – the first to receive official approval from the late star's estate – have been revealed. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Bowie on Ziggy: “Everything was up for grabs” It ...

Details of forthcoming David Bowie film Moonage Daydream – the first to receive official approval from the late star’s estate – have been revealed.

It was reported back in November that Brett Morgen, who directed Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck, had spent four years working on a film project that involved compiling thousands of hours of archival performance footage of Bowie, majority of which has never before been seen.

Now, Bowie’s estate has confirmed those details and the film’s title (lifted from lifted from Bowie’s 1972 Ziggy Stardust track of the same name). The estate has also revealed that Moonage Daydream – described as a feature film, concert documentary and “experiential cinematic odyssey” – is nearing completion.

Though there is no confirmation of a theatrical release date, according to Variety, sources suggest that the film may premiere at Cannes Film Festival next month. The film will be distributed by Universal Pictures Content Group internationally, and Neon in the US. A streaming premiere will arrive on HBO and HBO Max in 2023.

A press release announcing the project describes Moonage Daydream as “a project that shows how Bowie himself worked across several disciplines, not just music and film but also dance, painting, sculpture, video and audio collage, screenwriting, acting and live theatre”.

It adds that that Morgen was given “unfiltered access to Bowie’s personal archives, including all master recordings, to create an artful and life-affirming film that takes the audience on a journey through Bowie’s creative life”.

“Morgen has constructed a sublime cinematic experience that will provide audiences with unrestricted access to Bowie’s personal archives,” it continues.

In addition to archival footage, the film will feature Bowie’s own voice and 48 musical tracks, mixed from their original stems into Dolby Atmos, 12.0, 5.0 and 7.1/5.1.

Bowie’s longtime collaborator and producer Tony Visconti worked on the music for the film, alongside Academy Award-winning mixer Paul Massey, David Gimmarco, the sound design team of John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone and VFX producer Stefan Nadelman.

The unauthorised Bowie biopic Stardust arrived in 2020, with Johnny Flynn starring as the singer during his first North American tour in 1971. The film did not receive the Bowie estate’s approval, with Bowie’s son Duncan Jones saying he was not consulted about the project, and that the film would not be granted permission to use Bowie’s music.

The thrilling chaos of the Congotronics supergroup: “Not a day went by without somebody breaking down in tears”

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The thrilling chaos of the Congotronics supergroup: “Not a day went by without somebody breaking down in tears”
When Konono No 1’s Congotronics landed in 2004, it turned world music upside down. A multi-generational group from Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo, its ‘tradi-modern’ sound – Bazombo ritual music played on electrified likembé thumb pianos and scrap percussion through jerry-rigg...

When Konono No 1’s Congotronics landed in 2004, it turned world music upside down. A multi-generational group from Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo, its ‘tradi-modern’ sound – Bazombo ritual music played on electrified likembé thumb pianos and scrap percussion through jerry-rigged amplifiers – was crude, raw and enormously fun.

“I first heard Konono in the ’80s, on a tape by a guy working for Congolese radio,” recalls Vincent Kenis, producer with the Belgium-based label Crammed Discs. “It took me 20 years to find them!” Kenis persuaded Konono’s late founder Mingiedi Mawangu to form a new ensemble. “At the beginning, it was artificial. I’d say, ‘Can you play with that person?’ They’d say, ‘No.’ I’d say, ‘Try it anyway.’ And it worked.”

Congotronics was an international sensation. Konono No 1 toured globally and collaborated with Björk and Herbie Hancock, while 2010’s Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers: Alternative Takes On Congotronics saw Crammed enlist non-African artists to reinterpret the Congotronics sound. Next came a tour – an ambitious run of European dates uniting Konono and Kasai Allstars with western admirers including Deerhoof, Juana Molina and Skeletons.

Before the Congotronics International tour kicked off, the 21 musicians spent seven days writing and rehearsing in Brussels. But with no common spoken or musical language, the scale of the task quickly became apparent. Planned songs fell apart as neither party could agree on how to make the rhythms work. “We all made a huge effort to connect to everyone else, but it was an incredible strain,” says Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier. “Not a day went by without somebody breaking down in tears.”

Exclusive! Watch the video for Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band’s “Broken Beauty”

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Exclusive! Watch the video for Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band’s “Broken Beauty”
We're thrilled to premier “Broken Beauty”, a new track by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The song is a collaboration with Head's daughter, Alice. “One evening Alice said: 'I have an idea for a song,' and ask...

We’re thrilled to premier “Broken Beauty”, a new track by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band.

The song is a collaboration with Head’s daughter, Alice. “One evening Alice said: ‘I have an idea for a song,’ and asked if we could work on it together,” says Head. “When she told me the title and the story I loved it straight away. The way she told it was so inspiring. So, we put it together that night and, on the way, out she shouted ‘I’m thinkin’ big chorus and a trumpet solo!’ I think we nailed it. It’s all there.”

You can watch “Broken Beauty” below.

“Broken Beauty” is the second song taken from Head’s new album Dear Scott, after “Kismet”.

Produced by Bill Ryder-Jones, Dear Scott is released on Friday, June 3. To support the album, Head & The Red Elastic Band tour the UK that same month:

Wed 1 June – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Thu 2 June – Newcastle, The Cluny
Fri 3 June – Glasgow, St Luke’s
Sat 4 June – Manchester, Gorilla
Wed 8 June – Bristol, Thekla
Thu 9 June – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
Fri 10 June – Liverpool, Eventim Olympia
Sat 11 June – London, o2 Shepherds Bush Empire

Remaining tickets for all shows can be found via ticket links; click here for more details.

You can read an exclusive interview with Head in the next issue of Uncut, in shops next week.

Kurt Cobain’s guitar from the “Smells LIke Teen Spirit” video is headed to auction

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Kurt Cobain’s guitar from the “Smells LIke Teen Spirit” video is headed to auction
The guitar that Kurt Cobain is seen playing in the video for Nirvana's 1991 hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" will head to auction next month. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut READ MORE: Dave Grohl looks back on Nevermind sessions: “Nobody thought Nirvan...

The guitar that Kurt Cobain is seen playing in the video for Nirvana’s 1991 hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit” will head to auction next month.

The left-handed 1969 Fender Mustang, in a Lake Placid Blue finish, will be up for grabs as part of Julien’s Auctions’ three-day Music Icons event, running from May 20-22 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York as well as online.

According to Julien’s, a starting estimate of $600,000 to $800,000 is expected for the guitar. Cobain spoke highly of Mustangs, calling them his favourite guitar in a ’91 interview with Guitar World.

“I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars,” Cobain told the publication. “But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite.”

In a press statement, Julien’s Auctions president and CEO Darren Julien commented that it had been “one of our greatest privileges and most distinguished honors” to be able to auction the guitar.

“[It is] one of the most culturally significant and historically important guitars not only of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana’s legacy but in all of rock music history,” Julien said. “Rarely do personally owned items from Kurt Cobain with this incredible and unprecedented provenance of his life and career become available for public sale.”

In addition to the guitar, a 1965 sky blue Dodge Dart that Cobain owned and drove will also be auctioned, alongside its original license plates and a title showing ownership by Cobain and Courtney Love. Cobain’s sister Kim purchased the vehicle from Love following his death. That’s expected to go for between $400,000 and $600,000.

Numerous other items of Cobain’s will also be available, including a drawing of Michael Jackson by Cobain and a skateboard which Cobain drew Iron Maiden’s mascot Eddie on. There’s also tour passes, a United Airlines boarding pass the singer used and more.

Some of the pieces – like the Mustang and Dodge Dart – will also come with exclusive NFTs that relate to each specific items of memorabilia. The guitar, for instance, will be accompanied by an NFT featuring narration by Cobain’s guitar tech, Earnie Bailey, and a 360-degree digital image of the guitar.

The Music Icons auction that Cobain’s items are a part of will also feature over 1,200 other items of memorabilia related to artists including The Beatles, Eddie Van Halen, Queen, Elvis Presley, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson and more. Find more details here.

Members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden form new band 3rd Secret, drop surprise album

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Members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden form new band 3rd Secret, drop surprise album
A cohort of Seattle’s pre-2000 grunge icons – including Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and Pearl Jam/Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron – have formed a new supergroup called 3rd Secret, and, without having announced it beforehand, dropped their debut album Mond...

A cohort of Seattle’s pre-2000 grunge icons – including Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and Pearl Jam/Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron – have formed a new supergroup called 3rd Secret, and, without having announced it beforehand, dropped their debut album Monday (April 11).

A self-titled affair, the 11-track effort sports a broad tonal palette – it leans heavily on classic grunge and alt-rock flavours, but adds diversity with hints of laidback folk and indie-rock, swampy blues and stomping hard-rock.

Tracks like “Dead Sea” and “Winter Solstice” make impressive use of twangy, melancholy acoustics, while the use of an accordion on “Right Stuff” adds a unique sense of theatricality. “Diamond In The Cold”, on the other hand, is a crunchy, mosh-primed rock anthem, with songs like “I Choose Me” and “Lies Fade Away” embracing the epochal ‘90s grunge sound that 3rd Secret’s members built their legacies on.

Have a listen to the full album below:

Alongside Novoselic, Thayil and Cameron, 3rd Secret is rounded out by guitarist Jon ‘Bubba’ Dupree (best known for his work in ‘80s hardcore outfit Void, as well as the alt-metal supergroup Hater, which also featured Cameron) and singers Jillian Raye (who Novoselic also plays with as part of Giants In The Trees) and Jennifer Johnson.

Recording for the album was split between three sessions, all of which featured involvement from longtime Nirvana and Soundgarden collaborator Jack Endino. In addition to mixing the full release and engineering three tracks, Endino aided Nate Yaccino in recording five of the tracks, and Erik Friend in recording the other three.

Friend also performed synth on “Dead Sea” and “Rhythm Of The Ride”, while Martin Link filled in for Cameron on the tracks “Live Without You” and “Right Stuff”.

The album was released independently, and at the time of writing, is only available to buy digitally on Amazon and stream through Spotify and YouTube. It’ll be available to stream on Apple Music soon, 3rd Secret confirmed on their website, though they’re yet to share any details of a potential release on physical formats.

Novoselic first teased the existence of 3rd Secret back in February, sharing in a since-deleted tweet that he was “really busy trying to finish a record” and “in the middle of some hangups”. At the time, it was slated for release in mid-March.

Introducing the Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to Elvis Costello

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Introducing the Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to Elvis Costello
BUY THE ELVIS COSTELLO ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE To the new wavers of ’77, Elvis Costello must have looked a straightforward proposition, a black and white world. Punk’s febrile, combative energies and the naïve excitement of golden age rock’n’roll and mod beat encapsulated in one bespec...

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To the new wavers of ’77, Elvis Costello must have looked a straightforward proposition, a black and white world. Punk’s febrile, combative energies and the naïve excitement of golden age rock’n’roll and mod beat encapsulated in one bespectacled, legs-akimbo, skinny tied package. And so, for a short while, it would prove; as the arrival of The Attractions – and a pill-popping angry young man attitude – powered Costello on to the new wave front lines with This Year’s Model and Armed Forces, his aesthetic cohered around barbed and allusive dissections of pop culture, cutting social commentary and the politics of love and war. A critical darling, and not just because, as Dave Lee Roth bitterly attested, the sleeve of …Model was, for most journalists, like looking in a mirror.

In the 148 pages of this Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide, fully updated to account for his most recent activity, you’ll read some of Costello’s most memorable interactions with just those journalists. Here you’ll find spiky moments – “Getting it all down are you?” – and expansive encounters. Not to mention a full reckoning of the many recordings, collaborations and other adventures which caused them to occur in the first place.

Costello’s tale began to twist early on, and never reverted to formula for forty years. Get Happy!! arrived drenched in classic soul and R&B, looking like it’d been dusted off from the basement of the Twisted Wheel. A country album emerged, Almost Blue, fresh from Nashville itself. A swerve into lush, baroque art pop for Imperial Bedroom; another into brassy ‘80s pop for Punch The Clock, home to some of the finest deep cuts in alt-rock history in “The Invisible Man” and “Charm School”. The untamed unpredictability of Elvis Costello came to a head in 1986, the year he both premiered the beard on the sleeve of The Costello Show’s immaculately authentic country collection King Of America and arguably invented grunge on his unhinged junk rock masterpiece Blood & Chocolate, introducing his Machiavellian alter-ego and ringmaster of the Spinning Songbook tours, Napoleon Dynamite.

Since then there have been Celtic Beard Years, classical quartet collaborations, meetings of minds with the pop, blues and hip-hop greats, torch song collections, experimental electronic endeavours, country and jazz departures and plenty else besides. Costello has evolved from new wave’s sharpest rebel poet into a sonic polymath and onstage raconteur, not just one of the country’s finest songwriters but amongst its most adventurous too.

Throughout the decades, though, Costello has retained the will and ability to reconnect with that core punk attitude and fire out a firecracker rock record when the mood takes him – a Brutal Youth, a When I Was Cruel, a Momofuku. It’s been a skewer holding together a career that might otherwise fly off in a dozen directions, and spears through his most recent run of albums too in the shape of the cranky, incredible The Boy Named If.

An amazing journey for this Jack of all parades, then, and one comprehensively tracked through the pages. We hope you’re happy now…

Buy a copy of the magazine here. Missed one in the series? Bundles are available at the same location…

Elvis Costello – Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide

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Elvis Costello – Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide
As he prepares to tour his fine new album The Boy Named If, we celebrate the 40-plus-year career of Elvis Costello. The savage lyricism. The wiry rock’n’roll. The dalliances with classical music, soul and jazz. It’s tough to know which to praise highest, so we’ll do as Elvis does and cover t...

As he prepares to tour his fine new album The Boy Named If, we celebrate the 40-plus-year career of Elvis Costello. The savage lyricism. The wiry rock’n’roll. The dalliances with classical music, soul and jazz. It’s tough to know which to praise highest, so we’ll do as Elvis does and cover the lot: “We’re only living this instant…”

Buy a copy here!

End Of The Road Festival add more names as extra tickets go on sale

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End Of The Road Festival add more names as extra tickets go on sale
Battles, Soccer Mommy and 6Music DJ Tom Ravenscroft are among the artists to have been added to the 2022 End Of The Road Festival line-up. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The news comes as a handful of extra tickets go on sale today (April 12) at 9am B...

Battles, Soccer Mommy and 6Music DJ Tom Ravenscroft are among the artists to have been added to the 2022 End Of The Road Festival line-up.

The news comes as a handful of extra tickets go on sale today (April 12) at 9am BST. End Of The Road returns this September 1 – 4 at Wiltshire’s Larmer Tree Gardens.

Also joining this year’s event is Kareem Ali (DJ), Skullcrusher, Spirit Of The Beehive, Ross From Friends, BCUK, The Umlauts, English Teacher, HighSchool, Uwade, Lichen, Vogues, Karima Walker, Tiny Leaves and Steven Durkan & The Acid Commune.

As previously reported on Uncut, Pixies, Bright Eyes, Fleet Foxes and Khruangbin headline this year’s festival.

They’ll be joined by an Uncut-friendly bill including Kurt Vile & The Violators, Tinariwen, The Weather Station, Hurray For The Riff Raff, The Magnetic Fields, Aldous Harding, Margo Cilker, Ryley Walker, Anaïs Mitchell, Yard Act, Cassandra Jenkins, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Lucy Dacus, Kevin Morby, Nala Sinephro and many more.

We’re delighted to once again be partnering with End Of The Road for what promises to be a brilliant festival.

“I’m beyond excited about our 2022 lineup, which features artists we’ve been asking to play since 2006 and includes some of the greatest songwriters of all time in my opinion,” says End Of The Road co-founder Simon Taffe. “It really feels like this is the summer all festivals have been waiting for, a summer three years in the making for some. We have all been through a lot together and it feels good to be back, and to finally be able to dance with friends and artists from all over the world again.”

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