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The Pretty Things – Bouquets From A Cloudy Sky
Definitive, outtake-fattened career retrospective has been a long time comingThe Pretty ThingsThe Pretties were one of the more dynamic proponents of the British R’n’B boom, perennially tipped for...
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Piedra Roja
Chile's hippy revolution uncoveredPiedra RojaThe “Woodstock Generation” was not confined just to North America and Europe. Across the world, counter-cultural ripples amongst the young caused ructions...
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Roxy Music – The Studio Albums
All eight, from dazzling debut to vaporous swansongRoxy Music were not best served by the mid-‘80s shift to CDs and especially the subsequent move to mp3 files. At one end of their career, this...
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Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued
A look inside the project - with added Dylan!(Photo: Sam Jones)Best known for his Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Sam Jones is a filmmaker who combines an artist’s eye – his...
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The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers deluxe edition
Zipped up! Mick and Keith’s masterpiece, now with a set of live and alternate tracksRolling Stones, Sticky FingersThe Stones’ debut album on their own label didn’t just become their first to top both...
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John Lennon – Lennon: The Vinyl Box Set
All eight albums remastered on vinyl, from ...Plastic Ono Band to the posthumous Milk And HoneyLennon box setDespite his claim that he considered himself part American since the first time he heard...
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Richard Hawley – Hollow Meadows
Eight solo studio album by brooding Steel City baritoneRichard HawleyThe album title, another location in Richard Hawley’s ongoing emotional roadmap to the soul of Sheffield, refers to an establishment...
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Van Morrison – Astral Weeks/His Band And The Street Choir
To be born again: two great Van albums reissued in expanded editions“If I ventured in the slipstream, between the viaducts of your dreams…” It’s one of the most enigmatic, evocative opening lines in...
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The Velvet Underground – The Complete Matrix Tapes
The live motherlode from San Francisco, 1969When The Velvet Underground played San Francisco’s intimate, musician-friendly club The Matrix in late November/early December 1969, things were changing...
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Tom Waits: “I always thought songs lived in the air”
Waits discusses Bad As Me and his eventful career – plus, Tom's riddles!What is a fiasco? How do you steal someone’s thunder? What connects Keith Richards and the US Army? Why should you take a mallet...
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Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels
More wonderfully weary resignation from the Great American SongbookWith Fallen Angels, Bob Dylan, like Linda Ronstadt and Rod Stewart before him, has seen fit to continue his exploration of the Great...
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Eric Clapton – I Still Do
Studio album No 23 is a work of poised refinementHalf a century ago, Eric Clapton’s instrumental prowess was forged in the fiery cauldron of Cream, the guitarist forced to battle for space with two...
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Various Artists – Just Go Wild Over Rock And Roll
A Chess rock'n'roll R&B bonanzaThe origin of rock’n’roll is partly a matter of nomenclature, and partly of geography. Where does R’n’B end, and rock’n’roll begin? Back in the mid-’50s, there was no...
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Don Henley: “I know all the drummer jokes!”
The Eagle looks back across his diverse, rewarding careerPhoto by Danny ClinchFrom his start in the bars and clubs of Texas to his big break in California, and the massive success of The Eagles, Don...
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George Clinton interviewed: “Save the funk!”
Dr Funkenstein on the Mothership, funk and his personal philosophyPhoto by William ThorenOrder the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home – with no delivery charge! George Clinton...
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