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Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 1997
A DUSTY, OCHRE ATLAS FROM THE THIRTIES. An old dictionary in two huge volumes complete with illustrations. A history of the Civil War in three ...
Live Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, June 1997
THE END of the millennium is nigh! Most men will perish and the rest will get extremely stressed out and have to take lots of ...
Wilco: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, June 1997
"WE SAW all those teenage girls outside and we assumed they were here for us. Hey, man, what gives?" ...
Billy Mackenzie, Associates, The: The Bizarre Life And Lonely Death Of Billy Mackenzie
Retrospective by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1997
TOP OF THE POPS, MARCH 3, 1982. A relatively unknown band from north of the border are about to do what David Bowie, Roxy Music ...
Who, The: The Who: The Who Sell Out
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997
Tommy and Quodrophenia were louder and longer, but the psychedelic pop irony of this 1967 album remains Pete Townshend's masterpiece ...
Small Faces, The: The Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; The Small Faces & The Autumn Stone
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, June 1997
CHECK OUT how many column inches The Small Faces warrant in rock encyclopaedias, compared to the space given to the likes of The Kinks or ...
Laura Nyro: Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1997
AT THE age of 21, she was the most sought-after writer in America, a one-woman hit factory, providing songs for everyone from Sinatra to Aretha. ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: The Gilded Palace Of Sin/Burrito Deluxe
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, June 1997
IN CONTRAST to the pure country of Gram Parsons' seminal early Seventies solo albums, GP and Grievous Angel, his work with the Burritos at the ...
Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 1997
SPIRITUALIZED albums, like the Hale-Bopp comet, swoop in from the heavens at highly irregular intervals. Their opiated drones and over-reaching pretensions are usually greeted with ...
Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, June 1997
AS OFT-used tags go, "The New Velvet Underground" is so wide-ranging, it's almost become a genre in itself. Got a penchant for dark clobber and ...
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 1997
PERHAPS Anthology holds the key. Not just the CDs and the videos, but the whole hullabaloo surrounding the project and the full-scale reassessment of The ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997
YELLO HAVE been into electronica since their inception in 1980, when only the most wilfully avant-garde dabbled in synthesisers for any purpose other than the ...
Jimi Hendrix: Jim Hendrix: Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997
Higher than the sun ...
Iggy Pop: Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1997
LOOK OUT, honey, cos they're using technology. Or rather, remixer Iggy Pop is. ...
Michael Jackson: Blood On The Dance Floor
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 1997
HISTORY IS written by the victors. Or, in our times, is remixed by the fashionable. ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 1997
GENEVA ARE not puddings. I approve of this. So many chap-bands today (Tuesday) are puddings. Big, soggy, lumpy puddings just sitting there, wobbling every now ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 1997
IN THE absence of any definite New Order activity for the foreseeable future, Peter Hook's latest project shamelessly recreates his pop past without even bothering ...
Jayhawks, The: The Jayhawks: Sound Of Lies
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
IF, LIKE me, you thought The Jayhawks were just another bunch of New Country journeymen, then prepare to have your mind radically, brutally altered. ...
Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi: Destination Anywhere
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, July 1997
THE ONLY living American to get the hang of TFI Friday. The hardest-working man in, oh, several industries. The pin-up pop star who dared to ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
OH, THE injustice. Had the release of Dwight Twilley's brilliant power pop debut not been delayed by a year, it would have beaten the first ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 1997
THEY LIVE in a house, a very big house, in the country. But considering that much of their energy, vision and ground-breaking ferocity derives from ...
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, July 1997
HELLO. It seems that I am meant to give Radiohead's new album – their "other" album, their brainwashed nerve-scathed translunar completely assumed third masterpiece where ...
Retrospective by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
"This sorrow is so deep that I really can't help myself. Somehow I think she knew that we loved her as if she was our ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
"I'M FASCINATED WITH THE IDEA OF ART born of a disintegrated mind," says Lewis Taylor, all coal-black curls and kohl-kissed eyes, crouched in the semi-darkness ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
Absolutely Prefabulous: Far from the sonic mainstream with Paddy McAloon ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, July 1997
HOWDY. America is always new. The world is always new. Go ask Beck. If you can catch him! ...
Echo & The Bunnymen: Hanover Grand, London
Live Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, July 1997
Echo & The Bunnymen: honesty and openness ...
Tupac Shakur: Hour Of The Gun: The Wasted Life And Brutal Death Of Tupac Shakur
Profile by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 1997
EVEN BY THE BRUTAL STANDARDS OF thug life, his was a particularly merciless encounter. It took less than two minutes for Mike Tyson to pummel ...
Live Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, July 1997
GAZ COOMBES inadvertently summed the whole thing up himself earlier this year. Speaking of his newly-shedded hair, the Supergrass singer professed his absolute astonishment at ...
Mansun: Kilburn National, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 1997
THE FOUR million music journalists present at Mansun's big "triumphant" London show, tongues loosened by EMI's beer, tell me repeatedly that it's not OK for ...
Mark Eitzel, R.E.M.: Mark Eitzel and Peter Buck
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 1997
'People liked it when I was drunk and fell over onstage all the time. That was very popular in Europe for a while' ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 1997
OH, AND ONCE AGAIN TINDERSTICKS have made the grandest, greatest record on earth. You hear it and the love pours out of you. It's really ...
Bruce Springsteen: Le Palais des Congres, Paris
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 1997
BRUCE IS telling a story (and I am scribbling furiously). "This is a song about men and women. I didn't write about men and women ...
Cheap Trick: Light of the Trick
Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, August 1997
The return of the pioneering power-pop band. ...
Echo & The Bunnymen: Echo and the Bunnymen: Manhattan Chancer
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, August 1997
IT'S A HOT AND sticky sunday afternoon in the Little Italy district of Manhattan, and every street corner resembles an expanded version of the wedding ...
Can: Automation For The People
Guide by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1997
A DEEP DISTANT DETONATION ECHOED by an aftershock and a seething high-frequency fallout of fire and rain. Out of this drizzle rises a robotic one-bar ...
Go-Betweens, The: The Go-Betweens: The Fleadh, Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, August 1997
SOME BANDS just seem to outgrow their natural life through sheer influence. Something profound dictates that as their reputation accumulates people remember them as a ...
David Bowie: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 1997
HE LOOKS spectacular; anyone who's told you different is jealous, insecure, myopic. Yet he wants us to love his new music, and it's hard to ...
Prodigy, The: The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 1997
CHRIST ALMIGHTY. It moves vertically through salted pressures with a head that can see sideways. It is red in tooth and claw. It swoons and ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997
THIS IS Lydon's first solo album, recorded before and after the calamitous reunion of The Sex Pistols. You'd have thought his cup of derision would ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1997
WHERE MOST folk in this business work on instinct, rarely pondering how to maximise their talent, supposing they have any, Eno is one of a ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997
Junior Delgado: Dance A Dub (Big Cat); Augustus Pablo: Augustus Pablo Presents DJs From 70s-80s (Big Cat) ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, August 1997
Cheap Trick: meta-metal power pop ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Various Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997
A LOT of claims are being made for Yoko Ono. That those first albums she made with Lennon in the late Sixties weren't the random ...
Edwyn Collins: I'm Not Following You
Review by Everett True, Uncut, September 1997
WHAT IS it they say? "The first million is the hardest." If that's the case, then Edwyn Collins – quiffed-up maverick, sometime lush, inspiration for ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 1997
YOU'D THINK Oasis were at war. The sense of urgency is palpable. Be Here Now. It's all in the video to the single: Oasis, the ...
Blue Nile, The: The Blue Nile: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 1997
THE NEAREST thing music has to Venice is the embodiment of melancholy in this aptly baroque setting. The melancholy, in all its lush romantic self-indulgence, ...
Earth Wind and Fire: Earth Wind & Fire: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 1997
NO ONE levitates tonight. Nor are there any Sphinxes. And the sequinned Egyptological-spaceman costumes are conspicuous by their absence. But we do get 12 instrumentalists ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 1997
Dr John: organic groover ...
Pet Shop Boys: Savoy Theatre, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, September 1997
Neil Tennant: vaudevillian existentialist? ...
Brian Eno: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk: Brian Eno
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1997
...on Russia, Roxy and tennis players' bottoms ...
Michael Jackson: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield
Live Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 1997
THE MOST FAMOUS performer on Earth has just been introduced, as per protocol, as "the King Of Pop", by the Chief Barker of the Variety ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1997
Baby Bird's Stephen Jones talks to David Stubbs about life after 'You're Gorgeous' ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 1997
NOTHING COULD be more wrong than to align the wanton, inspired Bush with boring English rock "aristocrats" such as Sting, Collins and Clapton. There's a ...
Billy Mackenzie: Billy MacKenzie: Beyond The Sun
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, November 1997
BEYOND THE Sun is a fitting tribute to Billy Mackenzie, who committed suicide this year, although it was nearly a completely different album. This posthumous ...
Zombies, The: Zombies: Baroque'N'Roll Music
Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, November 1997
Zombie Heaven claims to include 99.5 per cent of everything you ever recorded. There must be a few unheard demos that slipped through the net. ...
Oasis: Westpoint Arena, Exeter
Live Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, November 1997
CERTAIN elements of the tabloid press can't be too happy. Whispers around the Street of Shame suggested that some hacks were being despatched to Devon ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, November 1997
Todd Rundgren, interactive pioneer and, For 25 years, the mad uncle of electronic pop, talks to Paul Lester ...
Zombies, The: Zombies: Zombie Heaven (Big Beat/Ace)
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 1997
WHAT'S POP magic? A certain quality of feeling; quelque chose de je ne sais quoi; a little bit of soul. To be prosaic: something indefinably ...
Björk: Bjork: Homogenic (One Little Indian)
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1997
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR being what it is, I've already heard half a dozen journalists declaring this, Bjork's third solo album, to be no great shakes. I'm ...
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1997
THIS TIME, it's raining the spectrum of starfish and streaming with tiger snakes. The last Jacksoness album, 93's janet, was a slink-fest of extraordinary ambition ...
Pixies, The: The Pixies: Death To The Pixies
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 1997
The Pixies: grievous, greedy and groundbreaking ...
Beach Boys, The: Beach Boys: The Pet Sounds Sessions
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, November 1997
The Beach Boys: tampering with the impact of time ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 1997
I remember very clearly the first time I heard Cut – it was the summer of '79, I was staying at my aunt's in the ...
Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzy Osbourne: His Satanic Majesty Repents
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1997
JOHN "OZZY" OSBOURNE, FORMER HELL raiser, outrageous roister-doister, Dark Lord of Metal and rough diamond geezer extraordinaire has sung much about death, visited it summarily ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1997
ROBERT WYATT'S career has meandered long and strange, like an underground driver. He's played alongside Hendrix, Mike Oldfield and Phil Manzanera, as well as avant-garde ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 1997
Dynamic duo revamp their quirky oevre with wit and irony ...
Kinks, The, Ray Davies: Kinks: The Singles Collection/Waterloo Sunset — The Songs Of Ray Davies
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, December 1997
It's a shame about Ray: Classic chartbreakers and their creator's solo furrow ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, January 1998
The rock'n'soul duo return with their first album for seven years ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 1998
JOY DIVISION were the last British band who mattered, for whom something was truly the matter. Forget Oasis' last-gasp efforts to bring the rock community ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, January 1998
BILLY JOEL on his heavy metal past, the music biz, covers, his heroes and getting free tickets for the Superbowl... ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Yoko Ono on John Lennon
Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, January 1998
AND SO THIS is Christmas. Well, nearly. The stores in Manhattan are already sparkling with trees and tinsel, and here in Central Park, the traditionally ...
Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, January 1998
How do you feel about this so-called line of classic quintessentially English songwriters starting with you, continuing with Paul Weller and ending with Damon Albarn? ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, January 1998
IS THIS the best job you've ever had?"Oh yeah, definitely. It's still a pain in the ass sometimes, but by and large it's the most ...
Yoko Ono, John Lennon: John Lennon: So This Is Christmas…
Retrospective by Richard Williams, Uncut, January 1998
UP ON THE 17TH FLOOR OF THE St Regis Hotel in New York City, John Lennon is learning to type. P...I...M...P, he types. I AM ...
Roger McGuinn: Born To Rock And Roll
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, January 1998
The former Byrd's mid-Seventies solo years ...
Retrospective by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 1998
AN INSURANCE salesman, David Porter, visited a Memphis meat-packing factory in 1965. He tried to sell a policy to one of the meat-packers, a big ...
High Llamas, The: High Llamas: Cold And Bouncy
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, February 1998
SEAN O'HAGAN of, first, Microdisney, and now The High Llamas, has been one of our finest melodicists for 15 years. Along with Paddy McAloon of ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, February 1998
The Lexicon Of Loathe: ABC's flawed second LP, reissued with one extra track ...
Associates, The: The Associates: The Affectionate Punch
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 1998
THIS is impossible music. It's impossible to mimic its myriad uniqueness, impossible to place in pop time, impossible to imagine how such music could ever ...
Ian Brown: Unfinished Monkey Business
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 1998
Urbane Gorilla: The Stone Rose, back from the dead ...
Sagittarius, The Millennium: Sagittarius: Present Tense; The Millennium: Begin
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998
TO GET THE full scope of these groundbreaking recordings, released within weeks of each other in the summer of '68, it's vital to know that ...
Godley & Creme: Godley And Creme: Consequences (Mercury)
Retrospective and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, March 1998
KEVIN Godley and Lol Creme were the edgier, brighter half of the astoundingly fertile smart-pop quartet that was 10cc, 1973-1976. They were film-obsessed hipster pasticheurs, ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, March 1998
The Godfather of pub rock returns with his best collection yet ...
Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Who, The: Monterey International Pop Festival
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998
Four-CD box set of the 1967 Summer Of Love festival ...
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 1998
Clare Grogan "arrived" in 1980, with Gregory's Girl and Altered Images – the group had a series of hit singles ('Happy Birthday', 'Don't Talk To ...
Essay by Paul Williams, Uncut, March 1998
"Oh honey, even after all these years, you're still the one!" – Bob Dylan, 'Can't Wait', December 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, 1997, El ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 1998
Core, fruits you, Sir! Heyward's sixth post-Haircut 100 LP, and his debut for Alan McGee ...
Waterboys, The: The Waterboys' Mike Scott
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 1998
MIKE SCOTT, singer/songwriter and former leader of The Waterboys, gushes over his formative influences, from Gaelic roots to gospel, from Van Morrison to Dylan ...
Nick Lowe: The Jazz Café, London
Live Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, April 1998
Following rave reviews for his new LP, NICK LOWE last month played his first London show for three years, at Camden's Jazz Café ...
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, April 1998
Four-CD set from Oklahoma experimentalists, requiring four stereos for playback ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 1998
Test card music for the Gods. Band at vanguard of American 'post-rock' developments ...
Tom Waits: Bourbon, Bullets And Blues
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 1998
Gavin Martin heads downtown on the trail of Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 1998
La Ciccone's latest embarks on a course of 'techno' therapy ...
Delfonics, The: The Delfonics: La-La Means I Love You – The Definitive Collection
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, April 1998
THOUGH THE Delfonics are now seen as archetypal icons of '70s kitsch, they recorded their best stuff, including their three big hits, before the '60s ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 1998
Bowie: the good, the bad and the ugly ...
Bernard Butler: People Move On
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, May 1998
Ex-Suede/McAlmont & Butler guitarist's solo debut ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 1998
PAN-GENERATIONAL tribute to The Other Noel, benefiting International AIDS-prevention projects ...
Bay City Rollers, The: The Bay City Rollers
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Uncut, May 1998
Ahh, those much-mimicked hedgehogian coxcombs; those calf-chafing, tartan-trimmed trews with half a yard of surplus flapping flare to spare; those cheery, cheeky chipmunk grins and ...
Willard Grant Conspiracy: Rustic Grunge
Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, May 1998
LOG CABINS. Big coats. A stroppy Tindersticks undercut with ghostly suspense. Damp, misty woodland. Autumn. These are the things Flying Low, the second album by ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 1998
SLUMPED IN A sofa in the Columbia Hotel, Alan Vega is not quite the swarthy hunk of existential rockabilly perfection he was in his heyday. ...
George Martin, Beatles, The: George Martin: In My Life
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, May 1998
The "fifth Beatle" signs off with a little help from his friends ...
Jesus & Mary Chain, The: The Jesus & Mary Chain: Welcome to the Resurrection
Interview by David Dalton, Uncut, June 1998
The most fearsomely iconoclastic anti-rock band since The Sex Pistols are back with a blistering new album. Stephen Dalton meets THE JESUS ANF MARY CHAIN ...
David Bowie, Rolling Stones, The, Yardbirds, The: Dancing in the Street
Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, June 1998
THE ROCK'N'ROLL documentary is in fine shape in the Nineties, thanks mainly to the BBC. Second series of both Rock Family Trees and Classic Albums ...
Gomez: Grim North Meets Crazy South
Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, June 1998
THE INITIAL sensation sits somewhere between inspecting the tonsils of a vast, mythical reptile from The Land That Time Forgot and stepping around the mouth ...
Beach Boys, The, Brian Wilson: Brain Wilson: Endless Bummer
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1998
"HI, I'M BRIAN WILSON." You do not expect this. You do not expect the head of America's most important ever rock band to have to ...
High Llamas, The: The High Llamas: Hump Up The Volume
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1998
"THERE ARE TWO STRANDS OF HEROIN rock consciousness," says Sean O'Hagan, the man who Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys, with mock reverence, has called ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1998
THERE ARE surprisingly few bands like Garbage, bands operating in that shadowy, uncertain zone between the flesh of rock and the metal of techno. They're ...
Van Morrison: The Philosopher's Stone
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 1998
AS HE'S an artist soaked in mystique, renowned for a hard-headed approach to both his work and the business around it, expectations for this, Van ...
Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon: Julian Lennon: Photograph Smile; Sean Lennon: Into The Sun
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 1998
IT'S HARD ENOUGH for musicians to get out from under the shadows of the giants, but if your father was one of the most loved, ...
Tori Amos: From The Choirgirl Hotel (East West)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 1998
Fourth album from singer/songwriter with a fan base of two million. ...
Tricky: Angels With Dirty Faces
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 1998
HEROES DON'T last long these days. Partly because the scene is shallow and restless; partly because cynicism is always muttering, "Why do we need heroes ...
Kinks, The: Kinks: Pye Label Reissues
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 1998
Ray Davies and Co's first five LPs ...
Miles Davis Quintet 1965-68: Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (Sony/Columbia)
Review by Chris Ingham, Uncut, July 1998
6 CD set of innovative, hugely influential jazz group covering ESP, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Water Babies, Miles In The Sky and Filles De Kilimanjaro ...
Steve Miller Band: The Joker's later work revisited
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 1998
BY THE time of his 1976 UK chart breakthrough, Fly like An Eagle, Steve Miller's many attributes had been established on the impressive series of ...
Neal Casal: Out-duding the early James Taylor
Profile and Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, July 1998
NEALCASAL grins craftily — he's been careful to bring his electric guitar to Uncut's photo session and not his acoustic. "No Nick Drake shots today. ...
Obituary by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
IN A SENSE, Frank Sinatra represented a lie. Much as beneath Bing Crosby's ambling, indolent persona lay a pointedly less easy-going character, Sinatra was actually ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, July 1998
ROB BROOKS stumbles into the hotel lounge, nursing a hangover and a half-finished bottle of red wine with equal tenderness. The bass player is followed ...
Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love: Kurt and Courtney; dir Nick Broomfield
Film/DVD Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
Starring Nick Broomfield, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love Directed by Nick Broomfield Opens July 3, Cert tbc, 99 mins ...
Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: Julian Palacios: Lost In The Woods
Book Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 1998
POSSIBLY THE most quixotically gifted musician of his generation, Roger Syd Barrett – son of the Cambridge flatlands and short-lived London underground starchild – is ...
Courtney Love, Nirvana: Kurt and Courtney: Love Will Tear It Apart
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
"I'M INTERESTED IN forbidden stories," says Nick Broomfield of his latest project, Kurt And Courtney, his drawling English vowels tanned with West Coast inflexions from ...
Echo & The Bunnymen: Echo and the Bunnymen: Ian McCulloch's Favourite Things
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, July 1998
ABBA"I REALLY DO think they're great. 'The Winner Takes It All' is so sad – the video's fantastic, Agnetha's blue eyeliner runnln' – and it ...
Dr. John: Dr John: Voodoo Lounge
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 1998
MAC REBENNACK, IS SLUMPED ON A chaise longue in an elegant London hotel suite, the ubiquitous walking cane by his side, a straw Homburg tilted ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 1998
Belated, soul-stirring debut from justifiably hyped Yorkshiremen ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
Slam funkers: sixth release from rap collective once called "the greatest rock'n'roll band on the planet". ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, July 1998
Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty/Where Am I Going/Songbooks Three more re-releases from the undisputed Queen of UK pop-soul ...
Grace Jones: Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998
Pop's most formidable iconette of electro-dance ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998
"BRITPOP IS AN ATTEMPT TO REASSERT A sort of mythical whiteness," asserts Aniruddha Das, aka Dr Das, bassist of Asian Dub Foundation, leaning forward in ...
Willie Nelson: The Barbican, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, August 1998
THE GREAT FEAR of seeing a hero in their twilight years is that their powers will have deserted them and they'll be unable to reach, ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, August 1998
Sweet Gene Vincent, sozzled Max Wall, sexy Marilyn Monroe, and the stiff upper lips of Dickie Attenborough and Johnny Mills are among Blockhead IAN DURY's ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, August 1998
The Pulp frontman takes a stairlift to heaven as he reflects on post-coital guilt and post-Britpop blues ...
Motown: Stop! In The Name Of Love
Overview by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1998
SECOND ONLY to The Beatles' catalogue as the finest single coherent body of pop music ever recorded are the records made in Detroit for Motown ...
R.E.M., Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert: People Have The Power
Report by Paul Lester, Uncut, August 1998
MONDAY, JUNE 15, THE CAPITOL BUILDINGIt is 10 days before Bill Clinton's historic first presidential visit to China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. An ...
Randy Newman: Here Comes The Rain
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1998
Ian MacDonald salutes Randy Newman's first solo album as a flawless masterpiece ...
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1998
MORE SEMINAL Englishness from the kings of Britpop ...
Sparklehorse: Good Morning Spider
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 1998
Second LP from highly rated alt country act with edge and attitude. ...
B-52s, The: The B-52s: Time Capsule: Songs For A Future Generation
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998
HISTORY OF Athens perfect popsters with two new tracks. ...
John Mayall: Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton, and; The Best Of (As It All Began)
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1998
WANT TO know what the fuss was all about? Drop the old laser-beam on track 21, the stereo version of 'Have You Heard?', John Mayall's ...
Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick At Budokan: The Complete Concert
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, August 1998
NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED, full version of the candy-coated metal superheroes' finest hour ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 1998
THOUGH THEY'RE often lumped in with other early Eighties techno-tarts as shiny and superficial, Soft Cell had a soot-black heart, a vicious edge, and an ...
Baby Bird: There's Something Going On
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1998
STEVEN JONES'/Baby Bird's biggest sounding and best offering to date ...
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly (Two-CD Special Edition)
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, September 1998
ORIGINALLY RELEASED in 1972, Curtis Mayfield's album of music for one of the most notorious blaxploitation films of the Seventies is typically compassionate, melancholic, and ...
Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 1998
FOR WAYLON Jennings – born into a dirt poor cotton-picking West Texas family – the wanderlust began as far back as he could remember. ...
Sparklehorse: The Spider's Strategy
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 1998
VIRGINIAN MARK Linkous' recent second album, Good Morning Spider, confirmed the promise of his acclaimed '96 debut, Vivadixiesubmarlnetransmisslonplot, while bringing a new psychedelic spin to ...
Book Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 1998
Simon Reynolds: Energy Flash – A Journey Through Rave Music And Dance Culture (Picador Books) ...
Neil Young: "You're All Just Pissing In the Wind"
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, September 1998
RIGHT NOW, Neil Young is in kind of an invidious position. On The Beach is his equivalent of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album in terms ...
Monkees, The: The Monkees: Daydream Believer Film
Film/DVD Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, September 1998
Stephen Dalton profiles Daydream Believers, a new documentary tracing the lives of Hollywood wannabes who flunked the audition to join the most famous manufactured pop ...
Adam Cohen, Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Wainwright; Adam Cohen: Adam Cohen
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 1998
Impressive, capricious debuts from two sons of Sixties troubadours ...
Genesis: Archive 1967-75 (Virgin)
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1998
4CD box mainly featuring the Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford incarnation of seminal progressive band with live cuts, a rare ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, September 1998
Epic set of Sixties soul classics, formerly import-only ...
Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 1998
Fifth album, and long-awaited follow-up to Everything Must Go ...
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, October 1998
Divine stratospheric trip from sentimental gadgeteers ...
David Bowie: White Lines, Black Magic
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 1998
'I ran across a monster who was sleeping by a tree. And I looked and frowned and the monster was me'(David Bowie, 'The Width Of ...
Jimi Hendrix: Through Gypsy Eyes by Kathy Etchingham and Andrew Crofts (Orion)
Book Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 1998
JIMI HENDRIX flew into London for the first time in 1966, with a guitar and a bag containing a change of clothes, a jar of ...
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, October 1998
PAUL DRAPER has been inspired by some of the climactic moments of post-War culture – David Bowie's "Berlin" trilogy, mid-Eighties Prince, Talking Heads' art beat, ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, October 1998
Spark up a snout, let the songs of Joni Mitchell soothe you to sleep, and watch out for Homer's gut with that cannonball. BEN OTTEWELL ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 1998
THE LAUGH is marginally less startling than his debut album, a cabaret of flamboyant songs about April fools, matinee idols and imaginary loves, as big-time ...
Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Theaudience: theaudience
Profile and Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, October 1998
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR is bored. Not, as you might expect, with the endless media references to her parentage – she's the daughter of former Blue Peter ...
Janis Joplin: The Ultimate Collection
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 1998
ROCK'S HOTTEST mama revisited in a comprehensive 32-track retrospective. ...
Lambchop: What Another Man Spills
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, October 1998
FOURTH ALBUM from mutant soul-country oddities. ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 1998
Second LP from Big In America, 'Ready To Go' hitmakers ...
Mott The Hoople: Mott the Hoople: All The Young Dudes: The Anthology
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 1998
Boxed set full of rarities and goodies from self-conscious stylists of Glam ...
Style Council, The, Paul Weller: The Style Council: The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, November 1998
FIVE-CD overview of Paul Weller's "Cappuccino" years. ...
Marc Bolan, David Bowie: Glam Revival
Comment by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 1998
Why the frightening prospect of a full-scale Glam revival fills David Stubbs with dread… ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 1998
"I DIDN'T START UP A BAND BECAUSE I COULDN'T get laid," says Greg Dulli with that suave, Satanic leer of his. "I started a band ...
Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello: Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach: Painted From Memory
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 1998
ONLY FIVE years ago in the UK, it needed to be reaffirmed that Burt Bacharach is one of the greatest popular musicians of the second ...
Glam Rock: Scary Monsters, Super Freaks #1
Special Feature by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, November 1998
THE FREAKS ARE OUT IN FORCE TONIGHT. Squeezed into lurid outfits, hair dyed every artificial hue imaginable, braying and squealing and jostling for position. ...
David Bowie, Roxy Music, T. Rex: Glam Rock: Scary Monsters, Super Freaks #2
Special Feature by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1998
TWENTIETH CENTURY BOY ...
Alanis Morissette: Alanis Morrisette: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 1998
Follow-up to Jagged Little Pill is big, bold and belligerent ...
Jam, The, Style Council, The, Paul Weller: Paul Weller: Last Man Standing
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, December 1998
"YOU SHOULD WRITE THAT LETTER," Paul Weller' is telling his press agents, Pippa Hall and Jane Wilkes of Monkey Business PR, referring to a particularly ...
Film Pop-Stars: This Much Talent!
Guide by Terry Staunton, Uncut, December 1998
SECONDS BEFORE surrendering to self-inflicted, drug-induced unconsciousness, reclusive rock singer Jim MacLaine turns to his friend and manager, Mike, to reminisce about the old days ...
Jools Holland: These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, December 1998
Fire up the steamroller, jangle the old Joanna, and fall off your chair when Terry-Thomas enters the room. Welcome to the world of JOOLS HOLLAND ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, December 1998
"IT'S THE teachers who are to blame, if you ask me. Probably more so than parents, because they're kinda paid to shape young minds — ...
Curtis Mayfield - A Gently Sensitive Observer
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 1998
SIX MAYFIELD albums on three CDs, from the great to the grottyCurtisGot To Find A WayRootsSweet ExorcistBack To The WorldLove ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 1998
Downbeat apocalypse: US master of ironic eclecticism unearths a diamond in the trash ...
XTC: Transistor Blast: The Best Of The BBC Sessions
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 1998
FOUR-CD set of BBC sessions 1977-89 and In Concert 1978/9 ...
John Lennon: The John Lennon Anthology
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 1998
WE GET USED TO THE VOICE. THE SOUND of a largely self-educated, rawly-talented, troubled and often wildly erratic Englishman who, by means of the various ...
Fatboy Slim: You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 1998
Former Housemartin turns Big Beat pioneer ...
DAF: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft: Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1998
Overdue reissue of Eighties German minimalist synth duo's electronic pop albums ...
Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years (Capitol)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, January 1999
Box set featuring all twenty Capitol albums 1953-61 plus rarities disc ...
Profile by Ian Fortnam, Uncut, January 1999
While it's an established fact that an extended tour of duty within the darkest recesses of the psychedelic jungle will extinguish myriad illuminations within the ...
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, February 1999
TO ANYONE growing up through the punk era, Yes were the ultimate enemy. In those primitive cool days, laser shows, flowing locks, portentous mysticism, flamboyant ...
Blondie: London Sound Republic
Live Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, March 1999
MADONNA turned 40 last year and marked the occasion with the most critically-acclaimed album of her career. The biggest selling single in the UK was ...
Belle And Sebastian: Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk (Jeepster)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, August 1999
Legendary debut by elusive Glasgow eight-piece pop co-operative, remastered, first time on CD; an original vinyl copy will part you with £250. ...
Aztec Camera, Roddy Frame: Aztec Camera: The Best Of (Warners)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1999
Roddy Frame’s hits and misses 1983-98 For a while, in the early ‘80s, there were emerging young songwriters — among them Messrs. Frame, ...
Roxy Music: Roxy Music/For Your Pleasure/Stranded/Country Life/Siren
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, September 1999
Their first five LPs lovingly remastered for your pleasure In 1969's Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboorn, Nik Cohn simultaneously celebrated and mourned the mythic era of "Superpop, the ...
Roddy Frame, Aztec Camera: Roddy Frame
Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1999
You were such a formed writer so young. Do you rate that stuff now? ...
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1999
THE SNAZZIEST, JAZZIEST dance crew of the period. Their ‘one world’ spirituality, sunny mysticism and conspicuous musicality makes them a real genre one-off. Never as ...
Jam, The, Ocean Colour Scene: Steve Cradock on Jam tribute album Fire and Skill
Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 1999
KA: What did The Jam mean to you? ...
Supergrass: Supergrass (Parlophone)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 1999
Third album from the scampish Oxford trio ...
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, November 1999
Twenty years ago next month, four teenagers from Dublin played their first British date in a north London pub, in front of less than a ...
Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 1999
BERNARD Butler’s had a bad back. According to his osteopath, he has songs hidden in his shoulders, "He’s really lovely, a natural healer. Guitar posture, ...
Beck: Midnite Vultures (Geffen)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 1999
Beck out-hips himself with his fourth album for Geffen, his sixth in all ...
Billy Mackenzie, Paul Haig: Haig/Mackenzie: Memory Palace
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, December 1999
ON THE NIGHT of Wednesday, January 22, 1997, Billy MacKenzie, outrageously gifted vocalist with the Associates and writer of some of the most extraordinary music ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2000
NEW YORK wiseguys get on the laidback lounge-core tip. ...
R.E.M.: REM: Man On The Moon — Soundtrack
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
R.E.M.'s ASSOCIATION with Andy Kaufman goes back to 1993 when they penned 'Man On The Moon', Stipe's achingly personal tribute to the late comedian. ...
Big Star: The Best of Big Star
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, January 2000
Fourteen cuts from troubled pop-rack demigods' first two LPs, remastered, at mid-price ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, January 2000
Honey-throated singer begs comparisons with Scott Walker ...
Public Image Ltd: PiL: Three's Company…
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
David Stubbs takes a shine to the mesmerising remorselessness of PUBLIC IMAGE LTD's post-punk Metal Box... ...
Review and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, January 2000
ONE OF the extra songs on Birth's debut EP Sweet Idol, is a cover version of perennial summer radio hit 'Groovin' by The Young Rascals, ...
Beastie Boys, The: Beastie Boys: The Sounds Of Science
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
Extensive compilation of their greatest hits, finest moments and rarities ...
Prince: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2000
Guest star-filled major label return for the man who may yet be regal again. ...
Bruce Springsteen: Tunnel Of Love; Human Touch; Lucky Town; The Ghost Of Tom Joad,
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2000
DISILLUSIONED GROOM, LA-based newlywed and folk conscience of a nation – Springsteen after superstardom subsides ...
David Bowie: The Astoria, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2000
The live shows you really shouldn't have missed ...
Bryan Ferry: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2000
This man swings fundamentally ...
The Auteurs, Luke Haines: The Auteurs: Live in Paris
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2000
AS LUKE Haines builds up an ever-expanding oeuvre, replete with cross-references and self-mythologising manifestos, one wonders what the French might make of this superficially haughty ...
Josh Rouse, Kurt Wagner: Josh Rouse & Kurt Wagner: Dog Day Afternoons
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2000
Highly-acclaimed American songwriters JOSH ROUSE & KURT WAGNER have collaborated on a new, brillian mini-LP, named after a dog one of them never had. ...
Handsome Family, The: The Handsome Family: Live in the UK
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2000
BEFORE A note's been sung or a chord struck, Rennie Sparks has invited the audience back to her shoebox-sized dressing room for shrimp cocktails. As ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2000
IN 1999, THE former Housemartin's career went supemova, earning him millions from his FATBOY SLIM records, remixes and DJ sets. Following the death of big ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2000
THE CROWD ARE ALREADY PRETTY fired up when the steamingly drunk weirdo trapped in flashing fairy lights tosses his guitar into the audience. This is ...
Sonic Youth: Goodby 20th Century
Review by Everett True, Uncut, February 2000
IN THE trade, this is known as noodling. Noodling occurs when a bunch of undeniably talented musicians gather together and decide they've had enough of ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 2000
Their sixth album kick starts the Millennium in angry electric jazz/punk/funk style. Significantly, the sleeve thanks Jaki Liebezeit of Can and The Prodigy's Liam Hewlett ...
Will Oldham, Palace Music: Will Oldham: Guarapero / Lost Blues 2
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, March 2000
WHERE OTHERS seek the high ground to illuminate themselves and their work, Will Oldham has persistently covered his tracks and found refuge in the shadows, ...
Cure, The: The Cure: Bloodflowers
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, March 2000
POSSIBLE SWANSONG from crying-on-the-inside clown prince of Stadium Goth. ...
Oasis: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2000
Change of producer and change of mood for long-awaited fourth album ...
Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G.: 2Pac & Outlawz: Still I Rise; Notorious B.I.G.: Born Again
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, March 2000
NO REST for the wicked – more posthumous releases from the slain linchpins of East and West Coast gangsta rap. ...
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 2000
OASIS, if you hadn't noticed, have just resurfaced. But will they sink or swim? After the druggy excesses of Be Here Now, following the departure ...
Bellatrix: Live in Reykjavik, Iceland
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2000
THINGS DO tend to get adequately surreal the second you step off the plane into the snowy lunar landscape of Iceland, so by the time ...
Jimmy Webb: Tunesmith: Inside The Art Of Songwriting
Book Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2000
GENIUS BEHIND 'MacArthur Park' and 'Wichita Lineman' examines his craft, peruses his muse, and almost makes sense of it all ...
Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Who, The: The Who: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2000
WELL, YOU can't accuse them of being pompous, of inflating their legend. The Who shuffle distractedly onstage as if they're playing a mate's house party, ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2000
RAISSA, WHOSE seductive single, 'How Long Do I Get', is currently raising a rumpus, spent Christmas swimming in the Red Sea. She's travelled before. She ...
Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2000
First album in two decades from America's premier cerebral jazz-pop twosome ...
Asian Dub Foundation: Community Music
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2000
Storming new set of eclectic agit-pop from best live band in Britain ...
Kelly Joe Phelps: Live in London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, April 2000
KELLY JOE Phelps' slide guitar seemed to spring into independent life at the multiple climaxes of 1997's breakthrough LP, Roll Away The Stone, to ripple ...
Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, April 2000
THE LOCATION IS LONDON'S flashy Landmark Hotel, a place where palm trees loom over drinkers in the lobby and there's a better class of toiletry ...
Kelis: The Harlem Hurricane Blows Up A Storm
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2000
IT'S SCARILY early on a Monday morning and she says she's as out of it as I am ("I love the night, it just seems ...
Handsome Family, The: The Handsome Family: Tales Of Extra Ordinary Madness
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2000
Welcome to the dark, disturbing world of Brett and Rennie Sparks, otherwise known as THE HANDSOME FAMILY. ...
Handsome Family, The: The Handsome Family: In The Air
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2000
SERENE MEDITATION on life-amid-death and fourth album from Chicago-based alt. country duo ...
June & The Exit Wounds: A Little More Haven Hamilton, Please
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, April 2000
DEBUT ALBUM of so-normal-it's-strange pop-rock from latest American boy wonder. ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2000
Captivating Macy-worrying debut remarries hip hop and soul ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines Of God
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2000
MONOLITHIC GOTH-metal comeback from crisis-hit Mr Happy of alternative rock. ...
Handsome Family, The: Handsome Family: In The Air
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2000
Vaulting desire, supernatural transformation ...
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2000
THE ALBUM cover's a telegraph pole, wires strung across the horizon. A shoe's been tied to one, drunkard's wit. The title? Sad, But Familiar. Welcome ...
Jay-Z, DMX, Lox, The, Juvenile: Jay-Z, DMX, Juvenile and The Lox Albums
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, May 2000
Huge over there, ignored over here – the state of the rap art, US-style: Jay-Z: Volume 3...Life And Times Of S Carter; ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2000
NINE YEARS AGO, Pete Wylie, who is The Mighty WAH!, was considered hot. Again. He leaned on a railing in Liverpool. It gave way and ...
Max Tundra - Whizz-kid to watch
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2000
"WHEN I was growing up, I'd go through my mum's record collection –things like 10cc, Nik Kershaw – and make these mixes on a tape ...
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, May 2000
Ninth dry—lipped album from the Buster Keaton of sadcore ...
Black Box Recorder: The Facts Of Life
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2000
LIKE THE ABSINTHE which Black Box Recorder's John Moore has busied himself importing since last year, BBR are an unusually toxic pleasure. Here, once more, ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2000
Stretching the imagination: Frischmann's answer-album to Blur's relationship-dissecting 13 ...
Calexico, Lambchop, Wheat: Kings Of Americana: Lambchop, Calexico, Wheat
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2000
LambchopTHE GREAT AMERICAN Music Hall is an exotic relic in the middle of San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Outside, the streets are full of junkies, hobos ...
Ian Dury: The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury 1942 — 2000
Obituary by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, June 2000
At the peak of his late '70s success, Ian Dury was one of this country’s most beloved entertainers. He kept busy in his post-stardom years ...
Air: 'If We Don't Surprise People Any More, Then We Will Die'
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 2000
"THE FIRST time I was in LA," says Nicolas Godin, "I was in a very cool hotel. And in front of that hotel was a ...
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Live at The Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, June 2000
"MISS CELINE Dion sings love songs while our cities burn". intones an awkward-looking man by way of greeting. "Kill her!" a woman in the crowd ...
Andrew Loog Oldham, Rolling Stones, The: Andrew Loog Oldham
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 2000
As manager of The Rolling Stones for most of the Sixties, ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM became almost as famous as the band themselves. Modelling himself on ...
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, June 2000
MAMMOTH BOX set from Green Pajamas frontman, covering "lost years". ...
John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra: John McLaughlin: The Heart Of Things — Live In Paris
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2000
EX-MAHAVISHNU whizz and legendarily virtuosic cosmo-prog funk-jazz extrapolator in cool comeback shock ...
Romanthony: R.Hide In Plain Site
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2000
BRILLIANT RETRO-futurist funk from New Jersey house sensation. ...
Sex Pistols, The: The Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2000
THE EARLY SEVENTIES have been a golden age for the homegrown British pop single. The pan-stick and yob fraternity, which includes T-Rex, Sweet, Slade, Mott ...
Various Artists: Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2000
From Kraftwerk to BT, via Throbbing Gristle, Moby and the Chemicals – the history of synthpop ...
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2000
Fourth outing from prolific Giant Sand rhythm kings and assorted playmates ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2000
Another Chic anthology — why buy? An intelligent sleevenote with participation from Nile Rodgers, full-length album cuts where applicable. La musique elle-meme ...
XTC: Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume 2
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 2000
Magnificent guitar-centric follow-on set to the orch-pop of Volume 1 ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
DEBUT FROM Bournemouth 'blue-eyed soul' Seventies revivalist. ...
Saint Etienne: St Etienne: Sound Of Water
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
BACK IN the early Nineties, St Etienne were ubiquitous, perhaps a little too ubiquitous. Rarely out of the music press, constantly hovering on the edge ...
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, July 2000
THEY'RE FRENCH, they're pals with Air – and they sound like Steely Dan. ...
Max Tundra, Tele:funken: Tele:funken: A Collection Of Ice Cream Vans Vol 2
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, July 2000
LIKE LABELMATE Max Tundra's debut last month, Tele:funken, aka Tom Fenn, here attempts electronica disconnected from the dancefloor, skipping round the looped conservatism of current ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Where Jimi Hendrix came from and where he would have gone next, had he survived, Hendrix expert Charles Shaar Murray talks to David Stubbs ...
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 2000
This year, MOBY's Play has dominated the UK LP charts. So who is this bald man singing the techno-blues? Paul Lester met the enigmatic American ...
Jimi Hendrix: Public Image Unlimited
Essay by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix the black radical. Hendrix the glam dandy. Hendrix the icon. Hendrix the man. ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, July 2000
Driven to despair by commercial neglect, his visionary genius unrecognised, TIM BUCKLEY died of a heroin overdose at the age of 28. On the 25th ...
Jimi Hendrix: Black Secret Technology
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix wasn't just the original firestarter, all flash and dazzle. He was a scientist of sound. ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2000
Founding fathers of technopop come together in electro land ...
Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Could Damon Cough's long-awaited debut be the indie Pet Sounds? ...
Manic Street Preachers' Richey Edwards
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
"It's about detesting the body. That's why you choose to mark it...all my life I've felt weak compared to others. If they want to crush ...
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, August 2000
TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR seemed to consider himself immortal, and there are certainly many who still refuse to believe the 25-year-old rapper died after a Las ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
WHEN ROCK stars die, it's usually as a result of living too well, taking too much, going too fast, getting too high. ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 2000
BRILLIANTLY ECLECTIC musical mix from new US trio. ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, August 2000
SEVENTIES CALIFORNIA meets Y2K Paris. ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, August 2000
WAITS JUNKIES are everywhere — filling the bars, and brasseries around the venue, queuing up around the block in the rain-drenched Parisian streets. ...
Stevie Wonder: The Electrification Of Soul
Overview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
"THERE'S NEVER BEEN a time when Stevie Wonder hasn't been relevant," said an associate of Wonder's on Channel 4's recent Top 10 Seventies Soul run-down. ...
Associates, The, Billy Mackenzie: Billy MacKenzie
Profile by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
"MacKenzie's real fear was the banal actuality of pop success…to keep his perfect, impossible-past-and-future pop fantasy intact, it was necessary to destroy Associates" ...
Dexy's Midnight Runners, Kevin Rowland: Lost Boys and Fallen Angels: Kevin Rowland
Profile by Gavin Martin, Uncut, August 2000
With Dexy's Midnight Runners, he got to Number One twice, but his self-esteem was minus zero ...
Profile by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, August 2000
IAN CURTIS has amassed more disciples since his death 20 years ago than he ever attracted as singer with Manchester post-punk legends Joy Division. ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, August 2000
THE GREATEST night of Warren Zevon's performing life was in the hometown of the boxer, Buster Douglas, after Douglas had become the first man to ...
Lou Reed: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, August 2000
BACK IN the Seventies – revelling in junkie debauchery – Lou Reed shows were a notoriously ghoulish spectacle, He was the wayward poet of sleaze, ...
Film/DVD Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 2000
Cusack and crew Americanise Nick Hornby's novel with suss and style ...
Jesus & Mary Chain, The: The Jesus and Mary Chain: Crash And Burn
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, August 2000
FEBRUARY 2000. Seventeen months after the corpse of The Jesus And Mary Chain finally stopped twitching. In the claustrophobic interior of London's 12-Bar Club, a ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
DEVO'S FIRST single, 'Jock Homo', was released in 1977. An instant hit, it expounded the group's theory of de-evolution, that mankind is regressing, rather than ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000
TIME SASHAYS on and Miles Davis, who was still with us only a few blinks of an eye ago is already becoming history. Hence Sony's ...
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left****; Bryter Layter****; Pink Moon*****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000
Lost poet's main works re-released ...
Black Sabbath: The Best Of Black Sabbath
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
TWO-CD compilation of Brummie metallurgists' grimmest, finest moments. ...
Chris Bell, Big Star: Chris Bell: I Am The Cosmos
Retrospective by Tom Cox, Uncut, August 2000
BASED ON the bittersweet songcraft of Big Star's "lost" classic debut, No 1 Record, Chris Bell is often referred to as the McCartney to Alex ...
Laura Nyro: Oh My Love-Trumpet Soul: Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000
AND A GREAT tenderness came forth from the unforgiving streets of the East Side. It's easy to dislike Laura Nyro. Your first requirement is to ...
Carpenters, The: Karen Carpenter
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, August 2000
KAREN CARPENTER possesses such iconic value now — feminist totem, camp death-cult, Prozac Nation suffragette — it is increasingly difficult to assess her unique musical ...
Garage: Pure Garage: Mixed Live By E-Z; Underground Explosion: The Real Garage Mix
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2000
Garage — the sound of the UK underground goes mainstream ...
Beenie Man: Bennie Man: Art & Life
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2000
Flava floods out of dancehall ubermensch ...
Associates, The: The Associates: Reissues
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2000
Legendary Scottish duo — featuring late, great Billy MacKenzie — issue best work and pre-fame material ...
De La Soul: Art Official Intelligence (Mosaic Thump)
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, September 2000
NO ONE who saw the packed, mostly young, black crowd reveling in the house party atmosphere of De La Soul's last UK gig in 1997 ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2000
Long-awaited second album from R&B retro whiz in lovelorn mode. ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, September 2000
THREE IS the magic number for Britrock alchemists ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2000
IN AN ANNOYINGINGLY loud Oxford Street pub, Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, is struggling to make his voice heard above the raucously assertive blare ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2000
CONFUSED, SCHIZOPHRENIC, sneering and intense yet sometimes transported by innocent joy – Radiohead's audience sure are a strange crowd. The crossover-cult idols' first English gig ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2000
MY GOD, they plod. The paucity of ideas would be staggering, were it not so dull. ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2000
"Some people know why they make music, I suppose. But we never talk about what we're doing. Ever" – Simon Raymonde, 1990 ...
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Anarchic In The UK
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, October 2000
Gavin Martin celebrates the 20th anniversary of Dexys Midnight Runners' ground-breaking Searching For The Young Soul Rebels ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2000
FIRST ALL-NEW flurry since 1994's Gratuitous Sax And Senseless Violins ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2000
ANOTHER SUPERLATIVE ambient/techno album from former Bjork collaborator ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 2000
LOUD, FLASHY, purple, wild, a danger to the nation's daughters. Face it, if personalities like JM Hendrix didn't exist, life would be rather boring. (And ...
Webb Brothers, The: The Webb Brothers: Maroon
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2000
CHIPS OFF the old block deliver first album 'proper', produced by Smiths/Blur helmsman Stephen Street. ...
Wondermints, Brian Wilson: Wondermints: Bali
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, October 2000
UK RELEASE at last for second LP from Brian Wilson's "backing band." ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, October 2000
BELATED SOPHOMORE opus from Wallace And Gromit of Manc disco-rock. ...
Style Council, The, Paul Weller: The Style Council
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, October 2000
WELLER'S cappuccino-drinking years ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2000
MAXIMUM JOYPROPAGANDAA SECRET WISHTHE ART OF NOISEWHO'S AFRAID OF THE ART OF NOISE ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2000
Her Madgesty's eighth studio album is a clinical future-dance monster ...
Roni Size and Reprazent: Roni Size & Reprazent: In The Mode
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, November 2000
FOLLOW-UP to 1997's New Forms ...
Cocteau Twins: Stars And Topsoil
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2000
AFTER THE singles box set, a single-CD retrospective from the unique trio. ...
David Bowie: Bowie At The Beeb
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2000
TRIPLE-CD gathers The Dame's sessions for 'Auntie', both contemporary and historical. ...
Twilight Singers, The, Afghan Whigs: The Twlight Singers: Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
SIDE PROJECT from The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, featuring Fila Brasilia and Pigeonhed's Shawn Smith ...
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2000
Strange DaysWaiting For The SunThe Soft ParadeMorrison HotelLa WomanEssential Rarities ...
David Sylvian, Japan: David Sylvian: Everything And Nothing
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, November 2000
COLLECTED OUEVRE of Japan's finest ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2000
EIGHTH LONG-player from Glasgow's finest, produced by Norman Blake & Co ...
Beatles, The: The Death Of The Beatles
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
JANUARY 2, 1969. They are probably the four most famous people in the world, but this morning at the raw beginning of the last year ...
Bob Dylan: The Point Depot, Dublin
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, November 2000
YOU CAN trust in Bob, the magnificent minstrel and incredible icon, the prime preserver and arch plunderer of 20th century Americana, to pull a surprise ...
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2000
They say that everything will turn out right/It never seems that way, this time of night ...
Magazine, Howard Devoto: Howard Devoto: Shot By Both Sides
Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, November 2000
AND THEN, in 1976, when Howard Devoto was 24, he wrote and recorded four fast songs with the group Buzzcocks, and they became the EP ...
Radiohead's Kid A: Revolution In The Head
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, November 2000
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE STATE OF BRITISH ROCK, AND HOW COME RADIOHEAD'S KID A HAS GOT IT SO RIGHT? ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
'Is Morris operating from a high plane of disgust or from some pit of personal rage?' Compilation of best bits from the dark ambient comedy ...
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, December 2000
Mixed bag of tricks from latest Electronica whiz ...
Beach Boys, The: The Beach Boys: Wave Culture…
Overview by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2000
SunflowerSurf's UpCarl And The Passions – So ToughHollandThe Beach Boys In Concert15 Big OnesThe Beach Boys Love YouM.I.U. AlbumLA (Light Album)Keepin' The Summer AliveThe Beach ...
Lambchop: Union Chapel, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, December 2000
"THERE'S SO many of you!" Peering out uncertainly from under a peaked work-cap, what Lambchop's Kurt Wagner sees is his biggest British crowd to date, ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2000
DAVID STUBBS SWOONS OVER THAT POIGNANT PRECURSOR OF TRIP HOP, JOHN MARTYN'S SOLID AIR ...
Chic, Norma Jean Wright: Norma Jean Wright: Norma Jean
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, December 2000
FIRST RELEASE on CD for Chic-album-in-all-but-name from 1978 ...
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennae To Heaven
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2000
ANOTHER BRILLIANT sprawl of ambient indie-rock from the Montreal 10-piece ...
Sonny Rollins: The Freelance Years
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2000
COLTRANE'S GREAT tenor rival gets another boxed-set boost. ...
Adam & The Ants: Adam And The Ants: Stand And Deliver
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 2000
TRIPLE-CD box set honours Prince Charming man. ...
Laura Nyro: The Essential Masters
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2000
DEEP ARTIST travestied by shallow "Greatest Hits" package. ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2000
SLEAZY POST-party grooves from original prankster ...
Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, December 2000
Can't Cook, Won't Cook: Macy Gray guest slot aside, disappointing follow-up to You've Come A Long Way, Baby ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 2000
Best of the late, legendary indie label ...
U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2000
Corn without authenticity. Bono and Co rediscover the importance of being earnest ...
PJ Harvey: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, December 2000
Self-produced sixth album is curate's egg ...
Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, 2001
THE TOWERING inferno is visible from miles away. Thom Yorke drives towards the horizon, the acrid stench of toxic smoke filling his car. He cranks ...
Cameron Crowe: Bringing It All Back Home
Profile by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2001
"If people have a problem with Almost Famous, what they're saying is they have a problem with my life." ...
Madonna: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2001
The live shows you really shouldn't have missed - a transcendent pop moment ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2001
IT'S A CASE of premature elevation. Of shock promotion to the Premiership with a make-shift squad. Moby shouldn't be playing this soulless aircraft hangar. ...
Free, Bad Company: Almost Famous
Film/DVD Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2001
Shrewdly sweet eulogy to rock'n'roll fandom ...
Miles Davis: Big Fun; Get Up With It; On The Corner
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, February 2001
CONTROVERSIAL FUSION megastructures from the early Seventies. ...
Byrds, The: The Byrds: Outlaw Chic
Retrospective by Rob Hughes, Uncut, February 2001
ROB HUGHES SALUTES THE BYRDS' GEM THE NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS ...
Slits, The: The Slits: Cutting Edge
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, February 2001
I AM A LITTLE nervous as I approach Viv Albertine's house. She was a Slit. For anybody of a certain age who has a penis ...
Stephen Malkmus: Stephen Malkmus
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2001
Pavement ex-frontman goes solo ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, March 2001
BACK TO the future with enigmatic pop androids. ...
Mekons, The: The Mekons: New York: On The Road '86-'87
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, March 2001
LEEDS PUNKS' Cold War-era Country Invasion Of The States in all its ragged glory ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2001
LONG OVERDUE re-release of debut by great lost Britpop precursors ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2001
Four-disc overview for the label that brought you sweet soul music ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2001
Gods of "filter disco" finally issue follow-up to 1997'strailblazing Homework. ...
The Divine Comedy: Regeneration
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
NEW SOUND but same ideals for polished popsmiths. ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, April 2001
ONE OF THE many misleading ways in which writers born since the Sixties view that enigmatic decade stems from the modern habit of judging success ...
Michael Jackson: Greatest Hits – History Volume 1
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2001
ONCE UPON a time, wise critics dubbed Michael Jackson pop's Peter Pan. ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
THE FRIENDLY, LAUGHING, jet-lagged, pale, charismatic Kristin Hersh says that odd combinations of words are the only way to get her attention. ...
Webb Brothers, The: The Webb Brothers
Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2001
'I'll make it through the show!' ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
THE ARCH COMBO RETURN WITH A NEW ALBUM, REGENERATION, PRODUCED BY NIGEL (KID A) GODRICH. HERE, FRONTMAN NEIL HANNON AND MUSICAL LYNCHPIN JOBY TALBOT TELL ...
Grandaddy: Manchester University
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2001
STRANGE TALES of exploding androids, lost loves, graveyards for household gadgets, crashed spaceships, sunken dreams and cock-and-bull tourist authorities. Welcome to the bevelled woodchuckery of ...
Eminem: The London Arena, Docklands
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
FOR A FEW days there, between Internet babies and new genetic codes, Eminem's UK tour made him the leading media talking-point. ...
Eileen Rose: Live at Borders Bookshop, London
Live Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2001
BOSTONIAN EX-PAT Eileen Rose continues to rack up plaudits for her mesmeric debut album Shine Like It Does and so it was that, flanked by ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
THE LAST rock star, dripping with dark poetry, mystery and unforced glamour, stands alone onstage in spectacular red dress and electric guitar, crying, "Lick my ...
Outkast: OutKast: Live in London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2001
THE LAUREL And Hardy of phuture rap ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2001
ON HIS EXTRAORDINARY NEW ALBUM, NO SUCH PLACE, HE HAS CONTRIVED AN ASTONISHING MIX OF SPOOKILY DEMENTED COUNTRY, SKEWED ROCK AND HIP HOP THAT CHARTS ...
John Fahey: The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party And Other Excursions
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, April 2001
Solitary fingerstyle pioneer evokes the dark side of the Sixties ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2001
Soundtracks from three Who-derived Seventies films — something old, something borrowed and something horrible ...
Review and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, April 2001
SPRAWLED IN the baroque bohemianism of their singer-songwriter Diggory Kenrick's west London local, Venus Ray seem a lifetime away from the 18 days of madness ...
The Avalanches: Since I Left You
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, May 2001
YOU SHOULD HEAR the things people say about The Avalanches: "Basement Jaxx meets The Beta Band," "Stardust crossed with Stereolab," sample-based music with the freshness ...
Manic Street Preachers: Know Your Enemy
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2001
Tentatively experimental, hardline political stuff from Wire, Bradfield and Moore ...
Aerosmith: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2001
AEROSMITH HAVE JUST BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK'N'ROLL HALL OF FAME. WE ASKED MAIN MAN STEVEN TYLER ABOUT 25 YEARS ON THE EDGE, NEW ALBUM ...
Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Boys, The: The Soft Boys: The Three Kings, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2001
THE ONE-TIME freaks are out tonight, suited and booted for this biz-only reintroduction to Robyn Hitchcock's reconstituted Soft Boys, in the tucked-away, locked-up Clerkenwell pub ...
Tindersticks: Subterania, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2001
"WE HAVEN'T found our feet yet, have we?" mutters Stuart Staples mid-set. A voice from the crowd is shy but clearly audible: "Yes, you have!" ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2001
'THE PROBLEM OF an artistic life that now moves forward like a shark is there's no time to think' ...
Stereophonics: Just Enough Education To Perform
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2001
ON THE extraordinarily long-winded new single 'Mr Writer', which plods like few records not made by Oasis have plodded, Kelly Jones exhorts music journalists to ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2001
UNLESS YOU'RE hardline avant-garde (in which case, you'll vote for Cecil Taylor), Bill Evans (1929-1980) is the greatest jazz pianist of the post-bebop era. Classically ...
Faust: The Wumme Years 1971-73
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2001
THERE'S STILL nothing quite like the first side of Faust's eponymous debut album, recorded in 1971 and released by a bemused Polydor in 1972. These ...
Big Youth: Natty Universal Dread; and, Various Aritists: A Jamaican Story
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, May 2001
IN JAMAICA, the DJ isn't the guy who spins the records (that's the selector), it's the bloke who chats over the music. As misnomers go, ...
Various Artists: Back To Black (Universal)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, May 2001
Ten-CD, 220-track History Of Black Music behemoth put together by Morgan 'Streetsounds' Khan in tandem with 35-strong industry committee ...
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 2001
THE WHO BY NUMBERS IS PETE TOWNSHEND'S MASTERPIECE. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, May 2001
DAVE GAHAN can't breathe. He can also hear nothing. Which is a little odd because there are 30,000 Depeche Mode fans just yards away, screaming ...
Beach Boys, The: Beach Boys: Reissues
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2001
Choral unevensong from the waywardly wondrous Wilson clan ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, May 2001
Krautrock revisited and remastered: Bowie, Eno, Thorn Yorke, Damon Albarn, Stereolab and Sonic Youth pay sleevenote homage to the Lennon And McCartney of Teutonic boogaloo ...
Orbital: The Altogether (ffrr) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2001
ON THE techno calendar, the present era isn't so much AD as AD&B – the post-drum'n'bass era. That genre followed a curious arc – it ...
Zoot Woman: Living In A Magazine (Wall Of Sound)****
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, June 2001
PRISTINE ROBO-pop from Madonna's favourite retro-futurist. ...
Bruce Springsteen: Live In New York City (Columbia 2CD)****
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2001
SCINTILLATING DOCUMENT of The Boss reunited with His Gang last year at Madison Square Garden. ...
Howe Gelb: Confluence (Loose)***
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2001
TWENTY YEARS in, the Giant Sand guru's songwriting torrent courses stronger than ever. ...
Ed Harcourt: Borders, Oxford Street, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, June 2001
THE CROWD for One of Uncut's biggest Borders night so far are backing up from the DIY department into History. Some are still in line ...
Bob Dylan: In My Time Of Dyin'…
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2001
ON ITS RELEASE IN 1962, BOB DYLAN'S FIRST ALBUM BLEW MINDS ALL OVER THE WORLD. IAN MACDONALD RECALLS ITS IMPACT ON HIS OWN TEENAGE YEARS ...
Bob Dylan: Wild Mercury: A Tale Of Two Dylans
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2001
"Lotta people seeing double tonight.From the disease of conceit"– 'Disease Of Conceit' (Oh Mercy, 1989) ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 2001
BRISTOL, LIKE Manchester, was once synonymous with nervy, wired, dark white funk – The Pop Group, Rip Rig & Panic. Then the drugs changed (skunk, ...
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2001
"PEOPLE ASSOCIATE us with groups like Lemon Jelly and ask, 'Is there a scene? Where do you all hang out together?' We've heard maybe one ...
Television: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, June 2001
IT WAS the Sixties that divided London and New York punk: just traces to be kicked over, fathers to be killed, went the official line ...
Ramones, The: Joey Ramone 1951-2001
Obituary by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2001
'Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything' ...
ABC, Tears For Fears: ABC & Tears For Fears: Compilations
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 2001
Tears For Fears: between two stools. ABC: cool disco sheen. That was then. Early Eighties pop revisited Hello! — An Introduction To ABC The Working Hour — ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 2001
Their Virgin albums 1978-1991, digitally remastered and available either as limited edition Japanese-import miniatures or full-artwork, extra-tracks British releases ...
Hamell On Trial: Upstairs At The Garage, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, July 2001
"EVERYONE HERE'S very nice to me. Shutthefuckup when I'm talkin'!" The self-described "bald, sweaty fucker on stage", Ed Hamell, of Syracuse, New York, is dressed ...
Tindersticks: Live at The Botanique, Brussels
Live Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
AH, EUROPE. Given the increasingly infantile world of Anglo-American rock and pop culture, it's heartening to know there are giant pockets of pre-post-modern, un-ironic reverentiality ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, July 2001
AS FIRST gigs go, it was an almost surreal baptism. Happily for them, the Queen was impressed. "She came over and said hello. I just ...
Air, Daft Punk: Daft Punk & Air: Disco Tech
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
DAFT PUNK AND AIR ARE THE BEATLES AND STONES OF THE INTERNATIONAL DANCE SCENE. SO WHY IS THE FRENCH ESTABLISHMENT – SO PROUD OF ITS ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 2001
"PEOPLE ALWAYS apply this word 'cool' to me, and I'm far from it, really," says Bryan Ferry. "I'm very hot-blooded. It's strange. But then there's ...
Perry Farrell: Song Yet To Be Sung (Virgin)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
FIRST SOLO album from ex-Jane's Addiction frontman in half-century celebratory mode ...
Laura Nyro: Angel In The Dark (Rounder)****
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, July 2001
THE LAST recordings from the 'Bronx Bronte', covered by everyone from Sinatra to Streisand. A live album's imminent, too. ...
Richard Hawley: Richard Hawley
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, July 2001
Former Pulp guitarist makes dynamic debut with mini-album of spectral ballads ...
Paul McCartney: Wingspan (EMI)***
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2001
MACCA'S FIRST post-Fabs decade. ...
Madonna: Madonna****; Like A Virgin***; True Blue**** (Maverick/Warner)
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 2001
THE MAKING of a modern icon – her first three LPs remastered with extra remixes. ...
Radiohead: Amnesiac (Parlophone)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
DISGUST, DESPERATION, desolation, derision – all of these were once key qualities in what constituted left-field/indie. From The Birthday Party to PiL, from Elvis Costello ...
Tim Buckley: The Dream Belongs To Me (Manifesto)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, July 2001
NO COMPILATION HAS ever been adequate to the task of representing Tim Buckley in his full groove, strangeness and charm; this is a man responsible ...
Retrospective by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, July 2001
GENE CLARK'S NO OTHER IS ONE OF THE GREAT LOST ALBUMS. ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2001
First six studio albums plus Tennant's extra ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, July 2001
13 of the 30-odd albums released in the his lifetime: five twofers from the Sixties, an expanded 30th anniversary edition of his 1971 classic and ...
Butthole Surfers: Crust Of A Wave
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
THEY STARTED musical life riding the first wave of US punk rock in the early Eighties, Texans purveying lo-fi snotballs of geetar with titles like ...
Roy Harper: The Spirit Lives: Roy Harper
Retrospective and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
"I DON'T THINK I'm very good at interviews, because I have too many thoughts going off at the same time to be able to explain ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
Trip hop supremo Adrian Thawes returns, restored to health, and helped by guests Cyndi Lauper and Red Hot Chili Peppers ...
Travis: The Invisible Band (Independiente)****
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, August 2001
A FOLLOW-UP of quality and distinction, inventively produced ...
Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Boxed Set (Rhino)****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2001
MASSIVELY DETAILED retrospective packed with previously unreleased material ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2001
Two blasts of future freak-funk ...
Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, August 2001
MAC LADS' four-CD retrospective ...
Sly & The Family Stone: Sly Stone: Back On The Right Track*** and Ain't But The One Way*** (Warner)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
REISSUE OF Sylvester Stewart's last two albums to date ...
Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 2001
After he left Roxy Music in 1973, Brian Eno became a key figure in the development of electronic music – in the nineties, NME ...
Love, Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk
Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, August 2001
ONCE DESCRIBED by fellow band-member Brian MacLean as 'the baddest guy on the West Side of LA, the Cassius Clay of the streets' – Arthur ...
Ed Harcourt: Live at The Borderline, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, August 2001
THE SINGER-SONGWRITERLY hush of bookshops doesn't, it turns out, bring out the best in Ed Harcourt's combative soul. His recent Borders acoustic show may have ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, August 2001
THE LIGHTS go down, and they amble onstage, gradually gathering together in a scrum, or pow wow. ...
Blue Oyster Cult: Blue Oyster Cult/Tyranny & Mutation/Secret Treaties/Agents Of Fortune
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2001
WITH ITS de rigueur darkside lyrics, bugaboo blues-monster riffs, and hypermacho pose-striking, heavy metal was always the dumbest member of the rock family. ...
John Oswald: Plunderphonics 69/96 (Fony)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
Sample Minded… Sampladelia run rampant from the USA ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2001
Wednesday Morning, 3am*/The Sounds Of Silence****/Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme***/Bookends*****/Bridge Over Troubled Water*** (All Columbia) Sixties folk-rock digitally done up and decorated with extra tracks ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2001
Hot from the States: hip hop meets electronica ...
Pernice Brothers: The World Won't End
Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, August 2001
SUN-BAKED melancholy from Boston ...
Beta Band, The: The Beta Band: Hot Shots II
Readers' Letters by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2001
Both Barrels Blazing - Follow-up to 1999's notoriously disowned eponymous debut ...
Luke Haines: The Oliver Twist Manifesto
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, September 2001
Solo debut from sometime Auteur, Black Box Recorder and Baader Meinhof pop terrorist. ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, September 2001
IT'S ALWAYS been easy to hate Radiohead, and I always have. There have been undeniable sparks of beauty on every album ('High And Dry' to ...
Roxy Music: Live at Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2001
BRYAN FERRY, surrounded by a dozen boa-trembling dancing girls on day release from Moulin Rouge, has sweaty armpits. This just doesn't happen! Or, at least, ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, September 2001
EIGHTIES SYNTH-POP revisited with soul and style. ...
Band, The: The Band: Wheels On Fire
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, September 2001
IN TERMS OF scale and impact, rock music was born during Dylan's 1965-6 world tour with a group called The Hawks. Dylan's rig was by ...
Prefab Sprout: The King Of Rock'n'Roll
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001
FOR SOMEONE who's only ever strived to bring a little wistful beauty into our pop lives, with an honest and artisan approach to the craft ...
Human League, The: The Human League: Are Friends Electro?
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001
JOANNE CATHERALL (the brunette one) has been relatively quiet throughout the interview, content to pick through her lunch while Susanne Sulley (the blonde one) and ...
Pavement, Preston School of Industry: Preston School of Industry: All This Sounds Gas (Domino)****
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2001
PAVEMENT FOUNDER member emerges from dark side of the Malkmus to release solo project, whose name derives from San Francisco-area reform school ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 2001
FROM CAMBERLEY petrol pump attendant to punk-soul supremo: GP's golden era repackaged and remastered. ...
Lilac Time, The: The Lilac Time: Compendium — The Fontana Trinity (Universal/Fontana)*****
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2001
FORTY-FOUR-TRACK twofer cherry-picked from first three albums – includes B-sides and rarities. ...
Doors, The: The Doors: Bright Midnight/Live In America (Elektra)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, September 2001
ONE BRIGHT MIDNIGHT: 2 songs from 1969 & 14 songs from 1970, a moment of magickal cusp, a genuine celebration, a true revelation, a breathtaking ...
Mercury Rev: Dream Of A Lifetime
Retrospective and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001
"WE WERE NEVER interested in placing ourselves, in saying that we were a band that started in the late Eighties and were the musical emissaries ...
Emmylou Harris: Anthology (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, September 2001
ALTHOUGH RARELY FORWARDED as a "woman in music" icon, it’s hard to think of a more exemplary career - male or female, consistent and daring ...
Mercury Rev: All Is Dream (V2)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, September 2001
THIS IS AN AFTER record in all senses: after loving the highs and lows and then learning to disavow that love, after going through the ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, September 2001
R&B production team turn out politically-infused black rock'n'soul album ...
Spiritualized: Let It Come Down (Spaceman)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, October 2001
"I WON’T GET TO Heaven the state I'm in," weeps Jason Pierce, but it sounds more like "I won't get as far as the Corn ...
Bob Dylan: Love And Theft (Columbia)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, October 2001
ON 1997’s Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan sounded like a man coming to accounts with himself, with the fact that anything from this point ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2001
AUGUST, 1969: Upstate New York. All along America's Eastern seaboard upright citizens of this great nation are starting to slowly stir from deep and uneventful ...
Handsome Family, The: The Handsome Family: Twilight
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2001
CALL IT WHAT you will – proto-country, Southern Gothic, backwoods noir, Americana, cow-punk, insurgent twang, murderous balladry, Appalachian folk. Whichever way you slice it, The ...
T. Rex: Electric Warrior (Universal)*****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2001
SEMINAL BOLAN breakthrough boogies again – remastered by Tony Visconti himself ...
James Brown: Live At The Apollo Volume II (Deluxe Edition) (Universal)****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 2001
UNEDITED REISSUE of legendary 1967 double album. ...
Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds: Ben Folds: Rockin' The Suburbs** (Epic)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 2001
FOR ALL the kick-ass live excitement and increasingly refined recorded achievements of his piano-led power trio, it was inevitable that the most musically literate pop ...
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, October 2001
BACK TO basics, and partial return to form, on 28th studio album ...
Spiritualized: Urban Spaced Man
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2001
ON LET IT Come Down, the latest and greatest Spiritualized album, Jason Pierce utilises some 100 musicians, among them choristers, gospel singers and entire brass ...
Book Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 2001
Marking the 10th anniversary of Nevermind, True relives a turbulent life in grunge and Gullick and Sweet share their photographs ...
Björk: Björk: Super Fairy Animal
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, October 2001
SHE'S NOT A bit how you'd think she'd be. From the public persona of song and video, you might reasonably expect effervescence, an explosive extravagance ...
New Order: Olympia Theatre, Liverpool
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2001
BY RIGHTS, they shouldn't be here at all. The acrimonious fallout from 1993's tempestuous Republic gouged a rift within New Order that seemed way beyond ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 2001
All the studio albums 1973-1981, digitally remastered with statistic-stuffed notes and bonus tracks previously only heard on 1994's Thank You For The Music box ...
23 Skidoo: Seven Songs, Urban Gamelan
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, November 2001
Audacious avant-funksters re-released ...
Cat Power, Lift To Experience: Cat Power/Lift To Experience: The Garage, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2001
IT STARTS WITH guitars screaming, and ends in a whisper. The sadistic social experiment of putting Lift To Experience's apocalyptic Texan assault second on the ...
ABC: Martin Fry: When Martin Sings…
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2001
"IT WAS GREAT doing interviews when I first started, cos I'd just tell everyone what a brilliant, worldwide phenomenon ABC were going to be as ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, November 2001
THE FORMER BYRD RECENTLY TOURED EUROPE WITH CROSBY, PEVAR, RAYMOND – RAYMOND BEING HIS SON JAMES, WITH WHOM HE WAS REUNITED IN 1995 – TO ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, November 2001
VOCALLY GYMNASTIC British tunesmith overcomes that difficult-second-album syndrome... ...
Bangles, The: The Bangles: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2001
THE FACT that these four LA women played their own instruments was much remarked upon in the Eighties, as was Susanna Hoffs' beauty. But as ...
Songdog: Live at Borders, Oxford Street, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2001
SONGDOG'S LYNDON Morgans is unusually nervous before he starts to sing in the neutral atmosphere of this Uncut-sponsored gig. He knows most of the crowd ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2001
LATEST TWO-CD album from ageing boy genius shows hints of classical influence ...
Miles Davis: Live At The Fillmore East (March 7,1970): It's About That Time (Columbia/Legacy)****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2001
FIERCE PRE-Bitches Brew live date at a rock venue. ...
Starsailor: Love Is Here (EMI Chrysalis)****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2001
MUCH-TOUTED debut from new kings of pain. ...
Garbage: Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom)*****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2001
THIRD AND arguably best album yet from Madison's finest. ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2001
AMBIENT, HINDU-influenced, mystical jazz-rock spectacular. ...
Pulp: We Love Life (Island}*****
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, November 2001
After scrapped sessions and a delayed release date, Cocker & Co follow up 1998's This Is Hardcore, with Scott Walker at the controls ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2001
New York new wave pop pasticheurs repackaged ...
Jay-Z: The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
Sixth album from Brooklyn rap don ...
Cure, The: The Cure: The Cure Greatest Hits (Mercury) ****
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2001
GALORE UPDATED: more jam-smeared love muffin, vicar? ...
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, December 2001
CLASSIC WEST coast sounds direct from Vancouver. ...
Soft Cell: The Twelve Inch Singles (Mercury)****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 2001
TRIPLE CD pack of seminal sleazefests. ...
X: Los Angeles *****; Wild Gift ****; Under The Big Black Sun **** (Rhino/Warners)
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, December 2001
REMASTERED, EXPANDED reissues from the dark heart of California. ...
Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong — Live Recordings (Parlophone) ***
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2001
JAZZWANK ROADSHOW goes nuclear. ...
Michael Jackson: Off The Wall*****, Thriller**** and Bad**** (Epic)
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2001
RE-RELEASED SOLO albums include interviews with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton plus demos and unreleased tracks. ...
Miles Davis: The Complete 'In A Silent Way' Sessions (Columbia/Legacy)****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001
ANOTHER EPISODE in Columbia's complete reissue programme ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED ...
Black Sabbath: The Complete '70s Replica CD Collection 1970-78
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
THE MYSTERY OF THE RIFF – so crucial to rock, so oddly neglected by critics. ...
Tindersticks: Live at Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 2001
THE ALBERT Hall was surely built for Tindersticks. Actually, no, I've just done some in-depth historical research and it was built for other reasons, but ...
Jackie Leven: Live at Borders Bookshop, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, December 2001
THE BIG denim-clad man sat in front of a generous generation-spanning audience looks at home surrounded by shelves full of books. This is to be ...
Scritti Politti: Everything's Gone Green
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2001
David Stubbs on Scritti Politti's subversive pop-soul masterpiece, Songs To Remember ...
Little Feat: Snakes On Everything
Retrospective by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, December 2001
FOR A FEW moments, it sounded just like old times. Little Feat were rolling unhurriedly through 'Day Or Night', embellishing it with their traditional lopsided ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Electronic Cabaret
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2001
BEHIND THE perky peroxide quiff and gym-toned body, Marc Almond is shitting himself. Almost two decades have passed since he last performed under the Soft ...
Paul Gorman: In Their Own Write: Adventures In The Music Press
Book Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001
Perceptive, hysterical history of rock journalism — from the horses' mouths ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Various Compilations
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
From post-punk to dance crossover: Sheffield pioneers' mid-Eighties revisited The Original Sound Of Sheffield — The Best Of The Virgin/EMI Years Conform To Deform — The Virgin/EMI ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001
Twenty-album reissue programme commemorates a great Sixties label ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series, Volume One — The Quine Tapes
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001
Audience recordings of rare live gigs from 1969 ...
Review and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, December 2001
COLIN MACINTYRE on his messages from the edge of the world. ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, January 2002
BIZARRE BUT brilliant New York "anti-folk" singer. ...
Cowboy Junkies: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, January 2002
ARGUABLY, TORONTO'S Cowboy Junkies were the Neil Armstrong of alt.country. Their Trinity Session album of '88, recorded live in a church, dragged the forlorn mannerisms ...
Handsome Family, The: The Handsome Family: Live at The Barbican, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2002
RENNIE SPARKS looks like a deep sea diver plucked out of water as she accompanies her husband on the miraculous 'Weightless Again'. There's a tube ...
Ryan Adams: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, January 2002
I SAW rock'n'roll's future and its name is… all right, calm down everybody. ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road (1965-1973) (Rhino/Warner Bros) *****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002
THE GRATEFUL DEAD are probably the most puzzling enigma in rock history. ...
Paul McCartney: Driving Rain (Parlophone)
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002
ROCKIN' MACCA goes for live spontaneity. ...
So Solid Crew: They Don't Know (Independiente/Relentless)****
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, January 2002
Distinctive debut from UKG crew with colourful personal lives ...
Michael Jackson: Invincible (Epic)**
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, January 2002
Distressingly dull comeback from disputed King Of Pop ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, January 2002
Second decade of hits and myths from La Ciccone — but no 'American Pie' ...
Pink Floyd: Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002
Long-awaited greatest hits package from English progressive legends ...
John Coltrane: Live Trane: The European Tours (Pablo)****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, February 2002
MASSIVE BOX set of Coltrane's classic quartet in action. ...
Prince: The Rainbow Children (Redline Import) **
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, February 2002
SQUIGGLE GOES cosmo-Biblical. ...
Chemical Brothers, The: Chemical Brothers: Come With Us (Freestyle Dust/Virgin)***
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 2002
PSYCHEDELIA-TINGED fourth offering from Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, featuring Beth Orton and Richard Ashcroft ...
Cornelius: Point (Matador)****
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2002
ECLECTO-POP renaissance ape goes forward to the past on second worldwide release ...
Manassas: The Feast Of Stephen
Retrospective by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, February 2002
ADAM SWEETING ON MANASSAS, STEPHEN STILLS' GROUNDBREAKING 1972 MIX OF COUNTRY AND ROCK ...
Beatles, The, George Harrison: George Harrison
Obituary by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2002
'You know, life flows on within you and without you'– George Harrison ...
The Cash Brothers: Matt & Phred's Jazz Club, Manchester
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, February 2002
A SPARKLING jewel of one of Uncut's Unconditionally Guaranteed CD covermounts – along with star billing on the Loose 2 compendium – was The Cash ...
Paul Weller: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2002
HE COMES on jaunty, with a skip in his step, looking cool, refreshed, dapper, an upbeat northern soul soundtrack still ringing round the hall. He ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, February 2002
SPIKY, POST-punk-inspired indie pop from Texas. ...
Profile and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2002
FROM ALCOHOLIC to restaurateur to emotive songsmith ...
Kelly Joe Phelps: Beat The Devil
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, February 2002
KELLY JOE Phelps is on stage at the Knitting Factory in New York City, one month after the World Trade Center's destruction, in front of ...
Goldfrapp: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2002
GOLDFRAPP, WHO like The Dandy Warhols have reason to be grateful to mobile phone ads, remain an enigma, despite burgeoning popularity. ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, February 2002
Perverse selection – from New York Dolls to Gonads, Buzzcocks to Toy Dolls — misses chance to be definitive summary ...
Centro-matic: Distance And Clime
Review and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, February 2002
PROLIFIC LO-FI Texans have tape recorders at the ready ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2002
"TELL YOU WHAT we watched the other night," mumbles Guy Garvey into the mic, while tuning up onstage between two intensely moving songs. "The Last ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2002
STROKES? STRIPES? Fougeddabouddit! The swedes rock loudest. ...
Jim O'Rourke: The Art Of Noise
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2002
HEAR AN EXPERIMENTAL, ELECTRONIC RECORD THESE DAYS AND CHANCES ARE IT WILL HAVE CHICAGOAN JIM O'ROURKE'S NAME ON IT. ROB HUGHES MEETS THE 21ST CENTURY ...
Steely Dan: Decadent Diversions
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2002
IAN MacDONALD ON STEELY DAN'S DARK HORSE, GAUCHO ...
Spoon: Britt Daniel: The Borderline, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, March 2002
Spoon's Girls Can Tell was near to being last year's best album. It compressed new wave melodies and twitching post-punk rhythms into songs of pristine ...
Crosby Stills Nash and Young: Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2002
LONDON: DECEMBER, 1968. Moscow Road, Bayswater, just off the rowdy casbah din of Queensway with its hippie boutiques, bars, restaurants, buzzing crowds. There are three ...
Outkast: OutKast: Kicking up a Stank (Arista) *****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2002
Best of dirty South rappers' first three albums interspersed with new material ...
Papa M: Whatever, Mortal (Domino)****
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, March 2002
PRE-EMINENT US underground guitarist makes gothic country breakthrough. ...
Ramones, The: Joey Ramone: Don't Worry About Me (Sanctuary) ****
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, March 2002
HIS LONG-awaited solo album, posthumously released. ...
Tanya Donnelly: Beautysleep (4AD) ****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2002
LONG-AWAITED second album from former Throwing Muses/Belly star. ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2002
Star-Spangled Bummer: Record of benefit concert/telethon for victims of September 11 ...
XTC: A Coat Of Many Cupboards (Virgin) ****
Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, April 2002
FOUR-CD box set offers alternative history of quintessentially English pop group. ...
Billy Bragg: England, Half English (Cooking Vinyl)****
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2002
FIRST ORIGINAL album in six years from Bard of Barking, celebrating joys of collaboration and national diversity ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2002
YOUR NAME IS Sting. You are the planet's biggest rock star. But lately you don't like what you see in the mirror. You seem to ...
Brian Wilson: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, April 2002
IT'S PRETTY impressive for a 60-year-old who's spent most of the past three decades in rock's twilight zone. A three-hour show comprising hits, album cuts ...
Who, The: The Who: The Colosseum, Watford
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2002
'Tonight's show has The Who attacking and understanding their legacy more pointedly than at any time in the past 20 years' ...
Retrospective by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, April 2002
HOW STEVE EARLE'S GUITAR TOWN BROUGHT A NEW ATTITUDE TO NASHVILLE. ...
Sound, The: The Sound: Destiny Stops Screaming
Retrospective by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2002
IT'S THE STUFF OF ROCK MYTH. GREAT MUSIC, CRITICAL ACCLAIM, A BLIGHTED CAREER THAT ENDS IN SUICIDE. CHRIS ROBERTS LOOKS BACK ON THE TRAGIC STORY ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2002
'PASTORAL' ENGLISHMEN become the toast of Tennessee. ...
Factory Records and 24 Hour Party People
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2002
THEY SAID IT could never happen again. But here we are, trapped in a recurring dream. A chilly Friday night in a cavernous warehouse in ...
Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2002
LAUGH ALONG to the post-rocking German boffins. ...
Pete Shelley, Howard Devoto: Shelley-Devoto: The Odd Couple
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, April 2002
YOU HAVE BEEN parachuted into the middle of 1976. Text messaging, Hear'Say and Osama Bin Laden belong to an unknowable future, but The Sex Pistols ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2002
Second phase of Bonus-packed reissue programme for Costello catalogue ...
Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G.: Gangsta Scrap: Nick Broomfield’s Biggie And Tupac
Film/DVD Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2002
Suge Knight: the new Al Capone? Exposing the truth behind the Rap Wars ...
New Order: 24 Hour Party People: Faç Or Fiction?
Film/DVD Review by David Dalton, Uncut, May 2002
Directed by Michael Winterbottom; Starring Steve Coogan, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, John Simm Opens April 5, Cert 15, 110 mins**** ...
Bryan Ferry: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk: Bryan Ferry
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
AFTER LAST YEAR'S TRIUMPHANT REUNION TOUR WITH ROXY MUSIC, THE KING OF COOL RETURNS WITH A NEW SOLO ALBUM, FRANTIC, FEATURING SONGS INSPIRED BY MARILYN, ...
Grant-Lee Phillips, Grant Lee Buffalo: Grant-Lee Phillips
Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
MICHAEL STIPE'S favourite band, Grant Lee Buffalo released four critically acclaimed albums through the mid-to late-Nineties, plus last year's "Best Of", Storm Hymnal. ...
Mull Historical Society: The Scala, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2002
THERE ARE blow-up sheep hanging from the ceiling, choirboys waiting in the wings and a brass section on stage, all auxiliary members of the rebel ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2002
ON HIS SECOND LP, Home, Nashville-based Nebraskan Josh Rouse seemed to favour the brass-brushed country-soul sound of friend and fellow citizen Kurt Wagner. But new ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
THE BEAUTY of it, and also the pain, is that you never know quite what to expect from Jack's live shows. Loose-cannon bohemians, within 10 ...
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Grand Stand
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
SPRING 2002, and in a swanky London hotel bar men in suits still do a double take when Kevin Rowland walks past. They do that ...
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
David Stubbs commends Simple Minds' New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) ...
Jimi Hendrix: Why Are You Experienced is Rock's Greatest Debut Album
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
'WE'LL WATCH THE SUN RISE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA...' ...
A Certain Ratio: Early (Soul Jazz)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
BEFORE A CERTAIN Ratio there was The Pop Group but, the latter apart, no one can claim to have played an earlier role post-punk's then ...
13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic World Of The 13th Floor Elevators (Charly)****
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, May 2002
BOXED COMPENDIUM of acid-fried Texan mindbenders. Includes lives, outtakes and alternate cuts on three remastered CDs. ...
Pet Shop Boys: Release (Parlophone)***
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2002
ON THEIR seventh album proper, PSBs go songful at home with Johnny Marr. ...
Bryan Ferry: Frantic (Virgin) *****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
LIVELY RETURN to form on Roxy roue's 11th solo opus. ...
Badly Drawn Boy: About A Boy (XL) ***
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
LIGHTWEIGHT BRITFLICK score finds Mercury winner treading water. ...
Position Normal: Goodly Time (Rum) *****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2002
VINYL-ONLY second LP from art-rock samplers in exclusive handprinted sleeve. ...
Neil Young: Are You Passionate? (WEA) **
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2002
YOUNG GOES Stax, trips over shoe-laces. ...
Specials, The: The Specials: Reissues
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, May 2002
Digitally remastered and enhanced with two videos per disc, the Sound Of Young Coventry before The Streets ...
Buddy and Julie Miller: Buddy & Julie Miller
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2002
TEARS-IN-your-beer stuff from Nashville Mr and Mrs. ...
Report and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, June 2002
HEART-WRENCHING bedroom symphonies from Dublin. ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2002
TRAGEDY AND comedy from homecoming queen of heartbreak. ...
Pink Fairies, The, Larry Wallis: Larry Wallis: I Thought You Were Dead
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2002
ONCE LABELLED "Hank Marvin on acid", Wallis was vocalist/guitarist in seminal UK space-rockers the Pink Fairies, penning 1973's classic Kings Of Oblivion. ...
Comment by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2002
FORMER 10,000 Maniacs vocalist and lyricist on a record that changed her life: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust RCA 1972 ...
Tom Waits: Everything Goes To Hell
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2002
ON A SUNNY Californian morning, Tom Waits pulls his family-size Suburban Chevrolet into the car park of Santa Rosa's Flamingo Hotel and begins to unpack ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, September 2002
IF ALL YOU'VE ever seen of New Jersey is Newark airport or the bits they show you in the opening sequence of The Sopranos, you ...
Book Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, September 2002
MOST ROCK stars realise they need to plug the new album and stir up column inches when concert tickets go on sale, but eventually it ...
New Order: Move Festival, Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2002
SINCE SETTING aside old bones of contention four years ago, New Order's Indian summer has seemed one long, breathless, last-skitter-of-the-dice party. ...
David Bowie: Move Festival, Old Trafford, Manchester
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2002
WE'RE ALL primed for the set of Low and Heathen (in full) which he'd played in London the previous week. That'd do, of course: no ...
Roddy Frame: Surf (Redemption)****
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, September 2002
UNPLUGGED SOLO outing from Glaswegian Peter Pan. ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: Sincity — The Very Best Of The Flying Burrito Brothers (Universal)****
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, September 2002
ALTHOUGH THEY fit neatly into the silver-stitched seams on the patchwork quilt that became the country-rock heritage centre, The Flying Burrito Brothers were neither as ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Kid Creole: Calypso Facto
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 2002
OFF THE COAST OF ME***FRESH FRUIT IN FOREIGN PLACES*****TROPICAL GANGSTERS***DOPPELGANGER**(All Universal) ...
Liars: They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, September 2002
Sweet deceivers ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, September 2002
New Manchester duo fuse druggy songwriting and dance beats with astonishing results ...
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2002
IT'S EARLY 1987. Amid a fug of coke-induced paranoia, unruly punk misanthropists the Replacements have snuck back into the Minneapolis studio of Twin/Tone Records. Convinced ...
Death In Vegas: Scorpio Rising (BMG) ***
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2002
Brighter follow-up to 1999's The Contino Sessions, featuring Liam Gallagher and Paul Weller on vocals. ...
Who, The: The Who: My Generation Deluxe Edition (Polydor) ****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 2002
BEFORE NEW, larger sound systems ushered in rock in 1966-7, there was beat music, a tighter, more driving sound based on pushing club-scale amplification to ...
My Computer: MY COMPUTER: Vulnerabilia
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, October 2002
YOU COULD get the wrong impression about My Computer from Vulnerabilia, as raved about everywhere from Uncut ("the most original debut LP by a Manchester ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, October 2002
Northern white crap that talks back meets west London liberals: early-Eighties Fall on Rough Trade ...
Underworld: A Hundred Days Off (JBO) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2002
FIRST ALBUM by electronic dance act now a duo since departure of Darren Emerson ...
Spoon: Kill The Moonlight (12XU) ****
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, October 2002
FAST FOLLOW-UP to Texans' 2001 post-punk pop classic Girls Can Tell ...
Soft Cell: Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl) ****
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, October 2002
ORIGINAL CHEMICAL brothers make timely comeback ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2002
ROB HUGHES ON THE DARK AMERICAN GEM THAT WAS GREEN ON RED'S THIRD LP ...
Elvis Costello: Mighty Like A Rose
Retrospective by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2002
SUMMER 1991, AND Elvis Costello's kingdom was about to crumble. In the world outside, it was the year of Screamadelica, Nevermind, Blue Lines and dance ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2002
THE LAST THREE YEARS OF the decade he had to an almost unbelievable extent inspired and defined had been for John Lennon a sullen, hellish ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones Play With Fire
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2002
IF IT'S DIFFICULT to understand the initial impact of The Beatles without understanding the nature of their times and society, it's quite impossible to understand ...
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, December 2002
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002, and the battle lines are being drawn across Seattle. Flick the channels on your TV and you'll hear America speaking in one ...
Keith Richards, Rolling Stones, The: Keith Richards
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, December 2002
ON DECEMBER 18 next year, he'll celebrate, simultaneously, his 60th birthday and 20 years of marriage to Patti Hansen. He's a father of four, and ...
Josh T. Pearson: Upstairs At The Spitz, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, December 2002
YOU CAN'T SEE his fearsome, feral face any more. It's covered by a beard so vast and wild at first you think Josh Pearson's become ...
Goldfrapp: Black Cherry (Mute)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2003
JUST WHEN WE thought there was nothing left in the moribund corpse of trip-hopping soundtrack Euromuzak, along came Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory to breathe ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2003
AH MANHATTAN, so much to answer for – and so in vogue as a rock metropolis after decades as a Hip Hop Mecca. Yes New ...
Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears (Lost Highway)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2003
IT STARTS WITH A shivery vibrato guitar, straight off one of those '60s New York soul ballads – Betty Harris' 'Cry To Me', perhaps, or ...
Fleetwood Mac: Say You Will (Reprise)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2003
MORE THAN most bands, Fleetwood Mac elicit complex, unresolved feelings. On the one hand they're the ultimate mainstream soft-rock dinosaur, pass masters of glossy emotions ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2003
A concise guide to the Williams oeuvre before World Without Tears ...
Steely Dan: Curbing Their Enthusiasm: Steely Dan
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2003
THIS IS TOO, TOO PERFECT: Steely Dan strolling into a sleek hotel suite in Santa Monica, the Pacific Ocean sparkling through the window behind them. ...
Pink Floyd: The Making of The Final Cut
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2003
AT THE end of 1979, when Pink Floyd released The Wall, they were at the height of their fame and glory. A double album, it ...
Pink Floyd: The Making of Dark Side Of The Moon
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2003
ROGER WATERS (BASS, VOCALS, VCS3, TAPE EFFECTS, LYRICS) ...
Blondie, Debbie Harry: Deborah Harry
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 2003
YOU'RE LOOKING as fabulous as ever, Ms Harry. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2003
CAN THIS REALLY be Manchester? Two days have passed since thousands of Italian footie fans flooded the city for the Champs' League Final and the ...
Neil Young: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2003
SO HE hasn't made a truly compelling record since 1994's Sleeps With Angels. So he's been treading water with sleepy albums like Silver and Gold ...
Yoko Ono, John Lennon: The Ballad of John & Yoko
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, September 2003
IT'S THE summer of 1969, and John and Yoko are in bed in room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal. They are in their ...
Gillian Welch: Soul Journey (Acony)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2003
GILLIAN WELCH, with her hard 'G', is indisputably a Good Thing. Tall and gawky, decidedly non-photogenic, Gillian gives hope to all of us who contend ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2003
SOMEHOW IT WAS inevitable that the Chemical Brothers – those High Priests of the rock/dance interface – would one day work with Oklahoma City's Finest. ...
Japan, David Sylvian: David Sylvian
Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2003
So, David Sylvian, you live halfway up a mountain in New England?"That's the way it is", laughs the singer (and yes, he does laugh. Asked ...
Love: The Forever Changes Concert
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2003
FOREVER CHANGES is one of those "classic" albums that should have dated but miraculously hasn't. Heavy-handedly paranoid, the product of a strange rock/soul miscegenation, quaintly ...
Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Summer 2003
IT MAKES some kind of super furry sense that Phantom Power - coming after the homegrown, lo-fi Mwng and the big-budget, all-bells-and-whistles Rings Around The ...
Bob Dylan, Band, The: Million Dollar Bash: Dylan and The Band
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Fall 2003
A LOT OF MUSICIANS have played with Bob Dylan over the last forty-odd years, but none of them has quite had the special relationship with ...
Courtney Love: America’s Sweetheart
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
Lady Cobain emerges from rehab to release her debut solo album. ...
Monkees, The: The Monkees: Head
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
The "Prefab Four" star in self-deconstructing Help!-on-acid, scripted by joker Jack Nicholson. ...
Outkast: OutKast: Speakboxxx/The Love Below (Arista)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
THE YIN AND YANG of epicene dandy André 3000 and straight-up, pit-bull-ownin’ Big Boi may yet prove OutKast’s undoing. If so, the duo at least ...
Hüsker Dü: Zen Arcade (SST, 1984)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
IF PUNK WAS inherently anti-double-album, early ‘80s hardcore had no such qualms about going into extra time. When mighty Minneapolitans Hüsker Dü journeyed to the ...
Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, The: The Achievement of Madness: Performance
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
PERFORMANCE only gets better with the passing years. A key late ‘60s text, Donald Cammell and Nic Roeg’s film brings two Swinging London worlds together ...
Wasn’t Born to Follow: Easy Rider
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
THE COUNTERCULTURE B-movie that went overground and kick-started the rebellious auteurism of ‘70s Hollywood, Easy Rider is at once mildly dated and compellingly authentic. ...
Charlatans, The (US): The Charlatans: San Francisco 1969
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
Reissue of the trailblazing Haight-Ashbury band’s official but very belated debut. ...
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (Motown, 1976)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
BERRY GORDY’S former boy genius already had a string of single-album masterpieces under his belt when he put his signature on summer ‘76 with this ...
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (CBS, 1966)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
RADICAL AND then some: a double album in ‘66, with a blurred vertical Bob running horizontally across the sleeve and Nashville sessionmen playing behind a ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
BEFORE THE TRIP starts, an earnest middle-aged voice warns us that we’re about to witness "a shocking commentary on a prevalent trend of our time". ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
SUSAN (The Trip) Strasberg is a deaf Carole Chaplin döppelganger at large in Haight-Ashbury in this hilariously inept 1968 "look" at the counterculture. Jack Nicholson, ...
Television: Marquee Moon (Expanded); Adventure (Expanded) (Rhino)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2004
BEFORE THE Sex Pistols there was New York's Lower East Side: trash aesthetes with short hair, kinky vixens in B-movie stilettos. Kids with minor drug ...
Big Star: Big Star Story (Rykodisc)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2004
Mildly unsatisfactory smattering of tracks by genius Memphis quartet/trio – the acme of twisted '70s power pop. ...
Moby Grape: Crosstalk: The Best of Moby Grape (Sony Music UK)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2004
YOU COULD SAY it was all there in the name: Melville’s white whale meets Dionysus, with suitably catastrophic results. But Californian quintet Moby Grape, the ...
James Brown: Super Bad: James Brown
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2004
JAMES BROWN’S road manager Charles Bobbitt takes me to one side and places a friendly paw on my forearm. ...
Fleetwood Mac Go Their Own Way
Live Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 2004
There's a hip young gunslinger of Uncut's acquaintance in the audience tonight who normally writes about futuristic electronic dance music for a well-known weekly music ...
Lambchop: Tracks of His Tears: Kurt Wagner and Lambchop
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, April 2004
IT’S KURT Wagner who spots The Nipple. ...
Chi-Lites, The: The Chi-Lites: The Complete Chi-Lites on Brunswick, Vols. 1 and 2 (Edsel)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2004
Definitive comp of Windy City vocal-group soulsters beloved of Tony Soprano. ...
Kaleidoscope: Pulsating Dream: The Epic Recordings (Acadia/Evangeline)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2004
The complete ‘66-’70 works of insanely eclectic LA ensemble beloved of Jimmy Page. ...
Jim White: Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus ****
Film/DVD Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, July 2004
SHOWING FOR A limited time at London's National Film Theatre prior to an airing on television this is film-maker Andrew Douglas' road trip through America's ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 2004
HIGH IS THE BLUE NILE'S fourth album in twenty one years. It is – and shame on you if you doubted – worth the wait. ...
Faces, The: Last Orders: The Faces’ Five Guys Walk Into a Bar… (Rhino)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2004
Ian McLagan-compiled 4-CD box of scattered odds/sods from ultimate ‘70s boogie’n’ballads lad-band fronted by Rod the (Ex-)Mod. Dedicated to the late Ronnie Lane. ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2004
AT NO POINT during this interview do any of us snort intoxicants off the spines of tawny hookers or clamber naked to the top of ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
JUST HOW SERIOUSLY can you take the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Or am I missing the point? ...
Associates, The: Boys Keep Swinging: The Associates’ Singles
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
All the 45s from the sublime Scottish duo who briefly threatened to run away with the ‘80s pop circus. ...
Saints, The: The Saints: All Times Through Paradise (EMI)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
4-CD box set of bolshy Ozpunks' three late '70s albums and unreleased Live in London set from late '77, plus numerous out/alternate takes, B-sides and ...
Incredible String Band, The: The Incredible String Band/The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
THE FIRST ISB albums in a two-fer-one release. The ISB (1966) is a more-or-less conventional Scots-trad folk effort by the original trio of Robin Williamson, ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
PRE-"YOU’RE SO Vain" and pre-marriage-to-James-Taylor, the leggy and large-mouthed Park Avenue Jewess made two pleasant 1971 albums of melodiously laid-back adult pop. LA-flavoured and sprinkled ...
Dillards, The: The Dillards: Pickin’ and Fiddlin’/Wheatstraw Suite/Copperfields
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
WHEN DOUGLAS and Rodney Dillard’s quartet hit Los Angeles in 1963 they blew everyone’s minds. Playing bluegrass with fuck-you rock’n’roll attitude, they wasted the competition ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
THE 1967 departure of BB Band axedude Mike Bloomfield provided fellow Windy City man Elvin Bishop with the chance to come in and revamp Paul ...
Earth Opera: Earth Opera/The Great American Eagle Tragedy
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
THE NAME suggested some frightful prog entity, but Earth Opera were essentially Boston bluegrassers Peter Rowan and David Grisman, a pair intent on chucking tradition ...
Judy Collins: Judy Collins 3/In Concert
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
ARGUABLY THE best female folk voice of the age, Judy Collins brought a fresh commercial edge to the early ‘60s East Coast folk revival. Her ...
Burrito Deluxe: The Whole Enchilada
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
Inoffensive country rock featuring original Burrito Brother Sneaky Pete Kleinow plus Band deity Garth Hudson on keyboards. ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
Two-CD set of mainly live jazz-folk genius from the early ‘70s to the mid-‘90s, with bonus DVD interview from last year. ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
Third set from Sussex singer-songwriter and follow-up to last year’s acclaimed From Every Sphere. ...
Teenage Fanclub: Various Artists: What a Concept! A Salute to Teenage Fanclub
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
HOW DO WE love Teenage Fanclub? Let us count the ways on this fine tribute album, which consists of 24 mainly Yank versions of Fannies ...
Jeff Buckley: Grace (Legacy Edition) (Columbia)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2004
Remastered version of the original 1994 album with second CD of outtakes/rarities and DVD of Grace vids and footage of Buckley in Bearsville, New York. ...
Elvis Costello & The Imposters: The Delivery Man (Mercury)***
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, November 2004
EMERGING FROM AN uneven middle period of marital discord, free-range experimentation and ill-advised beards, the artist formerly known as Declan MacManus appears to have upped ...
U2 and the Making of Achtung Baby
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, November 2004
TOYKO, LATE 1993, somewhere in the fast-forward blur of the dying 20th century. As the biggest, loudest, most expensive and technically ambitious rock tour in ...
Elliott Smith: From a Basement on the Hill (Domino)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2004
WHEN ELLIOTT SMITH died last year, he left behind a large number of tracks from which he was assembling the follow-up to 2000's Figure 8. ...
Elliott Smith: Shooting Star: Elliott Smith
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2004
A YEAR AGO I was sitting in the Los Angeles living room of Mr. Roger Steffens, curator of a huge Bob Marley archive that was ...
Tom Waits: Real Gone (Anti/Epitaph)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2004
SINCE IT’S HARD and possibly verboten to say a bad word about Tom Waits, unholy shaman of whacked-out Americana, I’ll content myself with expressing a ...
Obituary by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2004
LONG BEFORE we met, John Peel felt like a good friend. For those millions of us who spent our adolescence glued to his late-night radio ...
Sufjan Stevens: Sufjian Stevens: Illinois
Review by Andy Gill, Uncut, 2005
IN AN AGE when the commercial imperative has reduced the notion of ideal musical production to one of recycling old techno riffs, slapping a treated ...
Streets, The: The Streets: The Hardest Way To Make A Living (679) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, 2005
MIKE SKINNER'S EXISTENCE has been transformed by success and fortune. It's a fortune accrued by observing, in startlingly prosaic detail, a life of Wetherspoons and ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers, Wailers, The: The Wailers: Burnin’ (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong/Island)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2005
CATCH A FIRE set the world alight but Burnin’ got it blazing. By the time Eric Clapton took the album’s ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ to ...
Mercury Rev: The Secret Migration (V2)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2005
Follow-up to 2001's All Is Dream, recorded in the band's own Kingston studio by the core Rev trio of Jonathan Donahue, Grasshopper and Jeff Mercel. ...
Brian Jones, Rolling Stones, The: Brian Jones: The Life Of Brian
Retrospective by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2005
IT'S CLOSE to midnight on Wednesday, July 2, 1969, and Brian Jones is dead in the deep end of his swimming pool. ...
Tom Waits: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2005
SO MANY desperate, disappointed people loitered without hope outside the Apollo for this show that one felt vaguely ashamed being in possession of a ticket. ...
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2005
Funky-go-lucky yin to the mournful Drake-meets-Gainsbourg yang of Sea Change. ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, April 2005
LATE LAST YEAR Rufus Wainwright was a guest on Tom Robinson's BBC6 radio show, answering questions about music, life and celebrity while pointedly avoiding allusion ...
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, Uncut, April 2005
UNTIL RECENTLY, Judee Sill and her two Asylum albums were all but forgotten. Her story is so tragic as to be nearly unbelievable, the antithesis ...
Jimmy Webb: Almost Blue: Jimmy Webb
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2005
JIMMY WEBB is sad. He looks around him at the world we inhabit and sees culture nose-diving everywhere. Subtlety is squeezed, ambiguity flattened. People don’t ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2005
BY THE SMALL HOURS of Saturday morning, L.A.'s Koreatown district is hushed and still. The odd car rattles along Western Avenue, but most of the ...
Ry Cooder: Man of the World: Ry Cooder
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2005
RYLAND PETER COODER is a man out of time – at the very least a fish out of water. In London to promote his superb ...
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson: Winter in America (Charly)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2005
A MASTERWORK of ghetto melancholia and stark political gravitas, Winter in America showcases Scott-Heron and Jackson at their most witheringly unsentimental but also their most ...
Ry Cooder: Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2005
AFTER A DECADE of travels that's taken him from Timbuktu to Cuba, Ry Cooder has come home to shine a light on a shameful episode ...
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2005
MUCH HAS changed in the world of Chester Thompson, aka Frank Black, in the last two years. He's parted company from trusty sidekicks the Catholics, ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2005
GOLDFRAPP took a big chance when they abandoned the swoonsome muzak of 2001's Felt Mountain for the kinky machinery of 2003's glamtastic Black Cherry. Few ...
Elbow: Leaders of the Free World (V2)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2005
Third album from Mancunian quintet, self-produced at the city's Blueprint studio. ...
Scott Walker: Classics and Collectibles
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2005
THE SCOTT WALKER of the '60s and '70s - of Classics and Collectibles - is all about tragic grandeur colliding with Easy Listening: Bergman movies ...
Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: Singles As and Bs
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2006
DO YOU BELIEVE in the magic of a great pop song? The Lovin' Spoonful did. On 1965's jaunty 'Do You Believe In Magic', their first ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash/Daylight Again
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2006
CSN WAS BORN of dissolution, the fruit of fragmenting times. They kicked off a second wave of post-Sunset Strip/British Invasion music, loose affiliations of longhairs ...
Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, April 2006
THERE WAS SOMETHING so ultimate about the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, emphasized by its release in the last year of the 20th Century, you ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sultans Of Swamp
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, May 2006
LORD KNOWS, Lynyrd Skynyrd had seen it coming. On the flight from Florida to South Carolina, the band's Convair 240 tour plane had begun spewing ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, May 2006
MARCH 2006, and King Monkey is swinging from the ceiling of his record label offices, grinning as he tapes over the smoke alarm for an ...
Primal Scream, Stone Roses, The: Primal Scream: An interview with Mani
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, May 2006
LEGENDARY HEDONIST and bassman Gary 'Mani' Mounfield talks about Primal Scream, Roses reunion rumours and the "Mexican stand-off" between his former bandmates... ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, May 2006
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON is tough to nail. Uncut first catches him, fleetingly, en route to the airport at his home in Maui. ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2006
MARCH 2006, and in Liverpool feral rat-faced folk with the lean and hungry look seem to be everywhere. Junkies - on the street or selling ...
Stone Roses, The: The Resurrection of the Stone Roses: Ian's Story
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 2006
MARCH 2006, and King Monkey is swinging from the ceiling of his record label offices, grinning as he tapes over the smoke alarm for an ...
Dusty Springfield: Complete As and Bs
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2006
OF ALL THE overused terms that blight today’s pop culture, "icon" surely grates the most. In these inane post-Warhol times, everybody is an icon and ...
P. F. Sloan: The Stars That Fame Forgot: P. F. Sloan
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, August 2006
"P.F. Sloan gave us arguably the first real 'protest rock'. It wasn't folk music anymore, it was ROCK AND ROLL protest music. 'Eve of Destruction' ...
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2006
THERE WAS a time when Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop dwelled in the very eye of the alt.Americana hurricane: a folksy but literate Nashville troupe making highbrow ...
Raconteurs, The: The Raconteurs and the making of 'Steady, as She Goes'
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2006
IF EVER A record begged to be released on 7" vinyl it was the Raconteurs' 'Steady, as She Goes'. Redolent of an era when people ...
Free: "Your Average Bloke Chatting Up Your Average Chick": Free's 'All Right Now'
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2007
'ALL RIGHT NOW' is one of the quintessential cock-rockers – a cruder, more pub-rockish 'Whole Lotta Love'. It's the sound of the longhaired male predator ...
Neil Young: Live at the Fillmore East
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2007
IN THE CONTINUING absence of his Archives we clutch at any morsels dispensed from Neil Young's table. Long a live bootleg classic - as well ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2007
MUCH IS MADE of Lucinda Williams the writer, the poet of southern aches and pains. Time magazine called her "America's Best Songwriter" and the New ...
Tinariwen: Aman: Water Is Life
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2007
WHEN THEY FIRST formed in the Libyan guerilla camps of the late ‘70s, Tinariwen referred to their music simply as "guitar". And no wonder. Electric ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2007
BARTON LEE Hazlewood remains the cult artist's cult artist, an American maverick who's operated by his own supremely offbeat rules ever since producing Sanford Clark's ...
Grinderman, Nick Cave: Grinderman: Grinderman
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, April 2007
THE NEW NAME - the alter ego, the Bad Seeds doppelganger - sounds like some hideous Saw-style horror flick. Nick Cave recasts The Hitcher in ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2007
SO HIP THEY'RE passé, sexy geekboys Air continue to mine the seam of elegiac futurism wowed ten thousand ad executives back in '98. After the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 2007
JOE STRUMMER was a fascinating bunch of guys. The former Clash frontman was both romantic idealist and career opportunist, anarchist rebel and proud patriot, hippie ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2007
LISTEN TO NICK DRAKE with one ear and you'll hear a (self-)parody of the Sensitive Young Troubadour – the posh Poor Boy, long ways from ...
PJ Harvey: White Chalk (Island)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2007
IN THE AGE of Amy Winehouse it's worth remembering the shock that was Polly Jean Harvey when she blasted out of the West Country 15 ...
Band, The, Levon Helm: Levon Helm: Dirt Farmer
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2007
LEVON HELM was the southern heart of that essentially Canadian group The Band, the drummer/singer/mandolinist who gave Robbie Robertson's songs their corn-starch authenticity. Helm it ...
Robert Plant, Alison Krauss: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, 2008
THE PAIRING OF the wily old tomcat and the classy country thrush turns out as magically in reality as it seemed unlikely on paper. ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Yoko Ono: Special Occasions
Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, January 2008
THOUGHTS FROM YOKO ONO ON THE EVE OF JOHN LENNON'S BIRTHDAY (OCTOBER 9, 2007) IN ICELAND, WHERE SHE INAUGURATED THE IMAGINE PEACE TOWER IN HIS ...
Beach Boys, The: Mister Optimism: Mike Love Talks
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2008
OVER 45 YEARS have passed since three Californian brothers and their first cousin formed a rocking little combo that harmonized angelically on classic songs about ...
Adele: The Great White Hype: Adele's 19
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2008
SOME DAYS it feels like we've time-traveled back to the early Eighties, when every other month coughed up a new BEST WHITE SOUL VOICE YOU'VE ...
Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch (Reprise)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2008
Tom Petty's glorified Florida bar band gets around to cutting its debut album after 35 years. ...
Ry Cooder: I, Flathead (Nonesuch)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2008
Final instalment of Cooder's "trilogy" time-traveling back to '40's/'50s California, here exploring a lost world of steel guitarists and salt-flat drag racers. Comes complete with ...
Little Feat: Album By Album: Little Feat
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2008
Lowell George was a Hollywood one-off: a swarthy movie-brat beatnik with a white-negro larynx and a keeningly sensual slide-guitar style. In late '69 he formed ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Reissues
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2008
40th Anniversary editions of the first six platters by John Fogerty's Bay Area swamp-billies, complete with bonus tracks and authoritative liners. ...
Kings of Leon: Kings Of Leon: Only By The Night
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, October 2008
WHEN THE KINGS Of Leon recorded their Holy Roller Novocaine EP in 2002, they were musical novices ranging in age from 15 to 22, but ...
Gillian Welch: Gilllian Welch: Revival/Hell Among the Yearlings/Time (the Revelator)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2009
Reissues of first three albums by the high priestess of "American Primitive" and partner David Rawlings. ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Film/DVD Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2009
CHAS CHANDLER, whose avuncular Geordie tones weave in and out of this absorbing "Making Of" doc, recalled the sessions for Electric Ladyland as "a long-drawn-out ...
Specials, The: The Specials 2009. But Where's Jerry?
Report and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, April 2009
SLIGHTLY DOWNWIND of Pentonville Prison in a north London photographer's studio, six Specials are posing for their first pictures since 1981. ...
U2: Remembering The Unforgettable Fire
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2009
YOU TOO COULD love U2, if you could only transport yourself back to a time when their fundamental pomposity and crusading bad faith weren't such ...
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music
Film/DVD Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2009
4-DVD, 2-Blue-Ray set comprising the original 1970 documentary of the ultimate rock festival, with two hours of new footage plus a new 50-minute documentary about ...
Levon Helm, Band, The: The Shape I'm In: Levon Helm
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2009
IF LEVON HELM'S studios have a Green Room, then this must be it. A ramshackle den leading off a homely wooden kitchen, it's currently crawling ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2009
WE'RE COMING to the end of a punishingly intense set by the Dead Weather, the second side-project band formed by Jack White of the White ...
Nazz, The, Todd Rundgren: Todd Rundgren: Album By Album
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2009
TODD RUNDGREN IS the Philadelphia-born whizzkid who could and should have been the biggest star of the '70s. Next month the man John Lennon referred ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Album by Album: Rickie Lee Jones
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2009
THOUGH SHE will always carry the pop albatross that was her Top 5 hit 'Chuck E's in Love' (1979), Rickie Lee Jones remains one of ...
Gillian Welch, David Rawlings: Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2010
ANYONE WHO EVER felt that David Rawlings hid his light under Gillian Welch's bushel – never getting the full credit he merited as her partner ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex, T. Rex, Marc Bolan: Reborn to Boogie: Marc Bolan
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010
THERE IS ONLY one Starman in the room right now and his name is David Bowie. Flying high after his Top 5 astral novelty hit ...
David Bowie: Turn and Face The Strange: David Bowie and the Making Of Hunky Dory
Retrospective by Bill DeMain, Uncut, April 2011
JANUARY, 1971. There was trouble in outer space. Major Tom's signal was growing fainter by the day. And Ziggy Stardust was still an undefined blip ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2011
Tenth solo album from Saint Nick ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, November 2011
LESLIE FEIST'S career path has been a zigzag. The Nova Scotia-born, Toronto-based artist played guitar with rapper Peaches (who nicknamed her Bitch Lap Lap) and ...
Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm: Drawn From Life
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, 2013
Mid-life mellowness from ambient Zen master and fellow eggheads ...
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