UNCUT - 1 Mai 2025
THE LAST STAND OF SMALL FACES
PLUS!
THESE NEW PURITANS
BOOTSY COLLINS
THE POGUES
SUZANNE VEGA
SLADE
PINK FLOYD
MAY 2025 TAKE 338
A reappraisal of 1975’s Metal Machine Music – four sides of sonic manipulation that almost destroyed a career
Including: The Blasters, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ginger Baker Trio, Jeff Bridges, Julee Cruise, Motörhead, Royal Trux
Including: Kassi Valazza, Bon Iver, Benmont Tench, Hawkwind, William Tyler, Salif Keita
Quietly influential, the former Galaxie 500 mainstay discusses his new solo album
1995: Melody Maker joins Oxford’s finest on tour with REM in the USA
To Essex, and a meeting with the electro-rock/classical experimentalists
P-funk’s talismanic showman recalls glory days and misadventures
David Johansen, Slade In Flame, Oasis, Keith Jarrett, Florist
As posthumous comp The Autumn Stone is revamped, Kenney Jones and others recall the band’s tumultuous final year
Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii, Neil Young, John & Yoko
Mike Campbell, The Shangri-las, rock promotion
Jonathan Richman, Sturgill Simpson
The Making Of “Feed The Tree”
An Audience With
Plus the Uncut crossword
Peter Capaldi
Album By Album
Obituaries
Mr Burton and more
The latest earbuds
‘‘He was there first’’
‘‘He was there first’’
Flame on!
“They all had kind hearts”
A Quick One
I just wanna fly
I just wanna fly
Köln you dig it?
Florist
Uncut Playlist
I’M YOUR FAN
ON THIS MONTH’S CD
ON THIS MONTH’S CD
SUZANNE VEGA
SUZANNE VEGA
KASSI VALAZZA From Newman Street
RECOMMENDED LITTLE DOVES AND WILDEGEESES
SLEEVE NOTES
Q&A
WILLIAM TYLER Time Indefinite
WILLIAM TYLER Time Indefinite
William Tyler: “I mainly listen to classical music now” Q&A
BAMBARA Birthmarks BELLA UNION
TUNDE ADEBIMPE Thee Black Boltz
MIKI BERENYI TRIO Tripla BELLA UNION
DANIEL BRANDT
ANGEL BAT DAWID & NAIMA NEFERTARI Journey To Nabta Playa
BRIAN BILSTON & THE CATENARY WIRES Sounds Made By Humans SKEP WAX
BASIA BULAT Basia’s Palace SECRET CITY
THE FARM Let The Music (Take Control) MODERN SKY
DISLOCATION DANCE Road To Happiness MARINA
DAWN BROTHERS Cry Alone EXCELSIOR
CRAIG FINN Always Been TAMARAC/THIRTY TIGERS
LUCY DACUS Forever Is A Feeling GEFFEN
PHIL COOK
DEERHOOF Noble & Godlike In Ruin JOYFUL NOISE
DJO The Crux AWAL
BENMONT TENCH The Melancholy Season DARK HORSE
Q&A Benmont Tench: “My entire life had been the Heartbreakers”
SLEEVE NOTES
THEA GILMORE These Quiet Friends THEAGILMORE.NET
HAWKWIND
GOOSE Everything Must Go NO COINCIDENCE
HAWKWIND There Is No Space For Us CHERRY RED
EZRA FURMAN Goodbye Small Head BELLA UNION
WOLFGANG FLÜR
REBEKKA KARIJORD The Bell Tower BELLA UNION
RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON
JERRY DAVID DECICCA Cardiac Country SOPHOMORE LOUNGE
AMERICANA ROUND-UP
ED KUEPPER & JIM WHITE
FEMI KUTI Journey Through Life PARTISAN
LE VOLUME COURBE Planet Ping Pong DUOPHONIC SUPER 45S
PETER MURPHY Silver Shade METROPOLIS
MUMFORD & SONS Rushmere ISLAND
MEKONS Horror
MCLUSKY The World Is Still Here And So Are We IPECAC
LUCIUS Lucius FANTASY
THE NIGHTINGALES The Awful Truth FIRE
BON IVER Sable, Fable JAGJAGUWAR
SLEEVE NOTES
QUADE The Foel Tower AD93
LEE RANALDO & MICHAEL VALLERA Early New York Silver AMISH
ALEX REX The National Trust
PIDGINS Refrains Of The Day, Vol 2 LEXICAL
ESTHER ROSE Want NEW WEST
SWAMI JOHN REIS Time To Let You Down SWAMI
RIALTO Neon And Ghost Signs FIERCE PANDA
Nda
EVAN PARKER The Heraclitean Two Step, Etc FALSE WALLS
EVAN PARKER
SALIF KEITA So Kono NO FORMAT!
Salif Keita: “For the first time, I allowed guitar to take centre stage”
SLEEVE NOTES
MÀIRI MORRISON & ALASDAIR ROBERTS WITH PETE JOHNSTON & FRIENDS
Q&A Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts: “The connection we had was very special”
SLEEVE NOTES
DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞIMŞEK Yarin Yoksa BIG CROWN
EMMAJEAN THACKRAY Weirdo BROWNSWOOD/PARLOPHONE
SONGDOG Mirabilia Mundi JUNKYARD SONGS
NEIL YOUNG Coastal REPRISE
SELF ESTEEM A Complicated Woman
SUMAC & MOOR MOTHER The Film THRILL JOCKEY
ΣTELLA Adagio SUB POP
MARLON WILLIAMS Te Whare Tīwekaweka SNOWBALL
SILVER SYNTHETIC Rosalie CURATION
PENELOPE TRAPPES A Requiem ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT
THE BLASTERS
THE BLASTERS
BLASTERS FROM THE PAST
SLEEVE NOTES
Q&A
LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES
LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES
Lonnie Liston Smith: “Everything
GINGER BAKER TRIO Going Back Home
BLUR The Magic Whip PARLOPHONE
SLEEVE NOTES
PAUL BRADY The Archive THE LAST MUSIC CO
TRACY CHAPMAN Tracy Chapman
JEFF BRIDGES
DAVID BOWIE Ready, Set, Go! Live, Riverside Studios ’03 PARLOPHONE
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
JEFF BRIDGES Slow Magic: 1977-1978 LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
HOLGER CZUKAY Gvoon – Brennung 1 GRÖNLAND
LEE HAZLEWOOD Love And Other Crimes
REDISCOVERED
JOHN MCKAY Sixes And Sevens TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS
KALI MALONE The Sacrificial Code
GRAHAM DEE Mr Super Cool ACID JAZZ
JULEE CRUISE
SLEEVE NOTES
MOTÖRHEAD Motörhead (reissue, 1977) ACE
VARIOUS ARTISTS
THELONIOUS MONK
PALE SAINTS
LOU REED Metal Machine Music
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Providence: The Demo Tape (1988) FIRE
LOU REED Metal Machine Music
XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
TANGERINE DREAM
RILO KILEY
COMING NEXT MONTH...
“I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE DIFFERENT... I STILL DO!”
“I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE DIFFERENT... I STILL DO!”
“IT DON’T SCARE ME”
FUNK YEAH!
“Feed The Tree”
KEY PLAYERS
TIME LINE
FACT FILE
THIS IS MY MUSIC
THIS IS MY MUSIC
PAGE TURNER
DEAN ON DEAN
The Pogues
RED ROSES FOR ME
The Pogues
RED ROSES FOR ME
MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY
MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY
COMING UP
LIVING IN ANOTHER WORLD
LIVING IN ANOTHER WORLD
HIDDEN GEMS
REEL TO REEL CACOPHONY
REEL TO REEL CACOPHONY
LINE OF BEAUTY
HOW TO MAKE METAL MACHINE MUSIC… AT HOME!
AFTERGLOW
AFTERGLOW
THE JOURNEY
A NEW LEAF
“I WAS ENVIOUS!”
“STEVE HAD SUGGESTED THAT THEY BRING ME IN AS ANOTHER GUITAR PLAYER”
“STEVE HAD SUGGESTED THAT THEY BRING ME IN AS ANOTHER GUITAR PLAYER”
THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE
JONATHAN RICHMAN
SETLIST
JONATHAN RICHMAN
STURGILL SIMPSON
SETLIST
SCREEN
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PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII MCMLXXII
NDNEIL YOUNG COASTAL
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO
PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII MCMLXXII
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Not Fade Away
Feedback
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