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Joe Strummer and the 101ers remembered: “Even then, he had this charisma…”
Joe Strummer's pub rockers the 101ers recall their frontman...To mark what would have been Joe Strummer’s 63rd birthday today [August 21], here’s a piece from Uncut’s November 2014 issue [Take 210],...
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Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker: “I’m just happier on my own”
On tour in the US with Kevin Parker and his bandTame ImpalaLed by sonic genius Kevin Parker, TAME IMPALA emerged from stoned squalor in the suburbs of Perth to pioneer a new form of questing...
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Ray Davies – A Complicated Life
Imposing new biography of the head KinkRay Davies, A Complicated Life dust jacketIt apparently took Johnny Rogan more than 30 years to write Ray Davies: A Complicated Life. Potential readers made...
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David Corley – Available Light
Stricken laments from a striking new voice...David CorleyAnyone whose musical tastes run to double malt woe with a longneck chaser will want to raise a glass to Available Light, the debut album by...
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Neil Young – Young Neil: The Sugar Mountain Years
Strong biography of Neil's formative yearsWith Neil Young more than ever fixed in the public imagination as an ancient grump, possibly there may be no greater point to a book about his childhood than...
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Patti Smith – M Train
Brilliant follow-up to Just KidsPatti Smith, M TrainPatti Smith’s M Train is a haunted text about memory, loss, growing old in the absence of the much-missed dead. It’s a sequel of sorts to Just Kids,...
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Good Night And Good Riddance: How Thirty Five Years Of John Peel Helped To...
David Cavanagh's remarkable history of Peel's radio career “In case you’re thinking to yourselves, ‘Who is that twerp?’ I’m the bloke who comes on your radio late at night and plays you records by lots...
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Ray Davies – A Complicated Life
Imposing new biography of the head KinkRay Davies, A Complicated Life dust jacketIt apparently took Johnny Rogan more than 30 years to write Ray Davies: A Complicated Life. Potential readers made...
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David Corley – Available Light
Stricken laments from a striking new voice...David CorleyAnyone whose musical tastes run to double malt woe with a longneck chaser will want to raise a glass to Available Light, the debut album by...
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Chrissie Hynde – Reckless: My Life
Confessions of the great PretenderThe evocative opening chapters of Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless describe an idyllic American childhood in Akron, Ohio and are so well-wrought you think you’ve mistakenly...
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Elvis Costello – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
The extraordinary confessions of Declan Patrick MacManus Elvis Costello was always a gas to interview because he had opinions about everything, all of them worth listening to. He’d had an initially...
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Lee Brilleaux: Rock ‘n’ Roll Gentleman
Biography of the late Dr Feelgood singerZoe Howe doesn’t make much of it in Lee Brilleaux: Rock’N’Roll Gentleman, but Lee’s death on April 7, 1994, was barely noticed by the music press. Our attention...
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Richmond Fontaine – You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To
Americana heroes' poignant valedictory albumRichmond Fontaine did the orphaned Americana thing better than anyone on 2004’s Post To Wire, an album that visited the unlit places where people end up when...
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Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker: Deluxe Edition
On its 16th birthday, the ex-Whiskeytown man's first and best solo LP gets a vaults-raiding reissueDavid Ryan Adams, as he was then called, first caught our ear in 1997, on Whiskeytown’s second album,...
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Inside Bob Dylan’s 80s: “He was an agent provocateur; he had a saboteur in him.”
We explore Dylan's weirdest and most controversial decadeFollowing the momentous news of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature, here’s the first installment of two part feature exploring Dylan’s...
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Working with Bob Dylan: “I had to sort the human from the myth”
Re-evaluating Dylan's weirdest and most controversial decade: the EightiesFollowing the momentous news of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature, here’s the second installment of two part feature...
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Okkervil River – Away
Sheff and co's best yetAccording to Will Sheff, the songs on Away tell a kind of “death story”. Since he wrote them, he presumably knows what he’s talking about. But even if two of its finest songs are...
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John Murry – A Short History Of Decay
Grief, divorce and exile inspire more gems of burnt, bruised AmericanaWhen he released his first solo album in 2012, John Murry probably thought all his glorious mornings – hallelujah, amen! – had come...
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Ian Felice – In The Kingdom Of Dreams
A first-time father enlists fraternal aid to voice his anxietiesIt no doubt says much about the ties that bind and the like that to back him on his first solo record, Ian Felice has basically reformed...
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Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Dusting down the ur-punk bassist's dishevelled debutRichard Hell was everywhere, back then. Versions of him, anyway. This was 1977, punk well under way, and the look that was common among bands and...
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