end of the road

The video for a previously unreleased Johnny Cash track "She Used To Love Me A Lot" has been released – watch it below. John Hillcoat, the man behind films including The Proposition, The Road, and Lawless, directed the video in homage to the late singer.

Double-disc retrospective from the king of rustic rock...

The Take Off And Landing Of Everything, Elbow’s sixth album, is out on Monday (March 10) – in this archive piece from Uncut’s August 2011 issue (Take 171), Guy Garvey, Mark Potter and Craig Potter stroll through two decades’ worth of musical memories. “We’ve never had the word ‘can’t’ bandied around the room,” says Garvey. “It’s like a red rag to a bull.” Interview: Graeme Thomson

One of the things I wrote in the new issue of Uncut (full details here) is a longish review of the new Real Estate album, which is out today, I think.

To Los Angeles, then, and last night's Academy Awards. Surprises? Not many, truth be told.

Bruce Springsteen has announced details a new EP and concert film. The American Beauty is a special Record Store Day 12" vinyl release from Columbia Records featuring four previously unreleased original songs and due for release on April 26. The tracklisting for American Beauty is: "American Beauty" "Mary Mary" "Hurry Up Sundown" "Hey Blue Eyes"

The announcement by The Damned that they'll be playing the London Forum in April to celebrate Captain Sensible's 60th birthday and tickets for it will cost what they would have in 1977 has caused a lot of excitement among the band's venerabe fans and reminded me of the following mad escapade from that lively year.

UK DVD debut for Right Stuff director Philip Kaufman’s cantankerous anti-western...

Don Henley has covered Jackson Browne's "These Days" for a forthcoming 2-CD album, Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne. The album features versions of Browne’s songs by artists including Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Bonnie Raitt and JD Souther. “It is astounding to think that Jackson wrote ‘These Days’ when he was only 16 years old,” Henley said. “But then, he was always a step ahead of the rest of us. I’ve learned a lot from him, over the years, and am honored to be part of this album.”

The Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench is about to release a solo album, You Should Be So Lucky, produced by the legendary Glyn Johns. In this star-studded archive piece from Uncut’s December 2011 issue (Take 175), Johns takes us through producing and engineering The Beatles, the Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin and more – not a bad CV, you could say… Interview: Graeme Thomson