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Uncut is your essential guide to the month’s best music. Every issue, our comprehensive and trustworthy reviews section showcases the best new releases and reissues, while our in-depth features section includes interviews with the greatest names in music from the past five decades as well as the classic artists of tomorrow. For over 20 years, this iconic magazine has been the authority on all things music, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the world's biggest stars, stunning photography from on and off the stage, and unparalleled album reviews from the people who really know. You can be sure that the music fanatics behind Uncut magazine will always strive to bring you the best features, interviews, and reviews. Each issue also brings you an in-depth article on a music icon, from past or present, giving you inside access you won't find anywhere else. Uncut is insightful, informative, and passionate about music.

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“Bob was like a prophet” • Catching a fire: Dennis Morris’s intimate portraits of Bob Marley show a legend in waiting

Ever fallen in love? • As a teenager, Paul Hanley was Buzzcocks’ number-one fan. Now the former Fall drummer has written a book about them

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Pale fire • Folk-blues stylist Charlie Parr is content to fly under the radar

“People came to listen” • Remembering the “intimate, smoky” liberation of 1960s folk crucible, Les Cousins

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Arushi Jain • A heavenly hybrid of modular synthesis and Indian classical music

Real Live Wire • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

AN AUDIENCE WITH… MICHAEL MOORCOCK • The sci-fi titan and Hawkwind collaborator recalls encounters with Bowie, Siouxsie and a sax-playing, stage-diving frog

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JULIA HOLTER • Art-pop explorer finds sweet spots between experimental and exhilarating.

Q&A

SHEER MAG • Beloved Philly four-piece find new games to play on impressive third album.

AtoZ • This month…

YARD ACT • Leeds quartet spread their net far and wild on second outing.

LIAM GALLAGHER JOHN SQUIRE • Manchester icons meet each other’s needs on debut.

VICTORIA LIEDTKE & JASON RINGENBERG • Fabulously fresh twists on Porter and Dolly

ODETTA HARTMAN • Multi-instrumentlist New Yorker on casting her sonic net wide

FAYE WEBSTER • Georgia singer-songwriter’s heady fifth ponders breakups and house colours.

FRANCIS PLAGNE • Improvising Aussie on his love of ‘airiness’

DEAN McPHEE • Alien presences, spaced-out minimalism and celestial English guitar.

ALAN HULL • The formative work of Lindisfarne’s leading light is dusted off to reveal many a rough diamond.

Q&A

DANIEL JOHNSTON • The cult outsider’s ’80s/’90s catalogue revived.

AtoZ • This month…

THE CHILDREN’S HOUR • Underground indie-folk duo’s lost 2003 album, featuring David Pajo, rediscovered in a Kentucky studio

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HELDON • Limited-edition LP marks 50th year of French space-rock debut.

JOE HENDERSON • Two much-needed reissues of classic post-bop by the charismatic tenor saxophonist

The Sea, The Moon & The Stars • With This Is The Sea, MIKE SCOTT’s restless musical quest finally came into focus. As a new 6CD boxset illuminates the spirit of his Big Music, Scott revisits the inspiration and perfectionism behind THE WATERBoYS’ first great album. Stand by for cameos from Tom Verlaine and Bob Dylan, rivalry with U2 and a witch’s book of spells. “I was full with the music,” Scott tells Graeme Thomson

TV EYE • “I thought, ‘Let’s ask Tom!’”

THE BLACK BOOK • Scott’s spell of magic

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