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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.

Editor note’s

Art decades • David Bowie’s friend George Underwood talks about their lifelong bond and his new Bowie-inspired artwork in aid of War Child

Juxtaposed with you • Ahead of their co-headline tour this autumn, Gruff Rhys and Bill Ryder-Jones interview each other for Uncut. Iechyd da!

What’s up, doc? • As Doc’n Roll unveils a new season of revelatory music films, festival co-founder Colm Forde picks out some highlights

Stuff of legend • Macca’s bass! Bonzo’s drum mic! Pink Floyd’s studio settings! Photographer Rick Guest on his hunt for music’s Holy Relics

“It’s been a journey” • Following a cancer scare, roots-rock stalwart Chuck Prophet has found salvation in cumbia music

King Hannah • Sing-speaking Liverpool duo with an outsiders’ take on Americana

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

That’s What You Want • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

STEVE CROPPER • The Stax legend talks Memphis water, John Belushi on acid and Friday night “schwimps” with Eddie Floyd

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LAURA MARLING • August songwriter reaches deep into family dynamics on revelatory eighth.

BRIGHT EYES • A richly deserved extension on a new lease of life.

A to Z • This month…

ANNA BUTTERSS • Talented multi-instrumentalist’s multi-faceted approach to a multifarious genre.

FAT DOG • Joe Love on mayhem, masks and micturition

ETRAN DE L’AÏR • Niger family band marry desert blues with a pan-African sensibility.

WAYNE GRAHAM • Arresting Kentucky-led quartet view hometown life through a fresh lens

GEORDIE GREEP • “Random people start telling you things…”

NAIMA BOCK • Alluring and subtly realigned folk-pop second.

THE CLEARWATER SWIMMERS • Slowcore meets Americana on this distinctive indie-rock debut.

TUCKER ZIMMERMAN • “I am convinced that we are all connected”

JONI MITCHELL • The lost highways of Joni’s 1970s odyssey, mapped and charted across six astonishing discs.

Q&A

BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND • The American arena tour when Dylan played the part and gave audiences just what they wanted.

A to Z • This month…

NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN • Rediscovered improvisations from the feted qawwali singer

FACES • Glorious dive into the Faces at their rowdy best recording at the Beeb.

DOROTHY ASHBY • Underappreciated jazz harp explorer re-evaluated

“Sometimes you get lucky, but most of the time it’s just hard graft” • As he begins to dig into his capacious archive, we find VAN MORRISON on unusually reflective form. To be discussed: jamming with The Band, recording with Cliff, why he no longer performs “Brown Eyed Girl”, old songs and new arrangements, Veedon Fleece at 50, the...