Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Uncut is the essential magazine about rock music, written by people who love that music as much as you do. Every month, it features the most comprehensive and trustworthy album reviews section in the world. There are in-depth interviews with the finest musicians of the past five decades, and with the exciting new artists who are following in their great tradition. Insightful, informative, passionate about extraordinary music – that’s Uncut.
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EXCLUSIVE! “I don’t have to please anyone but myself ” • As MichaelStipe returns to the frontline, he tells Uncut about his “positive” new songs, writing for marching bands, and why he’s not trying to compete with his legacy
“ AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE WAS A HUGE INFLUENCE” • Aaron Dessner on working with Stipe and what’s next for Big Red Machine
The LA team • Crack ’70s sessioneers The Section are reborn as The Immediate Family
“I don’t regret any of it” • 21 years on, Kevin Rowland stands by his misunderstood covers album My Beauty
Fayre and foul • Storms! No-shows! Soiled kecks! Ben Graham’s new book explores the disaster that was the 1970 Krumlin Festival
A QUICK ONE
Thiago Nassif • Rio-based artist making funky, political art-pop in the righteous spirit of his Tropicália forebears
UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...
I Have The Touch • 15 tracks of the month s best new music
“I could have been a rock’n’roll star” AN AUDIENCE WITH ARCHIE SHEPP • The free-jazz firebrand and educator talks Frank Zappa, Miles Davis – and alternate career paths…
MIKE POLIZZE Long Lost Solace Find • Noisy Philadelphian drops the alias and goes acoustic on vital-sounding solo debut. By Louis Pattison
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MIKE POLIZZE • His best band LPs, from raw riffage to sweet psych
Q&A • Mike Polizze on being part of the Philadelphia “gene pool” and first playing with Kurt Vile
A to Z • This month...
Q&A • “There was no rush,” says Shirley Collins
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Q&A • Grian Chatten finds positives in anxiety
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DANIEL BLUMBERG • On playing without plans and “finding the arc together”
AMERICANA Country, bluegrass, folk and more
AMERICANA ROUND›UP
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING • Bassist Jeremy Pritchard on “regaining some innocence”
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Q&A • Mike Scott on “joke songs” and “the Pan within”
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Q&A • Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge
EMMA SWIFT • How an expat singer-songwriter turned her Dylan obsession into a ballsy career move
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Q&A • Kathleen Edwards ›on fans, friends, freedom…
JASON MOLINA Eight Gates SECRETLYCANADIAN • A fleeting, elliptical posthumous album, fashioned from one of the final recording sessions.
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JASON MOLINA • The pick of the albums, under his own name or an alias
Q&A • Producer Greg Norman sessions on the Eight – and Gates mixing them years later
A to Z • This month...
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Q&A • Third Man Records pinball wizard and director of operations Ben Blackwell
THE ELECTRIC PRUNES • A tale of two bands – before and after Axelrod
GLOBALCOMMUNICATION • Mark Pritchard “We didn’t know what we were doing”
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REDISCOVERED • the underrated and overlooked
THE SPECIALIST
COMING NEXT MONTH...
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE • Wayne Coyne has a lot on his mind. When he’s not organising bubble concerts, tending a menagerie...