UNCUT

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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Kool thing • KimGordon takes us through her inspiring new photo memoir, No Icon

“I was savvy enough to take control” • How ’60s soul singer Evie Sands became a DIY pop pioneer

Roll on, John • Celebrating the life and work of folklorist, photographer and influential Dylan associate, John Cohen

Sisters of the Moog • New film Sisters With Transistors rewires the history of electronic music as a feminist celebration

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North Americans • Nylon-string guitar and pedal steel combine for warm ambient soundscapes inspired by the Sierra Nevada mountains

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

Greetings from Uncut • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“I don’t dwell on the past” AN AUDIENCE WITH TODD RUNDGREN • The restless rock inquirer talks AI, hip-hop, crushed velvet pants and philosophical chats with Pete Townshend

GWENIFER RAYMOND Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain TOMPKINSSQUARE • Brighton-based guitarist reconnects with formative mystical experiences on spooky second. By John Robinson

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RAYMOND’S REVIEW • Three records that had a bearing on …Garth Mountain

Q&A • Gwenifer Raymond “You have to follow your gut”

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BAHAMAS • Afie Jurvanen on “the underdog thing”

AMERICANA • Positive vibes and rural grooves

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SAM COOMES • The Cascadia songwriter’s mortality play

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ZOLA MENNENÖH • Isolation is the mother of invention

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TREES Trees EARTH • On the beech: 50th-anniversary frenzy for psychedelic folk voyagers.

LIEF MULCH • Key second-tier prog-folk records of the early 1970s

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SHANE MacGOWAN AND THE POGUES • Drunken ballads, political medleys, Celtic vibes…

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

VINTAGE ELECTRONICS

COMING NEXT MONTH...

AFTER THE GOLDRUSH • Twelve years on from FLEET FOXES’ debut, Robin Pecknold has beaten anxiety to reach new creative heights with their latest album, Shore. He talks surfing accidents, cork forests and fallen heroes – and what’s changed since his band’s extraordinary breakthrough. “I feel much less self-conscious than I used to,” he tells Michael Bonner.

“HUNDREDS OF WARM SONGS” • Robin Pecknold shares 10 tracks from his playlists that inspired Shore. Listen on Spotify: bit.ly/uncut-ff

FOLK MEMORY • Pecknold on the reach of Elliott Smith

THE TIES THAT BIND • E Streeters assemble! This month, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN returns with Letter To You – a new album that fuses autobiography, music and faith, as Springsteen reflects on his enduring relationship with his trusted cohorts. Here, Peter Watts speaks to every member of the E Street Band about life inside “a benevolent monarchy”, the rigorous discipline behind Letter To...