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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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Super human being FLORIAN SCHNEIDER | 1 2720 • Former bandmates of the visionary Kraftwerk co-founder, who has died aged 73, recall ideas that were “thoroughly exciting and unheard before”

He’d like to come and meet us… • Stardust, a new film featuring Johnny Flynn as David Bowie, traces the origins of Ziggy to a fraught 1971 US press tour

“We’re taking off!” • David Crosby, Grace Slick Jerry Garcia go electronic, via Ned Lagin’s Seastones project: “It was very, very interesting…”

Stick ’em up! • The posters that defined the spirit of punk

“He had his own rhythm” TONY ALLEN | 1940-2020 • The great Afrobeat drummer remembered by Fela’s son, Seun Kuti

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Snowgoose • Glasgow indie supergroup invoking the optimistic spirit of ’70s folk-rock

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

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“We’re not all acoustic groups!” AN AUDIENCE WITH SPARKS • Poised to release their 24th LP – not to mention musical film Annette – the evergreen Mael brothers talk lockdown envy, Paul McCartney, Public Enemy and Microwaving With Sparks…

NICOLE ATKINS Italian Ice SINGLE LOCK • Irresistible fifth from the Neptune City native reinvigorates a familiar genre.

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Q&A • Nicole Atkins on radio influences and writing songs with strangers

A to Z • This month…

Q&A • Paul Weller hails a “summery-sounding record”

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Q&A • Fran Keaney looks forward in song to “a vision of home and love”

JEHNNY BETH • “Freedom doesn’t come for free,” says the singer

AMERICANA Folk, bluegrass, blues and more

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Q&A • James Petralli on making a band album remotely

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PERFUME GENIUS • “It feels important and believe to in reach it,” says towards Mike Hadreas something warm

Q&A • Pete Kember creates his own garden Amazon as his life flashes before him…

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Q&A • Mark Olson and Ingunn Ringvold on “ancient themes” and living in the desert

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WESTERMAN • How the singer-songwriter stays focused

GUIDED BY VOICES Alien Lanes (reissue, 1995) MATADOR

Q&A • Robert Pollard on making a record “like a double album edited into a single album”

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REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

The Human Touch • JOHN PRINE had a gift for locating the most unique characteristics of our experience in his songs. Here, key players in his life tell Rob Hughes about Prine’s journey from the folk clubs of Chicago to Dylan-endorsed troubadour and beyond. “He seemed invincible,” recalls Margo Price

NATURAL MYSTIC • BOB MARLEY’s momentous 1977 began under the shadow of an attempted assassination and his flight to the UK. But during a year spent living in London in exile, Marley entered an extraordinarily creative phase, recording two landmark albums – Exodus and Kaya – that transformed him into a reggae superstar. Graeme Thomson revisits a whirlwind 12 months in Marley’s life with help from Chris Blackwell, Marcia...