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.

Editorial

Prints charming • MichaelGrecco’s new photobook captures the youthful vitality of the post-punk era

The road to red • Jakko Jakszyk recounts his amazing career-long odyssey from KingCrimson fan to Fripp’s 21st-century right-hand man

Take me to the Mountain! • The Mountain Goats scale new heights with a little help from AlGreen’s organ maestro, Charles Hodges

A QUICK ONE

Art on 45 • How MorganHowell supersizes 7” singles into true pieces of pop art

“I was usually the peacemaker” • ChrisHillman, “good lieutenant” in The Byrds, TheFlying BurritoBrothers and more, finally tells his own story

Bab L’ Bluz • French-Moroccan fusionists using traditional musicas a force for social change

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

Down By The Water • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“Drugs are not overrated… but they are abused” AN AUDIENCE WITH PERRY FARRELL • The Jane’s Addiction and Porno For Pyros ringleader talks microdosing, Jim Morrison and how to beat the “heebie jeebies”

GARCIA PEOPLES Nightcap At Wits’ End BEYONDBEYONDISBEYOND • An inspired leap forward on the New Jersey sextet’s confident fourth. By Sharon O’Connell

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DEAD GOOD • Garcia Peoples’ finest work so far

Q&A • Tom Malach: “Everyone has a sense of ownership over the band…”

A to Z • This month…

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RISING SIGNS • The best of Stevens’ work since Carrie & Lowell

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ANDY BELL • The Ride man on channelling Bowie and The Beatles

AMERICANA • Compassionate folk songs

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

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LOMA • The three-piece on maintaining a collective identity

THIS IS THE KIT • Kate Stables is grateful to her neighbours

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JIM WHITE • Misfit’s Jubilee : “I’m calling it Geriatrica Rockucana”

TOM PETTY Wildflowers & All The Rest WARNERS • Petty’s 1994 solo album reissued in full, and then some.

HIGHER PLACES • How to buy Petty, with and without the Heartbreakers

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A to Z

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JAZZ IN 1960 • Aside from Coltrane, here are some other ace LPs from 60 years ago

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REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

COMING NEXT MONTH...

“I have a hard time concealing my thoughts…” • Taking a break from his day job fronting The National, MATT BERNINGER has finally got round to releasing a solo album, with help from Booker T Jones. But has the “sad-sack, grungecore guy” finally lightened up? “I’m not going to lift up a rock,” he confesses to Rob Hughes, “unless I know there’s something hiding underneath it.”

RABBITS, WINE & T-SHIRTS • 10 of the best from Matt Berninger

FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • Mistaken Strangers For 2

DONT LOOK BACK • 25 years ago, PJ HARVEY released To Bring You My Love – an album that marked the first of many radical career reinventions for its creator. Peter Watts talks to Harvey’s closest collaborators about toy...