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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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Young ideas • Previously unseen photos of The Jam show Weller and co’s impatient evolution

World of Echo • Spare us the clutter! How a house clearout led to an illuminating early-years memoir for Bunnymen guitarist WillSergeant

“I always felt like an outsider” • Best known for singing with Meat Loaf and The Clash, now EllenFoley is happy to “create my own thing”

A Man And His Myths • As Roy Harper celebrates a significant birthday, he looks back on his masterpiece Stormcock – which turns 50 this year – and forward to his next album. “Where do I stop?” he asks

A QUICK ONE

Arooj Aftab • Brooklyn-based singer drawing on ambient jazz and Pakistani love ballads to make one of the year’s most stunning albums

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

Entertain Us • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

“When the guns come out, get outta there!” AN AUDIENCE WITH RODNEY CROWELL • The Americana star on wild times with Guy and Townes, the generosity of Johnny Cash and the sex life of the Tennessee cicadas

RODRIGO AMARANTE Drama POLYVINYL • The Brazilian songwriter crafts an exquisite sonic world marked by global rhythms, cinematic textures and playful takes on tradition.

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BRAZILIAN WAX • The pick of Amarante’s previous projects

Q&A • Rodrigo Amarante on toxic masculinity and a ‘horizontal’ approach to culture

A to Z • This month…

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Q&A • Laura Marling on young love and laziness

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Q&A • John Murry on covers and altered states

AMERICANA • Country, bluegrass, folk and more

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

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Q&A • Eirik Glambek Bøe & Erlend Øye: “We’re like brothers… or an old couple”

MARINERO • Jess Sylvester reveals the environmental factors that shaped him

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MEGA BOG • Erin Birgy “I started cracking open”

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“A BITCH IS BACK” • Yola on her new album

CHARLIE PARR • A path through the man’s country blues

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John Francis Flynn on discovering his voice

ALICE COLTRANE Kirtan: Turiya Sings IMPULSE • Turiya’s divine songs and infinite chants pared back, repackaged and empowered. By Richard Williams

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ALICE’S ADVENTURES • How to buy three more of Coltrane’s spiritual masterpieces

Q&A • Michelle Coltrane, Alice’s daughter on spirituality, and music in the Coltrane home

A to Z • This month…

THE EMPRESS NYRO

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Q&A • Soul Jazz’s Stuart Baker on Studio One

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REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

COMING NEXT MONTH...

A FAB TIME • Photographer HARRY BENSON was nonplussed when he received a commission to cover THE BEATLES in 1964. All the same, travelling from London to Paris and New York during this breakthrough year, he struck up a rapport with the band – and PAUL McCARTNEY in particular – that endured through several decades. With a new collection of his images due for publication, Benson shows us McCartney at work...