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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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Black and white wonder • Bob Dylan’s “exclusive broadcast event” burnishes the mystique with the help of an all-new band

Ones for the Road • In between hugging trees, here’s who John Grant will be watching at this year’s End Of The Road festival

A QUICK ONE

“I’m the blazing sun!” • Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is back to save the world teaming up with Bowie’s sax player and Canadian drone-rockers New Age Doom

Here Come The Nice • Kenney Jones reveals his plans to restore the lost treasures of the Small Faces

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

Adia Victoria • Self-defined “Southern freak” tells the story of the blues from a compelling new standpoint

Tomorrow’s Sounds Today • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“I can’t claim to be wise!” AN AUDIENCE WITH DAVID CROSBY • As new album For Free caps a remarkable renaissance, Croz recalls jamming with Hendrix, being “stupefied” by The Beatles… and the making of High Noon

LOW Hey What SUB POP • Duluth duo’s intense 13th masterfully combines the difficult with the beautiful.

LOW AND BEHOLD • Three landmark records from Sparhawk and Parker

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk talk tolerance, distortion and a whole new planet of sound

THE STRANGLERS Dark Matters COURSEGOOD/ABSOLUTE • Death puts the Men in Black in sombre, elegiac mood.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • JJ Burnel on Dave Greenfield’s passing and the band’s future

Ato Z • This month…

VARIOUS ARTISTS I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico VERVE • The VU’s debut covered - vividly, viciously.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Sharon Van Etten: “It’s about the passion”

AMERICANA • Country, bluegrass, folk and more

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

SAINT ETIENNE

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Bob Stanley: “Nostalgia is a sickness”

WANDA JACKSON • Rockabilly’s original riot grrrl: bowing out gracefully

LITTLE SIMZ

SLEEVE NOTES

GERRY RAFFERTY • Martha Rafferty on her father’s ‘new’ album

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • José González on framing difficult topics

LAURA STEVENSON • Finally putting her name on something…

ARUSHI JAIN

Q&A • Arushi Jain: “This album is meant to be an ode to rituals”

MATTHEW E WHITE • “There were personal boundaries I needed to set to get the most out of myself”

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR • “I’m so far out…” Riots, mania and musique concrète from prog’s most extreme group.

A SECRET HISTORY • How Peter Hammill’s solo work provided the flipside to Van Der Graaf Generator

Q&A • Peter Hammill: “It’s what I felt I was born to do”

JOAN SHELLEY • Two very different early albums from the Kentucky singer-songwriter.

Q&A

SLEEVE NOTES

A to Z

RORY GALLAGHER • Hugely expanded version of the great Irish guitarist’s solo debut.

Q&A • Gerry McAvoy on playing bass with “one of my idols”

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

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