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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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Zeppelin takes off! • The band’s instant ESP captured in new early-years documentary, Becoming Led Zeppelin

Single again • Thirty years on, TheWeddingPresent are reprising their classic wheeze by releasing one 7” single per month in 2022

“I’m still very young” • Charles Lloyd has played sax with Howlin’ Wolf, The Band and The Beach Boys. At 83, he remains “drunk with the music”

A QUICK ONE

Dead Moon fever! • Bassist ToodyCole recalls her wild ride with the influential Portland DIY rockers

Billy Nomates • Increasingly soulful electronic punk from the straight-shooting one-woman band

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

Conversation Pieces • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“I have great rhythm!” AN AUDIENCE WITH DION • The irrepressible rock’n’roller shares his stories of a life well lived, from riding rhinos in Bronx Zoo to watching Dylan go electric – and even getting on the good side of Lou Reed. “I’m tellin’ ya!”

DEAN WAREHAM I Have Nothing To Say To The Mayor Of LA DOUBLE FEATURE • First solo album in seven years from the man who gave us Galaxie 500 and Luna.

ANOTHER GALAXIE • Three Dean Wareham albums from the last decade that are more than worth your time

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Q&A • Dean Wareham on finally getting back in the studio: “I’ve gotta have a deadline”

DAMON ALBARN The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows TRANSGRESSIVE • A second solo LP: started in Iceland, soaked in English melancholy. By John Lewis

A to Z • This month…

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BEDOUINE Waysides THE ORCHARD • A long pause – and a pile of old songs – enables singer-songwriter’s third.

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Q&A • Azniv Korkejian “I was having an existential crisis…”

ENDLESS BOOGIE Admonitions NO QUARTER • Psych-boogie crew sprawl and soar on double album that redefines what they do.

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Q&A • How Jesper Eklow added “creepy dark things” to the new LP

CURTIS HARDING If Words Were Flowers ANTI • A lockdown rethink results in a third LP full of hopeful soul.

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Q&A • Curtis Harding “I had time to refine”

RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE Henki WEIRD WORLD • Flora show: Newcastle bard and Finnish psych-rockers get heavy.

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Q&A • Richard Dawson& Tomi Lappänen: “We have a primeval spirit in common”

LINDA FREDRIKSSON Juniper WE JAZZ • Avant-jazz saxist tackles intimate indie-folk, with stunning results.

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Q&A • Linda Fredriksson: “I wanted to be more nice to myself”

THE BEATLES • Myth-busting box of remixes, rehearsals and jams from the Fabs’ most controversial album.

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EVERYBODY HAD A GOOD TIME • Three delights from the new Let It Be boxset

Q&A • Let It Be remixer Giles Martin on the challenge of working with “a hodge-podge”

RADIOHEAD • Radiohead revisit their divisive avant-rock sister albums Kid A and Amnesia with an extra disc of previously unreleased material. By Stephen Dalton

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