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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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Pogue’s gallery • Shane MacGowan talks us through his eye-opening new collection of sketches, drawings and handwritten lyrics

Right-hand man in black • Loney Hutchins used to find songs for Johnny Cash. Now his own outlaw country compositions are finally getting heard

Que sera, Sarah! • Ex-Heavenly janglers Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey on keeping the Sarah Records spirit alive

A QUICK ONE

Treasure islands • The Ano Nobo Quartet embody the unique creole sound of Cape Verde – via Havana and East Berlin!

Jeremy Ivey • The Midwest farmer’s daughter’s husband steps into the spotlight

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

Blackwaterside • Sounds of the New Weird Albion

“They become our songs” • AN AUDIENCE WITH COWBOY JUNKIES

ALDOUS HARDING • A hard act to follow: outsider artist forces the doors of perception.

{GETTING WARMER} • Aldous Harding’s route to her new album

Q&A • Aldous Harding “I feel like I’m being shaken by the shoulders by a police officer!”

MIDLAKE • Texan folk-rockers return in leaner, more dynamic form.

Q&A • Eric Pulido “It was a freeing experience to just focus on playing together”

AtoZ • This month…

VARIOUS ARTISTS • Ono’s still-underrated songwriting, reimagined.

Q&A • Ben Gibbard on the breadth of Yoko’s output

CARSON McHONE • Talented Texan broadens out on beguiling third

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

THE WEATHER STATION • Soft, stunning set of unmoored ballads.

Q&A • Tamara Lindeman on jazz and the perfect title

MELT YOURSELF DOWN • Pete Wareham: “We’ve never fit into any scene…”

ANDY BELL • Reflective, lysergic, optimistic double by Ride and Oasis guitarist.

Q&A • Andy Bell: “I had this big catalogue of unreleased music”

BINKER & MOSES • UK jazz masters step boldly towards their own event horizon.

Q&A • Binker & Moses on ridiculous demands

TANGERINE DREAM • Keeping the dream alive

DUNCAN MARQUISS • Ex-Phantom Bander’s kosmische-folk hybrid.

Q&A • “I’ve always been a big fan of drone music,” says Duncan Marquiss

SON HOUSE • Long-lost recordings from a blues hero.

{BLUES BROTHERS} • Son House wasn’t the only bluesman to enjoy a renaissance in the late 1960s

Q&A • Black Key and Forever On My Mind producer Dan Auerbach: “House played his sorrowful music to uplift himself”

THE CORAL • A-Hoylake! Wirral lads’ inventive debut, plus B-sides and rarities.

Q&A • James Skelly: “We just smoked so much weed”

AtoZ • This month…

TINARIWEN • Desert blues trailblazers’ breakthrough sets revisited.

Q&A • Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni: “It felt like a bridge between our desert and the world

IRMA THOMAS • Hidden gems in soul survivor’s ’70s career

ORNETTE COLEMAN • Two-disc set featuring first two LPs, from 1958 and ’59

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