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.

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INSTANT KARMA! • THIS MONTH’S REVELATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF UNCUT

UNCUT GEMS • Rock’n’roll quests, reality addiction, cow’s arses and crisp theft – 11 momentous encounters from Uncut’s first quarter-century

“See you for your 600th issue!” • As 1992’s Main Offender gets reissued, Keith Richards looks back on his solo adventures – and forward to a Stones without Charlie…

Incredible Congo band • The thrilling chaos of the Congotronics supergroup – featuring Konono No 1, Kasai Allstars, Deerhoof, Juana Molina and more – finally captured on record

A QUICK ONE

“He was totally authentic” • Friends and collaborators Dylan Carlson and Isobel Campbell pay tribute to the “constantly restless” Mark Lanegan

Park Jiha • Korean adventurer getting new sounds from traditional instruments – and the air itself!

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

Low • The much-loved Minnesota duo discuss sonic weapons, dub mixtapes, writing Easter musicals and those dungarees…

CARGO COLLECTIVE

DANIEL ROSSEN • Grizzly Bear mainstay finds comfort, wisdom and some bewitching tunes from going it alone.

{BEARS, EAGLES & MORE}

TAJ MAHAL & RY COODER • Revisiting a blues touchstone, 70 years on.

AtoZ • This month…

FATHER JOHN MISTY

ALABASTER DEPLUME

{MOLLY TUTTLE & GOLDEN HIGHWAY}

HANNAH PEEL • The composer-producer on her flinty new album

WET LEG • Isle Of Wight duo add emotional depth to punk-pop mischief on confident debut.

OUMOU SANGARÉ

JON SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS

T. REX • A year in the life of Marc Bolan.

GROOVE A LITTLE

PAVEMENT • The long-awaited goodbye: reconfigured and revitalised.

A to Z • This month…

HAROLD BUDD • Ambient’s ‘other’ godfather

HANK WILLIAMS • I’m Gonna Sing: The Mother’s Best Gospel Radio Recordings BMG

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

THE MASTER BUILDER • JIMMY PAGE has spent the past 25 years exploring new music while continuing to nurture Led Zeppelin’s formidable legacy. For Uncut 300, he revisits his personal highlights since he first appeared on the cover of our 11th issue – reuniting with Robert Plant for Walking Into Clarksdale, the O2 triumph, the acclaimed remasters… and more. “Let’s get started, then,” he tells Peter Watts

MUSIC BOX • Page’s releases since Uncut came into being…

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN

ST RDUST MEMORIES • ZIGGY turns 50 this year. In an extract from a new bookstore edition of Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times Of Ziggy Stardust – DAVID BOWIE and MICK ROCK’s long-out-of-print ‘biography’ – Bowie himself recounts the brief but colourful journey of rock’s greatest space invader, from his genesis in Haddon Hall to his shocking exit on stage at the Hammersmith Odeon. “Zig rather grew as he grew, if you know what I mean…”

BITE ME! • That Ziggy/Ronno guitar stunt: what went down…

WHAM BAM! • Ziggy played…

THE 300 GREATEST ALBUMS OF UNCUT’S LIFETIME

Talkin’ New York City Blues • BOB DYLAN first appeared on the cover of our third issue, where we unveiled a bounty of unseen photographs from his Greenwich Village...