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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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Inside the museum • …Infinity goes up on trial: the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa prepares to open its doors

No Pain, no gain • The remarkable resurrection of ’60s soul powerhouse, Ural Thomas

“It was a magical session” • Brian Eno on his new collaborations with Hot Chip and Michael Stipe for Earth Day

Alternative nation • A new book explores how SST Records defined America’s ’80s rock underground before imploding in acrimony

Whitney K • Nomadic Canadian channelling magical realism, country rock and Lou Reed

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

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

Glen Matlock • With a fiery new solo album ready to roll, the Sex Pistols songwriter talks “Anarchy…”, activism and gigging in the DMZ

SHARON VAN ETTEN • We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong

MAGIC CHORDS • Sharon Van Etten’s finest moments

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER

BONNIE RAITT

JOHN DOE • The former X man on mining a chequered American past

AMERICANA • Album of the month

KIKAGAKU MOYO

LEYLA McCALLA • On a personal musical journey to understand Haiti

KEVIN MORBY

TOMBERLIN • The elegantly understated songwriter on learning to let go

ARCADE FIRE

? AND THE MYSTERIANS

ORIGINAL ARTYFACTS • Great albums by stars of the Nuggets compilation

NORAH JONES

NEIL YOUNG

SANDY DENNY

TERRY ALLEN & THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND

MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI & NEW DIRECTION UNIT • Thrilling, evocative archival finds, dug deep from the history of Japanese free music

SONGS OF DEVOTION • AROOJ AFTAB’s stunning Vulture Prince album was one of 2021’s finest releases, a work of refined, minimalist rapture, dedicated to her late brother. But the Brooklyn-based singer and composer is no sensitive artiste. Fresh from winning a Grammy, the self-confessed hedonist tells Sam Richards about the full extent of her ambitions – and why she needs to ride the social whirl in order to make music: “Being in the centre of many energies is inspiring to me…”

VULTURE PEEPS • The key players in Aftab’s inner circle

“IT’S REALLY EFFORTLESS” • Arooj Aftab and Shahzad Ismaily on their improv jazz trio, Love In Exile

SHINE A LIGHT • A band on the run. A decadent mansion in the South of France. One song called “Bent Green Needles” and another about Brian Jones. A double album that, against all odds, became the creators’ most iconic work. Fifty years since the release of Exile On Main St a crack team of Stones heads – including CAT POWER, ADAM GRANDUCIEL, BILLY GIBBONS, MIKE SCOTT, JENNIFER HERREMA, STEVE GUNN, J MASCIS, BOBBY GILLESPIE and KURT VILE – dig deep into THE ROLLING STONES’ very own Basement Tapes. “Exile… has got everything…”

“A DIFFERENT KIND OF CREATIVITY” • Rolling Stones Records boss MARSHALL CHESS on the Stones’ Basement Tapes

“ROCK’N’ROLL WAS DEAD!” • In 1986, NYC noise-punks Pussy Galore re-recorded Exile On Main Street. Here, former frontman JON SPENCER tells all…

Mersey Mercy Me • Rejoice! After a five-year absence, the return of MICHAEL HEAD – aka England’s greatest living songwriter – is upon us. Rob Hughes visits the Wirral Peninsula to discover that Head, his...