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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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Everybody had a good time… • The greatest Glasto set ever? Macca charms a bumper Pyramid Stage crowd with a little help from Dave and Bruce

Keep on running • How a deal with God – OK, Netflix – took a 37-year-old Kate Bush classic to No 1 around the world

A QUICK ONE

Sound of collusion • Psychedelic soulmates Sonic Boom and Panda Bear hit Reset for a dreamy homage to early rock’n’roll

“I can’t believe I’m still alive” • The wild times of John’s Children’s incorrigible frontman, Andy Ellison

Sylvie • Drugdealer’s Ben Schwab unveils his own immaculate brand of sepiatinged soft rock

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

Steve Hillage • The Gong and System 7 guitarist talks Glasto, UFOs, Sham 69 and which spacerock band had the best drugs

CASS McCOMBS • Tragedy and comedy combine on the Californian’s brave 10th LP.

THE REAL McCOMBS • Three fine records from the Bay Area songwriter

Q&A • Cass McCombs: “Nothing could be less serious than music!”

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III • Wainwright ponders age and alienation on his spare, spry 31st album.

Q&A • Loudon Wainwright III: “Blowing out birthday candles is a solitary activity”

AtoZ • This month…

DANGER MOUSE & BLACK THOUGHT • A long-mooted meeting of hip-hop minds bears sweet, exotically sample-laden fruit.

Q&A • Danger Mouse & Black Thought “The songs wrote themselves”

AMANDA SHIRES • Texan songwriter carves a bold new path on searingly honest seventh album.

Q&A • Amanda Shires “Suddenly, it’s OK to cry”

SIMON JOYNER • How the record shop owner keeps it real

SAM PREKOP & JOHN McENTIRE • Captivating electronics from seasoned Chicago post-rockers.

Q&A • Sam Prekop and John McEntire: “Everything we do is unplanned”

LEE BAINS & THE GLORY FIRES • Southern discomfort from gifted country rocker

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

BRET McKENZIE • Conchords man worth taking a little seriously

LUKE SCHNEIDER • Celebrating the pedal steel guitar

EZRA FURMAN • Self-determination, struggle and solidarity, with a high-beam rock’n’roll soundtrack.

Q&A • Ezra Furman: “The aim is to make songs you never forget”

LITTLE FEAT • Forty-five years later, an expanded revisitation of the Feat at their live best.

LITTLE VICTORIES • The pick of LF’s Lowell George-era studio albums

Q&A • Bill Payne: “Things were kind of up in the air for the band at the time”

THE FOUNDATIONS • Pristine pop-soul from multicultural pioneers.

Q&A • Foundations guitarist Alan Warner: “One of the first try-outs was Rod Stewart”

AtoZ • This month…

BRIDGET ST JOHN • Bridging the Atlantic: maxi-skirt chanteuse’s lost decade revisited.

Q&A • Bridget St John on discovering America

LOU REED • The roots of Lou, untangled.

TALL DWARFS • Kiwi ’80s duo reappraised on 55-track anthology

VARIOUS ARTISTS • Joyful, eclectic, unheard demos from the ’70s Stones associate

COMING NEXT MONTH…

“The truth might be the truth… but it still hurts” • Sitting in his local, DAVE DAVIES – guitarist,...