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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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Byrds on the street! • A yellow umbrella in New York marks the beginning of the end for the folk-rock pioneers’ first phase

Woodland wonders • End Of The Road’s Simon Taffe selects six of the best from this year’s festival

“Punk’s about looking forward” • Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle on the bittersweet experience of making a new album without his “brother of 43 years” Pete Shelley

A QUICK ONE

Come on Helen! • As Too-Rye-Ay gets remixed, Dexys violinist Helen O’Hara reflects on her relationship – both musical and romantic – with Kevin Rowland

Tim Bernardes • Lush, philosophical folk in the tradition of the Tropicália greats

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

Now Playing • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

AN AUDIENCE WITH… Karl Bartos • The ex-Kraftwerk man on the secrets of Kling Klang, nights out with Neil Tennant, and Cliff Richard’s influence on New York electro

JAKE BLOUNT

Q&A • Jake Blount: “I feel like I was at the cutting edge of what I could do…”

LAMBCHOP

AtoZ • This month…

MAKAYA McCRAVEN

BETH ORTON

DANIEL ROMANO’S OUTFIT

PIXIES

PAUL HEATON & JACQUI ABBOTT • Why at least one of them is “optimistic about the future”

DR JOHN

JOHANNA WARREN • “I’m connecting with cathartic expressions of rage…”

AL-QASAR

VARIOUS ARTISTS • Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’: The Music Of Black Britain In The Sixties REISSUES | COMPS | BOXSETS | LOST RECORDINGS

Q&A

MARIANNE FAITHFULL

AtoZ This month…

DAVID SYLVIAN

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

COMING NEXT MONTH…

frictionless Borders • First they travelled the world, then they conquered it with their languid, cosmopolitan funk. Now KHRUANGBIN have pulled off their most impressive musical fusion to date, covering the songs of Ali Farka Touré in a seat-of-the-pants collaboration with the Malian legend’s son VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ. “We were all flying blind,” they admit to Sam Richards

ALI CATS • Four tributes to the late, great

“IT CAN BE INTENSE” • Inside the studio with Khruangbin’s co-producer and vibemaster

HERE COME THE NICE! • As KENNEY JONES masterminds reissues of the SMALL FACES’ much-loved albums – and treasures from the vault – we celebrate 20 of their greatest songs in the company of Jones, friends, labelmates and collaborators. Will your favourite be among them…?

“I’M THE KEEPER OF THE FLAME” • Kenney Joneson his plans for the Small Faces catalogue

UNDISPUTABLE SLANG TRUTH! • In 1981, Mark E Smith led THE FALL to the USA, Iceland, and Hertfordshire – and onwards into the gritty, detailed landscape of their 1982 masterpiece, Hex Enduction Hour. Band members and close associates tell Uncut how The Fall grew in scope and power as a two-guitar/two-drummer lineup, and propelled Smith’s transformative visions of modern culture to greatness. “We knew there was no other band on Earth like us at that point,” Marc Riley tells John Robinson. But could it last?

Spite does not enter into this • The Fall’s Hexen 1981–82, on record

“It always felt something might happen…” • Kevin Cummins, photographer of...