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.

UNCUT • “We were so turned on, you thought we were fakers”

Rough and A rowdy ways • Farewell to the rock’n’roll pioneer

New adventures! • REM’s Bill Berry tells us about The Bad Ends, his ‘Athens supergroup’ with Five Eight frontman Mike Mantione

Sparkle hard • Over a decade in the making, This Is Sparklehorse commemorates the life and work of the troubled but “incredibly talented” Mark Linkous

“It was like the Wild West” • Adventures in NYC’s mid-’80s hardcore scene with Agnostic Front… and future Grey’s Anatomy star Brooke Smith!

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

The Murder Capital • Passionate Dublin post-punkers, already evolving into something altogether more colourful

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN • The Boss tackles the soul and R&B songbook with restraint, respect and considerable finesse.

{ SOUL MAN } • Three less familiar Springsteen songs that absorbed the influence of soul

DUKE GARWOOD • In the mind, a desert: one-time Lanegan conspirator feels the heat.

AtoZ • This month…

Q&A • Duke Garwood “There was a lot of getting loose”

ROZI PLAIN • Entrancing fifth from the cooperatively inclined songwriter.

Q&A • Rozi Leyden “There’s a lot about proximity”

THE COOL GREENHOUSE • Tom Greenhouse ”I envisaged a lyrical Turing test”

THE WELCOME WAGON • Home is where the heart is for Brooklyn’s gospel-folk duo

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

SOPHIE JAMIESON • “I feel like I’m only just starting…”

NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE • Borrowed time, borrowed tunes and a Horse of a different colour on Neil’s 42nd.

Q&A • Rick Rubin, producer

PLAID • Electronica veterans take a space odyssey through the past three decades on their 11th album.

Q&A • Plaid “We thought we would give it to people of Earth too”

SAM PREKOP • “Like a sketch book or a studio diary of sorts”

BILL ORCUTT • Ruthlessly minimal and truly experimental outing from American explorer.

Q&A • Bill Orcutt “We’re gonna have a shit ton of guitar dynamite”

THE BEACH BOYS • A “new Beach Boys” attempt to take an audience with them into the heart of the 1970s.

SAIL AGAIN, SAIL BETTER • Three hidden treasures from the Sail On Sailor set

Q&A • Al Jardine: “A whole new vision for the Beach Boys”

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS • Epic account of the Heartbreakers’ 20-night stand in San Francisco.

Q&A • Benmont Tench & Mike Campbell: “I thought, ‘Oh, this is gonna be fun!’”

AtoZ

EMAHOY TSEGUÉ-MARYAM GUÈBROU • New compilation of solo piano pieces from Ethiopia’s ‘honky-tonk nun’.

NEAL CASAL • Manager Gary Waldman remembers the singer-songwriter

LES RALLIZES DÉNUDÉS • Heavy, psychedelic Japan, officially unearthed at last.

Q&A • Makoto Kubota: “The times were revolutionary…”

TREVOR BEALES • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

DJIVAN GASPARYAN • Two timeless, Eno-endorsed albums by an Armenian folk master

COMING NEXT MONTH…

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