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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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“The world has lost a unique voice” TERRY HALL | 1959–2022 • The calm at the eye of The Specials’ storm left a lasting impression on everyone who met him or heard him sing

THE WAY THAT HE DID IT • 13 great Terry Hall songs

Peaches and squeam • Who’s got the crack? Anti-folk pranksters The Moldy Peaches return to the stage for more “slap and tickle”

Remember her CHRISTINE McVIE | 1943–2022 • As the Fleetwood Mac songbird ascends, we revisit her 20 greatest compositions

“Deep and mysterious” • This year’s Celtic Connections explores the hidden affinities between the folk music of Scotland, Louisiana and Mali

Mary Elizabeth Remington • Itinerant Big Thief associate channels “the magic of nature”

Sounds Of The New West Vol 6 • 15 Tracks Of The Best New Americana

John Sinclair • The renegade jazz poet and one-time MC5 manager on John Lennon, surviving jail and why he’s still kicking out the jams

THE NECKS • Antipodean jazz experimentalists find new ways to tell some epic tales.

Q&A

ROBERT FORSTER • A prescient Go-Between in excelsis on eighth solo album.

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LISA O’NEILL • County Cavan’s favourite daughter returns with an album for the ages.

THE ARCS

JOE HENRY • Deeply personal 16th from folk-roots singer-songwriter

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO • A masterful return.

THE WAEVE • A new relationship proves fruitful in unexpected ways.

SUNNY WAR • Fingerpicking alt.folk rebel exorcises demons both personal and ehcmical.

QUASI

BRIX SMITH

LARAAJI • Newly unearthed recordings and a 1970s gem are collected on a four-disc motherlode of zithery bliss.

Q&A

JOHN LEE HOOKER • Sixtieth anniversary of a blues landmark.

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MOGWAI • The Scots’ noisy, surprising first two LPs.

BOOKER T & THE MG’S • Stax mainstays’ debut, defining hit included, remastered for its 60th anniversary.

ROBERT PALMER • Rock, pop, soul, funk, reggae: a musical Zelig reappraised

PHEW • Japanese Germanophile’s scattergun Mute debut

Loose change • From Romford to East Nashville, SPENCER CULLUM has taken a peripatetic journey from pedal steel to pastoral psychedelia. Tom Pinnock hears how secret societies devoted to the Grateful Dead, “krautrock wormholes” and sojourns accompanying country superstars in Las Vegas have propelled this sonic upstart into bold new directions. “It’s more about gradually trying to find my identity…”

From Hoboken To Eternity • Start spreading the news… The epic adventures of YO LA TENGO continue with This Stupid World – “an energetic record” that finds New Jersey’s most enduring cult band giving renewed prominence to big, loud guitars. Jason Anderson visits the band in their studio to learn how Sinatra (Frank and Frank Jr), surveillance and sandwiches have informed this latest marvellous step forward in their lengthy history. “We just try to do what’s inside of us.”

THE ROAD TO THIS STUPID WORLD • Yo La Tengo’s five heaviest songs

LIKE A VERSION • Ira Kaplan on Yo La Tengo’s cover love

Linda Thompson • The folk-rock luminary charts the bright lights and shadows of a stellar career

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