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Uncut is your essential guide to the month’s best music. Every issue, our comprehensive and trustworthy reviews section showcases the best new releases and reissues, while our in-depth features section includes interviews with the greatest names in music from the past five decades as well as the classic artists of tomorrow. For over 20 years, this iconic magazine has been the authority on all things music, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the world's biggest stars, stunning photography from on and off the stage, and unparalleled album reviews from the people who really know. You can be sure that the music fanatics behind Uncut magazine will always strive to bring you the best features, interviews, and reviews. Each issue also brings you an in-depth article on a music icon, from past or present, giving you inside access you won't find anywhere else. Uncut is insightful, informative, and passionate about music.

Editor’s Notes

Rock it from the tombs • As Queens Of The Stone Age release a revelatory new stripped-down concert film, Josh Homme recounts his “near-life experience” in the Paris catacombs

A bit of Rough • How the launch of Rough Trade Records in 1977 opened the door for generations of renegade music-makers

“We hit the godhead” • Octogenarian folk trailblazer Bonnie Dobson is born again in the company of The Hanging Stars

A Quick One

I got the blues • How did a young Manchester lad in an M&S cardie obtain candid photos of all the R&B and rock’n’roll greats? Brian Smith explains

Friendship • Wry songs about videogame addiction and landscape gardening from indie/country contenders

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

The New Sounds • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

ARTHUR BAKER • The electro super-producer on Bob, Bruce, Beastie Boys’ food fights and upsetting Fleetwood Mac

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PULP More ROUGH TRADE • That rarest of things: a mature masterpiece from a reunited band.

THE ROAD TO MORE • How Jarvis Cocker stopped worrying and learned to love domesticity

Q&A • Jarvis Cocker: “It’s going to be interesting…”

ALAN SPARHAWK • Fellowship, easement and instinct on the songwriter’s second after Low.

A to Z • This month…

BC CAMPLIGHT • Brian Christinzio on sobriety and making light of difficult topics

NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS • A ‘new’ band, family dynamics, country hymns: it’s all to play for in Neil’s 80th year.

KELSEY WALDON • Vivacious, reflective sixth from still-peaking Kentuckian

JAMES McMURTRY • The Southern storyteller on his curious visions

POOR CREATURE • Lankum meet Landless in drone-folk heaven.

VAN MORRISON • The irascible maestro delves back into his illustrious past to spark up new soul fires.

SLOW MOTION COWBOYS • Ravishing Americana from a state-hopping urban explorer.

DIONNE WARWICK • A superlative singer’s ’60s, boxed.

VERY DIONNE • Three key stopping-off points beyond the Scepter recordings

MIKE OLDFIELD • Revisiting the multi-instrumentalist’s mission impossible: the follow-up to Tubular Bells.

STEP UP TO THE MIKE • Oldfield’s career high-water marks

A toZ • This month…

THE BETA BAND • Steve Mason: “We owe these pieces of music”

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

SUPER DJATA BAND DE BAMAKO • Unsung classic from a Malian guitar hero.

ELECTRIC AVENUES • Three more lost classics from Mali

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