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.
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His own thing SLY STONE 1943-2025 • Uncut looks back on the life of an inspirational rock’n’soul icon
“Rock’n’roll is not lazy” • John Fogerty on turning 80, playing Glastonbury and reclaiming his Creedence catalogue
A Quick One
“I’m like a kid again” • Geoff Barrow launches his post-Beak> film career with Game, starring Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson
Picture this! • Photographer Martyn Goddard reveals what it was like to shadow Blondie on the cusp of superstardom in 1978
Some kind of hero • Jonathan Maitland’s stage play about Wilko Johnson makes it to the West End – with added Wreckless Eric!
Folk Bitch Trio • Stunning three-part harmonies with candid lyrics and “rock’n’roll energy”
Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…
Hopes And Dreams • 15 tracks of the month’s best music
BILLY IDOL • The rebel yeller talks Tex Ritter, Television, Terminator 2 and why he’s not a plastic punk
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WET LEG Moisturizer DOMINO • The Isle Of Wight quintet return, emboldened by love and new sounds. By Fiona Shepherd
CATCH THESE DISCS • What Rhian Teasdale was playing while making Moisturizer
Q&A • Rhian Teasdale: “It’s nice to live in a space somewhere between fantasy and reality”
RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND • Thrillingly tall tales from a Southern surrealist.
AtoZ • This month…
ARIANNE CHURCHMAN & BENEDICT DREW • Folk-loving modern artists on “taking the music forward”
MARK STEWART • The late Pop Group singer’s final report.
MURRY HAMMOND • Old 97’s co-founder makes a thoroughly compelling, long overdue return to solo mode
HIS LORDSHIP
THE NEW EVES • Herstories and sonics cohere in their “hagstone rock” debut. By Sharon O’Connell
BEN LaMAR GAY • Versatile Chicago jazzer’s best yet.
MIKE POLIZZE • Philly guitarist swaps fuzz for fingerstyle
REBECCA SCHIFFMAN • A triumph of dramatic storytelling.
THE B-52s The Warner And Reprise Years RHINO • The Athens, Georgia oddballs’ joyously improbable success story retold in a boxset. By Tom Pinnock
MORE GOOD STUFF • Which other B-52s records to pick up
Q&A • Fred Schneider: “We loved Captain Beefheart too”
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER • Out-there Oregonians rip up the roots of Americana. By Jon Dale
AtoZ • This month…
STARS OF THE LID • The influential duo’s gritty debut, remastered and on vinyl for the first time
MICKEY NEWBURY • The beginning of a purple patch for country’s pioneering outlaw.
PURPLE REIGN • More Mickey Newbury highlights on CD
MILES DAVIS • Heavy live double from the peak of his career
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