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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 Note

He’s on it! • Beastie Boy Mike D is back to disturb his neighbours with a new band featuring his two sons

“He was very genuine” • A new anthology spotlights the mordant country ballads of late Bad Seeds pianist Conway Savage

A Quick One

C’mon everybody! • How Eddie Cochran’s “magical influence” kickstarted the British beat boom

Come and get these memories • Motown royalty Martha Reeves is back with a new album, prompting stories of Stevie, Marvin and more…

Freak art! • This month: six original psychedelic stunners from Heritage Auctions’ latest poster sale

The Book And Record Bar • 20 Norwood High Street, West Norwood, London, SE27 9NR

Styrofoam Winos • Versatile country-punk trio from the same shaggy milieu as MJ Lenderman and Ryan Davis

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Ambient Americana Volume 2 • Further Along The Cosmic Trail

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AN AUDIENCE WITH… DANIEL LANOIS • The super-producer and pedal steel ace on “going for a magic carpet ride” with Bob, Neil, Emmylou, U2, the Eno brothers and more…

SHEARWATER • An ambitious, globe-trotting voyage into changing nature and Talk Talk-esque textures.

SHEAR DELIGHTS • Three more magical albums from Meiburg and co

Q&A • Jonathan Meiburg on Al Green, Bowie and giant sea spiders

THE DURUTTI COLUMN • An unexpected, emotional return from one of our most innovative guitarists.

AtoZ • This month…

SARI LIGHTMAN • Canadian experimental folk musician gets literary on solo debut.

LENNY KAYE • Joyous solo debut from Patti Smith collaborator and more.

ALISON COTTON • The violist and songwriter on gaining a new confidence

RODNEY CROWELL • ‘Lost’ album of Nashville treasures, plus choice new additions

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING • Surprise return of Aussie DIY legends.

MICHAEL J SHEEHY • On regrets, recovery and a creative rebirth

MOJAVE 3 • Three Slowdive refugees look westward for inspiration.

MOJAVE 3… ONE BY ONE • Celebrating themselves: solo albums and side projects

Q&A • Neil Halstead: “It was almost like we were making records for ourselves”

THE WATERBOYS • Mike Scott finds plenty more Fisherman’s Blues in the sea.

AtoZ • This month…

MA RAINEY • The entire collected work of a rediscovered pioneer.

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

MIDNIGHT RIDER • From Florida roadhouses to the Fillmore East, the legend of GREGG ALLMAN endures. Now, with a new documentary imminent, friends and collaborators look beyond the trauma, excess and hard-won redemption to reveal the complicated truth...