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Prove it all night • Lynn Goldsmith’s previously unseen pictures of Bruce Springsteen capture a diligent idol-in-waiting

Ladies of the Roundhouse • Ahead of an 80th-birthday tribute in London, Vashti Bunyan and Lail Arad tell Uncut about the life-changing impact of Joni Mitchell

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Stunner of 69 • The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt on returning to his fin de siècle triumph, 69 Love Songs

“I had an epiphany” • The Replacements’ first manager Peter Jesperson on taking the wheel for the wayward rockers

Jeffrey Alexander • Psychedelic underground stalwart veers towards ‘ringwear rock’

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Come On! • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

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KURT VILE • The hard-working slacker talks sativa, forklifts, being mistaken for Kurt Weill and joining Neil Young in outer space

TY SEGALL • California’s garage-rock wunderkind grows up, spectacularly.

DOUBLE FANTASIES • Segall’s adventures in the epic

Q&A • Ty Segall: “I feel like it’s the deepest and farthest I’ve gone”

GRUFF RHYS • A rich harvest of succour awaits on Super Furry veteran’s euphonious almanac of sorrows.

Q&A • Gruff Rhys on moving house with a wheelbarrow, and Kevin Ayers

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FUTURE ISLANDS • Spacious-sounding seventh from Baltimore’s heart-on-sleeve synth-pop quartet.

Q&A • Why Samuel T Herring felt he could “go deeper” this time

THE FALLEN LEAVES • Guitarist Rob Symmons flicks the switch…

THANDI NTULI WITH CARLOS NIÑO • Expressive and experimental South African jazz piano.

Q&A • Thandi Ntuli on drawing inspiration from nature and the wholeness of Rainbow Revisited

JOHNNY DOWD • Veteran singer-songwriter’s 19th effort draws deep from Memphis

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NAILAH HUNTER • “True mastery of the harp requires you go on a never-ending quest”

BROWN HORSE • Country rock from East Anglia, haunted by disquiet.

Q&A • Patrick Turner and Rowan Braham: “We try to invest equally in each other’s songs”

NEWDAD • Julie Dawson: “I tried to be brutally honest”

JERRY DAVID DECICCA • A country-folk auteur embraces synthesisers and sequencers.

Q&A • Jerry David DeCicca: “This felt more lonely”

MOTT THE HOOPLE • A deep dive into Mott’s transformative 1972, when everything changed thanks to a gift from above.

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG • The pick of Mott… before and after Bowie

Q&A • Ian Hunter: “He said, ‘Let me sort something out’”

COCTEAU TWINS • Goodbye 4AD, hello break-up angst, but the melodic majesty endures.

Q&A • Robin Guthrie: “I’m suprised how timeless they sound”

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