UNCUT

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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Betty’s back! • Funk trailblazer Betty Davis makes a surprise return to the studio after a 40-year absence

Playing a blinder • If the cap fits… Anna Calvi joins the illustrious list of rockers lending their talents to BBC mob drama Peaky Blinders

Counter culture • Turned tables! The Vinyl Revival is a new film doc charting the remarkable rebirth of the British record shop

A QUICK ONE

“They walk out onto the crossing, into history” • Abbey Road engineer Alan Parsons and author Ken Womack on the Fabs’ last stand

Altın Gün • Inspired, psychedelic interpreters of old Anatolian pop songs

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

RADIO UNCUT • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“It’squite feminine but also a bit heavy metal” AN AUDIENCE WITH BAT FOR LASHES • Now living in suburban LA, inspiration for her filmic fifth album Lost Girls , Natasha Khan talks ’80s movies, snake-charmers, “motorbike-riding vampire girls” and what she learned from Depeche Mode

NEW ALBUMS • THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

HOWARD’S WAY • Three Brittany detours on the journey to Jaime

SLEEVE NOTES

Brittany Howard • on the power of Blind Melon, notes to self and beheaded goats

OH SEES • John Dwyer and co spread their wings on sprawling 22nd LP.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • John Dwyer: “You never get bored when you are exploring”

A to Z

BODEGA • Ben Hozie: “This record shows our sweeter side”

WILCO • Classical rock: Jeff Tweedy and co’s quietly revolutionary latest.

SLEEVE NOTES

AMERICANA • Country, bluegrass, folk and more

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER • MC Taylor steps into the “emotional unknown”

JENNY HVAL • Nordic art-punk diva takes an entrancing detour into ’90s rave nostalgia.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Jenny Hval “I was feeling very elevated”

KAZU • “I was compelled to make a solo album”

TINARIWEN • The desert stormers’ 9th.

SLEEVE NOTES

IGGY POP • The old survivor rages against the dying of the light.

SLEEVE NOTES

GRUFF RHYS • Solo album six is short, synthy, Tropicalia tinged and sung in Welsh.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Gruff Rhys on multilingual co-producers and Prince’s ashes

DISCOVERED • Searching out the best albums new to Uncut

Q&A • Al MacSween and Elaha Soroor “I wasn’t interested in authenticity”

JONAH TOLCHIN • Mining light from the darkness…

VARIOUS ARTISTS • The legendary blues festival, rediscovered and compiled.

THREE GREAT LIVE BLUES ALBUMS • Raw material: three blues masters at their most rugged

SLEEVE NOTES

Jim Fishel • How a teenage blues fan helped preserve the music’s legacy

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE STEVE MILLER BAND • The space cowboy’s career hi-ho’s

MANU CHAO • Laptop revolutionary’s solo debut, revisited 20 years on.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Q&A with Chao’s biographer Peter Culshaw, author of Clandestino: In Search Of Manu Chao (Serpent’s Tail)

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