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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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Exhibition rock! • A sneak peek inside The Clash’s new retrospective celebrating 40 years of London Calling

“Portraiture and disorder” • Nick Cave on a series of paintings inspired by The Bad Seeds

Man in the radiator • Reappraising the smart, ironic ‘70s pop of David Lynch collaborator Peter Ivers

Hill country blues • The North Mississippi Allstars pay tribute to their “ancient and futuristic” roots

A QUICK ONE

Arp • Adventures in art jazz, new age exotica and cosmic riffs

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

“I was pretty bad at being a pop star” AN AUDIENCE WITH BRUCE HORNSBY • Riding high on the back of Bon Iver’s endorsement and his finest album in years, the piano master discusses the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, cryogenics and appearing in “some of the worst videos ever made”

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE • A dark, bittersweet gem.

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NILS, DON’T GO • Nils Lofgren’s history with Neil Young

Nils Lofgren “It was a bunch of old friends… rediscovering what they’ve always had”

RICHARD DAWSON • The gritty Tynesider’s latest is his most direct album to date.

Q&A • Richard Dawson “My experience is that music is revealed and not made”

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COMET GAIN • David Feck on his sketches of a destroyed society

KACY & CLAYTON • Canadian cousins’ impeccably judged, country-folk fourth.

Q&A • Kacy Anderson “I’m a sentimental person”

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AMERICANA • Country, bluegrass, folk and more

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

ELBOW • “I carried two coffins in eight days,” reveals Guy Garvey

MICHAEL KIWANUKA • The expansive UK singer-songwriter follows one classic with another.

Q&A

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LIGHTNING BOLT • Brian Chippendale “We dug into each song”

LANKUM • Rich, dark, all-consuming third from Irish folk miscreants.

Q&A

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FLOATING POINTS • Polymath electronic composer’s kaleidoscopic third album.

Q&A

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GONG • Signs and cymbals: Daevid Allen and co’s finest work, now with live treasures.

STRONG & STEAMIN’ • Three more Gong treasures to tune in to

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Steve Hillage • “In many ways it’s the best band I’ve ever been in”

THE BEATLES • Streets ahead: 50 years on, Abbey Road remains the greatest farewell in pop history.

Q&A

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REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE LOUVIN BROTHERS • Some tragic songs of love and life

THE REPLACEMENTS • Minnesota mavericks’ Don’t Tell A Soul album revisited, with glimpses of what might have been.

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THE KINKS • 4CD reissue of a prescient British pop opera.

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Q&A

ERIK SATIE • French pianist’s innovative, extreme minimalism predicts the ambient movement eight decades early

COMING NEXT MONTH...

LA GHOSTS & FLOWERS • As KIM GORDON prepares to release No Home Record – her brilliant debut solo album – she takes stock of her consistently adventurous career...