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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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Sure shot! • The photo that marked the start of a beautiful friendship between Spike Jonze and the Beastie Boys

Bartz’s brew • Spiritual jazz stargazer Gary Bartz on his inter-generational synergy with London combo Maisha

The show must go online • Waxahatchee, Brendan Benson Basia Bulat extol the virtues of livestreaming during lockdown

“It was a dark day in Dallas…” • Elegy to JFK or ballad for our times? Dissecting Bob Dylan’s astonishing return with the 17-minute “Murder Most Foul”

Diamanda is forever • Hailing the uncompromising vision of singer, pianist and John Paul Jones collaborator Diamanda Galás

A QUICK ONE

Nap Eyes • Even before lockdown, these pensive Canadian indie-rockers had remote working licked

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

High Life • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“We thought love could change the world” AN AUDIENCE WITH STEVE HOWE • The prog-rock virtuoso talks Lou Reed, The Libertines and psychedelic love-ins… But reuniting the ‘classic lineup’ of Yes remains a sticky subject

BRIGID DAWSON & THE MOTHERS NETWORK • A transcendent jazz-inspired masterpiece from the former Oh Sees member.

LAURA MARLING • Accomplished singer-songwriter loosens the ties that bind on her seventh.

SPARKS • Arch art-pop siblings’ zingy 24th.

WATKINS FAMILY HOUR • Folkgrass splendour from talented San Diego duo

WOODS • Jeremy Earl’s indie-psych collective get dreamy about home as they switch to synths.

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES • On his 20th album Steve Earle goes underground.

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS • A fine collection of short songs on five EPs.

THE DREAM SYNDICATE • A dream inside a dream inside a Dream Syndicate.

NEIL YOUNG • At last! Young’s missing volume from the Ditch Trilogy arrives, 45 years late…

Q&A • Producer Elliot Mazer contrasts sessions for Harvest and Homegrown . “It was a different kind of stress”

ROBBIE BASHO • A lost 1970s session reveals the vision of an under-recognised guitar genius.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF • Early missives from fêted N’Awlinz songwriter, on vinyl.

Soul Survivor • “Time is passing and I’m getting older,” says JASON ISBELL. “Things are very different from the early days…” As he prepares to release his new album, Reunions, Isbell invites Stephen Deusner to his Tennessee barn to discuss the magic of Muscle Shoals, the ghosts of his past and his tenure in the Drive-By Truckers. Expect mirrorballs, a cameo from David Crosby and a visit to Leonard Cohen’s old stamping ground…

“OPEN YOUR HEART, OPEN YOUR MIND” • After Purple Rain took PRINCE to dizzying new artistic and commercial heights, what could he possibly do next? Inspired by The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, he took a creative left-turn into psychedelic pop, orchestral soul and Eastern exoticism for Around The World In A Day. Here, 35 years on, Prince’s inner circle divulge the secrets of this remarkable album to Graeme Thomson – including wild studio jams, basketball games and feats of superhuman productivity. “You never knew what to expect,” relates one eyewitness. “You were never forewarned.”

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