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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Scrawling King Snake • Marking 50 years since JimMorrison’s death, a new compendium of his writing contains previously unseen lyrics, poems and diaries

Top banana! • Kurt Vile spearheads a new track-by-track tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico: “It was powerful as hell”

“I’ve stuck to my guns” • One Dove singer Dot Allison is back with a dreamy, folky new album – her first in 12 years

Whole lotta sleeve • Rock lensman Ross Halfin unveils his new book of weird, wonderful and not always strictly official Led Zeppelin artwork

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Cedric Burnside • Hill Country blues scion, soulfully updating the form

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

Diamonds & Pearls • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“Global superstardom? It’s exhausting!” AN AUDIENCE WITH TRACEY THORN • The Everything But The Girl star turned rock memoirist on lightbulb moments, “fuck-off hits” and being Aretha for a day

FAYE WEBSTER I Know I’m Funny haha SECRETLY CANADIAN • Atlanta wunderkind’s lonely, lonesome triumph.

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ANOTHER COUNTRY • How Webster learnt the rules to break them

Q & A • Faye Webster on her favourite guitar, fake fadeouts and the beauty of Atlanta

A to Z • This month…

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AMERICANA • A bar-room bard’s breakthrough

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

BIRDSOFMAYA • Black Dirt, DIY ethics and secret recordings

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Q&A • Lucy Dacus on keeping a record of life

BANDCAMP ROUND›UP • Looking back on some of the finest online releases this year

LONELADY • Julie Campbell “Childhood wonder is a big obsession”

Q&A • How Billy Gibbons got to enjoy the “powerful energies” of the desert

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REVELATIONS JOANA SERRAT • The songwriter’s path to “an album of exile”

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Q&A • Anthony Joseph on poetry, jazz and “the mystery note”

SPIRITS REJOICE • Rare South African jazz-rock majesty from 1977.

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STRONG SPIRITS • Three more albums from the collective

JONI MITCHELL • Her journey from green and guileless to tough, candid and Blue.

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A to Z

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Q&A • Paul Samwell-Smith: “You could unleash Jeff”

CHRIS CARTER • Man without a plan: “It was a ‘suck it and see’ scenario”

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

COMING NEXT MONTH...

GIRLY SOUND FOREVER • After an 11-year absence, LIZ PHAIR has returned to reclaim her title of fearless songwriting superstar. But how has a song about Lou Reed, a country-rap crossover hit and her own trailblazing debut helped prepare her to re-enter the fray? “I’ve had to pick myself up from being dead many times,” she tells Erin Osmon

PHAIR PLAY • A Liz Phair buyer’s guide

“LOOK AT MY TWITTER” • A Phair selection of female artists

“Where does this rage come from,...