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Uncut is your essential guide to the month’s best music. Every issue, our comprehensive and trustworthy reviews section showcases the best new releases and reissues, while our in-depth features section includes interviews with the greatest names in music from the past five decades as well as the classic artists of tomorrow. For over 20 years, this iconic magazine has been the authority on all things music, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the world's biggest stars, stunning photography from on and off the stage, and unparalleled album reviews from the people who really know. You can be sure that the music fanatics behind Uncut magazine will always strive to bring you the best features, interviews, and reviews. Each issue also brings you an in-depth article on a music icon, from past or present, giving you inside access you won't find anywhere else. Uncut is insightful, informative, and passionate about music.

Editor’s Note

Wild West Country • With the festival having a fallow year, former NME snapper Beezer shares his amazing photos of Glastonbury in the mid-1980s

Upsetter forever • Mouse On Mars take us inside the final iration of the incomparable Lee “Scratch” Perry

A Quick One

Relight my fıre • Forty years on from an ill-fated breakthrough, The Del Fuegos resume their rambunctious roots-rock mission

Frank’s wild years • From Elvis to Curtis, and Sammy Davis Jr to Smog, Texan sax legend Frank “The Wild Jalapeño” Rodarte has mixed it with the best

Beatles for sale! • The most eye-catching lots from Omega’s recent Fab Four-themed auction

Mixed Up Records • 16–22 Otago Lane, Glasgow, G12 8PB

Tenderness • Vital 21st-century country rock from Peggy Sue’s Katy Beth Young

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

On Rotation • 15 tracks of the month’s best music

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ED O’BRIEN • As he readies a new solo album, the Radiohead guitarist talks Brazil, the Bible and his band’s future: “Everything’s open”

THOMAS DOLLBAUM • Mesmerising stories of the American South, told with the help of MJ Lenderman.

FEATHERED FRIENDS • Dollbaum on the albums that inspired Birds Of Paradise

Q&A • Thomas Dollbaum on the making of Birds of Paradise

ALDOUS HARDING • Kiwi auteur continues to showcase her many vocal moods.

A to Z • This month…

KEVIN MORBY • The reality and romance of road life, in the Kansas City songwriter’s rearview mirror.

ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO • Nile Rodgers, Pharrell and a pan-African cast back Kidjo’s militant optimism.

Q&A • Angélique Kidjo: “In creation is the power”

BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS • Terry Allen’s dynastic affair heralds a new folk-roots project

SIMON JOYNER • Omaha veteran flying flag for independence

THE SLEEVES • Half of Modern Nature on their sparse, bewitching new project

QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE • Rare duels! Acid-rock trailblazers catalogued.

AUDIO ALCHEMY • Three Quicksilver off-shoots worth investigating

THE HANDSOME FAMILY • Brett and Rennie Sparks’ apocalyptic Albuquerque breakthrough, expanded.

Q&A • Rennie Sparks: “In Albuquerque you can hear coyotes yip and owls hoot”

A to Z • This month…

KRAFTWERK • Hütter, Schneider and co find a fully electronic, experimental sound.

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

FUNKADELIC • George Clinton and crew cook up a psychedelic stew on their second LP.

COMING NEXT MONTH…

PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE •  From teenage prodigies to seasoned auteurs, THE LEMON TWIGS have grown into one of...