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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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I’m your woman • Sharon Robinson, the key collaborator from Leonard Cohen’s final act, prepares her own tribute

“I’m still as idealistic as ever” • UK Americana Awards-winner Lucinda Williams on relearning the guitar for her new album

A QUICK ONE

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD • Post-rock chamber ensemble roar right back with emotionally maximalist opus.

{BLACK COUNTRY PATHWAYS} • Key influences on Ants From Up There

SPIRITUALIZED • Rejoice, the Spaceman is back in orbit on a wildly experimental flight.

A to Z • This month…

ANAÏS MITCHELL • Grammy-winner brings it home.

BAS JAN • Serafina Steer asks, “Is survival success?”

ERIN RAE • Nashville goes So Cal country on Tennessee native’s luminous third

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

KEELEY FORSYTH • Why the singer is pursuing a “harder, colder” sound

MODERN STUDIES • The old mysterious magic is now aligned to a keen pop sensibility.

BEACH HOUSE • Baltimore duo’s dream-pop swells to new proportions on masterful eighth album.

THE DELINES • Classic – and classy – Southern country soul on quintet’s third.

SPOON • Singer/guitarist Britt Daniel strives to work “the full-on way”

JEFF PARKER • Tortoise man takes another prodigious turn with solo ambient jazz guitar outing.

BLOSSOM TOES • Digital hardcore: bunions’n’all two-part retrospective for psychedelic also-rans.

{BLOSSOM TOES’ UNDERGROUND NETWORK} • Gear sounds from the band’s friends and associates

Q&A • Brian Godding and Jim Cregan speak to Uncut about the rise and fall of Blossom Toes

BROADCAST • Eternal, elemental pop, and private psychedelic reels, unearthed.

A to Z • This month…

{ANDY IRVINE AND PAUL BRADY} • Highlights from the two troubadours’ solo catalogues

BIG MAMA THORNTON • A fiery performance from an undersung legend deep into her career.

THOMAS LEER & ROBERT RENTAL • Early electronic outlier reissued on vinyl

WAYLON JENNINGS • Four albums on two discs, signalling a wind of change

COMING NEXT MONTH…

THE ROOTS OF LIFE ON EARTH • Three inspirations behind Alyna Segarra’s new album

“I NEEDED TO BE USEFUL” • Segarra on activism

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND • In March, a new exhibition opens to mark LOU REED’s 80th birthday. But what can we expect from a man who rarely wanted to discuss his past? Nick Hasted digs through the boxes of bar tabs, bootleg albums and… swords! And what does this trove tell us about future plans for unreleased music? “€ ere are many plans to continue putting out Lou’s work,” reveals Laurie Anderson.

“HE LOVED THAT STUFF” • Lou’s box of doo-wop 45s

CARD GAMES • How Cate Le Bon uses Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies in the studio

DESERT POP • Stella Mozgawa on her and Le Bon’s imaginary projects

CATE DIGGING • Le Bon’s finest records so far

FROM WEREWOLVES TO PORK CHOPS • How to buy… Michael Hurley

THE ENDLESS LOOP • Michael Hurley on his collection of eight-track tapes

CAROLE KING 1971–1976: A BUYER’S GUIDE

KING OF SONG • Not one, but two, Rock & Roll Hall Of...