In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Uncut (UK)

• Camera Police!
  Tom Sheehan reveals what it’s like to shoot notoriously reluctant superstars, Radiohead
• Long and winding road
  Fifty-four years after it was buried by The Beatles, Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Let It Be movie gets back to where it belongs
• High infidelity
  Fifty years ago, Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico survived a spot of bed-hopping to record a legendary live album
• “He was like a sun”
  Rosanne Cash and Rickie Lee Jones acknowledge the all-powerful influence of Lou Reed
• Death and the Suede man
  Brett Anderson teams up with Charles Hazlewood and Paraorchestra to breathe new life into songs about dying
• Wild wild county
  A new folk scene is thriving in Cornwall, inspired by the area’s unique landscape, history and “magical possibilities”
• Revolution rock
  How punk chronicler Caroline Coon captured a “fracture in the zeitgeist”
• Feed your head!
  How Mike Frankel’s innovative live photos of Jefferson Airplane landed him on stage at Woodstock
• Foal’s gold
  Willy Vlautin’s new novel The Horse may be bleak, but it’s spurred him on to write the next Delines album
• Black country, new road
  Nashville hitmaker Alice Randall on recovering the “erased histories” of country music
• Mint Mile
  The Silkworm has turned! Indie-rock lifer ploughs a fruitful new furrow
• Landless
  Stunning four-part harmonies from the same Dublin folk scene as Lankum and Lisa O’Neill
• Uncut Playlist
  On the stereo this month…
• Total Blam-blam!
  15 tracks of the month’s best music
• IRMIN SCHMIDT
  As the spectacular Can live series continues, the band’s co-founder talks Damo, drug busts and drinking with Mark E Smith
• Can Live 1973-1977
  Exclusive with this issue of Uncut!
• AN AUDIENCE WITH… VINI REILLY
  The Durutti Column’s reclusive guitar genius on Tony Wilson, Morrissey and kickabouts with Pat Nevin
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• JESSICA PRATT
  A cursed City of Angels inspires a soft-sung stylist to new creative heights.
• BETH GIBBONS
  A singular voice in British music explores new depths in middle age.
• Q&A
  Jessica Pratt: “There is a tinge of darkness”
• SIMPLY THE BETH
  The pick of Gibbons’ back catalogue, from Portishead to the Polish National Radio Orchestra
• Q&A
  Lee Harris: “She found her ‘spark’”
• MICHAEL HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND
  Fine dream-state return, with added ghosts.
• EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN
  Improvisation, evolution, gender, humour!
• IAN HUNTER
  Elder statesman puts the world to rights again, in esteemed company.
• Q&A
  Blixa Bargeld hopes for divine inspiration in improvisation
• BIG|BRAVE
  Robin Wattie: “We wanted to explore something softer”
• CAMERA OBSCURA
  Tracyanne Campbell: “I didn’t realise what I’d been missing”
• WILLIE NELSON
  Superb second album of Nelson’s 10th decade.
• VAMPIRE WEEKEND
  Indie-rock over-achievers re-emerge with an anxiety-exorcising masterpiece.
• Q&A
  Buddy Cannon (producer): “The man lives on music”
• BERNARD BUTLER
  Reluctant solo artist on a ‘happy surprise’ return
• SCOTT H BIRAM
  Boisterous Texan in reassuringly rude health on 13th album
• KHRUANGBIN
  Laura Lee returns to the source
• JOANA SERRAT
  Catalan songwriter slays demons on soul-searching sixth.
• Q&A
  Joana Serrat: “I put myself outside of my safety zone”
• ARAB STRAP
  Scottish duo’s second post-reunion album offers rich ruminations on midlife angst and online rage.
• PEARL JAM
  Commendably restless 12th from Seattle survivors.
• KAIA KATER
  Expansive, finely detailed fourth from banjo-toting Canadian
• BROADCAST
  Intriguing lost tracks from the Midlands soundscapers’ archive.
• RICHARD HAWLEY
  “I’m trying to find that peace all of us crave”
• THE DECEMBERISTS
  Intellectual Oregonians cram two decades of tricks into four-sided ninth LP.
• AC/DC
  Simply the best: 50th-anniversary reissues from hard rock’s masters of minimalism.
• Q&A
  Colin Meloy: “It’s a very crafted thing”
• ALICE COLTRANE
  Electrifying and transcendent, this previously unreleased set captures the legendary harpist at a pivotal point in her career
• POPPYCOCK
  Una Baines maps the band’s fitful journey
• SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
  Long-buried tapes of a gospel great.
• SANULLIM
  Sublime Korean psych-pop reissued on vinyl
• EZRA FEINBERG
  Former Citay dweller completes his blissful minimalist makeover.
• Q&A
  Ezra Feinberg: “The everyday is psychedelic”
• THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
  Two decades into a singular career as Annie Clark squares up to her demons and endures a season in hell on her sublime seventh album, All Born Screaming. She tells Stephen Troussé how she went back to basics and learned from Dave Grohl, David Bowie and John Coltrane how to “wield music like a god”
• GASTR DEL SOL
  The fascinating story of Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs’ short-lived but influential avant-garde duo told in a career-spanning box set.
• MASSEDUCTION
  The collaborations that put St Vincent on the map
• ART AND SOL
  A selection of post-Gastr albums
• Q&A
  Jim O’Rourke & David Grubbs “We felt like outliers”
• Hymns Ancient And Modern
  MYRIAM GENDRON has been quietly transforming folk songs and Dorothy Parker poems with intense, delicate results. But for the enigmatic French-Canadian, a new album of her own compositions proves to be a powerful reckoning with loss and grief. “We’ll see where it leads me,” she tells Laura Barton
• HOLLAND-DOZIER-HOLLAND
  When Motown’s power trio struck out on their own.
• FOLK HEROES
  Five figures who influenced Myriam Gendron
• Iron & Wine
  The man behind the stage name, South Carolina songwriter Sam Beam, reviews his back catalogue
• TRY IT, YOU’LL LIKE IT
  Three of H-D-H’s earlier Motown highlights
• EPIC SOUNDTRACKS
  Following his lavish cosmic explorations, KAMASI WASHINGTON comes back down to Earth with an album inspired by new life and the need to overcome old divisions. But the reigning king of jazz saxophone is still cleaving close to his radical mission to soothe the soul and inspire the mind. “Music cleanses us,” he tells Sam Richards
• BLANCMANGE
  Overdue retrospective for undervalued electropop misfits
• FAMILY AFFAIR
  Showcasing the creativity of the wider Washington clan
• ROBIN TROWER
  Blues-rocker’s landmark second.
• “WHOLE ROOM’S GOT FUNKY!”
  Kamasi Washington on how George Clinton helped him “Get Lit”
• The Story Of The Blues by Wah!
  How Pete Wylie’s “drinking song” developed into a huge anthem: “When I have an idea, I have it in Cinemascope!”
• Q&A
  Robin Trower: “In the studio there was a lot of confidence”
• Still On The Ledge
  Reassuringly, RICHARD THOMPSON is showing no signs of slowing down. With a brilliant new album almost upon us, he reveals all about the magic of Big Pink, adventures in the Sahara, imaginary conversations with Sandy Denny… and how he feels about his approaching 75th birthday. “I’ve still got the same mindset as I always had,” he tells Tom Pinnock. “I’m always trying to write a good song or play a good solo. That hasn’t changed since I was 18.”
• SPACEPORT CONVENTION
  RT’s new millennium on record
• VARIOUS ARTISTS
  Rare archive gems and hybrid synth-funk cuts from West Africans in European exile
• WHERE IT’S AT
  Twenty years after they first met, THE BLACK KEYS and BECK have finally got it together in the studio for Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney’s explosive new album, Ohio Players. In this exclusive interview, Beck, Auberbach and Carney – let’s call them The Beck Keys – talk early encounters, blues legends, Memphis rappers, random ’90s festival bills and more… “We’re three old friends getting together to make stuff and we were having a good time,” hears Stephen Deusner
• THIS IS A CALL
  MDOU MOCTARhas come a long way since he built his first guitar out of wood and old bike parts. Currently holed up in Los Angeles, the charismatic desert blues prodigy and his band of brothers are about to use their well-earned international platform to rail against injustice in his Saharan homeland. “We write our songs about real life, not fiction,” hears Kevin EG Perry
• CHOP AND CHANGE
  Your guide to collaborations with Beck and The Black Keys
• CLASS AXE
  Mdou Moctar’s five favourite guitarists
• OUR FRIEND IN THE NORTH
  Emerging from lockdown with “a lot of junk building up in the backyard”, MARK KNOPFLER has crafted one of his finest solo albums – a semi-autobiographical reckoning with his Geordie roots, ageing and even his old band, Dire Straits. Stand by as the guitarist’s guitarist – aka “the laziest person I know” – reveals how the songs of Bernard Cribbins, 1950s fairgrounds and touring with Bob Dylan have got him to this point. “You’re marching right up to the source of the dragon, the smoky cave,” he confides to Tom Pinnock
• VELVET GOLDMINE
  “So Long 60s”. “It’s Gonna Rain Again”. A band called Rungk. “Carmen Miranda backed by The Velvet Underground.” Foolscap notebooks. “Kellogg’s Corn Flakes packets and a wet bag of crisps.” Just how much do we really know about THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS? As a new boxset prepares to dig deep into DAVID BOWIE’s 1972 masterpiece, Peter Watts maps the Starman’s secret history – via outtakes, alternate versions, rediscovered recordings and abandoned track listings – in the company of his closest collaborators and confidants. Stand by for shocking truths about a certain doomed extraterrestrial rock star… “There was no concept!”
• LOCAL GUITAR HEROES
  Mark Knopfler on the recording of his all-star charity take on Local Hero’s “Going Home”
• “I’LL BE YOUR KING VOLCANO”
  10 jewels from the Rock N Roll Star! boxset
• “I’M KNOWN TO LAY YOU, ONE AND ALL”
  When Bowie ‘came out’
• “LAY THE REAL THING ON ME”
  When an Arnold Corn who lived next door lent Bowie his Gibson Les Paul
• TRIBUTARIES
  The route to One Deep River
• “SO INVITING, SO ENTICING…”
  Inside the Rock N Roll Star! book
• AIR
  A quarter of a century on, Moon Safari takes flight in glorious widescreen
• Isobel Campbell
  A pick of the singer’s group, solo and collaborative albums: “They’ve all influenced each other…”
• LOST IN MUSIC
  Nearly 30 years after they were dropped by their record label and turned on by the capricious music press, SLOWDIVE are enjoying an unlikely renaissance – as hit albums, a growing multi-generational audience and an influential legacy attest. But their glorious second act is about more than just unfinished business, as loss, grief, family and ageing figure beneath the heavy distortion. “Things feel more acute,” they tell Nick Hasted
• ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
  Spare us the patter! A garrulous Ian McCulloch eventually regains his swagger
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• “We were all in tears”
  Slowdive’s Spanish comeback
• “Their music is everywhere”
  Slowdive’s American invasion
• SCREEN
  Skulduggery and identity theft on the Côte d’Azur; mounting tensions in a German high school; Irish folk-horror; and more…
• ABETTER WORLD
  Sinister nightmares! Manipulative technologies! Faceless shadow men! Is this the end for T BONE BURNETT..? As the Dylan veteran, Americana emissary and super-producer prepares to revive his own, long-dormant solo career, he reveals how childhood fears and spiritual quests continue to inspire hard-won life lessons. “A lot of my writing was about the dystopia,” he tells Will Hermes
• A-LIST FRIENDS
  Origins of The Alpha Band
• THE CLOCK COMES DOWN THE STAIRS
  The story of Microdisney, the lost band by which lost bands are judged
• PRIME CUTS
  T Bone buyers’ guide
• Electric Avenue
  How the former Equals lead guitarist created a catchy song that managed to sneak the politics of protest into the 1983 charts
• VETERANS OF DISORDER
  Dysfunctional outlaw spirits from the DC underground, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema brought drugs, psychedelic heaviosity and a Rolling Stones fixation to their sonic adventures as ROYAL TRUX. A.er a brilliant run of albums, rehab, relapses and a record company that wanted them to be “the next Guns N’ Roses”, things fell apart – twice! Yet beyond the chaos and excess, their spectacular music endures: “At the end of the day, there’s really nobody like us,” discovers Rob Hughes
• The Volume Dealers
  The pick of the latest speakers
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• LET’S GET LOST
  A Royal Trux buyers’ guide
• Not Fade Away
  Fondly remembered this month…
• “THEY WERE GENIUSES”
  Musician and producer Matt Sweeney recalls working with Royal Trux
• “It’s time for a decısıon”
  One song cautions against rock excess, another hymns the miracle of human consciousness, while a third rages against a “no-God cosmos” and a fourth features a posthumous contribution from a fallen bandmate. Welcome to Luck and Strange – DAVID GILMOUR’s first studio album for nine years. In a world exclusive interview, the reinvigorated guitar genius explains to Uncut why he is “sick of the past”, how lockdown livestreams, the sanctity of family life and encroaching mortality have informed his powerful new record… and why we might not have to wait quite so long for the next one. “The intention is to get something else out as soon as possible,” he confides to Pete Paphides
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• Crossword
  One LP copy of Jessica Pratt’s Here In The Pitch
• Marriage material
  Musical partnerships where the wife writes the words. Here are four more…
• “I used to call him Old Gilmour’s Almanac”
  Guy Pratt looks back on four decades of working together
• Neil Finn
  Everywhere he goes, the Crowded House chief takes these records with him: “A song doesn’t have to follow a narrative…”
• Flying below the radar
  The Montgolfier Brothers
• “He was a very significant part of what we did”
  Gilmour and friends on a very special relationship with fallen bandmate Rick Wright
• TEENAGE CANCER TRUST: OVATION
  Roger Daltrey bows out of curatorial duties at an emotional gathering of his raw-throated heirs
• PIXIES
  It’s educational! The Bossanova X Trompe Le Monde tour unearths a few hidden gems
• SCREEN
  A startling debut; love and theft in Tuscany; platonic intimacy in the Baltic; Malaysian menstrual monsters, and more…
• CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG
  Vital portrait of the woman who made the Stones the Stones, and survived
• The darling buds
  The pick of the latest wireless in-ear devices
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• Not Fade Away
  Fondly remembered this month…
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• Crossword
  One LP copy of Beth Gibbons’ Lives Outgrown
• Bill Janovitz
  The Buffalo Tom general on his essential listens: “I have this thing for big, sprawling double albums”