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Rough and A rowdy ways
Farewell to the rock’n’roll pioneer
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New adventures!
REM’s Bill Berry tells us about The Bad Ends, his ‘Athens supergroup’ with Five Eight frontman Mike Mantione
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Sparkle hard
Over a decade in the making, This Is Sparklehorse commemorates the life and work of the troubled but “incredibly talented” Mark Linkous
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“It was like the Wild West”
Adventures in NYC’s mid-’80s hardcore scene with Agnostic Front… and future Grey’s Anatomy star Brooke Smith!
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UNCUT PLAYLIST
On the stereo this month…
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The Murder Capital
Passionate Dublin post-punkers, already evolving into something altogether more colourful
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The Boss tackles the soul and R&B songbook with restraint, respect and considerable finesse.
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{ SOUL MAN }
Three less familiar Springsteen songs that absorbed the influence of soul
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DUKE GARWOOD
In the mind, a desert: one-time Lanegan conspirator feels the heat.
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Q&A
Duke Garwood “There was a lot of getting loose”
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AtoZ
This month…
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Q&A
Rozi Leyden “There’s a lot about proximity”
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ROZI PLAIN
Entrancing fifth from the cooperatively inclined songwriter.
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THE COOL GREENHOUSE
Tom Greenhouse ”I envisaged a lyrical Turing test”
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THE WELCOME WAGON
Home is where the heart is for Brooklyn’s gospel-folk duo
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SOPHIE JAMIESON
“I feel like I’m only just starting…”
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Q&A
Rick Rubin, producer
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NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE
Borrowed time, borrowed tunes and a Horse of a different colour on Neil’s 42nd.
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Q&A
Plaid “We thought we would give it to people of Earth too”
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PLAID
Electronica veterans take a space odyssey through the past three decades on their 11th album.
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SAM PREKOP
“Like a sketch book or a studio diary of sorts”
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Q&A
Bill Orcutt “We’re gonna have a shit ton of guitar dynamite”
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BILL ORCUTT
Ruthlessly minimal and truly experimental outing from American explorer.
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THE BEACH BOYS
A “new Beach Boys” attempt to take an audience with them into the heart of the 1970s.
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SAIL AGAIN, SAIL BETTER
Three hidden treasures from the Sail On Sailor set
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Q&A
Al Jardine: “A whole new vision for the Beach Boys”
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TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS
Epic account of the Heartbreakers’ 20-night stand in San Francisco.
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Q&A
Benmont Tench & Mike Campbell: “I thought, ‘Oh, this is gonna be fun!’”
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EMAHOY TSEGUÉ-MARYAM GUÈBROU
New compilation of solo piano pieces from Ethiopia’s ‘honky-tonk nun’.
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NEAL CASAL
Manager Gary Waldman remembers the singer-songwriter
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LES RALLIZES DÉNUDÉS
Heavy, psychedelic Japan, officially unearthed at last.
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Q&A
Makoto Kubota: “The times were revolutionary…”
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TREVOR BEALES
Uncovering the underrated and overlooked
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DJIVAN GASPARYAN
Two timeless, Eno-endorsed albums by an Armenian folk master
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Blue Kentucky Girl
A revolutionary spirit in country music, LORETTA LYNN chronicled ordinary women’s lives for over six decades. Here a cast of admirers – including Lucinda Williams, Margo Price and kd lang – pay tribute to the singer and songwriter and her defiant songs of experience. “She did what she wanted to do. She was independent. She was rebellious,” hears Graeme Thomson
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“IT FEELS LIKE A REAL ACHIEVEMENT”
Makaya McCraven on the past year’s “big release”
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BEST NEW RELEASES “I STILL FIGHT THE NIGHT OWL”
Sharon Van Etten on life on the road in 2022
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BEST NEW RELEASES “KEEP THE EARS OPEN, THE ANTENNAE UP”
Elvis Costello makes some new musical friends
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BEST NEW RELEASES “EVERYTHING MOVED VERY FAST”
All three members of The Smile on creating Uncut’s album of 2022
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AN AUDIENCE WITH… Michael Head
The creator of Uncut’s third best album of 2022 on his magical Mersey adventures with The Pale Fountains, Shack, Arthur Lee and Lee Mavers
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HEARTH & HOME
During 2022, a lot of good music has come out of JOAN SHELLEY and NATHAN SALSBURG’s remote farm near Louisville, Kentucky – from Shelley’s timeless and vital album The Spur to the latest instalment in Salsburg’s Landwerk series of sound collages. Stephen Deusner heads into the woods to hear about how parenthood, isolation and upheaval have shaped the couple’s past 12 months.
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ALBUM BY ALBUM Richard Dawson
The idiosyncratic songsmith’s path from “very bad” debut to multi-layered latest
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HELLZAPOPPIN’!
Chess-playing, concept-album-loving jazz proggers, BLACK MIDI are the British alternative scene’s ambitious eccentrics. We catch them on tour in America - with contemporaries Black Country, New Road - where their latest album, Hellfire - a song cycle about war, prostitution and death - is going down a storm. Tom Pinnock hears how Count Dracula, Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds and “circus music” have helped shape their exhilarating 2022.
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THE MAKING OF… Heroby Neu!
The origins and influence of possibly their greatest track – a groundbreaking combination of driving motorik guitars and angry proto-punk vocals
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FILL YOUR HEART
In 1971, DAVID BOWIE was all about ch-changes. Inspired by the America of Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and After The Gold Rush, he delivered a daring, career-reviving triumph with his first truly great album. As a new boxset, Divine Symmetry, digs deep into the 12 months that led up to the release of Hunky Dory, collaborators and confidants reveal the secrets of this major turning point in Bowie’s evolution. “With David, it was onward and upward all the time,” learns Peter Watts. Look out, you rock’n’rollers!
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“THIS ALBUM IS FULL OF MY CHANGES”
Bowie himself takes us track by track through Hunky Dory via this 1971 advert made for radio by his label, RCA
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“IF YOU STAY YOU WON’T BE SORRY”
DB co-producer Ken Scott on “Kooks”, fatherhood and birthday emails
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IT’S THE FREAKIEST SHOW!
Ten highlights from the new Divine Symmetry boxset
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ROXY MUSIC
Bryan Ferry and company celebrate their many selves at elegant 50th-anniversary soirée
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FILMS
A quirky DeLillo adaptation; a tender coming-of-age drama; a slo-mo pre-war snapshot; and more…
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SIR DOUG AND THE GENUINE TEXAS COSMIC GROOVE
Documentary on US maverick and “wide open spirit” reissued.
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Not Fade Away
Fondly remembered this month…
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CROSSWORD
One vinyl copy of Duke Garwood’s Rogues Gospel
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Kevin Rowland
Dexys’ driving force on the tunes he’s been humming forever: “I didn’t know music could go so deep”
