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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Midwinter hymnal • Fleet Foxes celebrate the solstice with a stunning performance in a Brooklyn church

Hardcore uproar! • Untangling the messy history of DC punk firebrands Bad Brains

Schwarz and all • Fifty years on from the infamous New York press trip fiasco, Brinsley Schwarz has finally found his voice as a solo artist

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Song For Bob Dylan (and John Lennon) • How David Bowie came to record his covers of “Mother” and “Tryin’ To Get To Heaven”

“Oh right, that’s where we’re going…” • New weird Americans Sunburned Hand Of The Man are back with their best album in more than a decade

Cassandra Jenkins • Team player for Purple Mountains, Eleanor Friedberger and others strikes out boldly alone

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month..

Stories Of The Street • 12 tracks of the month’s best new music

“You are funky–maybe you just don’t know it” AN AUDIENCE WITH BOOTSY COLLINS • The No 1 Funkateer on his crazy times holding down ‘the one’ for James Brown, George Clinton and Keith Richards

CORY HANSON Pale Horse Rider DRAG CITY • Pedal steel, drifters and lowlifes combine on Wand frontman’s mesmerising countrified solo set.

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HANSON FAMILY • The best records from Wand and beyond

Q&A • Cory Hanson on the luxury of time and being outnumbered by cacti

A to Z • This month…

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CHEVAL SOMBRE • Christopher Porpora on living fully and Sonic “magic”

AMERICANA • Cross-cultural collaborations

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

AERIAL EAST • The Texan-born songwriter on odes to old friends

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CHUCK JOHNSON • Pedal-steel maestro’s acoustic explorations

MOGWAI • The key to the post-rockers’ longevity? “Having fun”

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SPIRITUAL SYNTH • Pauline Anna Strom and fellow electronic travellers

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NIRVANA Songlife 1967-72 MADFISH • Lords of the manna: big-box treatment for heavenly symph-pop duo.

NIRVANA AND THEIR CIRCLE • The path to musical enlightenment (via Athens and Carlisle)

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Nirvana’s Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos on their swinging ’60s

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REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

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MODERN KOSMONAUT • After decades on the margins, the stars have aligned for JANE WEAVER. The space-pop singer tells Tom Pinnock how a childhood love of Kate Bush and Hawkwind led to collaborations with members of Can, remixes for Paul Weller and songs about abstract painters. “You should just be able to do what you want with music, shouldn’t you?”

JANE’S AIRS • How to buy Jane Weaver

SUPER VISIONARY • Weaver on her work with Paul Weller and lessons from Suzanne Ciani

KINGS OF NEW YORK • In summer 1981, THE CLASH began their three-week reign over the Big Apple. During their mind-blowing 17-date residency at Bond International Casino, they...