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“I’ve stuck to my guns”

One Dove singer Dot Allison is back with a dreamy, folky new album – her first in 12 years

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STRONG SPIRITS

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Scrawling King Snake

Marking 50 years since Jim Morrison’s death, a new compendium of his writing contains previously unseen lyrics, poems and diaries

Whole lotta sleeve

Rock lensman Ross Halfin unveils his new book of weird, wonderful and not always strictly official Led Zeppelin artwork

A QUICK ONE

Down the road he goes! In shops now

Cedric Burnside

Hill Country blues scion, soulfully updating the form

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Diamonds & Pearls

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

Global superstardom? It’s exhausting!

AN AUDIENCE WITH TRACEY THORN

FAYE WEBSTER I Know I’m Funny haha SECRETLY CANADIAN

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

ANOTHER COUNTRY

How Webster learnt the rules to break them

Faye Webster on her favourite guitar, fake fadeouts and the beauty of Atlanta

Q&A “I’m so inspired by Southern music”: Webster

JOHN GRANT

Boy From Michigan  BELLA UNION  8/10

Q&A

John Grant on Jean-Michel Jarre , the CS80, and the perils of toxic masculinity

AtoZ

This month…

FATIMA AL QADIRI

Medieval Femme  HYPERDUB  8/10

ANTONIS ANTONIOU

Kkismettin AJABU! 8 /10

BLK JKS

Abantu/ Before Humans  GLITTERBEAT  8/10

Q&A

Mpumelelo Mcata on stolen songs and returning to nature

VINCENT NEIL EMERSON

Vincent Neil Emerson  LA HONDA/THIRTY TIGERS 8/10

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

It’s been 12 years since we’ve heard anything

BAND OF HOLY JOY

Dreams Take Flight TINY GLOBAL  7/10

LOU BARLOW

Reason To Live JOYFUL NOISE   7/10

BIRDS OF MAYA

Valdez DRAG CITY  7/10

BLUE ORCHIDS

Speed The Day  TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS  8/10 

THE CATENARY WIRES

Birling Gap  SKEP WAX  8/10

CHEVAL SOMBRE

Days Go By  SONIC CATHEDRAL  8/10

CROWDED HOUSE

Dreamers Are Waiting EMI  6/10 

THE DATSUNS

Eye To Eye HELLSQUAD  7/10

KAMEL EL HARRACHI

Nouara KAMIYAD  7/10

BIRDS OF MAYA

REVELATIONS

DANNY ELFMAN

Big Mess NTI  4/10

CHRIS FORSYTH & THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND

Rare Dreams: Solar Live 2.27.18  ALGORITHM FREE  7/10

DAVID JOHN MORRIS

Monastic Love Songs  HINTERGROUND  8/10

CHLOE FOY

Where Shall We Begin  CHLOEFOYMUSIC  7/10 

GARBAGE

No Gods No Masters  STUNVOLUME  7/10

GRAVE FLOWERS BONGO BAND

Stength Of Spring  CASTLEFACE  8/10

JULIANA HATFIELD

Blood AMERICANLAUNDROMAT  7/10 

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

Quietly Blowing It MERGE  8/10

CHRISSIE HYNDE

Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan BMG  6/10 

JAMES

All The Colours Of You  VIRGINMUSICLABEL &ARTISTSERVICES  7/10

LORAINE JAMES

Reflection  HYPERDUB  8/10

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Jubilee DEADOCEANS  7/10

LUCY DACUS

Home Video  MATADOR  8/10

BANDCAMP ROUND­UP

Looking back on some of the finest online releases this year

LAMBCHOP

Showtunes  CITY SLANG  8/10

LONELADY

Former Things  WARP  9/10

LORD HURON

Long Lost  WHISPERING PINES STUDIO INC/REPUBLIC  8/10

LONELADY

Julie Campbell “Childhood wonder is a big obsession”

LOSCIL

Clara KRANKY  9/10

GARY LOURIS

Jump for Joy THIRTY TIGERS  7/10

FRANCIS LUNG

Miracle MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES  8/10

BILLIE MARTEN

Flora Fauna FICTION  8/10

MIND MAINTENANCE

Mind Maintenance DRAG CITY  7/10

MOBY

Reprise DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON  7/10

MARIA MULDAUR WITH TUBA SKINNY

Let’s Get Happy Together  STONY PLAIN  7/10

GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW

VWETO III  FORESEENENTERTAINMENT/EPISTROPHIKPEACHSOUND  5/10

BILLYF GIBBONS

Hardware CONCORD  7/10

JOANA SERRAT

The songwriter’s path to “an album of exile”

NADJA

Luminous Rot SOUTHERNLORD  6/10

THE NATVRAL

Tethers KANINE  8/10

GARY NUMAN

Intruder BMG  6/10

LIZ PHAIR

Soberish CHRYSALIS  7/10 

ROSE CITY BAND

Earth Trip THRILLJOCKEY  8/10

ROSTAM

Changephobia MATSORPROJECTS  7/10

JOHANNA SAMUELS

Excelsior!  BASINROCK  8/10

SEDIBUS

The Heavens ORBSCURE  6/10 

SPELLLING

The Turning Wheel PICCADILLY  7/10

SUFJAN STEVENS

Convocations ASTHMATIC KITTY  8/10

WES TIREY

The Midwest Book Of The Dead DEAR LIFE  8/10 

PENELOPE TRAPPES

Penelope Three HOUNDSTOOTH  8/10

TREES SPEAK

Post-Human SOUL JAZZ  7/10 

TRISTEN

Aquatic Flowers  MAMA BIRD RECORDING CO  8/10

ROSIE TUCKER

Sucker Supreme EPITAPH  8/10

JUAN WAUTERS

Real Life Situations CAPTURED TRACKS  6/10

SVEN WUNDER

Natura Morta PIANO PIANO  7/10

Q&A

Anthony Joseph on poetry, jazz and “the mystery note”

ANTHONY JOSEPH

The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their  Lives HEAVENLY SWEETNESS  8/10

DAMIEN JURADO

The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania  MARAQUOPA  8/10 

KASAI ALLSTARS

Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound CRAMMED  7/10

JOANA SERRAT

Hardcore From The Heart  LOOSE  9/10

JONI MITCHELL

The Joni Mitchell Archive Series: The Reprise Albums (1968–1971)  RHINO  10/10

BLACK SABBATH

Sabotage: Super Deluxe Edition BMG 8/10 Metal progenitors’

THE YARDBIRDS

Yardbirds  DEMON MUSIC GROUP  8/10

Q&A

Paul Samwell-Smith: “You could unleash Jeff” You made

REVELATIONS

CHRIS CARTER 

REDISCOVERED

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

Hailu Mergia (second left) with The Walias Band

GIRLY SOUND FOREVER

After an 11-year absence, LIZ PHAIR has returned to reclaim her title of fearless songwriting superstar. But how has a song about Lou Reed, a country-rap crossover hit and her own trailblazing debut helped prepare her to re-enter the fray?  “I’ve had to pick myself up from being dead many times,” she tells Erin Osmon

“LOOK AT MY TWITTER”

A Phair selection of female artists

“Where does this rage come from, this suspicious nature, this anger, this cynicism?”

BOBBY GILLESPIE has been taking stock recently. Primal Scream’s inveterate rabble-rouser has written a memoir about his early life and recorded an album of heartworn duets inspired by the country greats. He’s even – finally – come to terms with his early records. But where is all this soul-searching heading? “People want us to take their heads off,” he tells Michael Bonner.  “But I don’t know if that’s the kind of music I want to keep on making.”

“A CERTAIN LIGHTNESS”

Jehnny Beth on “loss and regret”. And laughter…

HELP ME MAKE IT…

Let Bobby Gillespie guide you through his favourite country duets

WELCOME 2 HIS WORLD

For decades, PRINCE’s vaults have been rock’n’roll’s own

“HE HAD NO FEAR”

Secret origins revealed ! Early mentor PEPÉ WILLIE recalls Prince’s entry into the Minneapolis scene , his first forays into recording and his formidable skills on the basketball court 

“HE LET US DO OUR OWN THING”

In July 1979, Prince spent two weeks in Boulder, Colorado, recording with his touring band. They called themselves THE REBELS – and their recordings with Prince have never officially been released. Guitarist DEZ DICKERSON tells all 

INSIDE THE VAULT

To celebrate the imminent arrival of WELCOME 2 AMERICA – 11 years late! – Uncut takes a fascinating trip inside Prince’s archives. Our mission? To piece together some of rock’n’roll’s most legendary lost albums…

PAISLEY PARKED

Five Prince film projects that never saw the dawn 

WELCOME 2 AMERICA (2010)

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“IT GOT VERY HOWARD HUGHES-ISH...”

Vanity label? Safe harbour for veteran heroes? Hit machine? PAISLEY PARK RECORDS was intended to be all of these things. So what happened?  Label manager Alan Leeds tells all...”

INTRODUCING THE MARX BROTHERS PROJECT

PARADE is among Prince’s most successful and groundbreaking albums. But it could have been a completely different record. Here, then, is the true story of “CHARADE”…

“HOW D’YOU LIKE MY CRIB?”

On May 5, 2006, Prince’s biographer MATT THORNE attended one of the legendary 3121 private gigs in his LA mansion. Here’s his report. Dress to impress, please 

“THE GREATEST SHOWS PEOPLE HAD EVER SEEN… ”

£10 tickets. Hot chocolate for 2,000. Epic table tennis tournaments. In February 2014, PRINCE performed seven guerrilla gigs across London and Manchester. His English manager and members of 3RDEYEGIRL take us deep inside the legendary HIT AND RUN tour

THE DAY I INTERVIEWED PRINCE…

BBC 6 Music presenter MATT EVERITT on a rare audience with Prince as the Hit And Run Tour got underway 

DUKE! JONI! THE SUNDAYS!

Prince ’s record collection revealed

MR CONCEPT UALIST

The pandemic has brought back into focus the qualities that inspired KURT WAGNER to make music in the first place. But as a new album ushers in yet another new era for LAMBCHOP, there’s no danger of him dwelling on his many former glories.  “Hopefully, I can live up to the future,” he tells Tom Pinnock   

THE FINEST LAMB…

How to buy the band’s last decade

I Can’t Stand The Rain

Bad weather nixes a night out in Memphis, inspiring the title of a distinctive, much-covered R&B hit. “Thank the Lord for that storm!”

An Inconvenient Truth

From Greenwich Village to LA’s Troubadour and beyond, JACKSON BROWNE has always written songs about love, hope and defiance – but with his new album Downhill From Everywhere these themes have taken on a bold, new urgency. “I’ve always been connected with people who are trying to make things better,” he tells Rob Hughes

“HE’S ALWAYS BEEN COMMITTED”

Drummer Russ Kunkel on Browne - “a kindred spirit for life”   

Gary Bartz

From The Jazz Messengers to Maisha, a lifelong sax explorer tells his story

ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS

SOUL FINGER  LIMELIGHT, 1965

MAX ROACH

MEMBERS, DON’T GIT WEARY  ATLANTIC, 1968

GARY BARTZ

ANOTHER EARTH  MILESTONE, 1969

MILES DAVIS

LIVE-EVIL  COLUMBIA, 1971

GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP

HARLEM BUSH MUSIC – UHURU  MILESTONE, 1971

GARY BARTZ

MUSIC IS MY SANCTUARY  CAPITOL, 1977

GARY BARTZ

THE BLUES CHRONICLES: TALES OF LIFE  ATLANTIC, 1996

GARY BARTZ & MAISHA

NIGHT DREAMER DIRECT-TO-DISC SESSIONS  NIGHT DREAMER, 2020

GARY BARTZ, ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD & ADRIAN YOUNGE

JAZZ IS DEAD 006  JAZZ IS DEAD, 2021

“THE QUIET ONE? HE WASN’T QUIET AT ALL…”

GEORGE HARRISON was a “cocky little boy” of 17 when he met Klaus Voormann during The Beatles’ formative residencies in Hamburg. They remained close confidants and Voormann enjoyed a ringside seat – as friend, flatmate and collaborator – during the Fabs’ imperial phase and, later, Harrison’s own blossoming solo career. Graeme Thomson listens as Voormann recalls tales involving fish finger diets, late-night phone calls from “Herr Schnitzel” and the making of George’s very own masterpiece... 

FAB GEAR

Three classic Voormann performances with the solo Beatles

TAME IMPALA

Wave House, Yallingup, Australia, April 21

MOSES BOYD

Barbican, London, April 18

BOOKS

KEEN to show that Buzzcocks had not lost

FILMS

Bovine larceny in 1820s Oregon; Ben Wheatley’s return to folk-horror roots; it’s a pig’s life and more…

ALSO OUT...

Billie Piper in Rare Beasts RARE BEASTS OPENS

1971: THE YEAR THAT MUSIC CHANGED EVERYTHING

APPLE TV+  7/10

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

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Alex Paterson

The Orb mainstay details his favourite aural adventures: “You’ll see the true light of this music in the 22nd or 23rd centuries…”