Q&A

Who is that man?

Bob Dylan plugs in with The Heartbreakers for a surprise Farm Aid set

Let all the children boogie

Unseen photos emerge of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Greg Lake at Zowie’s fifth birthday party

Sketches of Miles

A new graphic novel attempts to depict the sounds, as well as the stories, of “complicated dude”

Heads reunited!

Uncut is there as the four members of Talking Heads share a stage for the first time in more than two decades

Mabe Fratti

The best avant-garde pop cellist since Arthur Russell

Uncut Playlist

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The Planet That You’re On

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21ST CENTURY STONES

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MADNESS

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Q&A

Suggs: “We had to learn to share ideas”

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Thank God We Left The Garden LOOSE

Jeffrey Martin: “It felt like it didn’t need anything else”

When did you realise your demos were the

BEIRUT

Zach Condon on terror, healing and home fires

CONNIE LOVATT

Coconut Mirror ENCHANTÉ

Connie Lovatt: “Insomnia was the central devil”

What are your memories of making music during

DANIELLE HOWLE

Album of the month

DHANI HARRISON

“I hear music fully formed in my head…”

DANIEL BACHMAN

When The Roses Come Again

LARGE PLANTS

The Thorn

ACETONE

I’m Still Waiting NEW WEST

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Mark Lightcap: “We were so out of step”

BOB MARLEY

Catch A Fire (50th Anniversary)

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This month…

HAROLD BUDD

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A poetry-inspired debut gets a welcome re-release

Myriam Gendron: “It helped me grow”

What was it about Dorothy Parker’s poetry that

EARTH

Drone-metal pioneers’ debut LP, plus remixes.

RICHARD HAWLEY

STEVEGULLICK “It was worth all the terror…” “I

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Forged amidst unimaginable turmoil, Nirvana’s raw, uncompromising third album is now regarded by many as their definitive statement. As its 30th anniversary is commemorated by a new boxset, Krist Novoselic, Steve Albini and others close to the band ponder the difficult birth and tragic yet triumphant legacy of In Utero 

THE BANDMEMBER

KRIST NOVOSELIC: “Somehow the band came together”

THE RECORDING ENGINEER

STEVE ALBINI: “Everything sounded great from the first moment”

THE LABELMATE

LEE RANALDO, SONIC YOUTH: “Kurt’s lyrics were incredible”

THE SUPPORT BAND

CHRIS BROKAW, COME: “The audiences were totally pumped”

THE PRESS OFFICER

JIM MERLIS: “You had a feeling that the good guys are winning”

THE FAN

STUART BRAITHWAITE, MOGWAI: “In Utero sounds timeless”

The Boy With The Arab Strap

How a track that one bandmember thought “sounded like fucking Chas & Dave” became a fan favourite and set staple

Keep it rural!

Join WILL OLDHAM in his native Louisville, where Pilates sessions with Slint, visits to local music institutions and the secret history of discoballs reveal the hidden truths behind his latest Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pile of dulcimers in my life,” he confesses to Stephen Deusner

Keeping Secrets:The Movie

Will Oldham explains his innovative new film based on the album

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Recent collaborations

COMMERCIAL BREAKS

With their anthemic songs about teenage dissent, and featuring one of punk’s greatest female icons in their lineup, THE ADVERTS were among the breakout stars from the class of ’77 – and the unlikely chart invaders behind an eye-catchingly grisly Top 20 hit. But just as they reached a ferocious peak with their debut album, TV Smith and Gaye Advert tell Dave Simpson, “we were scrambling around trying to afford to eat”.

Jason Isbell

The Trucker turned outspoken solo songwriter discusses career highlights

INTO THE MYSTIC

As they head towards the end of their most triumphant year yet – with a magnificent album, a series of stunning live performances and an unlikely nomination for the Mercury Prize – LANKUM tell Uncut about the roots of the music, the solidarity of weirdos, “doom yoga” and more. “Strange things keep happening to us,” they confide to Stephen Troussé. “But we never expected this...”

BUYER’S GUIDE

Though this year’s False Lankum saw them nominated for the Mercury Prize and broadcast live on primetime BBC, the band’s journey to the edge of the mainstream has been decades in the making…

DÉJÀ VU

As the unofficial court photographer for ’60s rock royalty, HENRY DILTZ shot everyone from Joni to The Doors. But his pictures of DAVID CROSBY, STEPHEN STILLS, GRAHAM NASHand NEIL YOUNG remain his most potent and enduring. Here, he opens his archive to reveal a trove of previously unpublished photographs of his most celebrated charges. “We never thought this was history when he was shooting us,” says Nash…

A Whole New Thing

Lighting up the ’60s, SLY STONE was the funkadelic revolutionary who broke racial boundaries, preached mind-expanding messages of unity and conquered Woodstock – before his life-affirming creative vision was replaced by darkness, drugs and isolation. Now music’s legendary recluse is finally coming back into the light. Over the next 12 pages, we present an exclusive extract from Stone’s long-awaited autobiography, hear eyewitness reports of his mercurial genius in full flight and – finally! – speak to the elusive legend himself. “The concept was music,” he tells us.

“Highon everything!”

In this exclusive extract from his autobiography, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), SLYSTONE recalls the band’s breakthrough in 1968 – “a year where everything happened” – and the aftermath of their incendiary appearance at Woodstock

“That charisma is fully intact”

Thank You’s ghostwriter Ben Greenman reveals what it was like to collaborate with Sly Stone on the book

Family Affair

Drummer GREGERRICO brought groove and pulse to Sly & The Family Stone’s musical revolution. Here, he recalls the band’s imperial phase – and their great undoing. “The challenges and intensity were big…”

Waking up Woodstock

“A very cool, powerful thing”

“So much of it was about forgiveness”

SLY SPEAKS!

Dance To The Music!

15 key tracks from The Family Stone’s imperious peak

END OF THE ROAD

Larmer Tree Gardens, August 31-September 3

BRIDGET ST JOHN & STEVE GUNN

Inner Freedom Barn, Buchanan, Michigan, September 23

SCREEN

Scorsese revisits America’s dark recent history; a long, strange trip into an artist’s past; time-travel narcotics; and more…

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HAVEGUITAR, AMTROUBLED: JACKSON C FRANK Troubled troubadour's tragic

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Endless Harmony

Uncut picks the best over-ear headphones

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month...

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