Jeffrey Alexander

Psychedelic underground stalwart veers towards ‘ringwear rock’

Uncut Playlist

On the stereo this month...

THE MARY WALLOPERS

STRANGE DAYS

The LA native whose expressive guitar-playing and songwriting chops helped define the sound of THE DOORS, ROBBY KRIEGER talks jamming with Zappa, bad vibes with the Grateful Dead and “weirdos” in the studio. And the Doors’ uniquely charismatic frontman...? “It’s not easy, being in aband,” Krieger tells Michael Bonner

“YOU’RE A LIVING MIRACLE!”

Photo by MICHAEL PUTLAND On December 18, KEITH

“WE WERE IN A MAELSTROM”

Uncut has spoken to Keith many times over the years. In this excerpt from a 2017 interview, he looks back across the Stones’ transformative 1960s

“BRING IT ON, EVAPORATE ME”

Extracting Keith’s philosophy for along life

“HIS TIMING IS SO GOOD”

JIMMY PAGE on his Keef encounters

“HE’S A TRUE HERO”

KEITH was a total hero to me as

BURNT TOAST TO KEITH

“A blue schemer inawavy glass mirror”: Richards and

LE GUESS WHO?

Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 9-12

SCREEN

Miyazaki’s captivating animated fantasy; Scott’s randy, epic romp Napoleon; a labyrinthine Argentine mystery drama; and more

THE LOST WEEKEND A LOVE STORY

Poignant documentary about May Pang’s relationship with John Lennon and her role in his mid-’70s renaissance

BOOKS

NEAR the end of Living The Beatles Legend,

You Say You Want A Revolution

Some impressive turntables are given a spin

Feedback

Send your brickbats, bouquets, reminiscences, textual critiques, billets-doux and all forms of printable correspondence to letters@uncut.co.uk

Crossword

One LP copy of Ty Segall’s Three Bells

JJ Burnel

The Stranglers bassman picks his peachiest tunes: “It’s the nearest thing to an orgasm in music”

UNCUT

JANUARY 2024 TAKE 321

Prove it all night

HIS MONTH’S REVELATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF UNCUT

Ladies of the Roundhouse

Ahead of an 80th-birthday tribute in London, Vashti Bunyan and Lail Arad tell Uncut about the life-changing impact of Joni Mitchell

A Quick One

Only the strong survive! Introducing the fully updated

Stunner of 69

The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt on returning to his fin de siècle triumph, 69 Love Songs 

“I had an epiphany”

The Replacements’ first manager Peter Jesperson on taking the wheel for the wayward rockers

Come On!

15 tracks of the month’s best music

KURT VILE

The hard-working slacker talks sativa, forklifts, being mistaken for Kurt Weill and joining Neil Young in outer space

TY SEGALL

T hree Bells DRAG CITY 

DOUBLE FANTASIES

Segall’s adventures in the epic

Q&A

Ty Segall: “I feel like it’s the deepest and farthest I’ve gone” 

GRUFF RHYS

Sadness Sets Me Free

A to Z

This month…

FUTURE ISLANDS

People Who Aren’t There Anymore 4AD

THANDI NTULI WITH CARLOS NIÑO

Rainbow Revisited

JOHNNY DOWD

Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know

BROWN HORSE

Reservoir LOOSE

JERRY DAVID DECICCA

New Shadows

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

The pick of Mott... before and after Bowie

MOTT THE HOOPLE

All The Young Dudes: 50th Anniversary Edition

Q & A

Ian Hunter: “He said, ‘Let me sort something out’”

COCTEAU TWINS

Four-Calendar Café/ Milk &Kisses (reissues, 1993, 1996)

A to Z

This month… P46 THE LONG RYDERS P47 BLUE

THE LONG RYDERS

Native Sons: Expanded 3CD Edition

EAST VILLAGE

Drop Out: 30th Anniversary Edition

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Senza Decoro: Liebe +Anarchia In Switzerland/1980–1990 STRUT

2024 ALBUMS PREVIEW

From LA’s Sunset Sound to a pub in Parsons Green, the likes of THE BLACK KEYS, THE WEATHER STATION, NICK CAVE, RIDE, PAUL McCARTNEY, MC5, KAMASI WASHINGTON, RICHARD THOMPSON, JOHN GRANT, MYRIAM GENDRON, MICHAEL HEAD, ARAB STRAP, HAWKWIND, MERCURY REV, JEFF TWEEDY and many more of your favourite artists have been busy summoning the soundtrack to 2024. Expect flugelhorns and highlife grooves, striking androids and strange meteorological phenomena, hot-rod cars and “an AI with aposh voice talking about the hunting habits of the common mole”…

THE WEATHER STATION

Canterbury scene: Tamara Lindeman TITLE: To be confirmed

PAUL McCARTNEY

Novel products due: Paul McCartney MARY McCARTNEY;CHRISTIEGOODWIN;JUSTINE LATOUR

2024 NEW RELEASES ROUND-UP

IN terms of 2024’s other big albums ,

RIDE

Ride: (l–r) Steve Queralt, Andy Bell, Loz Colbert

REISSUES ROUND-UP

THERE seems to be no end to the

MC5

MC tunes: Wayne Kramer JIMNEWBERRY TITLE: Heavy Lifting

EARTHQUAKE WEATHER

A deep devotion to music has sustained SUNNY WAR through adversity and addiction. Bringing a punk edge to her tough-hearted roots music, she emerges as Americana’s brightest star and biggest disruptor. “I really like to write about the world ending,” she tells Stephen Deusner

HOW TO BUY…

Sunny War and friends

“Music Without Prejudice”

From London folk pubs to the stage of New York’s Fillmore East and beyond, PENTANGLE’s trajectory marked them out as one of the greatest and most adventurous groups of the late ’60s. Here JACQUI McSHEE and DANNY THOMPSON look back on their magickal revolution. “Pretty quickly, it went from a few hundred people to queues round the block,” they tell Peter Watts.

BUYERS’ GUIDE

THE PENTANGLE TRANSATLANTIC, 1968 Excellent debut introducing the

THE BERT LOCKER

An 80th birthday celebration for the dearly departed Bert Jansch, at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Robert Plant, Pentangle, Bernard Butler and more celebrate the mercurial guitarist

Sleater-Kinney

Riot grrrls, interrupted… The on-off-on story of Olympia, WA’s finest

GIMME DANGER

Crashing out of the Australian suburbs, NICK CAVE and THE BIRTHDAY PARTY took post-punk nihilism to its darkest, most demented extremes. With tales of violence, drugs and hostility, band members and onlookers recall how hell broke loose. “The chaos on stage reflected our lives off it,” learns Nick Hasted

Blister In The Sun

Forty years of the acoustic punks’ ramshackle hit – heard in film soundtracks, a burger ad and even the White House

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month...

UNCUT

Kelsey Media, The Granary Downs Court, Yalding Hill,