Editorial

“Sometimes the world has aload of questions/Seems like

“Bob was like aprophet”

Catching afire: Dennis Morris’s intimate portraits of Bob Marley show alegend in waiting

Ever fallen in love?

As ateenager, Paul Hanley was Buzzcocks’ number-one fan. Now the former Fall drummer has written abook about them

A Quick One

Grab your things! The Ultimate Music Guide to

Pale fire

Folk-blues stylist Charlie Parr is content to fly under the radar

“People came to listen”

Remembering the “intimate, smoky” liberation of 1960s folk crucible, Les Cousins

Uncut Playlist

On the stereo this month...

Arushi Jain

A heavenly hybrid of modular synthesis and Indian classical music

Real Live Wire

THIS MONTH’S FREE CD

MICHAEL MOORCOCK

AN AUDIENCE WITH...

JULIA HOLTER Something In The Room She Moves DOMINO

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

TOP HOLTER

Three key stages in the Angelena’s back catalogue

Q&A

Julia Holter: “A lot of it is about life and death”

SHEER MAG

Playing Favorites THIRD MAN 8/10

AtoZ

This month… P24 YARD ACT P26 KIM GORDON

YARD ACT

Where’s My Utopia? ISLAND

LIAM GALLAGHER JOHN SQUIRE

Liam Gallagher John Squire WARNER

VICTORIA LIEDTKE & JASON RINGENBERG

More Than Words Can Tell

ODETTA HARTMAN

Multi-instrumentlist New Yorker on casting her sonic net wide

FAYE WEBSTER

Underdressed At The Symphony

FRANCIS PLAGNE

Improvising Aussie on his love of ‘airiness’

DEAN McPHEE Astral Gold

BASS RITUAL

TV EYE

“I thought, ‘Let’s ask Tom!’”

THE BLACK BOOK

Scott’s spell of magic

BUILT TO LAST

From bluegrass to free improv, power punk and beyond, ROSALI has refused to be pigeonholed. But with anew album, Bite Down, full of country-tinged folk and inventive guitar jams, Brian Howe meets the singer-songwriter in North Carolina to explore her many creative selves. “I know how to do this stuff, because I’ve been doing it forever,” she reveals.

THE NAME GAME

Aquick guide to the guises of Rosali Middleman

Tiger Feet

How the Chinnichap duo gave a road-hardened glam act their first No 1. “It paints a great picture... a party picture”

Excursions Into The Unknown

Sixty-five years on from his trailblazing debut album Blind Joe Death, JOHN FAHEY’s influence looms larger than ever. From his acoustic voyages to his latter-day noise-rock experiments, he brought a fearless, if often offbeat, sensibility to his music. Here, friends and acolytes help Tom Pinnock uncover the truth behind this contrary artist’s life and career. “Even at his lowest ebb,” we hear, “Fahey found ways to reinvent himself.”

NEW POSSIBILITIES

Atrip through John Fahey’s catalogue

Dion

He’s a rebel: the great American singersongwriter relives his long musical trip

MUSIC ART REVOLUTION

Kim Gordon, 2023: “She has never given a

Take It Easy

Despite finding peace and stability with his young family, Matthew Houck –the creative force behind PHOSPHORESCENT – still agonises over his intensely melancholic music. As his first album in six years surveys both his hellraising past and becalmed present, Houck guides Uncut round his Nashville haunts in search of answers. “The sign of agood record is that weird panic attack you have once it’s done,” he confesses to Stephen Deusner

BUYER’S GUIDE

With Willie Nelson at Farm Aid, 2009 AW

FULL MOON FEVER

Houck on Phosphorescent’s new covers album

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

TALKING HEADS’ 30 GREATEST SONGS

THE THIRD MIND + RAIN PARADE

Mississippi Studios, Portland, Oregon, January 11

DUKE GARWOOD

The Victoria, Dalston, London, January 11

SCREEN

Mads Mikkelsen rages in 18th-century Scandinavia; Drive My Car’s director returns; a Palestine back story; and more…

GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE BFI

8/10 From Brixton obscurity to belated global influence: how a unique, overlooked fusion band eventually found respect. By John Lewis

BOOKS

B RENDAN Greaves starts and ends Truckload

Sonic Boom

Your round-up of the best streamers

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month...

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Crossword

One LP copy of Julia Holter’s Something In The Room She Moves

J Mascis

The Dinosaur Jr mainman shares his formative freakouts: “Nick Cave was my fashion icon in college”

ALAN HULL

Singing ASong In The Morning Light – The Legendary Demo Tapes 1967–1970

SLEEVE NOTES

DISC ONE 1 Here I Am1 Here I

TYNE OF HIS LIFE

Three long-players showcasing Hull at his best

Q&A

Lindisfarne’s Rod Clements: “He was a poet” How

DANIEL JOHNSTON

Alive In New York City 8/10 + Daniel Johnston In The 20th Century (scores in panel, right) SHIMMY-DISC

AtoZ

This month…

THE CHILDREN’S HOUR

Going Home

GHOST

Batoh: dream weaver Masaki Batoh: “Police tried to

HELDON

Électronique Guérilla (reissue, 1974) BUREAU B

JOE HENDERSON

Mode For Joe/Power To The People (reissues, 1966, 1969)

The Sea, The Moon & The Stars

With This Is The Sea, MIKE SCOTT’s restless musical quest finally came into focus. As a new 6CD boxset illuminates the spirit of his Big Music, Scott revisits the inspiration and perfectionism behind THE WATERBoYS’ first great album. Stand by for cameos from Tom Verlaine and Bob Dylan, rivalry with U2 and a witch’s book of spells. “I was full with the music,” Scott tells Graeme Thomson