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“I’ll be your mirror/Reflect what you are, in

For the ’burbs

JC Carroll on how “Johnny-comelately oiks” The Members are still annoying the neighbours 

The last of the great Wailers

BUNNY WAILER | 1947–2021

A QUICK ONE

This nation’s saving grace! Presenting the Ultimate Music

JOE STRUMMER - ASSEMBLY

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FULL TIME HOBBY

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RYLEY WALKER

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

CARGO RECORDS

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FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

A sublime but slender conversation between avant-jazz and orchestral electronica. 

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ON THE CD

A guide to this month’s special compilation

IT’S ALL RIGHT MA, IT’S ONLY WITCHCRAFT

RT on Joe Boyd , the man who sawFairport’s “natural potential” 

“WHATEVER JOHN WANTS”

“Stark and bold”: Cale and Reed at NewYork’s

“ARE YOU AWARE OF THIS BATTLE?”

Terry Riley: in a musical pitch battle A

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BOOKS

TheFall’s “symbol of strangeness”: Mark E Smith at

FILMS

Unbroken horizons in the US; underwater love in Berlin; undying dreams with Terry Gilliam; and more…

ALSO OUT...

PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD

DVD BLURAY & TV

ROSS HALFIN Mick Fleetwood andfriends... Christine McVie Jeremy

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CROSSWORD

One of two copies of Teenage Fanclub’s Endless Arcade on CD

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My Life In Music

The legendary Stax guitarist on a lifetime of listening, from gospel to the Eagles: “It just felt good”

Shorn Lennon!

Apple “house hippie” Richard DiLello explains how, in January 1970, he cameto document John and Yoko’s startling new haircuts   

“It was a very interesting triangle”

A new documentary explores the dynamic rapport between Guy Clark, Susanna Clark and Townes Van Zandt 

Natalie Bergman

I’M NEW HERE

UNCUT PLAYLIST

Onthe stereo this month

I’m actually quite hilarious

AN AUDIENCE WITH PETER MURPHY

ALONG THE WAY

Walker’s extracurricular activities

Q&A

Ryley Walker talks landlord-bothering, fearless playing and reaching a baseline 

NICK CAVE AND WARRENELLIS

Balconies, kingdoms in the sky… Cave and Ellis create widescreen wonder from enforced confinement

AtoZ

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SARAH LOUISE

Blooms and blossoms of electronics drift across elemental folk songs. 

AMERICANA

Preaching to the converted

TEENAGE FANCLUB

Love’s labour lost: new lineup sound energised on diverse 11th. 

SAMBA TOURÉ

Masterly Malian blues worthy of the storied Touré name

LOST GIRLS

Jenny Hval’s highbrow electronic explorations. 

LAURIE ANDERSON

REISSUES | COMPS | BOXSETS | LOST RECORDINGS

AMERICAN DREAMS

The best of the rest of Laurie Anderson’s work

Q&A

Laurie Anderson on lockdown, encouraging other artists and the joy of “spatial listening”

NEIL YOUNG

A bard in fine form. 

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REDISCOVERED

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

BOBBY WOMACK

A fine reissue of two career-rejuvenating records. 

REVELATIONS

Lucinda Tait, Strummer’s widow, on the new compilation

THE SPECIALIST

James Brown &The JB’s live in East Ham,

WIDE OPEN SKIES

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ALWAYS RETURNING

Five albums that pioneered the new cosmic pastoral

TUNING INTO A MOMENT

Deeplistening and  cosmic pastoral

COME ALL YE!

In 1967, the newly formed FAIR PORT CONVENTION took their first tentative steps into London’s burgeoning underground scene. In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoir Beeswing, RICHARD THOMPSON  recalls the band’s transition from the living room of a Tudor pile in Fortis Green to the stage of the UFO Club , encounters with Syd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix and Cilla Black, and their earliest attempts at recording. “We were swept along by the fates!”

ANOTHER VIEW

With a motherlode of VELVET UNDERGROUND activity planned for

“BLUEPRINT? WE DIDN’T WANT TO KNOW”

JOHN CALE remembers Lou, Nico, days at the Factory and “raw, unfettered nihilistic exploration” 

“A CREATIVE PLAYGROUND”

Dylan’s cinematic biographer TODD HAYNES takes us behind the scenes of his upcoming Velvets documentary. “One hopes for masses of unreleased tapes…” 

“IDEAS, APPROACHES, PROCESSES!”

BRIAN ENO on the Velvets’ influence 

“LIFE-OR-DEATH, SEARCHING MUSIC”

Before he launched The  Modern Lovers, superfan    JONATHAN RICHMAN saw TheVelvet Underground play dozens of times. Who better, then, to chart the band’s transition from “drone misfits” to “flowerpattern-shirt balladeers”.  Here, he writes exclusively for Uncut about the band that changed everything…

“WE WERE ALITTLE BAND OF GYPSIES”

DOUG YULE on replacing John Cale, the third album, Loaded and being mistaken for Lou Reed by David Bowie…

“I KEPT GOING BACK”

EYE WITNESS!

“IT WASN’T THE REAL THING”

In 1971, the Reed-less Velvet Underground landed in London. RICHARD WILLIAMS was there…

VELVET REVOLUTION

10 deep cuts from the catalogue

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Imazing Grace

Theunstoppable RHIANNON GIDDENS has spent a career recovering the African-American histories buried in folk music. Now, locked down in Limerick, she tells Laura Barton how her latest album – including a bunch of “old sad songs” – remind her of home and of generations past. “I am the sum of everything that I do,” she explains

On My Radio

Influenced by Elvis Costello, penned before The Selecter really existed, this enduring “little jewel” gave the Coventry band their first Top 40 hit

SOUTHERN DISHARMONY

How a group of Paisley Underground wannabes led by two warring brothers found success via approbation from Ronnie Lane and Peter Frampton, 350-date world tours and a gold-standard debut album. Now reunited, Chris and Rich Robinson look back at THE BLACK CROWES and the good times/bad times around Shake Your Money Maker. But can they keep from falling back into old ways (and old wars)? “This is so important to us,” they tell Peter  Watts. “We don’t want to fuck it up.”

We Could Send Letters

… and photographs, ticket stubs, collages, record sleeves and much more. Welcome to the POSTCARD RECORDS scrapbook: your guide is none other than ALAN HORNE. In a rare and exclusive interview, the label’s mercurial co-founder talks Damien Love through his personal selection of artefacts and ephemera from deep within the label’s vaults. “There was nothing remotely like this malarkey going on back then.”

Blake Mills

The pick of the virtuoso’s own records, and those he’s produced for others 

The Town Hall, New York, February 12

Poignant recreation of her 1964 concert in the same venue from ageless folk marvel

MOGWAI

Tramway, Glasgow, February 13

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…