GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS

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HERE at Uncut, we write a lot about transformative events

Shall I tell you about my life…

CHRISTINE McVIE: “I was saddened when I heard the news

Queen of New Orleans

“I STILL haven’t watched the programme, but one of my

Pictures of me

ELLIOTT Smith was never the most obvious candidate for rock

Dreams coming true

ON May 31, a fundraiser was launched to help the

Diana DeMuth

DIANA DeMuth has always been travelling through, ever since her

Drag City presents...

FROM their scuzzy early days with Royal Trux, Smog, Palace

I write a little bit loose AN AUDIENCE WITH DAN PENN

DAN PENN may have written some of the greatest soul

RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982

LINDA PETERS and Richard Thompson’s partnership began with a dreadful

“I’m not looking for epiphanies…”

PATTI Smith, like most of us, has spent the majority

“WE STARTED TO FEEL THE PRESSURE...”

MICK Jagger has a room with a view. It is

MELLOW GOLD

THE noise can be overwhelming. Bill Callahan is in suburban

Sun Ra Arkestra

TRYING to condense Sun Ra’s sprawling discography into just nine

Travelling Riverside Blues

“I CAN see the Eno from here.” Sitting on her

Paranoid

IF you play video games you’ll perhaps have heard it

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

ON February 15 this year, Conor Oberst turned 40. It

“IT’S OUTLAW MUSIC”

The normally mild-mannered offstage figure of Lux Interior twists and

GET THIS WHILE IT’S STILL WARM…

LAST NIGHT I had a dream. I was at a

NICK CAVE

AT the beginning of Idiot Prayer, we watch Nick Cave

NADIA REID

IT’S quite a shock to realise that on the other

FILMS

WHITERIOT In the year of Black Lives Matter, White Riot

ALSO OUT...

Teenage rebellion, Iranian-style: Sadaf Foroughi’s intense, impressive autobiographical debut is

SOUTHERN JOURNEY (REVISITED)

THE original Southern Journey was a schlep undertaken by the

BEST BEFORE DEATH

Bill Drummond is on a 12-year odyssey to visit a

EQUUS

Sidney Lumet’s 1977 adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s parable, about a

THE GUINEA PIG

It’s a stretch to believe that 25 year-old Richard Attenborough

BOOKS

AS a wild-eyed Marc Bolan worked hard to get her

Not Fade Away

FOR Ennio Morricone, composing scores for film and TV presented

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Lonnie Holley

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