TOM WAITS

‘‘A Celtic warrior’’

SINÉAD O’CONNOR | 1966–2023

Wiltshire joy!

End Of The Road founder Simon Taffe picks six new acts to seek out at this year’s festival

“I still believe in revolution”

Psychedelic survivor Twink on Think Pink, Syd Barrett and stage-diving in Hyde Park

A Dogg’s life

Macca, Strummer and me: the incredible adventures of folk-punk bohemian Tymon Dogg

Kara Jackson

Former Youth Poet Laureate graduates to storytelling songs

Now Playing

12 tracks of the month’s best music

TERRY REID

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THE ROAD TO EVERYTHING…

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Q&A

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A to Z

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CLOSE RELATIVES

Three more records showing off Wilco’s wilder side

WILCO

A turn to face the strange still sounds irresistibly familiar

DEVENDRA BANHART

Topanga tales of Ocean Colour Scene… D EVENDRA

ALLISON RUSSELL

Canadian veteran breaks out of the Americana stockade.

BUDDY & JULIE MILLER

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MATTHEW HALSALL

The renowned trumpeter’s fresh perspective on ‘country’ “I

JAIMIE BRANCH

The late trumpeter and composer’s expansive final album of innovative jazz.

LULUC

Zoë Randell: “I had culture shock…” “Going between

BUCK MEEK

Big Thief guitarist finds inspirational new creative foils.

PG SIX

Folk songwriter makes a captivatingly harpenhanced return to the studio

SPARKLEHORSE

Posthumous album sees Mark Linkous’s memory handsomely honoured.

INDELIBLY LINKOUS

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Q&A

Matt Linkous: “He left a good road map to follow”

CARDIACS

Lavish multi-disc reissue for official debut by Blur-endorsed avant-punk psych-rock surrealists.

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REVELATIONS

THE DELGADOS The reunited indie adventurers on their

THE RUNAWAYS

Neon Angels On The Road To Ruin 1976–1978 CHERRY RED

REDISCOVERED

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

High Rise: psychedelic speed freaks, anyone? OUT-THERE HEAVY

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HAPPY VALLEY

At 30, MARGO CILKER has already lived several lives, documenting them engagingly in her crisp country-rock songs. From her childhood home in Santa Clara, California – the Valley Of Heart’s Delight of her new album title – via Cornwall, Bilbao and Carolina, she seems to have found some semblance of stability on a horse farm in the Pacific Northwest. But for how long? Robert Ham heads up-country to find out...

Mersey Paradise

Since forming as teenagers on The Wirral in 1996, THE CORAL have been crossing the river to Liverpool for adventure and inspiration. Now poised to release their 12th and 13th albums on the same day, the band continue to expand their vivid fantasy realm, reflecting the joys and travails of life on Merseyside. Dave Simpson meets them in Maggie May’s cafe to hear how Cillian Murphy, John Simm and a 1948 Fender tweed amplifier joined the cast of their latest double feature. As frontman James Skelly observes, “You can go anywhere, in your mind…”

CORAL ISLANDERS

The band, past and present

FANTASTIC VOYAGE

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One Way Glass

’60s pop hitmakers briefly summon a colossal, brassy groove

Accidentally like a martyr

In 1990, WARREN ZEVON is ostensibly promoting Transverse City – aconcept album built along cyberpunk principles. When Uncut’s Nick Hasted meets him in Pittsburgh, though, he finds an artist willing to ditch the promo spiel and examine the abiding themes of his career. In this unpublished interview, Zevon talks frankly about the chaotic mingling of art and life, writing rock’n’roll, and the attraction of songs about mercenaries – however select the audience for them may be. “When people say to me, ‘Don’t you wish you were popular with more people?’, I say no.”

‘‘NO LAZY CHOICES’’

Ohio originals THE BREEDERS are celebrating 30 years of the still-thrilling Last Splash with a top-spec vinyl reissue and US tour. Here, the band and their peers help Sam Richards establish why the likes of “Cannonball” and “Divine Hammer” remain such potent weapons – and why, despite Kim Deal’s upcoming solo album, the ‘classic’ Breeders lineup that made them are stronger than ever

Charles Lloyd

The pioneering saxophonist’s long musical journey: “I don’t live in the past”

‘‘I had to break up the band’’

When DAVID BOWIE took the Ziggy Stardust tour to Hammersmith Odeon for the final time on July 3, 1973, the fans came in their thousands. They came with makeup and dyed red hair, boys dressed as girls and girls dressed as aliens...

PUNKS AT THE ODEON

Vic, Steve and Paul too

“IT WAS CLOSURE”

Three years later, Woody finally gets his explanation

Junkyard demon

“He was just so prolific”:Tom Waits circa 1986

“HE’S A GREAT BUNCH OF GUYS!”

KEITH RICHARDS first met TOM WAITS in 1985, when he was (flippantly) invited to play on Rain Dogs. This led to a strong friendship between the two musicians that endures to this day. Here, Richards talks to Uncut about Mellotrons loaded with train noise, birthday poems and the potency of Waits’ remarkable music

SIX CLASSIC WAITS/RICHARDS COLLABORATIONS

BLIND LOVE JANE ROSE; STEVE JENNINGS/ WIREIMAGE (RAIN

WAY DOWN IN THE HOLE

It is the summer of 1982, and TOM WAITS is engaged in the dark arts of sonic derailment…

“HE’S A WILD DOG!”

Tom Waits versus MTV

ROAD DOGS

Showtime memories

FRANK & BOB

Gruff act to follow

WIRE TAPPING

The long TV tail of “Way Down In The Hole”

UNCUT

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NEIL YOUNG

The John Anson Ford Theatre, Los Angeles, July 5

PULP

Finsbury Park, London, July 1

FILMS

Three-way complications in gay Paree; a charming spin on the heist movie; emotions ignite on the Baltic coast…

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MOB LAND RELEASED 25 AUGUST John Travolta plays

SOUND & VISION

Stars reflect on Bolan’s life while performing his greatest songs

BOOKS

IT can be hard, from a distance of

Not Fade Away

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