His own thing

SLY STONE 1943-2025

“Rock’n’roll is not lazy”

John Fogerty on turning 80, playing Glastonbury and reclaiming his Creedence catalogue

“I’m like a kid again”

Geoff Barrow launches his post-Beak> film career with Game, starring Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson

Picture this!

Photographer Martyn Goddard reveals what it was like to shadow Blondie on the cusp of superstardom in 1978

Some kind of hero

Jonathan Maitland ’s stage play about Wilko Johnson makes it to the West End – with added Wreckless Eric !

Folk Bitch Trio

Stunning three-part harmonies with candid lyrics and “rock’n’roll energy”

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Rhian Teasdale: “It’s nice to live in a space somewhere between fantasy and reality”

RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND

New Threats From The Soul TOUGH LOVE 9/10

Q&A

Ryan Davis : “I’m just drawing on the cave walls, man”

A to Z

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ARIANNE CHURCHMAN & BENEDICT DREW

Folk-loving modern artists on “taking the music forward”

MARK STEWART

The Fateful Symmetry MUTE 7/10

Q&A

Daniel Miller , Mute Records founder: “Mark wanted to lead people into his world”

MURRY HAMMOND

AMERICANA Album of the month

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

THE redoubtable Rodney Crowell returns in late August

HIS LORDSHIP

James Walbourne on acoustic fatigue, boredom and Elvis

THE NEW EVES

The New Eve Is Rising TRANSGRESSIVE 7/10

Q & A

Ella Russell : “We are all being nerds in a room together”

BEN LaMAR GAY

Yowzers INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM 8/10

Q & A

Ben LaMar Gay : “It’s the sound of my internal shout and sigh”

MIKE POLIZZE

Philly guitarist swaps fuzz for fingerstyle

REBECCA SCHIFFMAN

Before The Future LOST SOUND TAPES/SELF-RELEASED 8/10

Q & A

Rebecca Schiffman : “It always felt comfortable and fun”

THE B-52s

REISSUES | COMPS | BOXSETS | LOST RECORDINGS

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Which other B-52s records to pick up

Q & A

Fred Schneider : “We loved Captain Beefheart too”

JACKIE-OMOTHERFUCKER

Flags Of The Sacred Harp (20th Anniversary Edition) FIRE 8/10

Q & A

Tom Greenwood : “It’s a document of a particular moment in Portland”

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STARS OF THE LID

Music For Nitrous Oxide (reissue, 1995) ARTIFICIAL PINEARCH MANUFACTURING

MICKEY NEWBURY

Looks Like Rain (reissue, 1969) FAT POSSUM 9/10

PURPLE REIGN

More Mickey Newbury highlights on CD

THE SPECIALIST

MILES DAVIS Agharta (reissue, 1975) MUSIC ON VINYL

DOIN’ HIS THING

The teenage prodigy who helped define the sound of Stax, BOOKER T JONES continues to bring wisdom and peerless Hammond grooves to a new generation of musicians. Yet his path from “Green Onions” and Otis Redding to Willie Nelson and the Drive-By Truckers has not always been clear. “The events in Memphis in 1968 were too much for me,” he tells Stephen Deusner

THE ROAD TO INDIANA

Booker T on balancing playing music at Stax and studying music at college

HOW TO BUY…

Booker T & The MGs

NO REGRETS

Celine Dion, a tree made of coat hangers, Crufts… Thirty years after the startling experiments of Tilt defined SCOTT WALKER ’ s latter-day career, his collaborators reveal all about the idiosyncratic working practices that took him from teen idol to avant-garde hero. “It was almost like a rejection of his past,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Almost like anti-music.”

GREAT SCOTT: A BUYERS’ GUIDE TO POST-‘70s WALKER

CLIMATE OF HUNTER VIRGIN, 1984 Hardly anyone

“HE WAS AN INCREDIBLE CINEPHILE”

Film director Brady Corbet remembers Scott Walker

“Your Love Is King”

How punk attitude and minimalist soul grooves took the smoothest operator from London’s club scene to global success

Coca leaves and pearls

In 1975, NEIL YOUNG emerged battered but defiant from the darkness that had overshadowed much of the decade so far. Now accompanied by a reformed CRAZY HORSE , he recorded ZUMA – one of the defining releases in his peerless run of ’70s albums. Fifty years on, the Horse’s redoubtable bassist BILLY TALBOT share secrets of high times and heavy jams during the Point Dume recording sessions. Meanwhile, a host of Neil heads including MJ LENDERMAN , ALAN SPARHAWK , EVAN DANDO , BLAKE MILLS and KURT VILE salute the album’s musical marvels. “It is the arrival of a band that would anchor an era and influence generations,” says one acolyte

“NEIL WANTED TO CREATE”

Crazy Horse’s bassist BILLY TALBOT on Zuma, the rebirth of Crazy Horse, power cuts, Dylan jams and more

“FOUR ANGLES ON THE SAME THEME…”

The story of Zuma’s sleeve artwork

“THERE WERE ABOUT 50 PEOPLE INSIDE…”

EYEWITNES!

ZUMA VS DUME!

A M ONG the many jewels in 2020’s

THE CONSENSUAL WORLD

From the noisy streets, community cafés and surprisingly verdant cemeteries of Southeast London have risen CAROLINE : a confoundingly brilliant eight-piece band with no obvious frontperson, fusing choral folk with fractured post-rock and experimental pop. As Sam Richards discovers, they haven’t made life easy for themselves. “But there has to be a vulnerability of some sort. Otherwise, what’s the point?”

War

The groundbreaking LA band’s much-sampled path through rock, soul, jazz, funk and beyond

THE PROMISED LAND

To celebrate the imminent arrival of Tracks II: The Lost Albums , Uncut takes a revelatory trip inside the archives of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN . There, we piece together the stories behind an unexpected and expansive alternate discography not even the most devout Bruce fans could have imagined – from garage sessions and solo experiments to film soundtracks, pared-down dustbowl dramas, Vegas swing and more. “If you want to understand how Springsteen works creatively, he’s never shown you more of his cards than he does here,” one collaborator confides to Peter Watts

THE LOST ALBUMS… BY BRUCE!

AARON RAPOPORT/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES; LA GARAGE SESSIONS ’83

LOST & FOUND

10 essential unheard tracks from the new boxset

SPOILER ALERT!

Everything we know about… Tracks III

IGGY POP

Alexandra Palace, London, May 28

CROSS THE TRACKS

Brockwell Park, London, May 25

SCRENE

Cronenberg is back to his best; Wes Anderson plays it straight; Brit-lit adapted; Japanese AI school drama; and more

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