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Camera Police!
Tom Sheehan reveals what it’s like to shoot notoriously reluctant superstars, Radiohead
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“He was like a sun”
Rosanne Cash and Rickie Lee Jones acknowledge the all-powerful influence of Lou Reed
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Death and the Suede man
Brett Anderson teams up with Charles Hazlewood and Paraorchestra to breathe new life into songs about dying
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Revolution rock
How punk chronicler Caroline Coon captured a “fracture in the zeitgeist”
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Black country, new road
Nashville hitmaker Alice Randall on recovering the “erased histories” of country music
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Mint Mile
The Silkworm has turned! Indie-rock lifer ploughs a fruitful new furrow
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Uncut Playlist
On the stereo this month…
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Total Blam-blam!
15 tracks of the month’s best music
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AN AUDIENCE WITH… VINI REILLY
The Durutti Column’s reclusive guitar genius on Tony Wilson, Morrissey and kickabouts with Pat Nevin
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JESSICA PRATT
A cursed City of Angels inspires a soft-sung stylist to new creative heights.
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Q&A
Jessica Pratt: “There is a tinge of darkness”
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MICHAEL HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND
Fine dream-state return, with added ghosts.
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IAN HUNTER
Elder statesman puts the world to rights again, in esteemed company.
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BIG|BRAVE
Robin Wattie: “We wanted to explore something softer”
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CAMERA OBSCURA
Tracyanne Campbell: “I didn’t realise what I’d been missing”
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Indie-rock over-achievers re-emerge with an anxiety-exorcising masterpiece.
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SCOTT H BIRAM
Boisterous Texan in reassuringly rude health on 13th album
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KHRUANGBIN
Laura Lee returns to the source
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ARAB STRAP
Scottish duo’s second post-reunion album offers rich ruminations on midlife angst and online rage.
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PEARL JAM
Commendably restless 12th from Seattle survivors.
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BROADCAST
Intriguing lost tracks from the Midlands soundscapers’ archive.
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AC/DC
Simply the best: 50th-anniversary reissues from hard rock’s masters of minimalism.
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ALICE COLTRANE
Electrifying and transcendent, this previously unreleased set captures the legendary harpist at a pivotal point in her career
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SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
Long-buried tapes of a gospel great.
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SANULLIM
Sublime Korean psych-pop reissued on vinyl
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THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
Two decades into a singular career as ST VINCENT, Annie Clark squares up to her demons and endures a season in hell on her sublime seventh album, All Born Screaming. She tells Stephen Troussé how she went back to basics and learned from Dave Grohl, David Bowie and John Coltrane how to “wield music like a god”
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MASSEDUCTION
The collaborations that put St Vincent on the map
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Hymns Ancient And Modern
MYRIAM GENDRON has been quietly transforming folk songs and Dorothy Parker poems with intense, delicate results. But for the enigmatic French-Canadian, a new album of her own compositions proves to be a powerful reckoning with loss and grief. “We’ll see where it leads me,” she tells Laura Barton
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FOLK HEROES
Five figures who influenced Myriam Gendron
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Iron & Wine
The man behind the stage name, South Carolina songwriter Sam Beam, reviews his back catalogue
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EPIC SOUNDTRACKS
Following his lavish cosmic explorations, KAMASI WASHINGTON comes back down to Earth with an album inspired by new life and the need to overcome old divisions. But the reigning king of jazz saxophone is still cleaving close to his radical mission to soothe the soul and inspire the mind. “Music cleanses us,” he tells Sam Richards
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FAMILY AFFAIR
Showcasing the creativity of the wider Washington clan
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“WHOLE ROOM’S GOT FUNKY!”
Kamasi Washington on how George Clinton helped him “Get Lit”
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The Story Of The Blues by Wah!
How Pete Wylie’s “drinking song” developed into a huge anthem: “When I have an idea, I have it in Cinemascope!”
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Still On The Ledge
Reassuringly, RICHARD THOMPSON is showing no signs of slowing down. With a brilliant new album almost upon us, he reveals all about the magic of Big Pink, adventures in the Sahara, imaginary conversations with Sandy Denny… and how he feels about his approaching 75th birthday. “I’ve still got the same mindset as I always had,” he tells Tom Pinnock. “I’m always trying to write a good song or play a good solo. That hasn’t changed since I was 18.”
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SPACEPORT CONVENTION
RT’s new millennium on record
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WHERE IT’S AT
Twenty years after they first met, THE BLACK KEYS and BECK have finally got it together in the studio for Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney’s explosive new album, Ohio Players. In this exclusive interview, Beck, Auberbach and Carney – let’s call them The Beck Keys – talk early encounters, blues legends, Memphis rappers, random ’90s festival bills and more… “We’re three old friends getting together to make stuff and we were having a good time,” hears Stephen Deusner
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CHOP AND CHANGE
Your guide to collaborations with Beck and The Black Keys
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VELVET GOLDMINE
“So Long 60s”. “It’s Gonna Rain Again”. A band called Rungk. “Carmen Miranda backed by The Velvet Underground.” Foolscap notebooks. “Kellogg’s Corn Flakes packets and a wet bag of crisps.” Just how much do we really know about THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS? As a new boxset prepares to dig deep into DAVID BOWIE’s 1972 masterpiece, Peter Watts maps the Starman’s secret history – via outtakes, alternate versions, rediscovered recordings and abandoned track listings – in the company of his closest collaborators and confidants. Stand by for shocking truths about a certain doomed extraterrestrial rock star… “There was no concept!”
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“I’LL BE YOUR KING VOLCANO”
10 jewels from the Rock N Roll Star! boxset
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“I’M KNOWN TO LAY YOU, ONE AND ALL”
When Bowie ‘came out’
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“LAY THE REAL THING ON ME”
When an Arnold Corn who lived next door lent Bowie his Gibson Les Paul
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“SO INVITING, SO ENTICING…”
Inside the Rock N Roll Star! book
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AIR
A quarter of a century on, Moon Safari takes flight in glorious widescreen
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ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Spare us the patter! A garrulous Ian McCulloch eventually regains his swagger
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SUBSCRIBE TO UNCUT
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SCREEN
Skulduggery and identity theft on the Côte d’Azur; mounting tensions in a German high school; Irish folk-horror; and more…
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THE CLOCK COMES DOWN THE STAIRS
The story of Microdisney, the lost band by which lost bands are judged
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The Volume Dealers
The pick of the latest speakers
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Not Fade Away
Fondly remembered this month…
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Crossword
One LP copy of Jessica Pratt’s Here In The Pitch
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Neil Finn
Everywhere he goes, the Crowded House chief takes these records with him: “A song doesn’t have to follow a narrative…”