In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Uncut (UK)

• Tracks and traces
  In 1974, Ellen Ziffren was an eyewitness – and an inspiration – while Bob Dylan wrote Blood On The Tracks. The early lyric drafts she saved shed new light on the songs
• Golden Felice
  Americana heroes The Felice Brothers celebrate their 20th year by venturing into new terrain
• Last ride
  As they reach the end of the road, Cabaret Voltaire reflect on half a century of mixing “pop culture with extreme brutalism”
• Way to glue
  This month: classic UK gig posters from Omega Auctions’ Lindsay Brown Collection
• “Alice is my favourite rock star”
  Where does Vincent Furnier end and Alice Cooper begin? After six decades of non-stop schlock rock, the man himself still isn’t sure
• Ken Pomeroy
  Cherokee country-folk singer writing songs “to make people feel less alone”
• ON THIS MONTH’S CD
  UNCUT and OPAL RECORDS present…
• KENNEY JONES
  The Small Faces drummer on East End pubs, piloting helicopters, going “a bit nuts” with The Who… and new Faces material
• AN AUDIENCE WITH… TONY IOMMI
  The Godfather of Heavy Metal on Brummie camaraderie, Black Sabbath’s legacy and how not to ward off a ghost
• SYLVIE
  The vintage sounds of California reanimated with a Nashville twist.
• PAST SEASONS
  Three releases touched by the hand of Schwab
• Q&A
  Ben Schwab: “I’m a traditionalist”
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  Josh Homme and co seek connection on their gleaming ninth LP.
• KACY LEE ANDERSON
  Fabulously unfettered solo debut from Kacy & Clayton co-founder.
• FONTAINES DC
  Commanding, synth-maxxed fifth from the unstoppable quintet.
• SAM BURTON
  Quietly spectacular third from LA-based Palestinian-American
• SCOTT FAGAN
  “They saw us as the barbarians at the gate”
• THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL
  A last, glorious masterpiece from America’s psych-pop pioneers.
• THE BEATLES
  What goes on! The Fabs’ revelatory sixth remixed, with added treasures.
• STRAWBERRY GUY
  Alex Stephens on the emotional rewards of a Texan sonic upgrade
• BILL WITHERS
  Revisiting the heyday of soul music’s everyman.
• SPLIT THE BILL
  The best of the rest of Bill Withers
• TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS
  Monument to the Heartbreakers’ long trudge to overnight success.
• THE WHO
  The Who’s difficult seventh LP reappraised with demos, live tracks and unreleased material.
• THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY
  From a one-room cabin in East Tennessee to global superstardom, DOLLY PARTON built an empire on talent, humour, compassion and reinvention. Alastair McKay celebrates the remarkable life of an American original.
• INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE
  BRIAN ENO has, after a 35-year hiatus, decided to relaunch his fabled record label, Opal. But, as Tom Pinnock discovers, rock’s premier oblique strategist has a lot more on his mind. To be discussed: Popin’ Pete and the Electric Boogaloos, Gregor Mendel’s work on genetics, the banned third verse of “Deutschland Über Alles”, cabin fever with John Cale and the 13,000 unreleased ideas Eno currently has on his Mac. “I’m very good at getting things going. But finishing something…”
• “WELL, I LIKE TO BE DIFFERENT…”
  Almost 60 years into his career, RICHARD THOMPSON has splashed the cash to make his “last ever album”… although plans may have changed. Full of the joys of London, he invites Uncut into his Hampstead home to discuss burglaries, brass bands and “Indian hemp”, show off a holy relic of folk rock and explain just how he’s kept his integrity. “I’m glad I never succumbed to pressure,” he tells Tom Pinnock. “‘Can’t you make records that sound like the Eagles?’”
• SCENE & HEARD
  Eno explains how he chronicled New York’s No Wave sound
• HOW TO BUY PRECIOUS GEMS
  Eight albums to kick off your Opal collection
• SOUL MINING
  As singer and multi-instrumentalist with Dublin four-piece Lankum, RADIE PEAT has spent years wrangling folk music into expansive new territory. Finally, though, she is releasing a longgestating solo album, No Human Tongue Can Tell. What emerges is a portrait of an artist every bit as adventurous, uncompromising and emotionally direct as her celebrated band. “I’m trying to channel my life experiences and what it’s felt like to live as me,” she tells Sam Richards.
• COME DIG MY RAVES!
  How to buy Radie Peat
• “Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder
  With creative freedom assured, and a band in full swing, Stevie tops the charts with his tribute to the jazz greats
• Butthole Surfers
  Tracing two decades of the Texan band’s bizarre psych-punk output: “We had no constraints”
• BLACK MAGIC
  Twenty years ago, Back To Black made AMY WINEHOUSE a global phenomenon, exposing her to a level of hysteria not seen since Beatlemania. Now, those closest to her recall the jazz obsessive and gifted songwriter behind the headlines: a determined and unfiltered soul who channelled heartbreak, humour and hard-won experience into songs of startling honesty. “She wasn’t afraid to give both barrels,” one eyewitness tells John Lewis. “There was an air of: don’t fuck with me.”
• Hawkwind
  Strap yourself in as the band’s founding member and others fly to the other side of the sky via one of the most interstellar discographies in rock
• “THERE WAS SOMETHING OF BOB DYLAN ABOUT HER PLAYING”
  Before fame made her a star, Amy Winehouse saw herself as a songwriter with a guitar in her hands
• “IT’S A MUCH MORE VULNERABLE AMY”
  Photographer Mischa Richter recalls the making of the Back To Black cover
• Songs From Northern Britain
  From a makeshift studio in the Glasgow suburbs to the windswept landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, TEENAGE FANCLUB have evolved from ragged upstarts into seasoned melodic classicists. As the quietly spectacular Do Not Dare To Dream once again underscores their considerable gifts, Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley look back on where they’ve come from and explain why the creative spark still burns nearly 40 years on. “It just sounds like people,” finds Rob Hughes.
• ALL THE BEST
  On the eve of what would have been his 80th birthday, friends, family and collaborators revisit The Missing Years, the comeback album that transformed JOHN PRINE from a cult singer-songwriter into a beloved elder statesman of folk and country. “There was a spark of humour in everything he did,” one collaborator tells Stephen Deusner, “but there was also a tragedy that came through so beautifully.”
• MISSING YEARS AND SOUVENIRS
  How to buy John Prine in the 1990s
• MORE BLESSINGS
  A new generation of fans celebrate John Prine on his birthday
• A FABULOUS CREATION
  How do you follow one of the greatest debuts of all time? Such was the question facing ROXY MUSIC at the dawn of 1973, as they prepared to cut their second classic, For Your Pleasure. With a sumptuous new boxset digging deep into the album and the period, BRYAN FERRY looks back over a time of punishing tours, last-minute writing, countryside exile, new studios, greasy spoons, taking tea with Salvador Dalí… and the departure of Brian Eno. “I thought, ‘This is the masterwork, this is it. What can I do after this?’” he confesses to Damien Love.
• THE IRISH ROVER
  When SHANE MacGOWAN died, Ireland came to a standstill. Now, as Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits head up an all-star cast of musicians recording his songs for an ambitious new tribute album, we hear tales of Ireland’s great punk poet – from London’s underground scene to the byroads of Tipperary, high-end hotel lobbies and scruffy pubs. “His music was very cinematic and so was his life,” learns Peter Watts. “It was all part of his constant wave of energy.”
• “Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)”
  After The 13th Floor Elevators and ECT, the Texan psych-rocker records a disturbing single with “the vibe of a train going off a cliff”
• “You can dress it up as much as you want, but when you take away the wrappings we’re all bones”
  Fifty years on from SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES’ legendary debut at London’s 100 Club, SIOUXSIE SIOUX and STEVEN SEVERIN retrace their band’s evolution from abrasive punk outsiders to one of Britain’s most singular and influential groups. Their chosen route, however, is characteristically oblique: a journey through the B-sides collected on the Downside Up boxset, which is reissued next month. In her first major interview for more than a decade, Siouxsie reflects on autonomy, creative reinvention, inner demons and the challenge of writing again, while Severin remembers accidental masterpieces, satanic videos, pub jukeboxes and “five albums’ worth” of hidden songs. “Reappraising it, re-evaluating it, it’s a great thing to do,” Siouxsie tells Michael Bonner. “Otherwise it would be like being on a treadmill.”
• DARK HORSE
  Solo artist. Seeker. Gardener. Film producer. Wilbury. Petrolhead. Beatle… GEORGE HARRISON contained multitudes. Twenty-five years since his death, and as a new deluxe edition of Rubber Soul showcases his growing confidence as a songwriter, Uncut asks some of George’s closest friends to celebrate (Fab) four different sides of a complex and singular man. “He lived on many levels,” discovers Rob Hughes.
• ALL THINGS MUST PASS
  Solo artist, frontman, loyal friend: KLAUS VOORMANN reflects on George’s post-Beatles journey
• IF I NEEDED SOMEONE
  Songwriter, guitarist, trusted ally and ready collaborator: JEFF LYNNE on George, the musician’s musician
• THE INNER LIGHT
  Seeker, mystic, Krishna devotee, humanitarian: JIM KELTNER on George’s lifelong path to enlightenment
• HERE COMES THE SUN
  From Friar Park to Formula One, maverick horticulturist to movie mogul: TERRY GILLIAM on George’s life beyond music
• PENTAX MAN
  In the foreword to a new book of George’s ’60s pics, Olivia Harrison illuminates her husband’s passion for photography
• END OF THE ROAD 2026
  Geese, CMAT, Angine De Poitrine and Pulp celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UK’s best festival
• THE WATERBOYS FEATURING STEVE EARLE
  An inspirational evening recaptures the magical essence of the band’s agenda-broadening 1988 album Fisherman’s Blues
• SCREEN
  A revered author’s public and private dilemmas; strangers and secrets on a Portuguese estate; a fogbound sci-fi; and more
• SCREEN
  An ageing assassin’s last hurrah on Easter Island; shock revelations amid a dream renovation; TV ghosts reunited; more…
• PETER ASHER: EVERYWHERE MAN
  The Beatles insider turned architect of the singer-songwriter era.
• At the top table
  A new spin on a classic
• Joan Shelley
  The Kentucky singer-songwriter on the records that bring her real warmth: “The infinite layers of harmonies were mesmerising”