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Uncut is your essential guide to the month’s best music. Every issue, our comprehensive and trustworthy reviews section showcases the best new releases and reissues, while our in-depth features section includes interviews with the greatest names in music from the past five decades as well as the classic artists of tomorrow. For over 20 years, this iconic magazine has been the authority on all things music, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the world's biggest stars, stunning photography from on and off the stage, and unparalleled album reviews from the people who really know. You can be sure that the music fanatics behind Uncut magazine will always strive to bring you the best features, interviews, and reviews. Each issue also brings you an in-depth article on a music icon, from past or present, giving you inside access you won't find anywhere else. Uncut is insightful, informative, and passionate about music.

Editor’s Notes

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

A Quick One

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

Just Dropped In

“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”

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

ON THIS MONTH’S CD • UNCUT and OPAL RECORDS present…

Move over, Santa, let Jimi take over… UNCUT

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

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME!

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.

AtoZ • This month…

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.

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

PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR LOVERS OF GREAT MUSIC • Give the gift of great music this Christmas! From in-depth genre, decade and artist guides to eye-catching merch, you’ll find the perfect present for any music lover.

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS • Monument to the Heartbreakers’ long trudge to overnight success.

AtoZ • This month…

THE WHO • The Who’s difficult seventh LP reappraised with demos, live tracks and unreleased material.

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE • BRIAN ENO has, after a 35-year hiatus, decided to...