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Courtney Barnett
Tell Me How You Really Feel
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Versatile collaborator follows up Immunity with ambitious psychedelic epic.
Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
Quixotic chamber folk jazz from Chicago’s questing six-stringer.
Jess Williamson - Cosmic Wink
Sweet ecstasy and anguish in equal parts on Texan’s stellar label debut.
Pete Townshend - Who Came First (Reissue, 1972)
Repackaged, unpretentious solo debut still intrigues
"Bob Dylan Invented This Job" - An Audience With Steve Earle
The Texan outlaw country songwriter on the genius of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, his upcoming memoir, and how Elvis Presley nearly made him a fortune…
This Is The Kit
Moonshine FreezeROUGH TRADE8/10The West Country wanderer’s fourth album may be her best yet. By Graeme Thomson
Peter Gabriel
Gabriel’s three ambitious movie soundtracks get the remastered, high-definition, 45rpm vinyl treatment.
Television Personalities
...And Don’t The Kids Just love it Mummy, Your Not Watching Me They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles The painted Word (reissues, 1981, 1982, 1982, 1984)Fire9/10, 9/10, 7/10, 8/10Creation myth: how the best band you’ve never heard of invented indie.
Joe Cocker: Mad Dog With Soul
EAGLE VISION7/10More help from his friends, please! Respectful rise/fall/rise documentary of a lost superstar, reports Mark Bentley.
The Country I knew had Almost Disappeared
FJ McMahon, cult singer-songwriter and Vietnam vet, returns to action...
Born-again Ingénue
KD Lang revisits her “post-nuclear cabaret” breakthrough, on its 25th anniversary
God Save Oz!
Felix Dennis’ counterculture archives are preserved for the nation.
Angelo De Augustine
Recommended this month: a new Sufjan Stevens, live and direct from an LA bathtub!
David Rawlings
Poor David’s Almanack ACONY8/10Gillian Welch’s other half puts the load right on him.
Kraftwerk
Colston Hall, bristol, June 17, 2017 Do androids dream of electric blankets?
Morrissey Is A Passive Presence; The Women Push Him On
This month: Moz gets the biopic treatment, plus ghost, a ghoul and a real-life romcom.
The Art Of Partners
David Sylvian recalls his fruitful ’80s team-up with Can’s Holger Czukay
'It's A Healing Sound'
Why Moroccan gnawa music continues to seduce Western artists, from Hendrix to Holden
Make It Triangular! Make It Primordial! Make It Hairy!
Caves full of bats and human trombones. Earthquake beats and microscopic sounds. Pagan poetry and scientific rigour… Thirty years on from the Sugarcubes’ “Birthday”, Björk remains a unique and brilliant creative force. To celebrate the anniversary, Graeme Thomson rounds up the elusive artist’s closest collaborators, and learns the secrets of her greatest albums. “It was like standing next to a volcano,” says Anohni. “I couldn’t keep up.”
An Audience With… Jason Isbell
“Willie Nelson could probably whip my ass. People who smoke that much pot don’t fight like normal, sober people. They o weird shit, so I would not fight with Willie Nelson”
'We're All In This Together'
Spring 2017. Twenty-five years after his last rock album, an urgent, raging Roger Waters has returned, with much he needs to say. On the eve of Is This The Life We Really Want?’s release and the epic Us + Them tour, Michael Bonner joins Waters in New York to set the world to rights. To be discussed: Pink Floyd, Donald Trump, Brexit, The Beatles, 9/11 and an album which, producer Nigel Godrich says, gives Waters a “reboot in the same way The Force Awakens gave Star Wars back to the fans”…
Happy Together
How a song rejected by three other bands changed the fortunes of an LA sextet – and knocked The Beatles off the No 1 spot.
From Swinging Addis To A Washington Cab Rank...
The strange journey of Hailu Mergia, Ethiopian funk legend..
Keith Richards: "I Ain't Retiring"
Further Rolling Stones obligations may loom, but for now the inimitable Keith Richards is focusing on his long-neglected solo career. Uncut has a chat with rocks most convivial wildman about Crosseyed Heart, fallen comrades, Dylan, retirement and, of course, the future of the Stones. "I love what I do, man,"he says. "I'm a lucky son of a bitch!"
“We're Still The Best Band On The Planet!”
Welcome back the mighty Royal Trux: once an out-of-control juggernaut, now “purring along like a rested jaguar”
Take The Long Way Home
Roger Hodgson returns to the British stage - and makes his peace with old colleagues in supertramp.
Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution
The Modfather, still in the Indian summer of his career.
Perfume Genius - No Shape
Boldness and self-acceptance on genrehopping fourth.
Chuck Berry 1926-2017
Poet. Showman. Storyteller. Guitar hero. Founding father of modern music... Stephen Deusner analyses how Chuck Berry embodied rock’n’roll right up until the end of his storied life, with the help of some of his closest collaborators.