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Editor’s Note

Return trip! • Psychedelic poster boy Nigel Waymouth is back with a new design in the vein of his ’60s Hapshash classics

Stranger than fiction • Welcome back, Split Enz! While Tim Finn bats away reunion rumours, a new boxset celebrates New Zealand’s acclaimed new wavers

“I’m doing it for you” • Outspoken soul trailblazer Millie Jackson on Richard Pryor, raising hell and her provocative stage antics

Magic ephemera • Theatre director Rob Roth is also one of the world’s foremost collectors of classic rock memorabilia. He talks us through some of his favourite items

Nashville treasure • Celebrating 100 years of country music institution the Grand Ole Opry

A Quick One

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Greazy Alice • From a honky-tonk covers band to an outlaw country romance

ON THIS MONTH’S CD UNCUT and PULP present…

AN AUDIENCE WITH… EDWYN COLLINS • Ahead of his last ever tour, the Orange Juice originator talks quiffs, mountains, Morrissey, and his debt to George Formby

SUBSCRIBE TO UNCUT • THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF GREAT MUSIC

ROBERT PLANT WITH SUZI DIAN • Something darker this way comes, as Percy and local pals head to the studio.

NEW SHOOTS • Ranging far and wide on the road to Saving Grace

Q&A • Robert Plant: “It makes me feel really good to sing alongside another voice”

JEFF TWEEDY • Gentle behemoth! This triple from the Wilco leader is a salve in stormy times.

Q&A

AtoZ • This month…

THE AUTUMN DEFENSE • Pat Sansone and John Stirratt on reactivating their pre-Wilco band

TORTOISE • Chicago’s post-rock pioneers return with what sounds like a comeback.

EMMA POLLOCK • Glasgow indie-rock mainstay unearths interior and exterior truths.

Q&A

AMANDA SHIRES • Confessional ballads drive country queen’s deeply emotional latest

MULATU ASTATKE • Visionary bandleader’s valediction.

Q&A

TOM SKINNER • “The guitar is a useful and mysterious tool for writing…”

NEKO CASE • Indie-rock auteur steps into the production limelight.

Q&A

GENESIS • Prog’s most glorious absurdity.

CHOP SHOP • The best Lamb-adjacent cuts

Q&A • Steve Hackett: “Being in Genesis was like joining the upper ranks of the diplomatic corps…”

BRIGITTE FONTAINE • Remarkable second album from French surrealist.

Q&A

AtoZ • This month…

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

JOHN & YOKO/PLASTIC ONO BAND • Lennon’s New York protest period revisited in opulent – but omissive – boxset.

THE SPECIALIST

SPAIN • Josh Haden: “The entire band was smoking weed every day!”

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