Uncut interviewed Natalie Merchant for this month's cover story on R.E.M. Merchant first struck up a friendship with Michael Stipe, that continues to this day, during her time with 10,000 Maniacs, ...

Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all: “It was sex, drugs and electronic rock’n’roll!” “There was always a darkness around Soft Cell,” says Marc Almond, warming to the story of his band’s relentlessly ...

Originally published in Uncut Take 165 (February 2011 issue)... Originally published in Uncut Take 165 (February 2011 issue)… It had been an auspicious day for Duane Allman. After more than two years ...

"We thought we were trapped in one of those Twilight Zone slow time machines…" With Amnesiac, their second smash hit album of uneasy listening in just over six months, at the top of the charts on both ...

Tears For Fears were not your typical synth-pop duo, emerging from the Georgian splendour of Bath to rule the world with ...

Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner and Butch Vig revisit the making of L7’s feminist grunge anthem, born from heartbreak and ...

At 79, Lenny Kaye isn’t the oldest artist to make a debut album (that honour goes to Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen at a ...

An engaging look back at an inspiring backstory through the eyes of the band's founding friends An engaging look back at an inspiring backstory through the eyes of the band’s founding friends Kerr and ...

The September 2026 issue of Uncut stars Jack White, a Third Man Records CD, Alabama Shakes, The Fall, Kevin Ayers, Lambchop ...

Such is the diversity of David Byrne’s projects since Talking Heads’ split in 1991, it can feel like no possible new endeavour is too far-fetched. Now that American Utopia and Here Lies Love have ...

The Shel Talmy Recordings – the most complete collection of tracks recorded by a young David Bowie, then Davie Jones, with ...

This month’s CD, available free with Uncut‘s September 2026 issue, on sale now, is the perfect companion to our Jack White ...