5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Samara Joy
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Pink Floyd’s 30 best songs
Shine on! Here are the Floyd's 30 greatest songs, as voted for by David Gilmour and Nick Mason, plus famous fans including Paul Weller, Jarvis Cocker, Wayne Coyne, Ice Cube,…
The Best EPs of 2025
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CULT FIGURE
"Fear is a powerful motivator," says Mike Sartain. (Photo by Chelsea Erica Smith) When Mike Sartain, who released his latest EP, Push On Through, in April and goes by the…
How a Still-Defiant Shepard Fairey Turned Punk Rock Attitude Into 30 Years of Activist Art
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Repelican’s Jon Ehrens Ponders the Cosmos
Repelican’s Jon Ehrens. (Credit: Ron Rost) “There was a site you probably remember called MP3.com, it was like pre-social media,” says Jon Ehrens, 41, thinking back to the music he…
Amy Allen on the Five Songs That Changed Everything
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Sinéad O’Connor: “I was a square peg in a round hole”
Originally published in Uncut Take 209 [October 2014], Sinéad O'Connor talks us through nine key albums in her career... Originally published in Uncut Take 209 [October 2014], Sinéad O’Connor talks…
10 great Tom Waits clips
For your delectation, here's some cuts - from live performances to film roles and his hilarious chat show appearances - that we hope catch the spirit of one of our…
“Everything went into the music”: the tragic genius of The Sound’s Adrian Borland, the lost prophet of post-punk
Originally published in Uncut's Take 332 [September 2024], friends and band mates look back at the life and career of Adrian Borland, the lost prophet of British post-punk, and his…