Wayne White’s ‘Appalachian Soul Stew’
Username Password, backstage at the Big Ears Festival in 2025. (Credit: Mimi Pond) Visual artist and puppeteer Wayne White doesn’t claim to be a good musician, at least not in…
Here Are Our Editors’ Favorite Albums of the Year
Lily Allen in London, September 21, 2025. (Credit: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Perfect Magazine) Bartees Strange performs on August 9, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Credit: Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)Arsenio Orteza, Senior…
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
Jorma Kaukonen. (Credit: Vernon Webb) Name Jorma KaukonenMore from Spin: Deep Cut Friday: ‘World Turning’ by Fleetwood Mac THE 40 GREATEST MUSICIANS OF THE LAST 40 YEARS My Chemical Romance Set…
Magnifico! Queen’s 30 Greatest Songs
Originally published in Uncut Take 302 [July 2022], Brian May, Roger Taylor and Adam Lambert pick their 30 favourite Queen songs, from stadium anthems to experimental, eight-minute epics, glam stomps…
THE 40 GREATEST MUSICIANS OF THE LAST 40 YEARS
Kurt Cobain performs with Nirvana at a taping of 'MTV Unplugged' in 1993. (Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images) Lists like this are set up to fail, and, in line with the…
How Jimi Hendrix made Electric Ladyland: “The gate was open and with Jimi there was always a plan”
Originally published in Uncut Take 257 [October 2018]. Against a backdrop of riots, assassinations and radical expression, JIMI HENDRIX unleashes Electric Ladyland: his final studio masterpiece. Hendrix’s friends, collaborators and…
Every Bad Brains Album, Ranked
Bad Brains in 1993. (Credit: Niels van Iperen/Getty Images) Paul and Earl Hudson were born to a Jamaican mother and an American father who worked as a mechanic for the…
Gerald Clayton’s Jazz Experiment: When Two Becomes One
Gerald Clayton. (All photos by OGATA) Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has a new album. We have a few questions. After a couple of decades as one of his field’s most…
Dizzy Reed’s Tour Entertainment Essentials
Dizzy Reed. (Credit: J Aldorfer) When I share photos with guests who join my Airbnb Experience, “The Sunset Strip: Stories With a Music Journalist,” the first one I show is…
With 84 Days, Randy Bradbury and Cameron Webb Take the ‘Fucking Power Back Right Away’
84 Days band members Cameron Webb and Randy Bradbury in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. (All photos by Steve Appleford) Randy Bradbury’s life changed at 15. After being raised…