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UNCUT MARCH 2026 TAKE 349 • “Comes in bells, your servant, don’t forsake him/Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart”

“I have been thinking about the future…” • Peter Gabriel readies another batch of new songs, to be released on full moons throughout 2026

Don’t tell a soul • Even as a member of The Replacements, guitarist Slim Dunlap flew under the radar. A new solo reissue highlights his unique talents

A Quick One

Magic in the air • Ambient alchemists Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore on an inspiring sojourn à Paris

LA Calling • The photographs of Spike Waltzer reveal how touring UK bands fired up the Los Angeles punk scene

Dutch Interior • Country? Slowcore? Piano pop? This multifarious LA sextet can do it all

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Run Run Run • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

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PAT METHENY • The jazz guitar virtuoso on playing with Bowie, Joni, Herbie and a robot band: “What story do we want to tell today?”

GORILLAZ • Damon’s gap year in India: death has never sounded so joyous.

VAN MORRISON • At 80, Van turns back once more to the music that raised him.

A to Z This month…

IRON & WINE • Sam Beam finds musical liberation where folk and jazz meet.

SHABAKA • The sax is back, but not the star on this curious electronic excursion.

JAY BUCHANAN • Rival Sons singer renders fine solo debut

BUCK MEEK • Intrigue and effortless charm on the Texan’s fourth.

HEN OGLEDD • Chips of wisdom from Sally Pilkington and Dawn Bothwell

MARIELLE V JAKOBSONS • Making music for – and in – the Bay Area wilderness

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS • A landmark black roots release revisited.

THE BEACH BOYS • Reunited with its troubled leader, an American pop institution attempts to meet the challenges of a new era.

A to Z This month…

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

CLIFTON CHENIER • A definitive boxset celebrating zydeco’s defining auteur.

THE SPECIALIST

TWENTIETH CENTURY GIRL • Fifteen years on from the dissolution of Sonic Youth, KIM GORDON remains the high priestess of American noise. As a new album, PLAY ME, continues to refine her radical creative vision, she holds court on ‘90s reunions, tech bros, the horrors of ‘confessional art’ and her own prolific solo career. “In a band, everything is a negotiation,” she tells Stephen Troussé. “Now, I just follow the instinct.”

THE ROAD TO PLAY ME • From No Wave skronk to 21st-century trap, Kim Gordon has walked on the wild side of avant-pop. Here are five essential waymarkers on her path to PLAY ME.

‘A PURSUER OF FACTS’ • Kim Gordon according to her collaborators

And We Bid You Goodnight • A gifted songwriter and...