Special Issue

  • February 14, 2019

To mark the band’s 50th anniversary, Uncut’s latest expanded, deluxe Ultimate Music Guide is an ambitious survey of the entire, brilliant career of Genesis – from prog shapeshifters to stadium…

  • January 25, 2019

Ultimate Record Collection: The 1960s is a 124-page guide to hearing (and buying) the best music of the 1960s. From James Brown to the Beatles, Dylan to John Coltrane, the…

  • January 10, 2019

For your pleasure…the latest edition of the ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE. This time: the definitive guide to the music of ROXY MUSIC! Insightful new writing on every album. Hilarious archive features.…

  • February 12, 2019

The latest in our series of Ultimate Music Guides is a deluxe edition of our work on The Cure. Commemorating the band’s 40th year of active service, and a year…

  • December 28, 2018

Archive features! New eyewitness accounts! The Best of NME 1975-9 continues our series compiling the greatest hits of the legendary music paper, now online. In this issue: the rise of…

  • October 26, 2018

Following specials on GLAM, PUNK, and SOUL the latest edition of the ULTIMATE GENRE GUIDE focuses on the art of the SINGER-SONGWRITER. A magazine mixing in-depth new writing and illuminating…

  • November 8, 2018

In what would have been his 75th birthday year, The Ultimate Music Guide to one of the world’s best-loved musicians. Never mind the “quiet Beatle”. With in-depth reviews and revealing…

  • October 26, 2018

Bowie’s Back! And so are 99 others, in this deluxe 124 page celebration of NME’s printed era – featuring the backstory of 100 NME covers, by the people who were…

  • October 11, 2018

Thunderbolts! Lightning! Very very frightening! Yes, it’s the new, deluxe edition 148 page Ultimate Music Guide to QUEEN. Featuring an expanded range of engaging archive features and an updated in-depth…

  • September 13, 2018

The latest subject of Uncut’s ongoing ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE series is DEEP PURPLE. In Rock? They’ve been in it 50 years! As the band finish what may be their last…

  • September 28, 2018

Following specials on GLAM and PUNK, the third edition of the ULTIMATE GENRE GUIDE will be focused on SOUL. A mixture of in-depth new writing and illuminating archive features, inside…

  • June 7, 2018

The latest edition of the ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE is a deluxe, remastered edition of our in-depth look at the work of NICK CAVE. Fully updated since our original edition in…

Black Sabbath Ultimate Music Guide

  • May 10, 2018

When Black Sabbath closed the final performance from their The End Tour, in Birmingham on February 4 last year, you could be forgiven for wondering whether that was really the…

Ultimate Music Guide: Yes

  • March 8, 2018

If the guiding principle of minimalism is ‘less is more’, then I guess in prog terms more is more. Allow me to unveil our special edition focussing on one of…

Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide: Fleetwood Mac

  • April 12, 2018

The last time Fleetwood Mac toured the UK, in 2015, the message they chose to share with us was togetherness. For a band whose history has been characterized by departures,…

  • April 27, 2018

Welcome, then, to the latest edition to the Uncut family. Following on from our survey of Glam – which is still available to buy here – the second instalment of…

  • November 14, 2017

The Ultimate Record Collection is your guide to the best music available new on vinyl… You can listen on the train or in the car, at the computer or on…

  • November 9, 2017

The latest Uncut Ultimate Music Guide is a suitably obsessive, acerbic tribute to the genius of Steely Dan. Within its glossy pages, you’ll find extensive new reviews of every single…

  • September 12, 2017

“Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today…”  In this latest edition of Uncut’s Ultimate Music Guide, we turn our attention to the mighty Prince. Our expert writers examine in depth…

  • August 10, 2017

As The Clash’s debut album celebrates its 40th anniversary, Uncut is proud to unveil a deluxe edition of the Ultimate Music Guide. Inside, we tell the complete story of the…