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Forty-five years later, an expanded revisitation of the Feat at their live best

Bruce Springsteen, Uncut’s Review Of 2021, Jason Isbell, Yasmin Williams, Jonny Greenwood, The Weather Station, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, the Beach Boys, The Coral, and Marvin Gaye

Rare South African jazz-rock majesty from 1977

We celebrate the genius of Gong in this piece from the Uncut archives

So it turns out John Lennon was right after all. You really can get a tan from standing in the English rain.

The Doors, Janis Joplin and Bob Marley are also celebrated

It came as something of a surprise the other day to discover that it’s been something like eight years since Jim O’Rourke released a new solo album. In the interim, he’s not been entirely quiet, as involvement with Sonic Youth and the Loose Fur project with Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, as well as sundry other lower-profile activities prove.

Outtakes and unreleased live recordings shine new light on the angels and demons at war in a 40-year career

It's an unlikely story: avant-garde cellist sees the light in a disco glitterball at New York gay club The Gallery and decides disco is the ultimate modern format for exploring minimalist composition. In the mid-'70s, Russell—conservatory-trained, a scholar of Eastern music forms, steeped in the ideas of Steve Reich and Terry Riley—was blown away by the engulfing quality of music transmitted over a massive club sound system and literally entranced by disco's use of repetition.

All aboard for the glory days of the '60s pirate radio stations