Contents Uncut Music Award

- And the winner is...



Seasick Steve

"I bleed for people!" The bluesman takes your questions



The Special AKA

Daramers and co on the making of "Nelson Mandela"




2009 SPECIAL

The Review Of The Year

Our 36-page round-up starts here, with all the top releases of '09, plus...



Bob Dylan cover story

From the "arrest" to the Christmas album, 2009 has been full of surprises



Indie rock rising!

Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors reflect on the year US indie went mainstream




Laura Nyro

"A voice of pure emotion..." Hailing the late NYC songstress



The Gaslight

Anthem Meet Brian Fallon - The Boss' heir apparent - and his storming NJ band...



Klaus Voormann

Album By Album with The Beatles' long-time cohort



Bert Jansch Talking


folk, blues and being strictly a "26 pints a night" man

Contents THE REVIEW OF THE YEAR

Our definitive 36-page round-up of all the essential releases of 2009 includes the year's Top 50 new albums, as well as the finest reissues, compilations, boxsets, films, DVDs and books. Plus…



BOB DYLAN

2009 has been bizarre even by Bob's standards; he's been arrested, recorded a Christmas album and scored his first UK No. 1 for nearly 40 years, and we have the inside story…



INDIE ROCK RISING

2009 saw the US underground indie creep into the mainstream. Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors reflect on their unexpectedly triumphant 12 months




FREE CD! THE BEST OF 2009

From Tinariwen and Super Furry Animals to Fever Ray, 15 outstanding tracks picked from our albums of the year



THE UNCUT MUSIC AWARD 2009

The winner is announced!



SEASICK STEVE

“It's a good idea to bleed for people…” The bluesman takes your questions



THE BEATLES


Photo Special! Astonishing â€" and mostly unseen â€" shots from 1963/'64



THE SPECIAL AKA

Jerry Dammers and co discuss the making of 1984's earth-shaking political hit “Nelson Mandela”



LAURA NYRO

Saluting an incredible talent: the late New York singer-songwriter and her voice of “pure emotion”



THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM

“My mother fed me Born To Run with my Cheerios!” Meet Brian Fallon's band, heirs to Springsteen's throne and the best thing to come from New Jersey since The Boss himself...




KLAUS VOORMANN

The Beatles' long-time cohort on the albums he contributed to, including that sleeve for Revolver



BERT JANSCH

Britain's greatest guitarist? Pentangle's influential fingerpicker and “26-pints-a-night man” tells his tale



NEARLY 200 REVIEWS!



IN MUSIC

Tom Waits, Them Crooked Vultures, Paul McCartney, Laura Veirs, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Spiritualized, The Stooges and many more!




IN FILM, DVD AND BOOKS

The long-awaited release of Nirvana's infamous 1992 Reading set on DVD; Spike Jonze's adult/kids' film Where The Wild Things Are, Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, Peter Hook's scarcely believable memoir The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club...



PLUS!

Florence & The Machine, Norah Jones, Jim Kerr and The Woodentops...