Uncut Magazine 341 (August 2025) Bruce Springsteen

Every print edition of this issue of uncut comes with a copy of Hopes And Dreams 15 Tracks Of The Months Best New Music featuring Gwenno, Alice Cooper, Us Girls, Gina Birch, Golomb and more!

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: To celebrate the release of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, Uncut takes a revelatory trip inside the archives of Bruce Springsteen with help from collaborators, confidants and the Boss himself. If you want to understand how Springsteen works, hes never shown you more of his cards than he does here

NEIL YOUNG: Zuma at 50! Crazy Horse tell all. Plus Neil heads including Evan Dando, MJ Landerman and Blake Mills go deep on the albums musical marvels. It is the arrival of an band that would anchor an era and influence generations

SLY STONE: Uncut looks back on life of an inspirational rocknsoul icon.

WET LEG: The Isle of Wight noisemakers return emboldened by love and new sounds: Its nice to live in the space somewhere between fantasy and reality

BOOKER T: The teenage prodigy who helped shape the sound of Stax on his path from Green Onions to Drive-By Truckers. You have to be able to speak through your instrument

SCOTT WALKER: Thirty years after the startling experiments of Tilt defined Walkers latter-day career, we uncover his transition from teen idol to avant garde hero. It was a rejection of his past

CAROLINE: South-east Londons confoundingly brilliant eight-piece, fusing choral folk with fractured post-rock. There has to be a vulnerability of some sort. Or whats the point?

BILLY IDOL: The Bromley veteran on Television, Siouxsie & The Banshees and Terminator 2.

SADE: How punk attitude and minimalist soul grooves took the smooth operator from Londons club scene to global success.

WAR: The ground-breaking LA bands triumphant passage through rock, soul, jazz, funk and beyond.

REVIEWED: New albums by Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Mark Stewart, The New Eves, Ben LaMar Gay, Rebecca Shiffman, Murry Hammond, Shelley Burgon, His Lordship, Mike Polizze; archive releases by The B-52s, Jackie O Motherfucker, Mickey Newbury and Miles Davis; Iggy Pop live; David Cronenberg and Wes Anderson on Screen; Genesis P Orridge on Screen Extra and Budgie and The Beatles in books.

PLUS: Blondie unseen; John Fogerty reclaims; Wilko Johnson the play; Geoff Barrow x Jason Williamson; Dave Davies favourite albums and meet the effortless three-part harmonies of Folk Bitch Trio.

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