“We walked the length of Jones Street facing West Fourth with Bleecker Street at our backs.”

5/5 And there's an excellent, free 15-track CD of the month's best new music, featuring Melody's Echo Chamber, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sleaford Mods, Dry Cleaning, Jana Horn, Courtney Marie Andrews and more. That's us - in shops Friday or from us here: https://t.co/IRtBrhz6GW

4/5 We review Melody's Echo Chamber, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Glyders, Kahil El'Zabar, Wreckless Eric, Link Wray, Sugar, Nagisa Ni Te, Bill Fay & Radiohead... Plus Mani, Donna-Jean Godchaux & Jack DeJohnette RIP, The Blues Brothers: The Comic Book, Cat Power & Warren Zevon >>>

3/5 Plus @drycleaningband's guide to modern living; Laura Nyro's revelatory second act; @ArcticMonkeys steep ascent; @dionnewarwick on Burt, Bond and Cilla; James get "Laid"; Courtney Marie Andrews path from DIY to country-folk force; @SteveSnooker cues up his favourite LPs >>>

2/5 There’s our essential 2026 Preview, heralding upcoming releases from @courtneymelba, Bill Callahan, @StevieNicks, @Alabama_Shakes, Lana Del Rey and co... @RogerMcGuinn goes deep on The Byrds' exceptional first 18 months, from folk rock heroes to “Eight Miles High” >>>

1/5 Neat neat neat! 50 years on from their debut single “New Rose”, incorrigible punk pioneers-turned national treasures, @thedamned recount their volatile beginnings in the new @uncutmagazine. Yarns? “It was CID, villains and the Captain in a nurse’s outfit…” Here's more >>>

5/5 And! Bob Marley’s last London show revisited; Thee Headcoats and Headcoatees reborn; The Blue Aeroplanes touchdown, Brandi Carlile's favourite LPs, meet Daisy Rickman… and did we mention that highly-collectable Neil Young CD? Order a copy here: https://t.co/22XNy7V6iN

4/5 In reviews: The Belair Lip Bombs, Steve Gunn, Cheap Trick, Midlake, Red River Dialect, Chrissie Hynde, Soulwac; Dylan, Springsteen, Hüsker Dü, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Aksak Maboul, Eternity's Children; The Beta Band, Grandaddy, Ringo Starr and Pink Floyd...

3/5 There's the inside story of Patti Smith's Horses; how Otis Redding's Otis Blue redefined modern rhythm and blues; Ronnie Wood on joining the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band by “osmosis”... Super Furry Animals, Jonathan Richman, John Foxx, Donovan, Self Esteem...

2/5 Inside, friends and collaborators including Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Emmylou Harris, Thurston Moore, Micah Nelson, Patterson Hood and Margo Price join us to salute Neil ahead of his 80th birthday....

1/5 The new @uncutmagazine comes with a free 15-track CD of @Neilyoung gems reimagined for Uncut by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, @jmascis, @sharonvanetten, @kurtvile, @joanshelley, @mjlenderman, @Phosphorescent & more! In shops Friday or order your copy here: https://t.co/22XNy7V6iN

4/4 Plus! @EdwynCollins; Humble Pie; @genesis_band; Brigitte Fontaine; @johnlennon & Yoko; Pharoah Sanders; @RobertPlant; @jefftweedy; @NekoCase; @amandashires; Tortoise; @MulatuAstatke1; the Grand Ole Opry & more! In shops from Friday, September 19. In a different class etc!

3/4 Elsewhere in the issue: @tompetty's masterpiece revisited; the many lives of @YusufCatStevens; the tragic genius of Cardiacs' Tim Smith remembered; @wednesdayband in the spotlight; Millie Jackson tells it like it is; Bitchin Bajas in Album By Album >>>

2/4 Pulp have also raided the @RoughTradeRecs vault for us, compiling a free, 15-track CD featuring classics by The Fall, Cabaret Voltaire, Robert Wyatt, Arthur Russell, Galaxie 500, Jonathan Richman and more >>>

1/4 Good afternoon! Those #MercuryPrize nominees @welovepulp take their first-ever @uncutmagazine cover, reflecting on the 40 songs that shaped their extraordinary journey from Sheffield outsiders to unlikely national treasures. There's a CD too... >>>

4/4 Plus! @_blakemills; @pinkfloyd; @weddingpresent; Adrian Sherwood; Jim Marshall's @GratefulDead pix; Carson McHone; @suedeHQ; @baxterdury; Swell Maps, Woody Guthrie; Buckingham Nicks & more! So we're in shops from Friday, August 15 or direct from us: https://t.co/acsQH5cyKC

3/4 Elsewhere in the issue: @OzzyOsbourne is celebrated by @geezerbutler and friends; Evan Dando gets straight; Joan Shelley returns; Alabama Shakes are revived; Ethel Cain is resurrected; Popol Vuh's cosmic space rock is revisited; David Ackles American Gothic is explored >>>

2/4 Our free CD is Sounds Of The New West Vol 7 featuring the very finest Americana+ from @wednesday_band_, Case Oats, Friendship, Eve Adams, Souled American, Eli Winter, Slow Motion Cowboys, Jeffrey Martin among many gems >>>

1/4 Good afternoon! Here's a 10/10 new issue of @uncutmagazine to talk about. @DavidBowieReal's 21st century rebirth by @Tonuspomus, a huge fold-out map of Bowie's America and a stunning Collectors' Cover. Order your copy here: https://t.co/acsQH5cyKC. And there's more... >>

Hey @BBCScotlandNews - there are 500 stranded people in the car park after @fringebythesea2 after major transport infrastructure fails. The police are here.

Hey @fringebythesea2 - fights in the bus queue and a cancelled last train to Edinburgh. You sorely need to sort your infrastructure out.