As guitarist Lee Ranaldo is in Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes in this month's new issue (April 2012, Take 179), we thought we'd share a Sonic Youth piece from our archive. In this feature, published in 2009, Marc Spitz finds the band (who've just finished what we now know could be their final album, The Eternal) ageing with more dignity than most, but still finding time to lash out at Oasis, Madonna and U2, and order a baby pig with a donut in its mouth… Picture by Pieter M Van Hattem.
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The new April issue of Uncut, out now, features David Bowie peering from the cover in his guise as sleazy space-star Ziggy Stardust. To celebrate this look at Bowie’s greatest creation 40 years on, here’s a fantastic piece from Uncut’s 18th issue, in November 1998, in which Chris Roberts looks back at the glammed-up, transgressive superstars who changed his adolescent world.
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The new April issue of Uncut, out now, features a fascinating look at the history of Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio, which brought the world Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and others. Elvis Presley was one future star who cut his debut recordings at the Memphis studio – and in this archive piece from the fourth ever issue of Uncut (September 1997), comedian Frank Skinner talks about the King’s early years and the huge impact the Sun recordings had on him.
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The new, revamped Uncut, which hits shelves on February 28, features David Bowie, Pete Townshend, Buzzcocks, Feist and a look at the history of Sun Studio.
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Paul Weller has revealed in the new issue of Uncut that his forthcoming album 'Sonik Kicks' is the first record he’s made for years while sober.
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David Bowie broke down in tears while recording his first and only take of 'Five Years', the opening track on 1972’s seminal album 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars'.
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Bobby Womack has told Uncut that Damon Albarn reminds him of 'a young Sam Cooke'.
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The Beatles are on the cover of this month’s new issue of Uncut (March 2012) – inside is the story of the debauched Hamburg days that truly forged the 'Fab Four'. So we thought we’d delve back into July 2004’s Uncut (Take 86) to find Paul McCartney reliving the band’s formation – taking in the end of Victorian thought, the spectre of National Service and, yes, knee-tremblers – in conversation with Jon Wilde…
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In the new March issue of Uncut, out January 31, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Harvest", the peak of Neil Young’s journey into the mainstream. The 'Ditch Trilogy' was to follow that record, and more immediately the now unavailable "Time Fades Away", which Young has long called his “worst album”. But, as Allan Jones wrote in Uncut in May 2010 (Take 156), his most elusive release is also one of his most important…
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The new issue of Uncut, which hits shelves on January 31, features The Beatles, Television, Neil Young, The Jam and more.
On the cover is a 50th anniversary special celebrating The Beatles’ debut at Hamburg’s Star-Club.
We chart the pre-Fabs' incredible time in the German city, where intense, raucous performances and exposure to fashionable young Germans and some seriously debauched nightlife shaped their sound and image.
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