Stevens cat

Uncut catches up with Jack White's favourite songwriter in motor city.

Sparkling album from Jack White’s favourite singer-songwriter

Uncut catches up with Kim Fowley and Rodney Bingenheimer

Forty-six of the songs used, over the last couple of years, to sell us shit. A work of undeniable postmodern genius in itself, then. But does it function? In the case of KFC's selections, yes. So soulfully orgasmic are Laura Greene's "Moonlight, Music And You", The Chi-Lites' "What Do I Wish For?" and Jackie Wilson's "Who Who Song" that you'd gladly eat the food to be near them.

Sixth release from Clarksboro, New Jersey's holy roller

First time on CD for vanished 1972 solo album by leader of The Strawbs, featuring Rick Wakeman and Roger Glover

Legendary '60s Bay Area quintet featuring the notoriously frazzled Skip Spence

Wayne holds court in front of the Lips' biggest non-festival audience to date

Five-CD epitaph includes 64 never-before-heard tracks

A dazzling epic with a dark and bracing tone, George Stevens' Giant details Rock Hudson's old-fashioned Texan cattle baron (and American national metaphor) as he races towards modernity, neck and neck with neighbouring self-made trailer trash oil-swiller Jett Rink (James Dean). Hudson's sometimes stiff, and the pacing is certainly stately, but it's worth it to catch Dean's final intricately self-conscious screen turn.