

SATISFACTION!
Recorded in a whirlwind 24 hours at Memphis’s fabled Stax studio, Otis Blue was a landmark record – making a star out of OTIS REDDING and rewriting the rulebook for rhythm & blues. In its 60th anniversary year, collaborators and eyewitnesses look back at the soul giant’s blistering, urgent and emotional masterpiece. “He was a great performer, a wonderful man,” Smokey Robinson tells Stephen Deusner
LOUISVILLE SLUGGER
After two decades tilling the soil of Louisville’s fertile underground scene, Ryan Davis is finally coming up roses. His two albums with The Roadhouse Band have placed him at the vanguard of a new wave of wry, literate bandleaders putting a fresh spin on fuzzy country-rock. “We’ve only ever followed our own North Star,” Davis tells Sam Richards, of his band’s long road to renown. “Now, for whatever reason, we’ve somehow circumnavigated the whole shitshow!”
RAZZMATAZZ Pulp’s 40 Greatest Songs
What a year it’s been for PULP! From the chart-topping success of More, their first new album for 24 years, to a world tour and now a deluxe reissue for their masterpiece Different Class, Jarvis Cocker and co’s glorious art-pop paeans to the human condition are once again centre stage. To celebrate, the band – Cocker, guitarist Mark Webber, keyboardist Candida Doyle and drummer Nick Banks – talk us chronologically through 40 key songs in Pulp’s uncommon career, from Sheffield (sex city) to Top Of The Pops and a stellar comeback, along the way revealing profound insights into the band’s mercurial working practices. “Wasps sent me on a long tangent,” Cocker confides to Peter Watts. “And wax dummies in Liverpool…”
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“IT WAS FUCKED UP, I HAD NO TEETH…”
Welcome back, EVAN DANDO, cleaner, fitter and happier! As he prepares to release the first LEMONHEADS album for 19 years, we hear tales of recovery and redemption, featuring cameos from Keith Richards, Noel Gallagher and Graham Nash, and learn exactly what he thinks of the upcoming memoir that bears his name. “If you want to talk rock’n’roll, I’m your man,” he tells Tom Pinnock. “I’ve read all the books, I’ve heard all the stories…”
everyone say hi
As a new century dawned, DAVID BOWIE set about changing everything – again – and in doing so, established working practices that continued for the rest of his career. As Heathen arrives as part of a sumptuous boxset collecting Bowie’s final studio albums, TONY VISCONTI tells Uncut the whole story of a legend’s creative rebirth, from The Rugrats Movie to 9/11, to The Next Day and… beyond. “David saw the future…”
SATISFACTION!
Recorded in a whirlwind 24 hours at Memphis’s fabled Stax studio, Otis Blue was a landmark record – making a star out of OTIS REDDING and rewriting the rulebook for rhythm & blues. In its 60th anniversary year, collaborators and eyewitnesses look back at the soul giant’s blistering, urgent and emotional masterpiece. “He was a great performer, a wonderful man,” Smokey Robinson tells Stephen Deusner
LOUISVILLE SLUGGER
After two decades tilling the soil of Louisville’s fertile underground scene, Ryan Davis is finally coming up roses. His two albums with The Roadhouse Band have placed him at the vanguard of a new wave of wry, literate bandleaders putting a fresh spin on fuzzy country-rock. “We’ve only ever followed our own North Star,” Davis tells Sam Richards, of his band’s long road to renown. “Now, for whatever reason, we’ve somehow circumnavigated the whole shitshow!”
RAZZMATAZZ Pulp’s 40 Greatest Songs
What a year it’s been for PULP! From the chart-topping success of More, their first new album for 24 years, to a world tour and now a deluxe reissue for their masterpiece Different Class, Jarvis Cocker and co’s glorious art-pop paeans to the human condition are once again centre stage. To celebrate, the band – Cocker, guitarist Mark Webber, keyboardist Candida Doyle and drummer Nick Banks – talk us chronologically through 40 key songs in Pulp’s uncommon career, from Sheffield (sex city) to Top Of The Pops and a stellar comeback, along the way revealing profound insights into the band’s mercurial working practices. “Wasps sent me on a long tangent,” Cocker confides to Peter Watts. “And wax dummies in Liverpool…”
AtoZ
This month…
“IT WAS FUCKED UP, I HAD NO TEETH…”
Welcome back, EVAN DANDO, cleaner, fitter and happier! As he prepares to release the first LEMONHEADS album for 19 years, we hear tales of recovery and redemption, featuring cameos from Keith Richards, Noel Gallagher and Graham Nash, and learn exactly what he thinks of the upcoming memoir that bears his name. “If you want to talk rock’n’roll, I’m your man,” he tells Tom Pinnock. “I’ve read all the books, I’ve heard all the stories…”
everyone say hi
As a new century dawned, DAVID BOWIE set about changing everything – again – and in doing so, established working practices that continued for the rest of his career. As Heathen arrives as part of a sumptuous boxset collecting Bowie’s final studio albums, TONY VISCONTI tells Uncut the whole story of a legend’s creative rebirth, from The Rugrats Movie to 9/11, to The Next Day and… beyond. “David saw the future…”