Bag

Uncut catches up with Kim Fowley and Rodney Bingenheimer

Thirty-eight-year-old tunesmith from the dark end of the street

Sinewy side-project from leader of Washington DC heroes Canyon

Mixed bag of Marlon, including classics The Wild One and On The Waterfront

Mixed bag from the leading man of manic MOR

Patti Smith takes time out to chat to Uncut about her recent recordings, being American in this post-911 era, Todd Rundgren and more...

Coppola's love-in-Las Vegas musical fantasy is ripe for reappraisal

It all seems so oddly innocent, like a '90s Britpop update of Cliff's Summer Holiday capers. Essentially a glorified tour film, shot between 1991 and 1993, Star Shaped captures Blur at a major crossroads in their career, as they seek to shed the baggy influences of their debut album Leisure and reinvent themselves in response to the rise of grunge and their own ailing popularity in the UK. "The whole thing about pop music is you're ripping off as many people as you possibly can,"an improbably baby-faced Damon Albarn philosophises early on.

Leaving aside for a moment the issue of whether an unshown TV special from '68 could capture, as the opening credits suggest, "the spontaneity, aspirations and communal spirit of an entire era" any more accurately than, say, Catweazle or Do Not Adjust Your Set, and regardless of whether you think Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed are the fulcrum points of a generation or just something that music critics of a certain age should learn to get over, the portents of this cryogenically preserved moment in rock time are undeniable. Look!

Twentieth anniversary edition of '80s classic expanded with live songs, sessions and rarities