We look into the touching, awkward new film about Bill Callahan, Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film, in the new issue of Uncut, dated April 2013, and out now. As a companion piece, check out this fantastic piece with Callahan, aka Smog, recalling how he made his greatest albums, from May 2010’s Uncut (Take 156).

David Bowie has unveiled a brand new track titled 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'. Click below to listen to the song and watch the video, which stars Tilda Swinton as Bowie's wife. The arrival of the new single and video was announced via Facebook. The video was directed by Floria Sigismondi, who was also behind the videos for Bowie's 'Little Wonder' in 1996 and 'Dead Man Walking' in 1997. 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)' is now available to purchase digitally.

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Jack White has collaborated with Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes on three songs, set to be released as a single on White's Third Man Records. The single features new songs "You Don't Have To Be Smart" and "Horse Named George", as well as a cover of hardcore band Adrenalin OD's 'Paul's Not Home'. Scroll down to listen to an excerpt from the track.

The next Uncut Ultimate Music Guide goes on sale on Thursday (January 17), hot on the heels of our special on The Kinks, and is dedicated this time to The Beatles. There’s the usual mix of brand new reviews of all The Beatles albums by our current team of writers alongside some truly remarkable interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, for which the description ‘mind-blowing’ seems barely adequate.

Before Melody Maker swept me off the street in the manner of a benevolent old codger taking a pallid waif into his kindly, white-haired care in something written to make you weep by the venerable Dickens, I worked for a bleak season or two in the mail order department of a bookstore near Piccadilly Circus.