David byrne who is the sky? matador

Who Is The Sky? MATADOR 8/10

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

Rock’s eternal adolescent contemplates mortality, cheerfully.

SARAH DITUM

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…”

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b