The new issue of Uncut, out today (October 23), features The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Donald Fagen and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. The Stones are on the cover, and inside, Mick Jagger talks to us about the band’s new film, Crossfire Hurricane, their two new songs, and the future of the band. The story of the group’s groundbreaking, debauched 1972 tour of the US in support of Exile On Main St is also told by the people who were there on the inside.

Shane Meadows' documentary tracing The Stone Roses' reunion is to be released in cinemas next year. The as-yet untitled film was shot by the This Is England filmmaker at and around the band's reunion gigs in 2012, including those at Manchester's Heaton Park in June and July. Producers Warp Films are hoping to see the story hit the big screen in spring 2013.

Guns N' Roses, Jack White and surprise guest Eddie Vedder played Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit in California this weekend. The event, celebrating its 26th anniversary, featured an all-star line up with The Flaming Lips, Foster The People, Steve Martin, kd Lang and Ray LaMontagne all featuring on the strictly acoustic bill. According to Rolling Stone, Young opened the all-day event by performing a short set, including a duet with his wife Pegi on "Comes A Time".

Ahead of the release of his new album The Jazz Age - where he's reinterpreted his own solo hits as well as those by Roxy Music - Bryan Ferry is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature. So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask him? Whatever happened to the planned Roxy Music album from a few years ago? Who's his tailor? As a big Dylan fan, which Dylan song would he like to give The Jazz Age treatment?

In 2009, Uncut spoke to The Wire’s creator David Simon, shortly before the broadcast of his follow-up series, Treme. The show was set during the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, a city that Simon felt had effectively been abandoned by the rest of America since the storm. “The only thing that brought this city back was the people who understand its unique culture and who participate in that culture refused to give that up,” he told us.

More heartbreak and droll humour from one of America’s underrated greats...

The mural featured on the cover of singer songwriter Elliott Smith's Figure 8 album has been repainted for the 9th anniversary of his death. The mural, which is in the Silverlake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, had been badly damaged by graffiti, but was repainted on Saturday (October 20) by a group called the Punk Rock Marthas.

New Order's Bernard Sumner has said that Peter Hook's decision to tour Joy Division's albums "opened the gateways of hell". Hook's band The Light have recently been touring Joy Division's classic albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer in full and, in an interview with Billboard, Sumner said his old bandmate's shows had prompted him to work with New Order again.

Kiss' Gene Simmons has claimed that he was once given $200million to reform Led Zeppelin. The bassist was allegedly handed the money by a promoter to use to tempt surviving members, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, to reunite and tour. Simmons told The Sun: "In 2009/10 I was given a few hundred million dollars in an account by a large concert promoter and given the task of reaching out to Jimmy and Robert and trying to convince them to get back together."

As an alternative to my usual wittering, I'm handing over this column to Matt Allan, one of the many readers who were moved to write in response to our recent cover story on The Byrds, a band for whom Uncut readers clearly have an uncommon affection.