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.

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood answers your questions in the new issue of Uncut (dated December 2012), out on Tuesday (October 23).

Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen combs over his new solo album, his legendary band and his future in the new issue of Uncut, dated December 2012, and out on Tuesday (October 23). Fagen also discusses the perils of ageing, as well as why he believes women prefer his solo work to Steely Dan, in the interview. Asked whether he considers his best work to be ahead of him, the keyboardist and singer says: “I do know I’m no longer interested in my past work. I’ll never listen to this album again. “All of my past work, it’s garbage to me, see.”

Bruce Springsteen has written an open letter declaring his support for incumbent US President Barack Obama in the forthcoming elections. Springsteen posted the letter on his website yesterday (October 17), addressing it to his 'friends'. He proceeded to state the reasons why he'd be supporting Democratic candidate Obama and wrote: