Mick Jagger sheds light on The Rolling Stones’ new film, Crossfire Hurricane, in the new issue of Uncut (dated December 2012), and out on Tuesday (October 23).

For those who are disappointed not to have scored a ticket to see the Rolling Stones in 2012, then there is some slight consolation.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have released a video for "Twisted Road", taken from their forthcoming album, Psychedelic Pill. The promo clip contains images of Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and Roy Orbison, as well as footage of Young and Crazy Horse travelling along the highway by tour bus. This is the third video from Psychedelic Pill, following on from “Walk Like A Giant” and “Ramada Inn". Pic credit: Steve Snowdon/Getty Images

Wu Tang Clan producer RZA wants to put the band back together to mark the 20th anniversary of their highly-regarded debut album, 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)', reports New York Times – and this time he wants the band to be more professional. RZA, who is currently promoting his film The Man With The Iron Fists, says making the movie showed him the power of "what a focused mind can do".

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has revealed that rockabilly artist Carl Perkins was the artist who made him first want to pick up a guitar. Homme explained that he decided he wanted to be a musician after he saw Perkins play and found out that he had written the song "Blue Suede Shoes" for his idol Elvis Presley. Perkins - who died in 1998 - took part in the 'Million Dollar Quartet' recordings at Sun Studio in Memphis alongside Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lee Daniels is in talks to direct a Janis Joplin biopic starring Amy Adams. Adams became attached to the project, titled Get It While You Can, back in 2010. Before Adams, Renee Zellweger had been lined up to play Joplin.