Black Sabbath’s new album, 13, is reviewed in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now) – in this archive piece from Uncut’s May 2010 issue (Take 156), Ozzy Osbourne answers your questions, shedding light on his reality-TV renaissance, dressing up as a Nazi and the drug that left him “totally paralysed”… Words: John Lewis

"Release the World Engine!"

Lou Reed was back in the news last week and for reasons other than his recent life-saving liver transplant. It turned out that some boorish actor, a self-styled hell-raiser, Rhys Ifans, by name, had thrown a bit of a strop during a newspaper interview and so one of the Saturday broadsheets, presumably stuck for anything else to fill its pages, canvassed some notable journalists about their most difficult celebrity interview.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers had their show on Saturday (June 8) at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre shut down by fire marshals. The concert was the fourth of a six-date residency at the 1,300 capacity venue. The setlist had included a mix of A-list Petty songs like "Here Comes My Girl" alongside rarities including "Angel Dream (No. 2)", the Traveling Wilburys "Tweeter And The Monkey Man" and covers including Paul Revere & The Raiders’ "(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone".

Television and Heartbreakers legend Richard Hell’s autobiography, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp, is reviewed by editor Allan Jones in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now) – in this piece from Uncut’s September 2009 issue (Take 148), Hell and his bandmates explain how they created “Blank Generation”, the nihilistic, coruscating punk anthem first written as a “My Generation” for the ’70s New York scene. Words: Damien Love

Around this time in 2012, I came up with 40 records, released between January and June, that I liked enough to include in a six-month Best-Of list. Either I’m being more diligent, or less discerning, or else 2013 is shaping up to be a better year: as you can see, I’ve managed 67 here.

Jack White and T Bone Burnett are producing a documentary about the American recording industry during the 1920s and 1930s. The film, which Burnett says is co-produced by Robert Redford and the BBC, will be called American Epic.

Reports out today (May 31) suggest that BBC will only be able to broadcast the first four songs of The Rolling Stones' headline slot at Glastonbury.

This isn't the one...

Although I’m currently watching films due for release in July – which will take us over halfway through 2013 – I’m conscious that there’s a lot of great stuff still to come during the rest of the year.