Uncut

The Led Zeppelin legend has just returned with a new group, Minibus Pimps, in collaboration with Deathprod, aka Norwegian Helge Sten. Here, from Uncut’s April 2010 issue (Take 155), is a look back at the bassist and multi-instrumentalist’s other jobs… Fans and famous admirers ask Jones about his favourite instruments, bluegrass, working with REM, the Butthole Surfers and Josh Homme, and being “a bloody good choirmaster”. Interview: John Lewis ___________________

Last night [January 16] Neil Young played the second of his four 'Honor The Treaties' concerts to raise money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal Defense Fund. The show took place at Winnipeg Centennial Concert Hall, Manitoba, Canada.

Brian May has been given the all-clear after suffering a cancer scare in late 2013, the Guardian reports. Writing on his official website, the 66-year-old Queen guitarist informed fans results from urgent tests carried out in December showed he did not have prostate cancer, although he stated there were "still some mysteries to solve" regarding his health.

Robert Wyatt, speaking in the new issue of Uncut, reveals that he could never have been a pop star, despite scoring a 1974 hit with a cover of The Monkees’ “I’m A Believer”.

U2, Arcade Fire and Karen O are among the nominees at this year's Oscars. U2's "Ordinary Love" (from Mandela: The Long Walk To Freedom) is nominated in the Best Original Song category, alongside Karen O and Spike Jonze for "The Moon Song" from Her and Pharrell Williams' "Happy", from Despicable Me 2. Meanwhile, Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett have been nominated in the Original Score category for the soundtrack to Spike Jonze's Her.

Thurston Moore's black metal band Twilight have announced their new album and decision to split up. Moore joined Twilight in 2012 and III: Beneath Trident’s Tomb, due for release on March 17, will be his first album with the band. However, it will also be his last after the group announced their decision to separate immediately. Alongside Moore, Twilight consists of Stavros Giannopoulos (Atlas Moth), Wrest (Leviathan), N Imperial (Krieg), and producer Sanford Parker. The band's previous two albums, Twlilight and Monument To Time End.

Neil Young has launched a blistering attack on Canada's federal government and Alberta’s oilsands development, accusing officials of "killing" First Nations through their exploitation of the Alberta tar sands. Young made the accusation at a press conference ahead of his Massey Hall show on Sunday, January 12.

Morrissey will release a new album later this year. The singer has signed a new, worldwide record deal with Universal Music’s US-based Harvest Records. In a statement, he said he was "thrilled" to sign the contract.

Little Feat have announced details of a 13 disc box set. Titled Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990, the set is presented in a clamshell box and includes the band's studio albums and live recordings as well as outtakes. A final disc of this collection highlights outtakes from Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat, a four-disc retrospective collection released in 2000. Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 is released by Rhino in the US on February 25. The box set contains: Little Feat (1971)