Pearl Jam debuted two new songs at a concert in Chicago on Friday (July 19). Scroll down and click 'play' to watch fan footage of both songs being played live. The band were just seven songs into their gig at Chicago's Wrigley Field, Consequence of Sound reports, when torrential rain forced them offstage.

Morrissey has cancelled his remaining tour dates in South America. Last week (July 13) the singer apologised for pulling a number of tour dates in Peru and Chile after being struck down with food poisoning. At the time, he said he would be well enough to return for a run of four dates in Argentina and Brazil beginning in Buenos Aires on July 28.

Wadjda is the first full-length feature film shot entirely inside Saudi Arabia, a conservative Islamic country where women are denied civic freedoms or any public role. It’s director is Haifaa Al-Mansour, a Saudi-born female filmmaker who now lives in Bahrain. While shooting on location in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Al-Mansour had to hide in a production van, directing her actors via walkie-talkie, because she could not publicly mix with her male crew.

Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have been speaking about recording a new album. Interviewed separately by Rolling Stone ahead of the opening show on their 53-date Mood Swings American tour, Fagen discussed the possibility of a new Steely Dan album - which would be their first since 2003's Everything Must Go. Fagen said: "Yeah. We've been talking. We always talk about it on airplane rides. Usually we forget what we talked about before we do anything about it. But yeah, we actually had a conversation about it the other day, so who knows?"

An extremely rare Radiohead demo cassette from 1986 is to be sold at auction this September. The demo cassette features six songs that have never appeared on any official Radiohead releases: "Fragile Friend", "Girl (In The Purple Dress)", "Everybody Knows", "Mountains (On The Move)", "Lemming Trail" and "Lock The Door".

John Cooper Clarke has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Salford. The honour was given to the poet yesterday (July 18) at a ceremony at The Lowry in Salford. The Salford native was awarded a doctorate of arts to pay tribute to his lengthy career. "What a thrill – who'd have thought it? Now I'm a doctor, finally my dream of opening a cosmetic surgery business can become a reality!" he said.

Richard Hell answers your questions in the new issue of Uncut, dated August 2013 and out now.

From Uncut’s archive, the legendary singer-songwriter talks us through his greatest albums

No, unfortunately “Bright Phoebus” isn’t being reissued. But what prompted me to dig it out this week was the news of Bright Phoebus Revisited, a concert tour this autumn that promises the album recreated live by every Waterson they could find, along with various guests including Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley. The dates are London Barbican (11), Warwick Arts Centre (12), Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (14), Brighton Dome (15) and Bristol Colston Hall (16). Could be interesting: amazing record.

A former HMV worker has opened a music store in Derry called HVM. Entertainment.ie reports that Tony Cregan has opened up the replacement shop after his branch of HMV closed down earlier this year. Cregan, who ran the Derry HMV, opened the new store after he got 15,000 signatures on a petition in order to save the original branch of the high street music store and saw a gap in the market. Of the store name, he commented: "We thought what is the point calling the new show Local CDs, or whatever, we'll just call it HVM. HMV is gone."