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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.

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.

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."

Alice Cooper has claimed that branding Mumford and Sons a rock band would be an "offence to rock 'n' roll". Speaking to Fuse, the shock-rock singer said that modern musicians were "afraid to be in a rock band" and claimed that the current generation need to "quit eating vegetarian food" and "eat a steak" instead.

John Bonham could appear as a hologram in his son Jason Bonham's tribute band. Jason, who joined Led Zeppelin for their last proper show at London's O2 Arena in December 2007, told Legendary Rock Interviews that he had been speaking to special effects experts about the possibility of duetting with his father in his group The Led Zeppelin Experience.

Kings Of Leon have debuted their new single "Supersoaker" - scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen. The track, which was broadcast on Zane Lowe's Radio One show yesterday evening (July 17), is the first track to be taken from the band's forthcoming new album Mechanical Bull. The single is also now available as a download.