The xx have played two new tracks from their forthcoming second album – scroll down to listen. Titled "Sunset" and "Reunion", they are the latest songs the band have played live from their forthcoming album Coexist, which is due for release on September 10. You can hear them both below. Last week the band debuted a new dance-indebted track "Swept Away" at a show in LA. Previously, the band unveiled "Angels" – the first track from Coexist.

Dr. Dre has signed up to develop and act as an executive producer on a new crime drama series for American television network FX. According to Deadline, the rap mogul will oversee the production of the series, which will be written by Sidney Quashie and will focus on both the music industry and the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Quashie will executive produce alongside Dr Dre, with Daniel Schnider from the producer's company Crucial TV and Brad Bertner also signed up executive produce the show. A one-hour pilot has initially been commissioned.

The Stone Roses hailed Team GB's gold medal winning athletes Jessica Ennis and Bradley Wiggins at their intimate London show last night (August 6), calling the pair - who were both in attendance - "the real King and Queen of England".

Now available in stereo: LA minstrel’s junkshop hi-fi comes to life...

“I find it faintly ridiculous that anyone would want to make a film about me,” says Luke Haines at the start of Niall McCann’s documentary, currently touring film festivals. Haines has spent much of his career as both a musician and, latterly, an author, raging splenetically and repeatedly against Britpop and those musicians he considers of lesser creative stature – which is most of them.

Hi there. I hope you all had good weekends. Were you, like me, glued to the BBC for the duration of the athletics?

Mad Men star Jessica Paré, who plays Megan Draper, joined the Jesus And Mary Chain in Buffalo, New York and Toronto last week. Paré sang "Just Like Honey" with the band on August 2 in Buffalo and then joined them for "Just Like Honey" and "Sometimes Always" the next day in Toronto. Scroll down to watch Paré sing "Just Like Honey" with the Jesus And Mary Chain, who include Uncut's picture researcher Phil King in the line-up.

In a statement published on fan site true-to-you.net, Morrissey reportedly slams the Olympics for "blustering jingoism". In a statement, dated 3 August 2012, Morrissey writes of his recent tour experiences in Italy, Turkey, Israel and Greece before launching into a sustained criticism of the London Olympic Games. He writes:

One of the imprisoned members of Pussy Riot has spoken out about their case, claiming they are not "enemies of Christianity". Nadia Tolokonikovoy is one of three members of the Russian punk collective who have been in detention since their arrest in March following an impromptu gig at Moscow's Christ The Saviour Cathedral. The band sang a song called "Holy Shit" as a protest against the Orthodox Christian church's support for Russian president Vladimir Putin. The three women face up to seven years in jail on hooliganism charges.

John Murry first entered Uncut airspace in 2006 with World Without End, the bleakly brilliant album of country death songs he wrote and recorded with Bob Frank. Six years on, Murry has just released his first solo album, The Graceless Age, an album of almost symphonic emotional turmoil, co-produced by late American Music Club drummer Tim Mooney. The songs on the record deal sometimes explicitly with Murry’s heroin addiction, specifically the 10-minute ‘Little Coloured Balloons’, a harrowing account of a near-fatal OD. I reviewed The Graceless Age for the current issue of Uncut and emailed Murry some questions, to which he replied in detail and at illuminating length, as you will see from the fascinating transcript that follows.