Guardian Music — Manchester festival has honour of actor's first Shakespeare role in 10 years in 'immersive' staging within deconsecrated churchUnless you count his performance of "the isle is full of noises" speech from The Tempest at the Olympics opening ceremony, ... more info

Guardian Music — David Gilmour, Lady Gaga, The xx and Calvin Harris app strategies show music industry experimentationEvery so often, the music industry gets sucked into a debate about whether the traditional album is dead, even if the murderer has varied down the ye... more info

Guardian Music — There is always the chance of an intimate one-off show by the Rolling Stones, but if not the xx will soothe those winter bluesThe Rolling StonesThe cheapest tickets (£95 excluding booking fee) sold out in three minutes and the rest (a snip at £375)... more info

Prefix —   Already worn out your mp3 copy of the xx's sophomore release? Itching for an immersive audiovisual experience to ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/get-the-xxs-coexist-in-app-form/71450/ more info

XLR8R — If the top 20 most downloaded tracks of October can teach us anything, it's that it's a pretty good idea to remix massive pop and indie artists, like, say, The xx or Cassie. Apparently, it also doesn't hurt to work with music from prod... more info

Guardian Music — Jamie Oliver, Onavo Count, Summly, Brian Cox, Viz Profanisaurus, James Bond, The xx, William Shatner and moreIt's time for our weekly roundup of the best new iPhone and iPad apps released this week on Apple's App Store, and this one's a bumper select... more info

Guardian Music — Tonight the Mercury prize 2012 will be awarded to one of the 12 finalists. But who is the most popular on last.fm and who gets the most plays per day? • Get the data• More dataThe annual Mercury prize is set to take place this evening with a winn... more info

Prefix — Besides taking the lives of at least 48 people, displacing thousands, shutting down Wall Street and causing billions ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/the-xx-announce-north-american-dates-reschedule-ca/71347/ more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The xx at Terminal 5 in August (more by Toby Tenenbaum) As mentioned, The xx were forced to cancel shows in NYC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore this week due to Hurricane Sandy but promised that they would make up for them... more info

Consequence of Sound — Includes rescheduled dates for those postponed by the hurricane. more info