Year: 2013

'Barbed Wire Kisses': New Jesus and Mary Chain biography due next year

‘Barbed Wire Kisses’: New Jesus and Mary Chain biography due next year

The story of The Jesus and Mary Chain — famous for 15-minute concerts and marrying squalling guitar noise with sweet ’60s pop on their iconic 1985 debut Psychocandy — will be told in “Barbed Wire Kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain Story,” an biography due in October.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Guest host Bob Mould performs with Lou Barlow — 1994

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Guest host Bob Mould performs with Lou Barlow — 1994

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we take a rare trip into the mid-’90s to present footage from the Sept. 4, 1994, episode, which was guest-hosted by Bob Mould the same week he released Sugar’s second and final album, File Under: Easy Listening. The two perform together for the first time.

Echo & The Bunnymen's 'Crocodiles' to be reissued in expanded 'hardback' 2LP set

Echo & The Bunnymen’s ‘Crocodiles’ to be reissued in expanded ‘hardback’ 2LP set

Less than three months after it was reissued on red vinyl for Record Store Day, Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1980 debut album Crocodiles is getting another vinyl reissue, this time on 180-gram audiophile vinyl in an expanded 2LP “Hardback Book Edition” that will feature the original album plus 10 bonus tracks.

Hey, gearheads: Take a tour of Depeche Mode's 'Delta Machine' stage setup

Hey, gearheads: Take a tour of Depeche Mode’s ‘Delta Machine’ stage setup

If you’re into the more technical aspects of a how a band like Depeche Mode pulls off big arena shows, here’s a video tour of the band’s stage setup on the Delta Machine Tour, with a look at the keyboard arrays employed by Andy Fletcher and touring member Peter Gordeno, as well as Martin Gore’s guitar rig.

'Morrissey 25: Live' concert DVD to receive 'worldwide cinema release' in August

‘Morrissey 25: Live’ concert DVD to receive ‘worldwide cinema release’ in August

Morrissey has formally announced that his concert film “Morrissey 25: Live,” filmed at Hollywood High last March, will receive a “worldwide cinema release” in August to mark his 25th year as a solo artist. The film also will be released on DVD — Moz’s first such release in nine years.

'Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD' to explore history, legacy of iconic indie label

‘Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD’ to explore history, legacy of iconic indie label

Legendary independent record label 4AD — home in the ’80s and ’90s to the Pixies, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Throwing Muses and so many more — will be the subject an exhaustive history this fall with the publication of Martin Aston’s new book “Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD.”

Stream: The Dead Milkmen, ‘Welcome to Undertown’ 7-inch single — 3 new songs

Stream: The Dead Milkmen, ‘Welcome to Undertown’ 7-inch single — 3 new songs

The Dead Milkmen return this week with the fourth in their new series of limited-edition 7-inch singles — this one’s called “Welcome to Undertown” — and you can now stream both songs off the vinyl single (the title track and “Streetlamps”) as well as the digital-only bonus track, “The Sun Turns Our Patio Into a Lifeless Hell.”

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 124, aired 6/18/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 124, aired 6/18/13

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured music off albums that made the Top 100 Albums of 1982 list, including tracks by Ramones, Bauhaus, The Chameleons, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Pylon, New Order, Ministry, The The, Echo & The Bunnymen and more.

Video: 'Talking Heads vs. Television' — aka 1984 UK TV special 'Once in a Lifetime'

Video: ‘Talking Heads vs. Television’ — aka 1984 UK TV special ‘Once in a Lifetime’

In 1984, David Byrne helped put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-minute mix of live material filmed at Wembley Arena, interviews, TV news clips, commercials and found footage and sound — sort of a visual version of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts set to live music.

Blondie announces U.S. tour with X, will give away 5 new songs with each ticket

Blondie announces U.S. tour with X, will give away 5 new songs with each ticket

Blondie will tour the U.S. this September and October with special guest X in tow, an 18-date trek dubbed the “No Principals Tour” that will include, with the purchase of each ticket, downloads of five exclusive new songs off Debbie Harry and Co.’s forthcoming 10th studio album.

Video: Pet Shop Boys, 'Vocal' — featuring footage from '80s raves, Hacienda club

Video: Pet Shop Boys, ‘Vocal’ — featuring footage from ’80s raves, Hacienda club

The Pet Shop Boys today debuted the video for Electric single “Vocal,” and it’s a bit of a time warp: The Joost Vandeburg-directed clip — which you can see below — is comprised of “authentic amateur film footage shot at various raves in the late ’80s” as well as images from the Hacienda club in Manchester.

Video: Siouxsie closes 2nd Meltdown gig with Banshees classic 'Spellbound'

Video: Siouxsie closes 2nd Meltdown gig with Banshees classic ‘Spellbound’

While we’ve already posted copious video from Siouxsie’s first concert in five years this past Saturday, it is worth sharing one key piece of footage from tonight’s reprise at the Yoko Ono-curated Meltdown festival, namely the one song on Saturday night’s setlist that got dropped from that show: “Spellbound.”

Video: Depeche Mode, 'A Concert for the Masses' — rare footage from 1988’s ‘101’ concert

Video: Depeche Mode, ‘A Concert for the Masses’ — rare footage from 1988’s ‘101’ concert

Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of Depeche Mode’s iconic “Concert For the Masses,” a daylong show at the 100,000-seat Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., that also featured performances by Wire, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Thomas Dolby — and was, of course, filmed and recorded for ‘101.’