Year: 2013

Video: Billy Bragg plays live on KEXP during SXSW — watch full 30-minute set

Video: Billy Bragg plays live on KEXP during SXSW — watch full 30-minute set

Seattle’s KEXP continues to post video footage of sets by bands that played live on the air for the radio station during South By Southwest last month, and the latest is a six-song, 33-minute set by Billy Bragg, who treated fans to four songs off his just released album Tooth & Nail, plus two old favorites.

Video: New Order plays 'Bizarre Love Triangle,' 'I'll Stay With You' on Kimmel

Video: New Order plays ‘Bizarre Love Triangle,’ ‘I’ll Stay With You’ on Kimmel

With a week to kill in Los Angeles between appearances at the Coachella festival, New Order popped up on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last night to perform its classic single “Bizarre Love Triangle” on air plus treated fans to a bonus web-only version of “I’ll Stay With You,” the opening track off its just-released ‘Lost Sirens.’

Stream: Edwyn Collins & The Heartbreaks' Record Store Day 7-inch single

Stream: Edwyn Collins & The Heartbreaks’ Record Store Day 7-inch single

Ex-Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins re-teams with The Heartbreaks for a 7-inch single to be released in the U.K. for Record Store Day this Saturday — and you can stream both tracks. Side A is a new song by Collins and the band while the B side is a new version of the Orange Juice’s “Untitled Melody.”

'Stone Roses: Made of Stone': Watch trailer for U.K. documentary on band's reunion

‘Stone Roses: Made of Stone’: Watch trailer for U.K. documentary on band’s reunion

The documentary chronicling the rise, fall and improbable resurrection of The Stone Roses hits U.K. theaters in June, and now fans finally can get their first glimpse of “The Stone Roses: Made of Stone” via the official trailer. Directed by Shane Meadows, the film will premiere May 30 in Manchester.

Lloyd Cole plugs back in, taps 'X' album collaborators for forthcoming 'Standards'

Lloyd Cole plugs back in, taps ‘X’ album collaborators for forthcoming ‘Standards’

Lloyd Cole returns to more electric sounds this summer with the release of ‘Standards,’ a new 11-track album that finds the singer-songwriter reuniting with part of the team — Matthew Sweet on bass and co-producer/drummer Fred Maher — behind Cole’s 1990 self-titled solo debut, the so-called “X” album.

Paul Weller announces 6-date U.S. tour of East Coast cities this July

Paul Weller announces 6-date U.S. tour of East Coast cities this July

After playing just a handful of U.S. shows in support of last year’s Sonik Kicks, modfather Paul Weller will return to these shores this summer for a limited tour of cities on the East Coast, playing six concerts in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. They’re billed as his only U.S. shows this year.

Video: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Coachella — watch full 45-minute set

Video: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Coachella — watch full 45-minute set

Nick Cave is pulling double-duty at this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, performing both with this on-hiatus band Grinderman and his long-running crew The Bad Seeds. While the full Grinderman webcast from Friday night has yet to surface, Sunday night’s thrilling Bad Seeds performance has

New Order announces U.S. tour in July leading up to Lollapalooza appearance

New Order announces U.S. tour in July leading up to Lollapalooza appearance

Fresh off the first of the band’s two appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this weekend, New Order has begun rolling out U.S. tour dates in late July — including shows in Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Boston — leading up to the band’s appearance at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.

New releases: Ian McCulloch, Flaming Lips, Meat Puppets, Replacements, Dead Can Dance

New releases: Ian McCulloch, Flaming Lips, Meat Puppets, Replacements, Dead Can Dance

This week’s new releases include the new 2CD set from Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, plus new albums from The Flaming Lips and Meat Puppets, plus a live Dead Can Dance album, a Simple Minds best-of, a reissue of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane and the vinyl release of The Replacements’ ‘Songs For Slim.’

Video: New Order play 'Perfect Kiss,' 'Crystal' at Coachella — via official webcast

Video: New Order play ‘Perfect Kiss,’ ‘Crystal’ at Coachella — via official webcast

As we wait for a capture of the full webcast of New Order’s Saturday night set at Coachella to surface — hint, hint — we can offer a couple clips from the official broadcast as a way to tide fans over: the frog-assisted “Perfect Kiss,” posted above and courtesy the festival itself, as well as latter-day rocker “Crystal.”

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/14/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/14/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, New Order, Cocteau Twins, Death in June, The Sugarcubes, Sad Lovers and Giants and much more.

Video: Social Distortion at Coachella — watch full 40-minute set

Video: Social Distortion at Coachella — watch full 40-minute set

Social Distortion epitomize Southern California, so it’s good to see Mike Ness and Co. bring their pure rock to Coachella this weekend. You can now watch the band’s full 40-minute set — which closes, naturally, with run through Johnny Cash’s classic “Ring of Fire” — right here via this ripped-from-the-webcast footage.

Video: Trent Reznor's How To Destroy Angels at Coachella — watch full hour-long set

Video: Trent Reznor’s How To Destroy Angels at Coachella — watch full hour-long set

Trent Reznor’s reunited Nine Inch Nails will be filling festival bills around the world later this summer, but Coachella snagged what may end up being a rare appearance by his new band, How to Destroy Angels, which brought an impressive visual component to its set late Friday night.