New Order has debuted a pair of new songs (“Singularity,” “Plastic”) on tour this year in North and South America, but used the occasion of its concert in San Francisco last night to do something perhaps even more unlikely: a cover of ’60s anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).”

Tommy Ramone, the last surviving original member of the Ramones, who played drums on and co-produced the band’s legendary first three albums (1976’s Ramones, 1977’s Leave Home and 1978’s Road to Ruin), passed away earlier today, according to the Ramones’ Facebook page. He was 65.

Take a trip back to the 1983 installment of the US Festival — a four-day event over Memorial Day Weekend that year that drew an alleged 670,000 music fans into the middle of nowhere in California — with this 90-minute collection of footage from the fest’s “New Wave Day,” featuring performances by The Clash, INXS, Oingo Boingo, The English Beat and more.

We re-christen the long-dormant Vintage Video series with this fantastic pro-shot footage of Gang of Four performing a taut, 22-minute set at the Music Biennale Zagreb festival in Croatia, on May 15, 1981. The performance comes a couple months after the release of the band’s sophomore album, Solid Gold,

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds celebrated the release of their 15th studio album Push the Sky Away by performing the record in full on Feb. 21, 2013, at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles — and broadcasting that performance around the world live on YouTube.

Cabaret Voltaire will perform live for the first time in nearly 22 years this August when the group — “a lineup now consisting solely of machines, multi-screen projections and Richard H. Kirk” — plays a set at the Berlin Atonal Festival that will feature only new material and “no nostalgia.”

Murray Attaway and Jeff Walls, co-founders of suburban Atlanta jangle-pop favorites Guadalcanal Diary, have reunited under a new musical banner, enlisting bassist Phyllis Wells of Hillbilly Frankenstein and Swimming Pool Q’s drummer Robert Schmid to create a new band called Blasting Cap.

Bassist Steven Severin hinted this weekend that the final four titles in Siouxsie and the Banshees’ catalog finally will receive expanded reissues Sept. 15, more than four years after Universal Music pulled the plug on the band’s reissue campaign midstream.

This week’s new releases include a brand-new studio album from Ultravox’s Midge Ure, a recording of a new stage production from Marc Almond, a new Ministry live album and film, a two-disc version of the new Durutti Column album and a CD reissue of The Gun Club’s ‘Fire of Love.’

Morrissey’s been teasing the hell out of his brand-new album World Peace Is None Of Your Business in the weeks ahead of its July 15 release, with full-track previews, spoken-word promotional videos and, perhaps not as effectively, an aborted U.S. tour. Now, though, comes the moment of truth.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night celebration of the “darker side of classic alternative” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured music from Big Black, Skinny Puppy, Clan of Xymox, The Tear Garden, Fad Gadget, Sad Lovers and Giants, Theatre of Pain, Scratch Aid, Cocteau Twins and more.

Annik Honoré — girlfriend of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis at the time of his death, the alleged inspiration for “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and the co-founder of the Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux labels — died this week at the age of 56, according to press reports and associates.

When New Order toured South America earlier this year, the band debuted “Singularity,” its first new track since the Waiting for the Sirens’ Call sessions. Earlier tonight, Bernard Sumner and Co. opened a U.S. tour with another premiere, performing the new song “Plastic” for the first time ever.