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‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Dead Milkmen crack jokes with Kevin Seal, play live  — 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Dead Milkmen crack jokes with Kevin Seal, play live — 1989

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we revisit an August 1989 episode featuring an appearance by The Dead Milkmen, who cracked wise with host Kevin Seal, read some fan mail on air and stuck around to perform a couple tunes. Check out a 15-minute reel of the band’s hosting segments, plus 2 live songs.

Stream: Kitchens of Distinction, 'Photographing Rain' — off forthcoming album 'Folly'

Stream: Kitchens of Distinction, ‘Photographing Rain’ — off forthcoming album ‘Folly’

If you’ve been waiting nearly 20 years for a new album from Kitchens of Distinction, what’s a couple more weeks? The reunited dreampop trio’s Folly had been scheduled for release this week, but thanks to a “manufacturing blip,” it’s been pushed back to Oct. 14 in the U.K., with a U.S. release on Nov. 5.

Morrissey's 480-page 'Autobiography' to be published Oct. 17 in Europe

Morrissey’s 480-page ‘Autobiography’ to be published Oct. 17 in Europe

After much handwringing, it’s official: Morrissey’s autobiography — cleverly titled “Autobiography” — will be published Oct. 17 in the U.K. and Europe by Penguin Classics, the publisher has confirmed, announcing that the 480-page paperback will cover the singer’s “life from his birth until the present day.”

The Fall to release 6-song 'The Remainderer' EP as bridge to new album due in 2014

The Fall to release 6-song ‘The Remainderer’ EP as bridge to new album due in 2014

Mark E. Smith’s iconic and ever-morphing post-punk act The Fall next month will release a six-song EP of new material on CD and 10-inch vinyl that Cherry Red Records says is intended as “a bridging point” between the band’s last album Re-Mit and the its next record, due to be released by the label in 2014.

Vintage Video: Watch The Cult's 'Live at the Lyceum' out-of-print 1984 concert film

Vintage Video: Watch The Cult’s ‘Live at the Lyceum’ out-of-print 1984 concert film

After a few weeks off, we’re back with a new installment of what’s supposed to be the weekly Vintage Video feature, this time presenting the The Cult’s long-out-of-print, VHS-only concert film “Dreamtime: Live at the Lyceum,” filmed May 20, 1984, at the London venue and released later that year.

Stream Tears For Fears' 4-song Peel Session from 1982 — off 'The Hurting' box set

Stream Tears For Fears’ 4-song Peel Session from 1982 — off ‘The Hurting’ box set

Tears For Fears continue to whet fans’ appetites for their upcoming 30th anniversary deluxe box set dedicated to landmark debut album The Hurting, this time posting online the band’s previously unreleased, four-song session recorded for the legendary BBC radio DJ John Peel on Sept. 1, 1982.

Public Image Ltd. preps 3 vinyl reissues as part of Virgin Records' 40th anniversary

Public Image Ltd. preps 3 vinyl reissues as part of Virgin Records’ 40th anniversary

Virgin Records is celebrating its 40th anniversary this fall, a milestone the label will mark, in part, with a series of vinyl reissues from Public Image Ltd., including a new 180-gram picture disc of 1986’s Album, a 7-inch picture disc of “This Is Not a Love Song” and a double A-sided 12-inch singe featuring “Rise” and “Warrior.”