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Video: The Primitives, 'You Trashed My Christmas' — new track off holiday comp

Video: The Primitives, ‘You Trashed My Christmas’ — new track off holiday comp

The Primitives mark the end of a busy year for the reunited indie-pop act with a brand-new holiday song called “You Trashed Me Christmas,” which can be found on their label’s just-released compilation ‘A Christmas Gift For You From Elefant Records’ — and now you can see the band’s music video for the track.

New releases: New Model Army's 'Vengeance' reissued, plus The Jam, Sugar, Television

New releases: New Model Army’s ‘Vengeance’ reissued, plus The Jam, Sugar, Television

This week’s new releases include an expanded 2CD reissue of post-punk act New Model Army’s 1984 album ‘Vengeance,’ plus a 2CD deluxe edition of The Jam’s ‘The Gift,’ a vinyl box set featuring the full Sugar catalog, and a vinyl reissue of Television’s classic ‘Marquee Moon.’

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/9/12)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/9/12)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave eatured The Damned, Nitzer Ebb, UK Decay, Joy Division, Tuxedomoon, The Smiths, Fields of the Nephilim, John Foxx, Love and Rockets, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Clan of Xymox, The Teardrop Explodes and much, much more.

The Week in Rock: Dec. 2-8, 2012

The Week in Rock: Dec. 2-8, 2012

This week’s round-up of headlines includes items on The Mission, The Breeders, Wire, My Bloody Valentine, Tom Tom Club, Kraftwerk, The House of Love, New Order, The Specials, Johnny Marr, Dinosaur Jr, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and more — plus our latest Auto Reverse mixtape.

The Breeders reunite for 'Last Splash' 20th anniversary concerts in U.S., Europe in 2013

The Breeders reunite for ‘Last Splash’ 20th anniversary concerts in U.S., Europe in 2013

The ‘Last Splash’-era lineup of The Breeders — Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson — has reunited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of that album and its breakout hit “Cannonball,” and will reissue the record in a deluxe edition and then perform it live on tour in the U.S. and Europe in 2013.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Mojo Nixon plays 'Debbie Gibson is Pregnant...' — March 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Mojo Nixon plays ‘Debbie Gibson is Pregnant…’ — March 1989

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we offer up this classic performance by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper of their 1989 single “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child,” the video for which MTV refused to play, apparently out of fear of offending the teen queen.

Wire resurrects unrecorded material from 1979-80 for new album 'Change Becomes Us'

Wire resurrects unrecorded material from 1979-80 for new album ‘Change Becomes Us’

U.K. post-punk legends Wire today announced the release of their fourth post-reunion album and 13th overall, a 13-track collection called ‘Change Becomes Us’ that is due out next March and “began as an exploration of unrecorded material originally written in 1979-80,” according to an e-mail the band sent to fans.