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Video: ChameleonsVox plays 50-minute set at Primavera Sound — full webcast

Video: ChameleonsVox plays 50-minute set at Primavera Sound — full webcast

Last weekend’s Cure-headlined Primavera Sound 2012 festival in Barcelona also saw an appearance by ChameleonsVox — the band featuring frontman Mark Burgess and drummer John Lever of post-punk favorites The Chameleons — and we can now bring you a capture of the full webcast of the band’s 50-minute set.

Video: Meat Puppets play tracks off 'Sewn Together,' plus 'one of those Nirvana songs'

Video: Meat Puppets play tracks off ‘Sewn Together,’ plus ‘one of those Nirvana songs’

Seattle radio station KEXP has been uploading video of some of its past in-studio sessions to YouTube, and here’s another: A Sept. 23, 2009, visit during which the brothers Kirkwood performed four tracks off their then-new album ‘Sewn Together,’ plus ‘one of those Nirvana songs,’ aka ‘Plateau.’

Stream: The Cure's first American concert — newly discovered tape of Cherry Hill, NJ, 1980

Stream: The Cure’s first American concert — newly discovered tape of Cherry Hill, NJ, 1980

Journalist Van Gosse, who trailed The Cure’s first U.S. tour in April 1980 on behalf of Melody Maker, has unearthed a long-lost cassette recording he made of the band’s first-ever American concert on April 4, 1980, at Emerald City in Cherry Hill, N.J. You can stream the entire concert right here.

Linkage: Morrissey hints at 2014 retirement, plus 'Copper Blue,' PiL, Chris Mars

Linkage: Morrissey hints at 2014 retirement, plus ‘Copper Blue,’ PiL, Chris Mars

Our latest link round-up includes a Q&A with Morrissey in which he suggests he’ll retire in 2014 at age 55, plus interviews with Bob Mould reflecting on Sugar’s ‘Copper Blue,’ John Lydon discussing Public Image Ltd. and the Sex Pistols, and former Replacements drummer Chris Mars talking art and music.

Budgie of Siouxsie & The Banshees joins Efterklang for fall orchestral dates in Europe

Budgie of Siouxsie & The Banshees joins Efterklang for fall orchestral dates in Europe

Danish indie-pop combo Efterklang premiered its forthcoming album ‘Piramida’ by performing it in full at the Sydney Opera House backed by a symphony orchestra and a new touring drummer: Budgie, of Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures, who will join the band on a series of fall European dates.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 73, first aired 6/5/12

Tonight’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured music from The Church, Hunters & Collectors, The Chameleons, Bauhaus, The House of Love, Shop Assistants, Ramones, New Order, The Godfathers, Galaxie 500 and more. Replay at 2 p.m. Eastern on Friday.

Rhino debuts new 'Single Notes' eBook series with titles on Duran Duran, CBGB's scene

Rhino debuts new ‘Single Notes’ eBook series with titles on Duran Duran, CBGB’s scene

Rhino Records is branching out into the literary world with today’s debut of ‘Single Notes,’ a new eBook series that kicks off with Binky Philips’ story of how his band, The Planets, became a ‘CBGB almost-was’ and Lyndsey Parker’s memoir of unabashed Duran Duran fandom.