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Video: 'We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen' — full 90-minute documentary

Video: ‘We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen’ — full 90-minute documentary

If you’ve haven’t seen director Tim Irwin’s 2005 documentary ‘We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen,’ now’s your chance — the full 90-minute film has made its way onto YouTube. The film features interviews with surviving members Mike Watt and George Hurley.

Video: The Cure, ‘A Forest,’ ‘Close To Me,’ ‘Just Like Heaven’ — from ‘Bestival Live 2011’

Sunday Best Recordings, the label that put out The Cure’s just-released ‘Bestival Live 2011’ double-disc live album in the U.K., has posted a pair of broadcast-quality clips of Robert Smith and Co.’s performance at the U.K. festival last September to promote the new release.

Milestones: The Smiths played last concert 25 years ago today — watch the whole show

Milestones: The Smiths played last concert 25 years ago today — watch the whole show

Twenty-five years ago today, The Smiths performed what would prove to be the band’s final concert, a 15-song set at London’s Brixton Academy as part of a rescheduled benefit for Artists Against Apartheid. Watch that full Dec. 12, 1986, concert here.

Sinead O'Connor announces 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?' — stream 2 tracks

Sinead O’Connor announces ‘How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?’ — stream 2 tracks

Sinead O’Connor today announced she will release ‘How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?’ — her ninth studio album and first in five years — in February, and has offered fans a taste by streaming two of the record’s tracks in advance of the release.

New releases: The Smiths tribute, The Lucy Show, X, Gary Numan, The Lemonheads

New releases: The Smiths tribute, The Lucy Show, X, Gary Numan, The Lemonheads

This week’s new releases include ‘Please Please Please: A Tribute to The Smiths,’ The Lucy Show’s rarities comp ‘Remembrances,’ a DVD and Blu-ray reissue of X’s ‘The Unheard Music,’ a 5LP Gary Numan vinyl box set and a new 2CD best-of from The Lemonheads.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 12/11/11

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The March Violets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Human League, Fad Gadget, Concrete Blonde, Love and Rockets and much more. “

Linkage: Nick Cave ends Grinderman, plus Stone Roses, Peter Murphy, Talk Talk, Throbbing Gristle

Linkage: Nick Cave ends Grinderman, plus Stone Roses, Peter Murphy, Talk Talk, Throbbing Gristle

Nick Cave is pulling the plug on Grinderman and The Stone Roses have signed U.S. and U.K. record deals, plus a great photo essay chronicling a recent Peter Murphy gig in Philadelphia, word of a new book about Talk Talk and audio of an interview with Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.