For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we turn to the UK television program “The South Bank Show,” and its 1979 spotlight on Talking Heads. The half-hour episode features the band being interviewed, plus live performances of classics such as “Psycho Killer” and “Life During Wartime.”

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we dip into the vaults of “Rockpalast” for this performance by The Smiths in 1984. This 15-song set finds the band burning through its early material to the point that it encores with a couple of its best-known songs that already had been performed earlier.

Promotional clip teasing the third episode of Denis Leary’s new “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll” sitcom, airing July 30, 2015, on the FX television network, in which one of the charactes makes a reference to a certain music blog that is no longer with us.

Having just wrapped up a European tour in support of their reunion album, The Afghan Whigs dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, where they performed a pair of tracks off Do To the Beast: the single “The Lottery,” which was shown on-air, and then, as a web-only performance, “I Am Fire,” coupled with just a taste of Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk.”

Fans of that pinnacle of Sunday night television viewing would be advised to get to Philadelphia this weekend, where the Philly Music Video Fest will close with a salute to the program featuring highlights from “120 Minutes,” a special pre-recorded intro from creator/host Dave Kendall and a few surprises.

Bob Mould and his eponymous band stopped by “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Friday night to promote their current album, Beauty & Ruin, performing a pair of songs — “Tomorrow Morning” and “Kid with a Crooked Face” — back to back. Watch that performance right here.

Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis returned to “Late Night With Seth Meyers” last night to promote his latest album, Tied to a Star, performing the single “Every Morning” on air, and then sticking around for a web-only cover of Mazzy Star’s 1993 hit “Fade Into You.”