Last November, They Might Be Giants stopped by Hollywood behemoth Amoeba Music to celebrate the release of their second album of 2011, the compilation ‘Album Raises New and Troubling Questions.’ The group jammed out an 8-song, 22-minute set that the record store recently posted on its website

With Al Jourgensen’s reformed Ministry opening its very short U.S. tour this Sunday in Denver, the band this week released a second music video from its comeback album ‘Relapse.’ The clip for ‘GhoulDiggers’ features some fine ranting by Uncle Al, a bit of cartoonery and some animated, grave-digging ducks.

The Stone Roses apparently cut short their gig in Amsterdam last night — the third show of their just-launched reunion tour, the band’s first outing in 16 years — according to press and fan accounts, with Ian Brown emerging on stage in lieu of the expected ‘I Am the Resurrection’ encore to announce, ‘The drummer’s gone home.’

As part of the promotion of the new Public Image Ltd. album ‘This Is PiL,’ frontman John Lydon has launched a new video series called the ‘Lollipop Blog,’ of which he spends the first installment discussing the artwork he created for the record’s cover — including the ‘freedom buffalo’ that graces the CD’s front cover.

This week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover 2012 series finds mash-up stars The Hood Internet doing a number on The Pretenders’ 1982 single ‘Back on the Chain Gang,’ slowing it down and punching it up with samples of rappers Rick Ross and Gucci Mane.

Dinosaur Jr next month will follow up this spring’s release of the DVD and Blu-ray ‘Bug Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of the Fans’ with a super-limited, purple-vinyl pressing of that performance, recorded June 25, 2011,at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Check out the animated trailer by political cartoonist Scott Bateman.

Last month, we brought you downloads of two new Robyn Hitchcock songs — the latest in his ‘Phantom 45s’ series — plus a video for one of them, the KT Tunstall-featuring ‘There Goes the Ice.’ Now we can present the second clip, a pub-style hootenanny for the song ‘Twitch 4 Sam Surfer.’