We missed this when it was announced, but Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley is in the midst of his first-ever run of solo shows in the U.S., a six-date tour that opened Saturday in New York and hit Chicago and Los Angeles earlier this week. Luckily for us, ex-KROQ/current 1st Wave DJ Richard Blade was on hand with his camera.

Twenty years ago today, first-time director Samuel Bayer gathered several dozen fans and three young musicians on a Culver City, Calif., soundstage to film the video for Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ a soon-to-be iconic clip — the infamous high school pep rally from hell — that ultimately would be as era-defining as the song itself.

Members of long-lost Boston college-radio favorites Scruffy the Cat — part of the so-called late-’80s cowpunk scene that helped spawn the alt-country movement — have reunited around cancer-stricken frontman Charlie Chesterman after two decades apart and will play two headlining shows in their hometown this October.

The folks over at the U.K. arm of Rhino Records continue to dig through the video archive of material by The Smiths, and now they’ve unearthed this 17-minute ‘lost’ documentary about the band, which they believe was commissioned by the label in 1992 in support of the ‘Best…’ compilation.

The makers of the forthcoming documentary ‘All For The Best: Songs of Mark Mulcahy and Miracle Legion’ this week posted an eight-minute ‘snippet’ of the nearly finished film online, a two-years-in-the-works project that includes interviews, vintage Miracle Legion footage and performances from a 2009 benefit concert.

Last week, Bob Mould ‘covered’ Sugar’s ‘If I Can’t Change Your Mind’ for The A.V. Club’s Undercover series. But before the song was crossed off the list, The Decemberists asked to do it, too. Watch that performance here.