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Vintage Video: Leg in a cast, Siouxsie takes a seat to lead the Banshees through 1985 set

Vintage Video: Leg in a cast, Siouxsie takes a seat to lead the Banshees through 1985 set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we flash back to the fall of 1985, during the weeks that Siouxsie and the Banshees continued to tour the U.K. despite the band’s frontwoman having dislocated her knee during a performance and wound up in a full leg cast. Watch it here.

Listen: Peter Hook, Ministry cover Captain Beyond's 'Dancing Madly Backwards' for split 12"

Listen: Peter Hook, Ministry cover Captain Beyond’s ‘Dancing Madly Backwards’ for split 12″

Peter Hook and Ministry have each covered “Dancing Madly Backwards” — a 1972 song by Captain Beyond, a psychedelic hard-rock act that featured members of Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple  — for a split 12-inch single out this month on Cleopatra Records. Hear both versions, and the original, here.

Listen: Gary Numan, 'What God Intended' — 2nd single off forthcoming 'Savage' album

Listen: Gary Numan, ‘What God Intended’ — 2nd single off forthcoming ‘Savage’ album

The release of Gary Numan’s 21st album, Savage (Songs From a Broken World), is now just a little more than a month away, and the former Tubeway Army frontman has offered up the second taste of the new LP in the form of moody single “What God Intended.” Stream it here.

Swervedriver to record follow-up to 2015 comeback 'I Wasn't Born to Lose You'

Swervedriver to record follow-up to 2015 comeback ‘I Wasn’t Born to Lose You’

Hard-rocking shoegazers Swervedriver are returning to the studio to record their second post-reunion album, a follow-up to 2015 comeback I Wasn’t Born To Lose You that can now be pre-ordered — along with various fan-friendly enticements — via a PledgeMusic campaign. Full details, and tour dates, here.

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — expands North American tour

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — expands North American tour

With just a few more show left this month, Poptone — the band featuring Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins that performs a Tones on Tail-heavy set, along with music by Bauhaus and Love and Rockets — has unveiled a new run of North American dates into December. See full dates here.

Listen: Billy Bragg sounds climate-change alarm on 'King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood'

Listen: Billy Bragg sounds climate-change alarm on ‘King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood’

Sticking to his plan to release one-off songs inspired by the current political tumult, Billy Bragg has followed his raw, electric “The Sleep of Reason” — which addressed rising nationalism — with a quieter, climate-change themed song called “King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood.” Stream it here.

Listen: The Smiths, 'Frankly Mr. Shankly' — unreleased live take from Milwaukee 1986

Listen: The Smiths, ‘Frankly Mr. Shankly’ — unreleased live take from Milwaukee 1986

The plan to issue a previously unreleased live take of a song off The Smiths’ landmark third album The Queen is Dead continued today with the debut of a live recording of “Frankly Mr. Shankly” from the band’s concert at the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee, Wisc., on Aug. 16, 1986. Stream it here.