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Video: Replacements' 'I Will Dare' covered by Mates of State for A.V. Club's 'Undercover'

Video: Replacements’ ‘I Will Dare’ covered by Mates of State for A.V. Club’s ‘Undercover’

The A.V. Club’s web series ‘Undercover: 25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs, 1 Small Room’ follows up last week’s installment — Superchunk tearing through The Cure’s ‘Inbetween Days’ — with another iconic ’80s college-rock tune: The Replacements’ ‘I Will Dare,’ as reimagined by Mates of State.

New CDs: Squeeze's 'Spot the Difference,' The Charlatans' 'Some Friendly' live

New CDs: Squeeze’s ‘Spot the Difference,’ The Charlatans’ ‘Some Friendly’ live

This week’s new CD releases include ‘Spot the Difference,’ a new 14-track best-of from Squeeze featuring faithful re-recordings of the band’s best-loved hits, and ‘Some Friendly and Greatest Hits at the Roundhouse,’ a 3CD live set from The Charlatans.

Audio: Hear U2 perform new songs at 360° Tour rehearsals in Turin, Italy

With their injury-delayed 360° Tour finally set to resume Friday in Turin, Italy, the members of U2 rehearsed Sunday onstage at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino — and treated fans assembled outside the stadium’s gates to what is believed to be a brand-new song.

Audio: Hear Ben Harper join INXS for new recording of 1987's 'Never Tear Us Apart'

Audio: Hear Ben Harper join INXS for new recording of 1987’s ‘Never Tear Us Apart’

INXS tonight debuted the first track off their upcoming album of re-imagined hits, a new arrangement of ‘Kick’ smash ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ with Ben Harper filling in on lead vocals for the late Michael Hutchence.

Kirsty MacColl tribute concert to feature Shane MacGowan, Alison Moyet, Johnny Marr

Kirsty MacColl tribute concert to feature Shane MacGowan, Alison Moyet, Johnny Marr

The life and musical legacy of Kirsty MacColl will be celebrated this fall at an all-star concert in London featuring the likes of Alison Moyet, Billy Bragg, Johnny Marr and Shane MacGowan, who famously duetted with the late singer on the Pogues’ classic ‘Fairytale of New York.’

The Cult releases 'Everyman and Woman Is a Star,' single off upcoming 4-song 'capsule'

The Cult releases ‘Everyman and Woman Is a Star,’ single off upcoming 4-song ‘capsule’

British hard-rockers The Cult this weekend are releasing their first new song in three years — a three-and-a-half minute track called ‘Everyman and Woman Is a Star’ — via iTunes as a taste of a new four-song ‘capsule’ due out this fall.

Milestones: Daniel Ash is 53 today; watch Love and Rockets’ ‘Mirror People’ live in 1987

In honor of Daniel Ash — he of the ’80s trifecta of Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets — who turns 53 today, we dug up one of the only vintage Love and Rockets live clips we could find on YouTube, this admittedly grainy, but certainly rare, footage of the band performing ‘Mirror People’ at London’s Town & Country Club in 1987.

Milestones: Kate Bush is 52 today; watch 'Running Up That Hill' with David Gilmour

Milestones: Kate Bush is 52 today; watch ‘Running Up That Hill’ with David Gilmour

Today we commemorate the 52nd birthday of the incomparable Kate Bush with what’s arguably her most indelible song: ‘Running Up That Hill,’ performed with David Gilmour at 1987’s ‘Secret Policeman’s Third Ball.’

Video: Crowded House and Liam Finn cover Neil Young’s ‘Old Man’ in Clearwater, Fla.

Crowded House tonight posted video of the band, joined by Neil Finn’s son, Liam Finn, performing Neil Young’s classic ‘Old Man’ in Clearwater, Fla., on Wednesday night as a tribute to longtime Young sideman Ben Keith, who died two days earlier.

Video: Peter Murphy plays Bauhaus’ ‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’ in Tel Aviv

Peter Murphy opened his ‘Dirty Dirt Tour’ in Tel Aviv, Israel, this week, and we’ve got the full setlist as well as video of him performing the Bauhaus songs ‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’ and ‘She’s in Parties.’

Wayne Hussey may reunite The Mission for 25th anniversary concerts in 2011

Wayne Hussey may reunite The Mission for 25th anniversary concerts in 2011

Just two years after mounting a series of farewell concerts, frontman Wayne Hussey is considering reuniting The Mission to celebrate the goth-rock band’s 25th anniversary next year with concerts in the U.K. and Europe that ‘will be all about nostalgia — nothing more, nothing less.’

Video: The Cure's 'Inbetween Days' covered by Superchunk for A.V. Club's 'Undercover'

Video: The Cure’s ‘Inbetween Days’ covered by Superchunk for A.V. Club’s ‘Undercover’

This week’s installment of the A.V. Club’s series ‘Undercover: 25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs, 1 Small Room’ features indie rockers Superchunk tearing through a cover of The Cure’s classic 1985 single ‘Inbetween Days.’

Surviving members of The Cars in the studio, mum on possible first reunion since 1987

Surviving members of The Cars in the studio, mum on possible first reunion since 1987

Fans of revered New Wave rockers The Cars are abuzz about a possible reunion — the first since 1987 swan song ‘Door to Door’ — after a new photo of the band’s surviving members playing together was posted without explanation on the group’s Facebook page.