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Guitar cam: Watch Echo & The Bunnymen's Will Sergeant play 'Seven Seas'

Guitar cam: Watch Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant play ‘Seven Seas’

In this clip, Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant has attached a Flip Mino HD camera to the necks of his 12-string Vox Teardrop while playing the band’s 1984 single “Seven Seas” in what appears to be an Ian McCulloch-less soundcheck or rehearsal.

New releases: Buzzcocks reissues, Pretenders 'Live in London,' UB40's 'Labour of Love IV'

New releases: Buzzcocks reissues, Pretenders ‘Live in London,’ UB40’s ‘Labour of Love IV’

This week’s new releases include a trio of expanded 2CD reissues from the Buzzcocks — ‘Another Music in a Different Kitchen,’ ‘Love Bites,’ ‘A Different Kind of Tension’ — plus ‘Live in London’ from The Pretenders and UB40’s latest covers album, ‘Labour of Love IV.’

Video: Mudkids' Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl song samples Tones on Tail's 'Go!'

Video: Mudkids’ Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl song samples Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and while we here at Slicing Up Eyeballs World HQ don’t really have a dog in this fight, a reader pointed us to this Indianapolis Colts fan anthem — “Do It Again (Go Colts ’10)” by the Mudkids — which samples the fuzzed-out bassline from Tones on Tail’s classic “Go.”

Peter Hook debuts unfinished Joy Division song, New Order outtake at FAC251 opening

Peter Hook debuts unfinished Joy Division song, New Order outtake at FAC251 opening

Peter Hook last night christened his new Manchester club FAC251 — housed in the former headquarters of Factory Records — with members of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays helping perform a career-spanning set that included the live debuts of an unfinished Joy Division song and a New Order outtake.

Faith No More adds 2 Coachella warm-up shows at San Francisco's Warfield

Faith No More adds 2 Coachella warm-up shows at San Francisco’s Warfield

The reunited Faith No More is now set to make its American debut with a pair of hometown concerts at San Francisco’s historic Warfield Theatre in the days leading up to the band’s much-anticipated appearance at April’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

3 more Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums to be reissued with 5.1 mixes, bonus tracks

3 more Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums to be reissued with 5.1 mixes, bonus tracks

The second set of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums — 1988’s Tender Prey, 1990’s The Good Son and 1992’s Henry’s Dream— will be reissued in deluxe CD/DVD sets with new 5.1 surround sound mixes next month, Mute Records announced this week.

a-ha adds 2nd Los Angeles concert to brief U.S. leg of 'Ending on a High Note' tour

a-ha adds 2nd Los Angeles concert to brief U.S. leg of ‘Ending on a High Note’ tour

Norwegian pop trio a-ha today added a second Los Angeles concert — and only the fourth overall in the U.S. — to its worldwide “Ending on a High Note” farewell tour.

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode's 1988 MTV Music Video Award home movies

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode’s 1988 MTV Music Video Award home movies

The LA Weekly yesterday pointed out a trio of Depeche Mode home videos just uploaded to YouTube that capture the synthpop giants before, during and after their appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on the Universal Studios lot in Hollywood on Sept. 9, 1988.

Help compile XTC's 'Bric-a-Brac Breakfast,' sequel to 1990's 'Rag & Bone Buffet'

Help compile XTC’s ‘Bric-a-Brac Breakfast,’ sequel to 1990’s ‘Rag & Bone Buffet’

Andy Partridge is asking fans what he should include on Bric-a-Brac Breakfast, a forthcoming companion to XTC’s 1990 odds-and-sods collection Rag & Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts & Leftovers, which itself is being prepped for a reissue this year on the bandleader’s Ape House Records.

Video: Shane MacGowan enlists Nick Cave, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde for Haiti single

Video: Shane MacGowan enlists Nick Cave, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde for Haiti single

In some ways it’s the antidote to the schmaltzy, celeb-soaked remakes of “We Are the World” and R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts”: a new Haiti benefit single recorded by iconic punk and post-figures such as The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave, Mick Jones of The Clash, the Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders and Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie.

Bad Lieutenant, Bernard Sumner's New Order spinoff, announces five U.K dates in March

Bad Lieutenant, Bernard Sumner’s New Order spinoff, announces five U.K dates in March

While U.S. fans await word of Bad Lieutenant’s stateside debut — following last fall’s aborted showcase concerts in New York and Chicago — Bernard Sumner’s New Order spinoff on Wednesday announced five new live dates in the U.K. next month.

Perry Farrell: Jane's Addiction's 'Gift' film coming out on DVD for first time this year

Perry Farrell: Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Gift’ film coming out on DVD for first time this year

The long-out-of-print Jane’s Addiction film “Gift” — a semi-autobiographical, drug-and-music filled feature created by frontman Perry Farrell and then-girlfriend Casey Niccoli — will receive its first-ever DVD release this year, Farrell announced via Twitter tonight.

The Specials add Los Angeles, Toronto dates to short April tour of North America

The Specials add Los Angeles, Toronto dates to short April tour of North America

Reunited ska legends The Specials have filled out their short trip to North America this April, adding, as promised, two more concerts — April 15 in Los Angeles and April 19 in Toronto — to the band’s brief itinerary.