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‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Depeche Mode meets MTV contest winner in London — 1991

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Depeche Mode meets MTV contest winner in London — 1991

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we travel back to June 23, 1991, for an episode built around MTV’s “120 Minutes Naked Power Grab” contest, which offered one lucky viewer the chance to be “president” of Mute Records for a week. Here’s 12 minutes of footage from the episode featuring the winner and DM.

Video: New Order plays 'Love Vigilantes,' 'Regret' on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'

Video: New Order plays ‘Love Vigilantes,’ ‘Regret’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’

New Order is in the midst of its second short run of U.S. dates this year, and, just as Bernard Sumner did this past spring when they stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the band using the opportunity this time to once again perform on network television. This time the group dropped in on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

Vintage Video: Public Image Ltd. live at 'Rockpalast' 1983 — watch full hour-long set

Vintage Video: Public Image Ltd. live at ‘Rockpalast’ 1983 — watch full hour-long set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we bring you the full hour-long performance by Public Image Ltd. on the West German TV show “Rockpalast” in 1983, a 13-song set that recently was released on both CD and DVD — but the folks at the RockpalastOfficial YouTube channel put it online.

Pixies set Los Angeles, New York club runs, debut second video for 'Bagboy'

Pixies set Los Angeles, New York club runs, debut second video for ‘Bagboy’

The Pixies will debut their new Kim Deal-less lineup with four Los Angeles concerts prior to their appearance at Riot Fest Chicago this September, to be followed by four more small club shows in New York City before the band embarks on a previously announced European tour.

Tears For Fears' 'The Hurting' getting expanded reissue, 4-disc box set in October?

Tears For Fears’ ‘The Hurting’ getting expanded reissue, 4-disc box set in October?

On March 7 of this year — 30 years to the day after the release of The Hurting — Tears For Fears launched a new website bearing that album’s cover photo and an inscription that led some to speculate a long-overdue expanded reissue of that record finally would be released.

Bill Leeb proposes 'Monsters of Industrial' tour pairing Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly

Bill Leeb proposes ‘Monsters of Industrial’ tour pairing Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly

Electro-industrial cousins Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly both released brand-new studio albums this year, and Bill Leeb — who launched FLA after leaving Skinny Puppy in 1985 — has a pretty great idea: a North American “Monsters of Industrial” tour featuring both acts.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 128, aired 7/23/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 128, aired 7/23/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio celebrated the Best of 1984, with music from The Alarm, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Husker Du, OMD, Hoodoo Gurus, U2, The Replacements, Echo & The Bunnymen, Midnight Oil, Lloyd Cole and more.