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Video: Johnny Marr, Alison Moyet, Nile Rodgers play The Smiths at Montreux Jazz

Video: Johnny Marr, Alison Moyet, Nile Rodgers play The Smiths at Montreux Jazz

Last night at the famed Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, producers and musicians Nile Rodgers and Mark Ronson enlisted Johnny Marr and Alison Moyet, who joined the Rodgers-led Chic on stage to perform Ronson’s arrangement of The Smiths’ “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before.”

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult map out 25th anniversary tour of U.S. this fall

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult map out 25th anniversary tour of U.S. this fall

Wax Trax!-era industrial rockers My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult will embark on a seven-week tour of the U.K. this fall to mark their 25th anniversary, a trek dubbed Back From Beyond! that also will find the group performing tracks off the upcoming debut from Bomb Gang Girlz, Thrill Kill Kult’s long-running group of backing singers.

INXS' 'Kick' to receive expanded 3CD/1DVD 25th anniversary reissue with 'unheard tracks'

INXS’ ‘Kick’ to receive expanded 3CD/1DVD 25th anniversary reissue with ‘unheard tracks’

INXS’ 1987 album ‘Kick’ sold 6 million copies and spawned four Top 10 singles in the U.S., turning the Aussie rockers into global superstars. Now, 25 years later, the band this fall will release an expanded edition of the album featuring three CDs and a DVD packed with remixes, demos, “unheard tracks” and a documentary.

Video: Soulsavers featuring Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan, 'Take Me Back Home'

Video: Soulsavers featuring Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, ‘Take Me Back Home’

Soulsavers this week released a music video for “Take Me Back Home” off the group’s current album The Light the Dead See, which features Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan on lead vocals. Neither Gahan nor the Soulsavers are in the High 5 Collective-directed clip, which fits the song’s melancholy mood quite well.

Video: The Cure's Robert Smith plays rare solo set at Bilbao BBK Live — plus full webcast

Video: The Cure’s Robert Smith plays rare solo set at Bilbao BBK Live — plus full webcast

The Cure’s set at Spain’s Bilbao BBK Live got off to a rocky start tonight — but was all the more memorable for it. As the band’s crew worked on keyboard problems, Robert Smith took the stage by himself and treated the crowd to a rare solo-acoustic set , performing “Three Imaginary Boys,” “Fire in Cairo” and “Boys Don’t Cry.”

Is Depeche Mode hinting at Alan Wilder's return? Or just teasing fans?

Is Depeche Mode hinting at Alan Wilder’s return? Or just teasing fans?

]A photo posted on Depeche Mode’s Facebook page this morning has fans stirring: It’s a shot of former member Alan Wilder from 1990’s “Policy of Truth” video under a lone couplet from the song (“Never again/Is what you swore”). Is DM hinting that Wilder is back in the fold? Or just teasing fans a bit?

Public Image Ltd. to play Austin's FunFunFun Fest in November — 1st U.S. date in 2 years

Public Image Ltd. to play Austin’s FunFunFun Fest in November — 1st U.S. date in 2 years

John Lydon will bring his reconstituted Public Image Ltd. back to the U.S. for its first North American performance in two years this November when the band co-headlines the FunFunFun Fest in Austin, Texas — with more North American dates promised to be announced “as soon as we can.”