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Video: Cheeky ad for The Smiths' 'Best...' spoofs comp as suicide soundtrack

Video: Cheeky ad for The Smiths’ ‘Best…’ spoofs comp as suicide soundtrack

The folks over at the U.K. arm of Rhino Records recently discovered this little gem: a clever 1992 advertisement for The Smiths’ 14-track Best… compilation that apparently was shown in British movie theaters.

Vintage Video: The Cure plays BBC 'Rock Around the Clock' concert in 1984

Vintage Video: The Cure plays BBC ‘Rock Around the Clock’ concert in 1984

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we check in with The Cure at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, on Aug. 25, 1984, for an hour-long concert that was produced by the BBC as “Rock Around the Clock ’84.” Watch the entire show except for the never-broadcast closer, “Forever.”

Bob Mould on 'Sound Opinions' radio show this week to talk 'See a Little Light' biography

Bob Mould on ‘Sound Opinions’ radio show this week to talk ‘See a Little Light’ biography

Bob Mould stops by the Chicago-based ‘Sound Opinions’ radio show this week to talk about his just-published autobiography ‘See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody,’ which covers his tenure in Hüsker Dü, Sugar and beyond. The show begins airing Friday on public radio stations across the U.S.

Free MP3: Stephen Brower & The Silent Majority 'reframe' Jesus and Mary Chain's 'Feeling Lucky'

Free MP3: Stephen Brower & The Silent Majority ‘reframe’ Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Feeling Lucky’

Stephen Brower says he’s long been a fan of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Feeling Lucky,’ off 1994’s ‘Stoned & Dethroned,’ ‘but it’s also always felt unfinished, with only 25 words and a long instrumental outro.’ So he ‘reframed’ it as the intro to his own ‘Eyes on Me.’

Butthole Surfers set 12-date tour of western U.S., Canada later this summer

Butthole Surfers set 12-date tour of western U.S., Canada later this summer

Gibby Haynes and his acid-fried compatriots in the Butthole Surfers return to the road later this summer with a near-reunion of the band’s core ’80s lineup that will perform 11 concerts in the western U.S. and Canada before returning home to Austin, Texas, for a tour-ending finale.

EMI exec on new Kate Bush album: 'We've been told to prepare for a November release'

EMI exec on new Kate Bush album: ‘We’ve been told to prepare for a November release’

Rumors have swirled all year that the studio-shy Kate Bush is working on new music and now we have the most concrete evidence yet: Mark Poston, chairman of EMI Music Australia, tells a newspaper Down Under that he’s expecting to release a new Kate Bush album in November.

The Human League sets 'Credo' U.S. release, tour with Men Without Hats, B-52s

The Human League sets ‘Credo’ U.S. release, tour with Men Without Hats, B-52s

The Human League has set a belated U.S. release date next month for its first album in a decade — ‘Credo,’ which arrived in the U.K. this past spring — and has announced a 17-date North American tour this September that will see the act pairing up with Men Without Hats and The B-52s.