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Billy Bragg to celebrate Woody Guthrie with 'Mermaid Avenue' sets on U.S. summer tour

Billy Bragg to celebrate Woody Guthrie with ‘Mermaid Avenue’ sets on U.S. summer tour

Billy Bragg this week announced an 11-date U.S. tour this summer — dubbed ‘The Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me Tour’ — that’ll find the troubadour performing a set of Woody Guthrie songs from his soon-to-be-three ‘Mermaid Avenue’ collaborations with Wilco and a second set of his own songs each night.

Video: Ultravox offers behind-the-scenes look at recording of 'Brilliant' reunion album

Video: Ultravox offers behind-the-scenes look at recording of ‘Brilliant’ reunion album

The ’80s-era lineup of Ultravox — Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann — last week announced plans to release ‘Brilliant,’ their first new studio album together in 28 years, and now are offering fans the first taste of the project via a two-and-a-half-minute behind-the-scenes video of the band in the studio.

The Cult announces 20-date North American tour with Against Me!, The Icarus Line

The Cult announces 20-date North American tour with Against Me!, The Icarus Line

Three days after releasing ‘Choice of Weapon’ — their first album in five years — next month, The Cult will embark on a 20-date North American tour, with punk band Against Me! and hard rockers The Icarus Line supporting most dates of what frontman Ian Astbury is promising will be ‘a very intense, high-energy tour.’

Video: Trailer for Duran Duran's 'A Diamond in the Mind' — live DVD, CD due this summer

Video: Trailer for Duran Duran’s ‘A Diamond in the Mind’ — live DVD, CD due this summer

With the their comeback extending into a second summer of touring, the revived Duran Duran has announced plans to release a new live DVD and CD called ‘A Diamond in the Mind,’ recorded last December at a tour stop in Manchester, England. No other details of the project, but you can check out the trailer here.

Stream: Peter Gabriel, 'Solsbury Hill' — from forthcoming 2CD 'Live Blood' concert album

Stream: Peter Gabriel, ‘Solsbury Hill’ — from forthcoming 2CD ‘Live Blood’ concert album

Peter Gabriel this month will release a 2CD concert album called ‘Live Blood’ recorded March 23, 2011, at London’s Hammersmith Apollo — the same performance that yielded last year’s ‘New Blood: Live in London’ DVD — and today he’s teasing the release by streaming this live, orchestral version of ‘Solsbury Hill.’

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 66, first aired 4/3/12

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show featured new and previously unreleased music from fIREHOSE, John Doe and Exene Cervenka, and Dreams So Real, plus old favorites by The Specials, Book of Love, The Bolshoi, Camouflage, The Replacements, Ciccone Youth and The Sugarcubes.