It’s indie-rock icon Kim Gordon’s birthday today — she’s 58 — so we thought we’d mark the occasion by turning the clocks back to 1988 for this clip of Sonic Youth absolutely ripping through ‘Daydream Nation’ highlight ‘Cross the Breeze.’

Couple weeks ago, Jane’s Addiction dropped the first track off its forthcoming album ‘The Great Escape Artist,’ and now the band has released a behind-the-scenes video of the recording sessions that yielded “End to the Lies.”

For fans who’ll be in the Los Angeles area this weekend, this year’s installment of the Smiths/Morrissey Convention — set for Sunday at The Music Box in Hollywood — features an added attraction: an actual member of The Smiths.

Thanks to a well-timed tweet from Chain of Flowers, we were tipped to this mesmerizing cover of The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’ by Los Angeles dream-pop duo Snow & Voices just in time to squeeze it onto the playlist for this week’s radio show. And now you can download the MP3.

Next month, Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook will release ‘Live in New York City,’ a DVD chronicling a 2006 concert he performed in the Big Apple backed by The Fluffers.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Thurston Moore, The Dead Milkmen and Robyn Hitchcock, plus live INXS and R.E.M., as well as Shop Assistants, Bash & Pop, Dave Gahan and Revenge.

Punk icon Poly Styrene — who fronted the late-’70s group X-Ray Spex, still best known for its anthem ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours!’ — succumbed to cancer Monday night on the eve of her new record’s U.S. release. She was 53.