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Bad Lieutenant to play Coachella, concerts in San Francisco, New York, Chicago in April

Bad Lieutenant to play Coachella, concerts in San Francisco, New York, Chicago in April

Bad Lieutenant, the new band from New Order’s Bernard Sumner, will make its belated U.S. debut this April with an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and club dates in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the group announced Monday.

Guitar cam: Watch Echo & The Bunnymen's Will Sergeant play 'Seven Seas'

Guitar cam: Watch Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant play ‘Seven Seas’

In this clip, Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant has attached a Flip Mino HD camera to the necks of his 12-string Vox Teardrop while playing the band’s 1984 single “Seven Seas” in what appears to be an Ian McCulloch-less soundcheck or rehearsal.

New releases: Buzzcocks reissues, Pretenders 'Live in London,' UB40's 'Labour of Love IV'

New releases: Buzzcocks reissues, Pretenders ‘Live in London,’ UB40’s ‘Labour of Love IV’

This week’s new releases include a trio of expanded 2CD reissues from the Buzzcocks — ‘Another Music in a Different Kitchen,’ ‘Love Bites,’ ‘A Different Kind of Tension’ — plus ‘Live in London’ from The Pretenders and UB40’s latest covers album, ‘Labour of Love IV.’

Video: Mudkids' Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl song samples Tones on Tail's 'Go!'

Video: Mudkids’ Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl song samples Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and while we here at Slicing Up Eyeballs World HQ don’t really have a dog in this fight, a reader pointed us to this Indianapolis Colts fan anthem — “Do It Again (Go Colts ’10)” by the Mudkids — which samples the fuzzed-out bassline from Tones on Tail’s classic “Go.”

Peter Hook debuts unfinished Joy Division song, New Order outtake at FAC251 opening

Peter Hook debuts unfinished Joy Division song, New Order outtake at FAC251 opening

Peter Hook last night christened his new Manchester club FAC251 — housed in the former headquarters of Factory Records — with members of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays helping perform a career-spanning set that included the live debuts of an unfinished Joy Division song and a New Order outtake.

Faith No More adds 2 Coachella warm-up shows at San Francisco's Warfield

Faith No More adds 2 Coachella warm-up shows at San Francisco’s Warfield

The reunited Faith No More is now set to make its American debut with a pair of hometown concerts at San Francisco’s historic Warfield Theatre in the days leading up to the band’s much-anticipated appearance at April’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

3 more Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums to be reissued with 5.1 mixes, bonus tracks

3 more Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums to be reissued with 5.1 mixes, bonus tracks

The second set of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums — 1988’s Tender Prey, 1990’s The Good Son and 1992’s Henry’s Dream— will be reissued in deluxe CD/DVD sets with new 5.1 surround sound mixes next month, Mute Records announced this week.