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Watch Al Jourgensen moonlight as a TV weatherman ahead of new Ministry tour, live album

Watch Al Jourgensen moonlight as a TV weatherman ahead of new Ministry tour, live album

Now that he’s out of rehab, Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen’s getting back to the business of being Al Jourgensen, and that means putting out a live album. getting the band back for a new tour and, last but not least, trying his hand at being a TV weatherman.

New releases: The Clash, Ministry, Kim Gordon, Boomtown Rats, Juliana Hatfield

New releases: The Clash, Ministry, Kim Gordon, Boomtown Rats, Juliana Hatfield

This week’s new releases include two different box sets and a new best-of from The Clash, plus Ministry’s farewell album, new music from Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Juliana Hatfield of Blake Babies, a new Boomtown Rats best-of and a compilation of Rank & File’s first two albums.

New releases: The Suburbs, Ministry, Tears For Fears, The Godfathers, Bad Manners

New releases: The Suburbs, Ministry, Tears For Fears, The Godfathers, Bad Manners

This week’s new releases include the first Suburbs album in 27 years, the U.S. release of Ministry’s new live album, a new best-of from Tears For Fears, a super-limited pressing of The Godfathers’ reunion album ‘Jukebox Fury’ on red vinyl, and a collection of rarities from ska act Bad Manners.

Vintage Video: Ministry at First Avenue, 1983 — watch full 'With Sympathy'-era set

Vintage Video: Ministry at First Avenue, 1983 — watch full ‘With Sympathy’-era set

For this week’s this installment of Vintage Video, we travel back 30 years to a kinder, gentler time, an era before Al Jourgensen discovered speed metal and riddled his face with tattoos and piercings, and was, instead, simply content to rock a sharp hat, sing in a faux British accent and craft some high-grade early-’80s synthpop.

Al Jourgensen chronicles "Caddyshack"-like campaign against "thug gang" of raccoons

Al Jourgensen chronicles “Caddyshack”-like campaign against “thug gang” of raccoons

On Friday, Ministry debuted the video for new single “PermaWar,” and while bandleader Al Jourgensen gave the clip a cursory plug on his recently launched Facebook page, he was preoccupied with something far more pressing: a “Caddyshack”-like battle against a “thug gang of asshole raccoons.”

Video: Ministry, 'PermaWar' — first single off farewell album 'From Beer to Eternity'

Video: Ministry, ‘PermaWar’ — first single off farewell album ‘From Beer to Eternity’

Ministry today debuted the music video for “PermaWar,” the first single off the industrial-metal act’s forthcoming album From Beer to Eternity — which Al Jourgensen has announced will be the band’s last. The album is due out Sept. 10, and will also be available in a “mini-coffin” box set.

New releases: Deacon Blue vinyl reissues, Ministry live DVD, 'Acid Rain' box set

New releases: Deacon Blue vinyl reissues, Ministry live DVD, ‘Acid Rain’ box set

This week’s new releases include 180-gram audiophile vinyl reissues of three albums from Scottish pop group Deacon Blue, the U.K. DVD version of MInistry’s new live set, and a five-disc box set called ‘Acid Rain: Definitive Original Acid & Deep House 1985-1991.’