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.

The band — Sumner, late-era New Order guitarist Phil Cunningham and singer-guitarist Jake Evans, plus, in its touring incarnation, New Order drummer Stephen Morris and bassist Tom Chapman — will play San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on April 16, Coachella on April 17, Chicago’s Park West on April 19 and New York’s Webster Hall on April 21.

Monday, Sumner issued a statement saying, “We are really looking forward to playing our songs live for our fans in the U.S. It’s been some quite time since I have played in America, and we are all very excited about the prospect.” As for what fans can expect, Sumner added, “The bulk of the set will be Bad Lieutenant songs, but we’ll also play some songs from my past, some New Order songs, some Joy Division, and a few other surprises.”

The New York and Chicago dates are rescheduled from November, when Bad Lieutenant canceled its short debut tour of the U.S. — which also was to include two dates opening for the Pixies in New York and Chicago — over immigration issues. At the time, Sumner blamed the cancellations on “more stringent immigration laws and changing visa parameters (that) resulted in an inability to process the necessary paperwork.”

It’s unclear whether this will be the extent of Bad Lieutenant’s U.S. tour; the October announcement of the original New York and Chicago dates reported that “a major North American tour is being planned for 2010″ in support of the band’s debut album, Never Cry Another Tear. The band also just announced a five-date U.K. tour in March.

See Bad Lieutenant tour dates after the jump…

Fret jockeys may get a kick out of this: In this clip, Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant has attached a Flip Mino HD camera to the neck 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.  Here’s another clip of Sergeant doing the guitar cam on Crocodiles opening track “Going Up.” (The Bunnymen, by the way, have their own branded edition of the Flip Mino.)

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, reissues and/or box sets.

ARTIST: Buzzcocks
RELEASES: Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites, A Different Kind of Tension
BACKSTORY: The expanded 2CD reissues of the Buzzcocks’ first three albums that were released in the U.K. in 2008 make a belated American appearance this week, featuring more than 30 previously unreleased cuts.
BUY IT: Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites, A Different Kind of Tension via Amazon.com

ARTIST: The Pretenders
RELEASE: Live in London
BACKSTORY: This 20-track CD, 24-track DVD was recorded last year in London, and features Chrissie Hynde and Co. running through such classics as “Back on the Chain Gang,” “Kid,” “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” “I’ll Stand By You,” “Middle of the Road” and “Brass in Pocket.” The concert film also is being released in a Blu-ray edition.
BUY IT: Live in London via Amazon.com

ARTIST: UB40
RELEASE: Labour of Love IV
BACKSTORY: The long-running British reggae act this week releases the fourth installment in its series of hit-generating covers albums, which also is the group’s record with new lead singer Duncan Campbell, brother of the departed Ali Campbell. The new disc features covers of Smokey Robinson, Delroy Wilson and Sam Cooke.
BUY IT: Labour of Love IV via Amazon.com

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!”

The 1984 single has been seemingly everywhere lately, most recently used in a Lincoln-Mercury TV commercial. As the band’s Daniel Ash told Slicing Up Eyeballs last summer: “Yeah, ‘Go!’ has kept me alive, man, for years. … I’m thrilled that stuff is out there.” Wonder if he’s getting paid for this one, though.

Bass maestro 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, plus tracks by Monaco and Freebass.

Friday night’s one-off band — a modified version of Freebass billed as “Peter Hook’s The Light” — featured Hook backed by Roses/Freebass/Primal Scream bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield, former Mondays backing vocalist Rowetta, drug smuggler/Freebass guest vocalist Howard Marks and Haven/Freebass singer Gary Briggs.

According to the NME, the gig sold out in 10 minutes, and the club was mobbed by ticket scalpers and fans trying to get in to the show. Hook — who took the stage wearing a T-shirt bearing the Tony Wilson quote, “We made history, not money” — told the NME: ”I was sat in the hotel room across the road before looking out of the window and it was mad. I was like, ‘Fucking hell, it’s like 1988 and The Haçienda all over again.’”

Hook’s ad hoc band opened the night with a pair of songs — “Dark Starr” and “You Don’t Know…” — from his long-in-the-works Freebass project with Mani and The Smiths’ Andy Rourke. The group also performed “What Do You Want From Me” and “Shine” by Hooky’s  ’90s side project Monaco (what, nothing by Revenge?) and New Order’s “Ceremony,” “Dreams Never End” and “Blue Monday” — as well as “Sister + Brother,” an unreleased outtake from the band’s final CD, 2005’s Waiting for the Sirens’ Call.

Hook’s group also ran through a number of Joy Division songs, including “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Transmission” and “Atmosphere.” Most notable, however, was the debut of an unfinished 1978 track called “Pictures” (also known as “Pictures In My Mind”).

Hook told the NME he recently completed the Joy Division song:

“It went in an instant. Because its so punky, it’s on the cusp of Warsaw and Joy Division and it sort of showed that beautiful madness and Ian Curtis’ lyrics gave it that depth, and the music just developed around his focus really and that’s why I really liked it.”

Attendees of last night’s show were given a free CD featuring the Hook track “Tokyo Joe” and a video of the song, plus recent photos of FAC251 by Kevin Cummins. The blog Everything Starts With an A… has the cover art and a rip of the giveaway disc here.

See Peter Hook’s FAC251 setlist and live video after the jump…

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.

Faith No More — featuring Mike Bordin, Roddy Bottum, Billy Gould, (Chuck Mosley replacement) Mike Patton and Jon Hudson, one of the late-’90s fill-ins for Jim Martin — are scheduled to headline the Warfield on April 13 and 14; the band’s website reports the second date already is sold out, although Ticketmaster shows both going on sale at 10 a.m. PST Sunday. (Via Consequence of Sound)

The band then is slated to play April 17 at Coachella, which also will feature sets by high-profile reunions from The Specials and Public Image Ltd. Like FNM, the Specials also have announced other dates around the festival; it’s unclear whether John Lydon’s PiL, which toured the UK in December for the first time in 17 years, will do the same.

Faith No More reunited last year after 11 years, declaring, on its website, “time has afforded us enough distance to look back on our years together through a clearer lens and made us realize that through all the hard work, the music still sounds good, and we are beginning to appreciate the fact that we might have actually done something right.”

The band played a number of European and South American festivals and concerts last year (see live video below), and this month ventures to Australia and New Zealand before returning stateside for its Warfield and Coachella dates.

See full Faith No More tour dates and live video after the jump…

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, bonus tracks and videos next month, Mute Records announced this week.

Due out March 29, the collector’s editions each include the original album digitally remastered on CD, plus a DVD featuring the new 5.1 mix, b-sides from each album’s singles, videos and an installment of “Do You Love Me Like I Love You,” a specially commissioned film by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (see tracklists and film clips below).

The new editions follow last year’s reissues of the band’s first four albums: From Her to Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead, Kicking Against the Pricks and Your Funeral… My Trial. Ultimately, Mute plans to reissue all of the Bad Seeds’ current records, and a deluxe box eventually will be created to hold all 14 reissues.

See tracklists and film clips from Nick Cave’s reissues after the jump…

Norwegian pop trio a-ha today added a second Los Angeles concert — and only the fourth overall in the U.S. — to its worldwide “Ending on a High Note” farewell tour. The presale for the May 16 show at Club Nokia in L.A. already has begun on a-ha’s website; the rest of the tickets go on sale 10 a.m. PST Saturday via Ticketmaster. The band is playing one other date in L.A. and two in New York — all three of which sold out immediately — marking just the second time it has performed in the U.S. since 1986.

See a-ha’s U.S. tour dates after the jump…

Here’s a real gem: The LA Weekly yesterday pointed out a trio of Depeche Mode home videos just uploaded to YouTube that capture the synthpop giants before, during and after their appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on the Universal Studios lot in Hollywood on Sept. 9, 1988.

Filmed by bandmember Alan Wilder and road manager Daryl Bamonte, the three clips show DM leaving their hotel (check out the trio of fans encamped across the street), jamming on a hilarious cover of Europe’s ‘The Final Countdown” in their trailer, playing parking-lot cricket with brooms, being interviewed by MTV’s Kurt Loder and watching, from the audience, performances by the Fat Boys with Chubby Checker (!?!) and Guns N’ Roses (who prompt Dave Gahan to engage in some choice air-guitaring and tongue wagging).

Unfortunately, the video doesn’t actually show the band’s performance of “Strangelove,” but, still, there are plenty of great, candid moments. You can watch all three clips strung together in the playlist above, or see them individually at Slicing Up Video.

Andy Partridge is asking fans what he should include on Bric-a-Brac Breakfast, a forthcoming companion to XTC’s 1990 odds-and-sods collection Rag & Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts & Leftovers, which itself is being prepped for a reissue this year on the bandleader’s Ape House Records.

Writing on Ape’s blog, Partridge says XTC is planning to reissue the 24-track Rag & Bone Buffet — which collected b-sides, BBC sessions and tracks by side projects The Three Wise Men and The Colonel — with “lots of new notes, photos and a sparkling remaster job.” Furthermore, “we also think there is a sister volume to be found. Yes, another herd of b-sides, extra tracks or odious oddities that found themselves escaped into the wider world and we’d like your help in rounding them up.”

To that end, Partridge is asking fans what “you would like brought back from the grave.” To be considered, the songs must not appear on Rag & Bone Buffet or be found “sitting snug on a regular album somewhere.” A few tracks already have been selected, including “Spiral” and “Say It” (the two new tracks included on 2005’s Apple Box), as well as “Where Did the Ordinary People Go?” (a digital-only single also released in 2005). Partridge also asks, “The 12-inch remix of ‘King for a Day,’ anyone?”

Submit your suggestions for Bric-a-Brac Breakfast in this thread on Ape’s forums.