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Video: Rain Parade returns after 25 years for Bobby Sutliff benefit concert in Atlanta

Video: Rain Parade returns after 25 years for Bobby Sutliff benefit concert in Atlanta

Paisley Underground mainstays Rain Parade have reunited after 25 years, performing Saturday night at The Earl in Atlanta during a benefit concert to raise money to help Bobby Sutliff, singer/guitarist/songwriter for ’80s contemporaries The Windbreakers, who was seriously injured in a car accident last summer.

The Week in Rock: Jan. 13-19, 2013

The Week in Rock: Jan. 13-19, 2013

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about OMD, Pylon, The Replacements, Morrissey, Wire, Mudhoney, Camper Van Beethoven, Billy Bragg, The Breeders, Electronic and more.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Paul Westerberg dishes on the ’Mats and ‘All Shook Down’ — 1991

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Paul Westerberg dishes on the ’Mats and ‘All Shook Down’ — 1991

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind — and since The Replacements are back with their first new release since 1990’s ‘All Shook Down’ — we jump back to early ’91 for this clip of bandleader Paul Westerberg talking about that album and its origins as a quasi solo project. Be sure to check out host Dave Kendall’s pun-filled intro.

Stream: Wire, ‘Doubles & Trebles’ — first track off upcoming ‘Change Becomes Us’ LP

Stream: Wire, ‘Doubles & Trebles’ — first track off upcoming ‘Change Becomes Us’ LP

U.K. post-punk legends Wire this week offered up the first taste of their upcoming ‘Changes Becomes Us’ in the form of opening track “Doubles & Trebles,” which is apparently a reworking of a previously unreleased song called “Ally in Exile.” The album is being build as “exploration of unrecorded material originally written in 1979-80.”

Morrissey ‘refused’ new offer to reunite The Smiths at this year’s Coachella fest

Morrissey ‘refused’ new offer to reunite The Smiths at this year’s Coachella fest

You can’t say they’re not persistent: Organizers of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival apparently continue to make offers to land a reunion of The Smiths to headline the annual festival, with Morrissey reporting this week that he has yet again turned down an offer to have the defunct indie giants top the 2013 bill.

The Breeders announce initial ‘Last Splash’ 20th anniversary dates in Europe

The Breeders announce initial ‘Last Splash’ 20th anniversary dates in Europe

The reunited ‘Last Splash’-era lineup of The Breeders — Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson — this week announced initial European dates for its upcoming tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of that album, revealing they’ll play in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Mudhoney marks 25th anniversary with new ‘Vanishing Point’ LP — download first track

Mudhoney marks 25th anniversary with new ‘Vanishing Point’ LP — download first track

This April marks the 25th anniversary of both Mudhoney and its label, Seattle’s Sub Pop Records, and the proto-grunge act will mark the occasion with the release of its ninth studio album, ‘Vanishing Point’ — which you can preview now via a free download of first single “The Only Son of the Widow from Nain.”

Billy Bragg announces ‘Tooth & Nail’ album, U.S. tour — download ‘Handyman Blues’

Billy Bragg announces ‘Tooth & Nail’ album, U.S. tour — download ‘Handyman Blues’

Billy Bragg today announced he’ll release his first new album in five years this in March — the Joe Henry-produced ‘Tooth & Nail,’ which he compares to his ‘Mermaid Avenue records’ with Wilco — and then follow that with an extensive North American tour that’ll keep him on the road until early May.

Peter Hook sets 10-date U.S. book tour for ‘Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division’

Peter Hook sets 10-date U.S. book tour for ‘Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division’

With his music memoir “Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division” due for publication in the United States later this month, bassist Peter Hook has announced a 10-date book tour in late January and early February that will include, at half the stops, an on-stage conversation with noted journalists and authors.

Free MP3: Camper Van Beethoven, ‘Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out’ — off ‘La Costa Perdida’

Free MP3: Camper Van Beethoven, ‘Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out’ — off ‘La Costa Perdida’

It’s still another week before the release of the new album from classic college-rock combo Camper Van Beethoven, but we can now offer a free download of a second track off La Costa Perdida. Below, you can stream and/or download the song “Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out.”

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 105, aired 1/15/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 105, aired 1/15/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured brand-new music from Johny Marr, OMD, New Order, David Bowie, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Thurston Moore’s Chelsea Light Moving and Camer Van Beethoven, plus old favorites from Aztec Camera, XTC, The Repalcements and more.

Premiere: Pylon at Athens PopFest 2005 — watch full hour-long reunion set

Premiere: Pylon at Athens PopFest 2005 — watch full hour-long reunion set

For the second premiere in our series of archival videos from Wuxtry Records in Athens, Ga., we explore a more recent vintage with the debut of this full, hour-long set from the hugely influential Pylon, performed at the fabled 40 Watt Club in the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 2005, during the annual Athens PopFest.

Duran Duran spinoff TV Mania releasing ‘lost’ ’90s album ‘Bored With Prozac and The Internet?’

Duran Duran spinoff TV Mania releasing ‘lost’ ’90s album ‘Bored With Prozac and The Internet?’

A thought-to-be-lost mid-’90s album by Duran Duran keyboardist and co-founder Nick Rhodes and the band’s former guitarist, Warren Cuccurullo, that was recorded under the moniker TV Mania finally will see the light of day this March when it’s released both digitally and in a pair of uber-deluxe vinyl editions.