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Video: The Wedding Present at SXSW — full KEXP set at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop

Video: The Wedding Present at SXSW — full KEXP set at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop

The Wedding Present is just about finished with its North American ‘Seamonsters’ tour, but you can now watch a full performance from the beginning of the trek, thanks to Seattle radio station KEXP, which filmed this 30-minute set at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop in Austin, Texas, during South By Southwest.

Billy Bragg to celebrate Woody Guthrie with ‘Mermaid Avenue’ sets on U.S. summer tour

Billy Bragg to celebrate Woody Guthrie with ‘Mermaid Avenue’ sets on U.S. summer tour

Billy Bragg this week announced an 11-date U.S. tour this summer — dubbed ‘The Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me Tour’ — that’ll find the troubadour performing a set of Woody Guthrie songs from his soon-to-be-three ‘Mermaid Avenue’ collaborations with Wilco and a second set of his own songs each night.

Video: Ultravox offers behind-the-scenes look at recording of ‘Brilliant’ reunion album

Video: Ultravox offers behind-the-scenes look at recording of ‘Brilliant’ reunion album

The ’80s-era lineup of Ultravox — Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann — last week announced plans to release ‘Brilliant,’ their first new studio album together in 28 years, and now are offering fans the first taste of the project via a two-and-a-half-minute behind-the-scenes video of the band in the studio.

The Cult announces 20-date North American tour with Against Me!, The Icarus Line

The Cult announces 20-date North American tour with Against Me!, The Icarus Line

Three days after releasing ‘Choice of Weapon’ — their first album in five years — next month, The Cult will embark on a 20-date North American tour, with punk band Against Me! and hard rockers The Icarus Line supporting most dates of what frontman Ian Astbury is promising will be ‘a very intense, high-energy tour.’

Video: Trailer for Duran Duran’s ‘A Diamond in the Mind’ — live DVD, CD due this summer

Video: Trailer for Duran Duran’s ‘A Diamond in the Mind’ — live DVD, CD due this summer

With the their comeback extending into a second summer of touring, the revived Duran Duran has announced plans to release a new live DVD and CD called ‘A Diamond in the Mind,’ recorded last December at a tour stop in Manchester, England. No other details of the project, but you can check out the trailer here.

Stream: Peter Gabriel, ‘Solsbury Hill’ — from forthcoming 2CD ‘Live Blood’ concert album

Stream: Peter Gabriel, ‘Solsbury Hill’ — from forthcoming 2CD ‘Live Blood’ concert album

Peter Gabriel this month will release a 2CD concert album called ‘Live Blood’ recorded March 23, 2011, at London’s Hammersmith Apollo — the same performance that yielded last year’s ‘New Blood: Live in London’ DVD — and today he’s teasing the release by streaming this live, orchestral version of ‘Solsbury Hill.’

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 66, first aired 4/3/12

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show featured new and previously unreleased music from fIREHOSE, John Doe and Exene Cervenka, and Dreams So Real, plus old favorites by The Specials, Book of Love, The Bolshoi, Camouflage, The Replacements, Ciccone Youth and The Sugarcubes.

Morrissey adds concerts in California, Arizona — plus first European summer dates

Morrissey adds concerts in California, Arizona — plus first European summer dates

Morrissey will follow his recently announced San Diego concert this spring with two more California shows — in Stockton and Bakersfield — plus a performance in Tucson, Ariz., in what appears to be the beginnings of another U.S. tour — plus the singer has announced a five-date Italian tour and his first European summer festival slot.

John Doe, Exene Cervenka releasing acoustic album, X announces West Coast tour

John Doe, Exene Cervenka releasing acoustic album, X announces West Coast tour

X co-founders John Doe and Exene Cervenka next week will officially release a formerly tour-only CD called ‘Singing and Playing’ that features seven acoustic tracks recorded in 2010 plus a live version of the band’s classic “See How We Are” the duo recorded last year (that track also appears as one of the new studio cuts).

Video: ‘Fad Gadget / Frank Tovey 1956-2002’ — Mute’s tribute on 10th anniversary of death

Video: ‘Fad Gadget / Frank Tovey 1956-2002’ — Mute’s tribute on 10th anniversary of death

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Frank Tovey — aka electronic act Fad Gadget — and his former label, Mute Records, is honoring its famed first signee with a new video tribute, which we’ve posted above. The label writes: ‘We miss him dearly. Play your favourite Fad Gadget or Frank Tovey tune really loud today.’

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (April 2012)

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (April 2012)

By now, you now the drill: New month, new mixtape. So here it is, the latest in our monthly series of Auto Reverse mixtapes — two 45-minute slabs of music to help you ease into April. Stream or download the two sides, crammed, as always, with some vintage ’80s college rock and a handful of new tracks.

Stream: Xiu Xiu covers Erasure’s ‘Always’ for split 7-inch due out on Record Store Day

Stream: Xiu Xiu covers Erasure’s ‘Always’ for split 7-inch due out on Record Store Day

Art-rockers Xiu Xiu are doubling up with tourmates Dirty Beaches for a split 7-inch to be released on Record Store Day — which falls on April 21 this year — and they’ve opted to cover Erasure’s 1994 single ‘Always’ for the release, which you can stream here via Pitchfork.

New releases: Killing Joke’s ‘MMXII,’ plus The Smiths, Morrissey, fIREHOSE, Elvis Costello

New releases: Killing Joke’s ‘MMXII,’ plus The Smiths, Morrissey, fIREHOSE, Elvis Costello

This week’s new releases include ‘MMXII,’ the 15th studio album from Killing Joke, plus a reissue of Morrissey’s 1988 solo debut ‘Viva Hate,’ the new 2CD fIREHOSE anthology ‘lowFLOWs,’ a stripped-down version of Elvis Costello’s ‘Spectacular Spinning Songbook’ box set and U.S. editions of The Smiths’ reissues.