Greeting the crowd with ‘Hello Glasto… fancy seeing me here,’ Morrissey took to the main stage at Glastonbury tonight to perform a 16-song set that mixed songs old and brand-new, with a generous heaping of classics from The Smiths thrown in.

No stranger to dropping unexpected covers into his sets, Elvis Costello currently is in the midst of his revived ‘Spinning Songbook’ tour and is treating fans at many of the trek’s stops to a show-stopping blast through Prince’s 1984 epic ‘Purple Rain.’

Sure, it was no Sugar reunion, but it was nice to see Bob Mould and The Roots jam through ‘Copper Blue’ stand-out ‘If I Can’t Change Your Mind’ on last night’s ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ — even if it was only a minute long.

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore dropped by ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ last night to play a couple songs off his new solo album ‘Demolished Thoughts.’ Check out ‘Circulation’ and the web-only ‘Blood Never Lies.’

To preview its upcoming expanded reissue of 1986’s ‘Wonderland,’ Erasure has posted a live video of the duo performing ‘My Heart… So Blue’ from the set’s bonus DVD, which features a previously unreleased concert filmed in Sweden in 1986.

With the film opening Friday, Weezer today debuted a video for its (quite faithful) cover of The Cars’ 1984 hit ‘You Might Think,’ which appears on the soundtrack to the Disney/Pixar soon-to-be-smash ‘Cars 2.’

The latest episode of DirecTV’s performance and Q&A show ‘Guitar Center Sessions’ spotlights West Coast punk survivors Bad Religion — and you can you can preview the installment with video of the band performing ‘Wrong Way Kids’ off last year’s ‘The Dissent of Man’ and the title track to 1992’s ‘Generator.’

The new video for ‘I Spit Roses’ by director Justin Coloma finds Peter Murphy — who’s done time as and-screen vampire — made up like some sort of pirate as he makes his way through the nautically themed story.

Last March while in Austin, Texas, for the South By Southwest music festival, former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins popped into Big Orange Recording to knock out a five-song live session for Daytrotter — which was posted Monday and is available as a free download.

Indie buzz band Surfer Blood covers the Pixies classic “Gigantic” in this week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover series, in which bands drop in on the site’s Chicago offices and pick a song off a predetermined list to cover live in a very small room.

Thirty years ago today, 2 Tone ska kings The Specials released their landmark single ‘Ghost Town,’ a haunting soundtrack to England’s early-’80s economic despair and civil unrest. Check out several video version of the unforgettable U.K. No. 1 hit.

A treasure trove of early ’80s concert footage shot at New Order’s legendary club FAC51 The Hacienda soon will make its way online thanks to a deal by Ikon — Factory Records’ video spinoff — to provide its remaining archive of performances to Peter Hook’s site fac51thehacienda.com.

Eight months after the release of ‘Olympia,’ occasional Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry is embarking on a mammoth tour this summer and fall that will take him to Israel and all across the U.K. and Europe — plus his first U.S. dates since 2003.