Buzzcocks Announce U.S. Tour: Watch Two Classic Performances

It's been a good year for Buzzcocks fans: Not only has the influential punk band reissued their classic first three albums, but today also brings news that they'll embark on a 22-date North American tour starting this May. On the trek, Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle and company will perform their first two albums, Another Music In a Different Kitchen and Love Bites, in their entirety, along with other tracks from their catalog.

To celebrate this announcement, this week's Flashback rewinds to a pair of great Buzzcocks performances from decades ago. Up top, watch the band fire on all cylinders on Another Music closer "Moving From the Pulsebeat" and below, check out "Autonomy" and Buzzcocks' 2010 tour dates.

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May 11 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
May 12 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
May 13 - New York, NY @ The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
May 14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
May 15 - Farmingdale, NY @ Crazy Donkey
May 17 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
May 18 - Montreal, QC @ Le National
May 19 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House
May 21 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
May 22 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
May 23 - Chicago, IL @ Double Door
May 24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Café
May 26 - Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid Cabaret
May 28 - Edmonton, AB @ New City Compound
May 29 - Calgary, AB @ Republik
May 31 - Vancouver, BC @ Venue
June 1 - Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan
June 2 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
June 4 - Oakland, CA @ Uptown
June 5 - Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia at L.A. Live
June 6 - Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
June 7 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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