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Video: New Order debuts new song ‘Plastic’ at North American tour opener in Chicago

Video: New Order debuts new song ‘Plastic’ at North American tour opener in Chicago

When New Order toured South America earlier this year, the band debuted “Singularity,” its first new track since the Waiting for the Sirens’ Call sessions. Earlier tonight, Bernard Sumner and Co. opened a U.S. tour with another premiere, performing the new song “Plastic” for the first time ever.

Rhino’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough: The ’80s’ Spotify playlist — updated 7/1/14

Rhino’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough: The ’80s’ Spotify playlist — updated 7/1/14

Back in 2011, the good folks at Rhino Records requested we take a stab at curating their ‘Just Can’t Get Enough: The ’80s’ playlist on Spotify — and now that the label’s launched its own app within Spotify, we’ve been asked to freshen it up occasionally with 25 new tracks representing the classic ’80s alternative era.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 159, aired 7/1/14

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 159, aired 7/1/14

Exploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. If you caught this week’s episode, pop over to the Strangeways message board to leave requests for future shows.

Win tickets to see The Psychedelic Furs and The Lemonheads in Anaheim, Calif.

Win tickets to see The Psychedelic Furs and The Lemonheads in Anaheim, Calif.

As we reported last week, The Psychedelic Furs are touring the western U.S. this fall with The Lemonheads, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to one of those shows: the bands’ Nov. 13 concert at the House of Blues in Anaheim, Calif.

The Call featuring BRMC’s Robert Levon Been release live CD, DVD from reunion concert

The Call featuring BRMC’s Robert Levon Been release live CD, DVD from reunion concert

More than a year ago, the surviving members of The Call reunited with for a pair of concerts in California with Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club filling in for his late father Michael Been, and while a full tour never came to pass, the band has now released a CD and DVD.

New releases: The The, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, X, Steve Wynn, Cabaret Voltaire

New releases: The The, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, X, Steve Wynn, Cabaret Voltaire

This week’s new releases include the 30th anniversary vinyl reissue of The The’s ‘Soul Mining,’ a second brand-new album from Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, a reissue of X’s ‘More Fun in the New World,’ a collection from Steve Wynn called ‘Sketches in Spain,’ a Blow Monkeys reissue and a Cabaret Voltaire best-of.

The Jesus and Mary Chain confirm festival appearances in France, Poland

The Jesus and Mary Chain confirm festival appearances in France, Poland

The Jesus and Mary Chain today confirmed two European festival appearances this summer and fall — in Paris and Katowice, Poland — ahead of the band’s much-anticipated performances of 1985 debut Psychocandy at five U.K. dates in November.

Contest: Win The The’s ‘Soul Mining’ deluxe 2LP 180-gram vinyl box set

Contest: Win The The’s ‘Soul Mining’ deluxe 2LP 180-gram vinyl box set

Next week, the classic 1983 debut album from The The will receive a slightly belated 30th anniversary reissue in the form of a deluxe 2LP set that will include the newly remastered album on one 180-gram vinyl platter and six remixes and B-sides on the other.

Midge Ure releasing new album, touring with Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, Howard Jones

Midge Ure releasing new album, touring with Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, Howard Jones

Midge Ure returns this August with his first new solo album in more than a decade, a 10-song set called Fragile that he’ll promote by joining the 13-date Retro Futura Tour later this summer alongside Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, Howard Jones, China Crisis and Katrina of Katrina & The Waves.

The Psychedelic Furs announce 18-date fall North American tour with the Lemonheads

The Psychedelic Furs announce 18-date fall North American tour with the Lemonheads

The hard-touring Psychedelic Furs will return to the road this fall, today announcing their second tour in two years with The Lemonheads as special guests. This fall’s trek runs 18 shows, plus one standalone Furs date, from late October through mid-November, hitting the West Coast of the U.S. and select western states.

Dave Wakeling launches campaign to fund first new English Beat album in 32 years

Dave Wakeling launches campaign to fund first new English Beat album in 32 years

After years of touring under the English Beat banner, frontman Dave Wakeling now is turning his attention to recording brand-new music, launching a PledgeMusic campaign to help crowdfund a new record that would be the Beat’s first since 1982’s Special Beat Service.

Watch The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, half of New Order jam acoustic in a church

Watch The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, half of New Order jam acoustic in a church

The U.K.’s Barnaby Festival wrapped up Sunday night with The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess and friends playing in a church, concluding with Burgess bringing Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert onstage to perform nearly-unplugged versions of “Love Vigilantes,” “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and “World in Motion.”

New releases: Cabaret Voltaire, Peter Gabriel, Slint, The Gun Club

New releases: Cabaret Voltaire, Peter Gabriel, Slint, The Gun Club

This week’s new release include a brand-new Cabaret Voltaire compilation that spans both periods of the band (‘#7885: Electropunk to Technopop 1978-1985’), plus a new live concert film from Peter Gabriel, a reissue of Slint’s ‘Spiderland’ with bonus documentary, and two live sets from The Gun Club.