Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry today unveiled a 20-date solo tour of Europe this spring in support of his forthcoming album Ark — his release first in 11 years — and said his previously announced co-headlining tour with Peter Murphy will open in mid-April in South America.

Today, Trent Reznor dug a few gems out of his archives, posting high-def videos of four June 23, 2006, radio performances he taped in Boston with Peter Murphy during Nine Inch Nails’ 2006 With Teeth tour.

[tweetmeme]Peter Murphy has announced plans to produce and direct a new series of live webcasts — dubbed the “Secret Bee Series” — that will feature the singer and rotating bandmembers performing stripped-down versions of “solo classics alongside rarely, if ever, performed Bauhaus album songs.”
Episode 1, according to Murphy’s website, “is planned to be set in [...]

[tweetmeme]Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry has completed work on Ark, his first solo album in a decade, and plans to support the record with a 100-date world tour early next year with co-headliner Peter Murphy.
According to a post on Perry’s website, the recording and mastering of Ark — the follow-up to 1999’s Eye of the [...]

Is Uncle Al going soft? First ex-Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen lets slip plans to record a pop album, and now he’s announcing he’ll release a Christmas song — hey, just like Bob Dylan! — later this year in memory of late Killing Joke/Ministry bassist Paul Raven.
Building up to Tuesday’s release of Revolting Cocks remix disc Sex-O [...]

With Ministry now over and a bunch of ringers currently out on the road as the Revolting Cocks, industrial godfather Al Jourgensen is threatening to go back to his much-derided roots and do the near-unthinkable: record a pop album.
In an interview last week with VampiresFreaks.com to promote the RevCo tour, Jourgensen claims he is working [...]

An apparently recuperating Trent Reznor today rejiggered the final dates of Nine Inch Nails’ sold-out Wave Goodbye farewell club tour after being forced to cancel a second straight Los Angeles show this week due to illness.
Having already postponed last night’s Henry Fonda Theater show, Reznor today moved Saturday’s Wiltern concert to Thursday, declaring that the [...]

Trent Reznor is in the midst of Nine Inch Nails’ “Wave Goodbye 1989-2009″ run of small-club farewell concerts, and he’s certainly living up to his promise to make the shows something special: Not only did the band run through 1994’s epic The Downward Spiral in its entirety last weekend in New York, but Reznor also [...]

To mark last week’s release of New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets, Slicing Up Eyeballs caught up with that band’s frontman, Daniel Ash, to chat about the tribute album, his new music and his involvement with a trio of classic goth- and psychedelic-tinged ’80s acts: Bauhaus, Love and Rockets and Tones [...]

Expanded box-set reissues of Bauhaus’ first two albums — In the Flat Field and Mask — will help inaugurate the new Beggars Archive series of back-catalog and archival releases from the venerable Beggars Banquet label.
In addition to those titles, Beggars plans to give the deluxe reissue treatment to the Pixies, The Fall, Gary Numan, The [...]