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Public Image Ltd. to release Record Store Day EP, new album ‘This is PiL’ in May/June

Public Image Ltd. to release Record Store Day EP, new album ‘This is PiL’ in May/June

Public Image Ltd. will release its first new album in 20 years — the 12-track ‘This is PiL’ — in either May or June, and will tease the release with a four-song, vinyl-only EP spotlighting the single ‘One Drop’ that will be released on Record Store Day, frontman John Lydon announced on British radio this morning.

New releases: Pulp reissues, Magazine’s Barry Adamson, Flaming Lips on vinyl

New releases: Pulp reissues, Magazine’s Barry Adamson, Flaming Lips on vinyl

This week’s new releases include expanded CD reissues of Pulp’s first three albums, a brand-new studio album from Magazine’s Barry Adamson and vinyl reissues of The Flaming Lips’ first five Warner Bros. albums, previously compiled in the ‘Heady Nuggs’ box set.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 2/13/12

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Peter Murphy, Fad Gadget, The Human League, Martin L. Gore, Cocteau Twins, The Church and much more.

The Week in Rock: Feb. 5-11, 2012

The Week in Rock: Feb. 5-11, 2012

This week’s round-up of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines includes news about Dexys Midnight Runners, Fad Gadget, Dalis Car, The La’s, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Morrissey, Dinosaur Jr, Killing Joke and The Godfathers — plus news of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s return to the U.S. this spring.

Dexys Midnight Runners announce ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ — first album in 27 years

Dexys Midnight Runners announce ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ — first album in 27 years

Frontman Kevin Rowland this week announced that the reactivated Dexys Midnight Runners — the New Wave act still best known for its 1982 smash ‘Come On Eileen’ — will release its first new album in 27 years this June, a record titled ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ that will be put out under the shortened band name Dexys.

Dalis Car ‘InGladAloneness’ EP — featuring Peter Murphy, Mick Karn — out in April

Dalis Car ‘InGladAloneness’ EP — featuring Peter Murphy, Mick Karn — out in April

More than a year after the death of former Japan bassist Mick Karn, fans finally will get a chance to hear the ‘Dalis Car’ EP he recorded with Peter Murphy in the fall of 2010, a five-track collection that represents the briefly reunited duo’s first work together since their lone album, ‘The Waking Hour,’ came out in 1984.

Morrissey scraps New Zealand concerts over ‘poor offers from local promoters’

Morrissey scraps New Zealand concerts over ‘poor offers from local promoters’

Morrissey’s 2012 touring plans already include trips to South America and Japan, but won’t extend to New Zealand after all, as the former Smiths frontman this week announced that ‘projected dates in New Zealand have once again been scrapped due to poor offers from local promoters.’

Video: Erasure, ‘Fill Us With Fire’ — third single off ‘Tomorrow’s World’

Video: Erasure, ‘Fill Us With Fire’ — third single off ‘Tomorrow’s World’

Erasure has set a March 12 release date for the third single off last year’s ‘Tomorrow’s Word’: ‘Fill Us With Fire,’ which will be released in the U.K. as an eight-track CD single and elsewhere as a digital download package. The single features ‘Shot to the Heart,’ previously available as an iTunes bonus track.

The La’s to headline New York Sound City next month —  first NYC concert in 20 years

The La’s to headline New York Sound City next month — first NYC concert in 20 years

Reclusive Liverpudlian one-album wonders The La’s will headline the the inaugural New York Sound City music, media and technology conference next month, marking Lee Mavers and Co.’s first concert in New York City in two decades.

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode, rare 8-minute ‘film in progress’ reel of ‘101’ footage

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode, rare 8-minute ‘film in progress’ reel of ‘101’ footage

For fans of Depeche Mode’s 1989 concert documentary ‘101,’ here’s a real treat: An eight-minute promo reel of director D.A. Pennebaker’s footage, labeled ‘film in progress,’ has surfaced, and it includes scenes not included in the final cut. Check out DM on the ‘Music For the Masses’ tour in the video, posted here.

Video + free MP3: The Normal, ‘Warm Leatherette’ (ditto.tv mix)

Video + free MP3: The Normal, ‘Warm Leatherette’ (ditto.tv mix)

British communications agency ditto is celebrating The Normal’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ — the first release by Mute Records, and ‘the record that started everything’ — by commissioning this ‘re imagining’ of Daniel Miller’s classic 1978 track, with Really O’Reilly providing new production and ‘electro-lady’ Georgie piping in with vocals.

Video: Lee Ranaldo, ‘Off the Wall’ — first single off ‘Between the Times and the Tides’

Video: Lee Ranaldo, ‘Off the Wall’ — first single off ‘Between the Times and the Tides’

Still more than a month before the arrival of his new solo album ‘Between the Times and the Tides,’ Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo has released a video for the record’s first single, ‘Off the Wall.’ The clip, seen above, features live footage of Ranaldo performing in Brooklyn mixed in with other footage shot by Ranaldo himself.

Gary Numan announces ‘Machine Music’ retrospective DVD, 12-date U.K. tour

Gary Numan announces ‘Machine Music’ retrospective DVD, 12-date U.K. tour

Gary Numan today announced the release of a retrospective DVD entitled ‘Machine Music: The Best of Gary Numan’ that will collect his music videos and some TV appearances from throughout his career — and which will be accompanied by a 12-date tour of the U.K. and Ireland late this spring.