The Dead Milkmen recently announced a pair of October shows — a festival appearance in upstate New York followed by a Halloween bash in their hometown of Philadelphia — and revealed that the band is studio-bound to work on new music, perhaps a follow-up to 2011’s ‘The King In Yellow,’ the band’s first album in 15 years.

This week’s new releases include ‘Bestival Live 2011,’ a new 2CD concert album from The Cure, plus the box set Elvis Costello doesn’t want you to buy, a collection of early Cramps singles, three Meat Puppets reissues and domestic CD releases of recent sets from Peter Murphy, Gary Numan and The Dead Milkmen.

The Dead Milkmen will hold a belated hometown album-released party for ‘The King in Yellow’ — their first album in 15 years, which the band self-released in March but is now set for wider distribution — when they perform the record in its entirety (‘with limited commercial interruptions’) at a Philadelphia club next month.

The Dead Milkmen released their first new album in more than 15 years this morning, announcing on their website that not only is the recently announced ‘The King in Yellow’ now finished, the 17-track album is immediately available for purchase as a digital download.

Philadelphia’s Dead Milkmen recently finished recording their first new album in more than 15 years, a record tentatively titled ‘The King in Yellow’ that’s expected out sometime this spring.