Former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy was being held in a Southern California jail on Monday on $500,000 bond while facing DUI, felony hit-and-run and meth possession charges in connection with an incident over the weekend in which he is alleged to have rear-ended a vehicle and fled the scene.

Following live previews of some of the album’s songs last week and a leak of the full record on Sunday, Depeche Mode is now streaming its forthcoming LP Delta Machine, for free on iTunes one full week ahead of its release. The record’s out in North America next Tuesday, but check it out now.

Robyn Hitchcock will hit the road in the U.S. later this spring to support his just-released ‘Love From London’ album, playing a series of dates on the two coasts with his latter-period backup band The Venus 3 and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck serving as opening act.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark continue the build-up toward the April 9 release of their second post-reunion album ‘English Electric,’ releasing another new track, “Night Café,” and announcing plans for a limited-edition, five-track 10-inch vinyl picture disc to be released on Record Store Day.

The reconfigured Big Country — with The Alarm’s Mike Peters filling in for the late frontman Stuart Adamson and the recent addition of original Simple Minds bassist Derek Forbes — will tour the U.S. this June in support of the forthcoming ‘The Journey,’ with at least six dates on the two coasts already confirmed.

The Three O’Clock will warm up for their twin appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival next month with an intimate club gig at The Glass House in Pomona, Calif., on April 6 — and the fine folks there have given us four pairs of tickets to give away to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

This week’s new releases include ‘Ultramarine,’ the first new album from The Ocean Blue in a decade, plus new studio albums from Billy Bragg (‘Tooth & Nail’) and former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos (‘Off the Record’), as well as an expanded reissue of Inspiral Carpets’ 1990 debut ‘Life.’

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Lard, Cocteau Twins, Spear of Destiny, Gang of Four, The Chameleons, Bigod 20, Lords of the New Church, Death Cult, The Mission, Ghost Dance and much more.

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about Depeche Mode, Morrissey, The Church, Pet Shop Boys, Wire, The Ocean Blue, Ian McCulloch, Meat Puppets, Gang of Four, The Cure and more.

Morrissey’s trouble-plagued and oft-postponed North American tour has come to an end as Pitchfork reports the former Smiths singer has pulled the plug on the remaining 24 dates of the trek, a good number of which already had been rescheduled not once but twice since originally being set last fall.

“Soothe My Soul,” the anticipated second single from Depeche Mode’s upcoming album Delta Machine, was given a world-premiere airing this morning in the U.K. on Shaun Keaveny’s show on BBC Radio 6 — and, not surprisingly, DM fans were ready to record the track. You can hear it right here.

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we revisit this “120 X-Ray” segment from 1988, which finds Kevin Seal once again the victim of cheesy visual effects as he digs into the story of The Church circa Starfish, with interviews from Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper.

Having just released their 11th album ‘Elysium’ six months ago, the Pet Shop Boys surprised fans this morning by announcing they already have another new studio album ready to go, and that they’ll release the record — titled ‘Electric’ — this June via Kobalt Label Services.