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Pixies release new album 'Indie Cindy' on cassette in cassingle-style sleeve

Pixies release new album ‘Indie Cindy’ on cassette in cassingle-style sleeve

The Pixies already have released their first new album in 23 years on CD and vinyl (both on 12-inch and across three separate 10-inch EPs), and as a digital download, but now comes the most retro format of all: an ultra limited-edition cassette release of Indie Cindy.

The Damned drafts T.S.O.L. for short 'Hallow-East Tour' of U.S over Halloween

The Damned drafts T.S.O.L. for short ‘Hallow-East Tour’ of U.S over Halloween

The Damned — still anchored after all these years by founding members Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible — return to the U.S. this fall for a very short “Hallow-East Tour” that sees the band hitting four cities on the East Coast of the U.S. around Halloween. Joining the festivities: TSOL.

New releases: Morrissey, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Talking Heads

New releases: Morrissey, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Talking Heads

This week’s new releases include the brand-new studio album from Morrissey (‘World Peace is None of Your Business’) as well as vinyl reissues from Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Spiritualized, plus the digital release of the classic Talking Heads concert film ‘Stop Making Sense.’

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/13/14)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/13/14)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from The Teardrop Explodes, Gang of Four, This Mortal Coil, Sister Machine Gun, The Damned, Tones on Tail, Revolting Cocks, The Durutti Column, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult and more.

Watch New Order cover 'San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)' in San Francisco

Watch New Order cover ‘San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)’ in San Francisco

New Order has debuted a pair of new songs (“Singularity,” “Plastic”) on tour this year in North and South America, but used the occasion of its concert in San Francisco last night to do something perhaps even more unlikely: a cover of ’60s anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).”

Tommy Ramone, last original member of the Ramones, 1949-2014

Tommy Ramone, last original member of the Ramones, 1949-2014

Tommy Ramone, the last surviving original member of the Ramones, who played drums on and co-produced the band’s legendary first three albums (1976’s Ramones, 1977’s Leave Home and 1978’s Road to Ruin), passed away earlier today, according to the Ramones’ Facebook page. He was 65.

Watch 90 minutes of footage from US Festival ’83: INXS, The Clash, Oingo Boingo and more

Watch 90 minutes of footage from US Festival ’83: INXS, The Clash, Oingo Boingo and more

Take a trip back to the 1983 installment of the US Festival — a four-day event over Memorial Day Weekend that year that drew an alleged 670,000 music fans into the middle of nowhere in California — with this 90-minute collection of footage from the fest’s “New Wave Day,” featuring performances by The Clash, INXS, Oingo Boingo, The English Beat and more.

Vintage Video: Gang of Four deliver an electrifying set at Croatian festival in 1981

Vintage Video: Gang of Four deliver an electrifying set at Croatian festival in 1981

We re-christen the long-dormant Vintage Video series with this fantastic pro-shot footage of Gang of Four performing a taut, 22-minute set at the Music Biennale Zagreb festival in Croatia, on May 15, 1981. The performance comes a couple months after the release of the band’s sophomore album, Solid Gold,

Watch the director's cut of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 'Push the Sky Away' concert

Watch the director’s cut of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ ‘Push the Sky Away’ concert

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds celebrated the release of their 15th studio album Push the Sky Away by performing the record in full on Feb. 21, 2013, at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles — and broadcasting that performance around the world live on YouTube.

Cabaret Voltaire promises 'no nostalgia' at first performance in 22 years

Cabaret Voltaire promises ‘no nostalgia’ at first performance in 22 years

Cabaret Voltaire will perform live for the first time in nearly 22 years this August when the group — “a lineup now consisting solely of machines, multi-screen projections and Richard H. Kirk” — plays a set at the Berlin Atonal Festival that will feature only new material and “no nostalgia.”

Guadalcanal Diary's Murray Attaway and Jeff Walls launch new band Blasting Cap

Guadalcanal Diary’s Murray Attaway and Jeff Walls launch new band Blasting Cap

Murray Attaway and Jeff Walls, co-founders of suburban Atlanta jangle-pop favorites Guadalcanal Diary, have reunited under a new musical banner, enlisting bassist Phyllis Wells of Hillbilly Frankenstein and Swimming Pool Q’s drummer Robert Schmid to create a new band called Blasting Cap.

Steven Severin hints Siouxsie and the Banshees' final 4 reissues coming Sept. 15

Steven Severin hints Siouxsie and the Banshees’ final 4 reissues coming Sept. 15

Bassist Steven Severin hinted this weekend that the final four titles in Siouxsie and the Banshees’ catalog finally will receive expanded reissues Sept. 15, more than four years after Universal Music pulled the plug on the band’s reissue campaign midstream.

New releases: Midge Ure, Marc Almond, Ministry, Durutti Column, The Gun Club

New releases: Midge Ure, Marc Almond, Ministry, Durutti Column, The Gun Club

This week’s new releases include a brand-new studio album from Ultravox’s Midge Ure, a recording of a new stage production from Marc Almond, a new Ministry live album and film, a two-disc version of the new Durutti Column album and a CD reissue of The Gun Club’s ‘Fire of Love.’