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New releases: Kitchens of Distinction, Gary Numan, Dean Wareham, The Chills, John Foxx, ZTT

New releases: Kitchens of Distinction, Gary Numan, Dean Wareham, The Chills, John Foxx, ZTT

This week’s new releases include brand-new studio albums from Kitchens of Distinction, Gary Numan and Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham, plus live set from The Chills and John Foxx and The Maths, and a compilation of 30 years’ worth of material from Trevor Horn’s electro-pop label ZTT Records.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/13/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/13/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Daniel Ash, The Chameleons, Specimen, Concrete Blonde, The Shadow Project, Nitzer Ebb, Killing Joke, Soft Cell, Echo & The Bunnymen, Love and Rockets, 1919, For Against, Revolting Cocks and much, much more.

Video: The Cure at Austin City Limits Music Festival — watch full 2-hour webcast

Video: The Cure at Austin City Limits Music Festival — watch full 2-hour webcast

The Cure returned for its second headlining slot at this year’s two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival, and this time shook up its standard festival set to inject some of the rarities that Robert Smith and Co. dredged up for shows this past week in Moterrey, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.

Video: Depeche Mode at Austin City Limits Music Festival — watch full 90-minute webcast

Video: Depeche Mode at Austin City Limits Music Festival — watch full 90-minute webcast

Before rain snuffed out today’s final day, the Austin City Limits Music Festival ramped up for a second consecutive weekend, this time with many of the performances being webcast. Watch the full 90-minute set by Depeche Mode, an abbreviated version of the band’s standard Delta Machine tour set,

The Week in Rock: Oct. 6-12, 2013

The Week in Rock: Oct. 6-12, 2013

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 the Pixies, The Cure, The Church’s Steve Kilbey and Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs, Daniel Ash, David J, The Pogues, Morrissey and more.

Austin City Limits Music Festival webcast features The Cure, Depeche Mode

Austin City Limits Music Festival webcast features The Cure, Depeche Mode

The second weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival is underway, and this time, the fest is providing a live webcast of many of the performances, including full sets by both Depeche Mode tonight — the final stop of the current North American leg of the ‘Delta Machine’ tour — and The Cure on Saturday night.

The Church’s Steve Kilbey, Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs double up in L.A. (Setlist, Video)

The Church’s Steve Kilbey, Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs double up in L.A. (Setlist, Video)

Steve Kilbey of The Church and The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli — who have been writing new music together over the past year — made their live debut together Wednesday night with an intimate show in Los Angeles, where they performed selections from each other’s projects and premiered at least one new song,

Daniel Ash box set, expanded reissue of David J debut due from Cherry Red next month

Daniel Ash box set, expanded reissue of David J debut due from Cherry Red next month

That 25th anniversary edition of Peter Murphy’s sophomore album isn’t the only Bauhaus-related title on Cherry Red Records’ November release calendar: The U.K. label also is planning a 3CD box set of Daniel Ash solo material as well as an expanded 2CD reissue of David J’s solo debut Etiquette of Violence.

Mark Burgess to release new ChameleonsVox 4-song EP, tour Europe this fall

Mark Burgess to release new ChameleonsVox 4-song EP, tour Europe this fall

Mark Burgess this week announced he’ll release a brand-new four-song EP this fall under the ChameleonsVox banner — the latest incarnation of post-punk favorites The Chameleons, also featuring long-serving drummer John Lever — later this fall to coincide with a series of dates across Europe this November and December.

The Cure digs deep for 'The Top'-heavy set in epic return to Mexico (Setlist, Video)

The Cure digs deep for ‘The Top’-heavy set in epic return to Mexico (Setlist, Video)

The Cure returned to Mexico last night for the second time this year, and while the band’s set didn’t quite match the epic length of its show on Robert Smith’s birthday in April, it did feature more surprises, including a heavy dose of The Top and the live debut of Head on the Door-era B-side “Stop Dead.”

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 137, aired 10/8/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 137, aired 10/8/13

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio was a Best of 1987 Edition, with music from The Cure, Nitzer Ebb, The Sisters of Mercy, Guadalcanal Diary, Oingo Boingo, The Smiths, Squeeze, The Housemartins, Echo & The Bunnymen, Midnight Oil, Dukes of Stratosphear and more.

Philip Chevron, of The Pogues, 1957-2013

Philip Chevron, of The Pogues, 1957-2013

Five months after announcing he’d fallen ill again and that “this time the cancer is lethal,” The Pogues guitarist Philip Chevron, who joined the band after the release of its first album, today lost his battle with cancer, the group revealed via Facebook, saying he “passed away peacefully this morning.”

Bangles, Three O'Clock, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade team up for California shows

Bangles, Three O’Clock, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade team up for California shows

After nearly 30 years, a full-blown reunion of the Paisley Underground will take place this December in California as four of the scene’s key acts — headliners The Bangles, plus the newly reunited The Three O’Clock, The Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade — team up for at least two concerts in Los Angeles and San Francisco.