In August 2010, Beggars Archive announced a series of This Mortal Coil reissues, including a CD box set, new vinyl editions of the collective’s three albums and a Blu-ray disc that was to feature all three records in high-def stereo. Nearly two years later, the box set and vinyl reissues are out, but not the Blu-ray.

Beacon Audio recently launched a new video interview series and one of their latest installments features Dave Wakeling of The English Beat, who, in this five-minute clip, discusses the longevity of the Beat, how he learned to play guitar completely wrong (he’s right-handed, but plays as a lefty) and his favorite part of a concert.

In our latest link round-up, we feature a look inside Dave Gahan’s home studio, an argument that My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Loveless’ is the greatest album of the ’90s, a look back at The Psychedelic Furs, an interview with The Cult’s Ian Asbury and a look at the parallels between the rise of synthpop and digital design.

This week’s installment of the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Dinosaur Jr, Pet Shop Boys and Dead Can Dance, plus older faves from the likes of Television, ABC, The Mission, Shriekback, The The, Assembly and more.

Plans for a career-spanning box set from Australian rockers Midnight Oil — which guitarist Jim Moginie last year promised ‘is going to be amazing in its depth and presentation of the band’s career, with rare recordings and so far unseen and unheard film and music’ — apparently are ‘back on hold’ as the band re-evaluates the release.

The Specials next month will release a 26-track live album dubbed ‘More… Or Less: The Specials Live’ in both 2CD and 2LP formats, collecting “the best of the best tracks” from U.K. and European dates on the band’s 2011 reunion tour, EMI Catalogue announced this morning.

The new Duran Duran concert CD/DVD/Blu-ray ‘A Diamond in the Mind’ is out this week in the U.K. and arrives next week in the U.S., and while the band put out a fairly uneventful video teaser back in April, here’s the first full track issued from the live film: a performance of classic hit ‘Planet Earth.’

Former Ride frontman Mark Gardener has teamed up with Cocteau Twins co-founder Robin Guthrie to record a new single called ‘The Places We Go’ that will be released digitally next week by Guthrie’s label Soleil Après Minuit ‘via all good download services.’ The track goes on sale July 9.

This month’s Auto Reverse mixtape includes brand new music from Dinosaur Jr and the Pet Shop Boys, plus some old favorites by the likes of The Undertones, R.E.M., The Dream Syndicate, The Fall, Depeche Mode, The Stone Roses, Felt, Talking Heads, Josef K, Paul Westerberg and much, much more.

As promised last week, the Pet Shop Boys premiered “Winner” — the first official single from their forthcoming 11th studio album Elysium — this morning on British radio, and now the duo has made the track available for streaming via the lyric video posted here.

Karl Wallinger will bring World Party back to the U.K. for the band’s first concerts in its native U.K. in a decade, with shows announced in Oxford and at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall this fall. It’s clear how many dates World Party will play; the band’s site only lists the London concert, but an Oxford date is on sale, too.

This week’s new releases include the U.K. edition of ‘A Diamond in the Mind,’ the new concert CD and live Blu-ray and DVD filmed on the band’s 2011 tour, plus expanded reissues of three Jimmy Sommerville albums, including the debut by Bronski Beat (‘The Age of Consent’) plus both Communards records (‘Communards,’ ‘Red’).

The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Bauhaus, Modern English, The Lords of the New Church, Roxy Music, Joe Strummer, The Chameleons, Kate Bush and much more.