Simple Minds today unveiled plans for a nine-date summer tour of Australia and New Zealand at the end of this year that also will feature ’80s-era contemporaries Devo and The Church sharing the bill and will hit a mixture of indoor venues and wineries taking part in the popular A Day on the Green concert series.

The House of Love — largely dormant following a couple years’ worth of activity surrounding ‘Days Run Away,’ the band’s 2005 reunion album — will make what appears to be its first live appearance in more than four years later this summer when the beloved indie act appears at the Off Festival in Katowice, Poland.

On Dec. 3 last year, Iva Davies led the current incarnation of Icehouse through selections from the group’s 1980 debut ‘Flowers’ at the Homebake 2011 festival in the band’s native Australia. Six months later, superb-quality video has emerged of the hour-long set.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Pet Shop Boys, Mission of Burma, David Byrne and Paul Weller, plus older favorites from Propaganda, Violent Femmes, The Smiths, The Seahorses, The Cult, Ramones, INXS and more.

While The Jesus and Mary Chain just wrapped up a short run of West Coast dates, the brothers Reid continue to expand its late-summer North American tour, today announcing 10 new concerts in September, including dates in New York City, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Cleveland and more.

The Sex Pistols only released a single studio album during their short initial career, but it’s certainly a landmark — and, fittingly, Universal Music this fall will commemorate the 35th anniversary of ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ by turning that 11-track album into a four-disc ‘super deluxe’ box set.

In this week’s link round-up we find Lloyd Cole writing about David Bowie’s ‘Low,’ plus interviews with Jim Reid of the recently reunited Jesus and Mary Chain, Ivan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger of The Beat (aka The English Beat) and New Wave piano man Joe Jackson.

The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Die Warzu, Love and Rockets, Kate Bush, The Church, The Birthday Party and much more

The Cure’s run of summer festival appearances continues to delight the band’s longtime fans, as Robert Smith and Co. mix up their sets and trot out songs not played in decades, if ever. The latest uber-rarity to creep into The Cure’s set: the title track of 1984’s ‘The Top,’ a song not played live since that year’s tour.

Al Jourgensen’s reactivated Ministry currently is in the midst of a short U.S. comeback tour, but could the band’s much-loved — and, famously, much-hated by Jourgensen himself — 1983 synthpop debut ‘With Sympathy’ finally be receiving the expanded reissue that was first set for release back in 2008?

Tweet Reunited post-punk/New Wave rockers Modern English — who are expected to release their eighth studio album sometime later this year — will perform a short, 7-date run […]

This week’s new releases include a 3CD reissue of Bob Mould’s ‘Bob Mould,’ ‘The Last Dog and Pony Show’ and ‘Love Dog 98,’ plus a Mobile Fidelity reissue of Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Nothing’s Shocking,’ an expanded reissue of Vicious Pink’s debut, and the CD of Men Without Hats’ new ‘Love in the Age of War.’

After performing a handful of stateside dates late last fall and earlier this spring, Morrissey tonight announce his most extensive U.S. tour in years, a 33-date, coast-to-coast trek that will keep him on the road from early October through early December — and includes a Los Angeles arena date with Iggy and the Stooges.