Morrissey continues to tease North American fans with dribbles of information about his upcoming touring plans, the latest of which is a promise to announce full details of the fall trek — now believed to comprise 10 U.S. shows and four Mexican dates, plus two American television appearances — on Thursday.

This week’s round-up of links includes an interview with The Human League’s Philip Oakey, an essay by Billy Bragg, a look at Kate Bush’s lack of success in the U.S. and recollections of the Sonic Youth’s and Nirvana’s infamous 1991 tour of Europe.

As we wait for the delayed announcement of Morrissey’s U.S. tour this fall, here’s a little something to bide the time: eight minutes of rare footage from 1991′s ‘Kill Uncle’ tour, showing Moz milling about the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, Calif., and joining his band onstage to soundcheck ‘Sing Your Life.’

Robyn Hitchcock will commemorate the 21st anniversary of his 1990 solo album ‘Eye’ by performing a ‘director’s cut’ of the record while backed by a small neo-classical ensemble in London this fall, as well as a pair of solo-acoustic performances in New York City and San Francisco.

With the first set of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s deluxe much-anticipated 2CD/1DVD reissues due to roll out in less than a month, the band — which recently staked its ground on Facebook and Twitter — is offering interactive 3-D previews, complete with audio samples, of each of its six albums.

Amoeba Music recently posted the latest in its ‘What’s In My Bag?’ video series, and this installment’s latest subject is none other than Peter Murphy — filmed, presumably, during the former Bauhaus leader’s June visit to the San Francisco outlet for an in-store performance promoting the release of ‘Ninth.’

Social Distortion continue to tour in support of this year’s ‘Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes,’ and have just announced their latest slate of dates, including some festival slots, a pair of concerts with twang-rockers The Avett Brothers, seven arena shows with the Foo Fighters and a handful of headlining club dates.

Gang of Four this week dropped the third music video from their new album ‘Content’: a glitchy, revved-up collage of effects and images set to ‘Who Am I,’ the third single off the current record. The new video was filmed in London this summer and directed by bandmember Andy Gill.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Erasure, Duran Duran, OMD and Gary Numan, plus old favorites from The Waterboys, Scruffy the Cat and Thurston Moore, not to mention a long-lost Dinosaur Jr track.

Modern English have re-recorded their signature 1982 smash ‘I Melt With You’ for a second time, and are offering the slowed-down, moody version of the track as a free download in advance of a just-announced short tour of the southeastern United States next month.

Warner Bros. sent out a press release yesterday rounding up potential gift-guide items for upcoming back-to-school, Halloween and even Christmas coverage — and topping the list was none other than an ‘official Devo yellow suit’ and the band’s signature ‘energy dome’ hats in both blue and red.

Al Jourgensen has reunited Ministry three years after vowing he was finished with the industrial-metal juggernaut, and says he’ll record and release a new album dubbed ‘Relapse’ before the end of the year and play a limited run of U.S. and European concerts in 2012.

With Mike Peters of The Alarm filling in for late frontman Stuart Adamson, reunited Scottish rockers Big Country next week will release their first single in 12 years — the Steve Lillywhite-produced ‘Another Country,’ the first step toward a brand-new studio album and a planned 30th anniversary tour next year.