The first new album in six years from Kate Bush — ‘Director’s Cut,’ featuring 10 reworked tracks off 1989’s ‘The Sensual World’ and 1993’s ‘The Red Shoes’ — arrives Monday in the U.K., and, on this side of the pond, NPR is giving fans an early listen with a full-album stream.

Better known as the half of the Pet Shop Boys that wears hats and stands motionless behind banks of keyboards, Chris Lowe takes a rare vocal turn on a new cover of New Order’s ‘Subculture’ by Finnish DJ/producers Jori Hulkkonen and Alex Nieminen, performing under the name Stop Modernists.

With three week left before Thurston Moore’s new solo album, ‘Demolished Thoughts,’ arrives, the folks at Matador Records are offering a second free MP3 from the Sonic Youth frontman’s record.

Back in March, we brought you a stream of ‘I Spit Roses,’ the first new single in more than six years from Peter Murphy.

The Primitives recently released ‘Never Kill a Secret,’ its first new recordings in 20 years, and now the U.K. band’s label is offering up a free track from that four-song EP: ‘Need All that Help I Can Get.’

It’s been a long wait — some 24 years, in fact — but the surviving members of The Cars are back with a new album, ‘Move Like This,’ and RollingStone.com has an exclusive stream in advance of next week’s release.

Bassist Peter Hook appeared on British radio today to premiere two tracks off the upcoming EP of Joy Division re-recordings — including his new take on an unfinished Joy Division track called ‘Pictures in My Mind.’