Having resolved whatever unnamed legal issues stood in the way, bassist Peter Hook will release his new four-song EP of Joy Division re-recordings — which includes the debut of a newly finished Ian Curtis-era leftover — on Monday morning, just a week later than originally planned.

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.

The Pet Shop Boys last week released their latest single ‘Together’ — the lone new song on last year’s U.K. best-of ‘Ultimate’ — in the U.S. for the first time digitally in a number of different configurations.

Next month, Depeche Mode will preview its Remixes 2: 81-11 collection with a multi-format single release of ‘Personal Jesus 2011,’ featuring six different, brand-new mixes of the smash hit off 1990’s ‘Violator’ — most of which won’t be featured on the new set.

The first tease of Kate Bush’s upcoming ‘Director’s Cut’ album — which revisits tracks from ‘The Sensual World’ and ‘The Red Shoes’ — has surfaced online: a 30-second sample of the new version of ‘Deeper Understanding’ that finds Bush’s incomparable vocals run through Auto-Tune on the chorus.

Peter Murphy today released his first new single in more than six years: ‘I Spit Roses’ — which can be streamed here and is a track that will be featured on the former Bauhaus leader’s upcoming album ‘Ninth,’ which is due out in June.