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Watch: The Chills premiere video for 'Complex' off upcoming album 'Snow Bound'

Watch: The Chills premiere video for ‘Complex’ off upcoming album ‘Snow Bound’

With their new album set to arrive Friday, New Zealand indie-pop legends The Chills today premiere the video for super-catchy lead-off single “Complex” — which you can view below. The album, the band’s first in three years and sixth overall, is due out Sept. 14 via Fire Records, and can be pre-ordered now.

Listen: Echo & The Bunnymen debut new 'transformed' version of 'The Killing Moon'

Listen: Echo & The Bunnymen debut new ‘transformed’ version of ‘The Killing Moon’

Echo & The Bunnymen have premiered a new recording of what the band subtly calls “the greatest song in the world,” a slowed-down, piano-and-strings take on the classic 1984 single “The Killing Moon” that is to be included on the group’s upcoming album The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon.

Bauhaus releasing 5-song 1979 studio session that spawned 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'

Bauhaus releasing 5-song 1979 studio session that spawned ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’

As part of the commemoration of the band’s 40th anniversary, Bauhaus is releasing a five-song EP recorded at the band’s first studio session on Jan. 26, 1979 — a collection that includes “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” and three previously on released recordings. Full details right here.

Photos: Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser shocks superfan Shirley Manson at Garbage gig

Photos: Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser shocks superfan Shirley Manson at Garbage gig

Five days after shocking fans with a rare, unbilled live performance in London, former Cocteau Twins frontwoman Elizabeth Fraser surfaced again, showing up backstage at Garbage’s concert in Bristol on Friday night — much to the shock and delight of singer Shirley Manson. Two photos have now surfaced.

Kate Bush to compile selected lyrics in new book 'How To Be Invisible'

Kate Bush to compile selected lyrics in new book ‘How To Be Invisible’

Selected lyrics by Kate Bush will be compiled later this year in a new book titled “How To Be Invisible” — named after the title of a song on her 2005 album Aerial — that will include a forward by British novelist David Mitchell, the author of “Cloud Atlas.” The book is set to be published this December.

This week's new releases: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Paul Weller, The Chills, Devo

This week’s new releases: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Paul Weller, The Chills, Devo

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s releases include reissues from Siouxsie and the Banshees and Devo, plus new albums from Paul Weller and The Chills.