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New Order announces settlement of long-running legal disputes with Peter Hook

New Order announces settlement of long-running legal disputes with Peter Hook

New Order today announced that it has reached a “full and final settlement” to end the band’s long-running legal disputes with its former bassist Peter Hook over the ongoing royalties Hook has received since 2011 and his own use of “various New Order and Joy Division assets.” Read New Order’s full statement.

Can't hardly wait? Hear 6 tracks off The Replacements' ‘For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s’

Can’t hardly wait? Hear 6 tracks off The Replacements’ ‘For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s’

We’re still more than two weeks a way from the release of The Replacements’ vintage concert document For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986, but if you’re itching to wrap your ears around some of those classic-era live tracks, here are six that have been released to whet fans’ appetites. Hear them here.

The Fall's 7-disc 'The Singles 1978-2016' box set to collect 117 A-sides and B-sides

The Fall’s 7-disc ‘The Singles 1978-2016’ box set to collect 117 A-sides and B-sides

Nearly four decades’ worth of singles — both A-sides and their accompanying B-sides — by the assorted lineups of Mark E. Smith’s pioneering post-punk outfit The Fall will be collected on a new 7-disc, 117-track box set from Cherry Red Records this November. See the full tracklist right here.

Listen: Morrissey, 'Spent the Day in Bed' — first single off 'Low in High School'

Listen: Morrissey, ‘Spent the Day in Bed’ — first single off ‘Low in High School’

Morrissey  this morning debuted the first single off his upcoming 11th album Low in High School, a typically maudlin song called “Spent the Day in Bed” that finds the singer exhausted by the events and happily bedridden (“Stop watching the news!”). Stream the full track below.

MBV Watch: Kevin Shields prepping new My Bloody Valentine album for 2018?

MBV Watch: Kevin Shields prepping new My Bloody Valentine album for 2018?

The time has come once again, it appears, to dust off our old MBV Watch feature, as rumors now are swirling about reclusive guitar-noise genius Kevin Shields being at work on a new My Bloody Valentine album — the follow-up to 2013’s mbv — for release sometime next year. Here’s what we know.

OMD unveils 2018 North American tour in support of 'The Punishment of Luxury'

OMD unveils 2018 North American tour in support of ‘The Punishment of Luxury’

When Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark announced their new album The Punishment of Luxury last spring, the group had a handful of U.S. summer dates on the books — but it wasn’t much of a tour. That all changes next spring, when OMD returns for a full 27-date North American trek. See full dates here.

Morrissey's new Twitter account teases U.S. tour stops ahead of new single's premiere

Morrissey’s new Twitter account teases U.S. tour stops ahead of new single’s premiere

Morrissey, whose social media presence long has been limited to an official Facebook page, is now on Twitter, too — well, his management and/or record label is — and that account tonight tweeted a list of U.S. states that presumably mark stops on a soon-to-be-announced tour. Check out that list here.