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New releases: Roddy Frame, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, Josef K, Durutti Column, Section 25

New releases: Roddy Frame, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, Josef K, Durutti Column, Section 25

This week’s new releases include the first new solo album in eight years from Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame and a new collaboration between Brian Eno and Underworld’s Karl Hyde, plus reissues of early albums from Josef K, Durutti Column and Section 25.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/4/14)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/4/14)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave celebrated the 25th anniversary of The Cure’s Disintegration, plus included music by Asylum Party, Concrete Blonde, 1,000 Homo DJs, Peter Murphy, Cocteau Twins, Shriekback, Gaye Bikers on Acid, Marc and the Mambas, The March Violets and more.

The Week in Rock: April 27-May 3, 2014

The Week in Rock: April 27-May 3, 2014

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured items about The Cure, Echo & They Bunnymen, Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg, Front 242, Pixies and more — plus we updated our ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ Spotify playlist.

Watch Arcade Fire cover R.E.M.'s 'Radio Free Europe' in Atlanta last night

Watch Arcade Fire cover R.E.M.’s ‘Radio Free Europe’ in Atlanta last night

As the Arcade Fire’s current arena tour has crisscrossed the country, the band has selected a geographically significant cover song to perform each night — sometimes in full, sometimes just barely — and last night in Atlanta, the group performed a full version of R.E.M.’s 1981 debut single “Radio Free Europe.”

The Cure's 'Disintegration' turns 25 today — celebrate with 5 full Prayer Tour concerts

The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’ turns 25 today — celebrate with 5 full Prayer Tour concerts

Twenty-five years ago today, The Cure released what many fans consider the band’s masterwork, the gloom-struck epic Disintegration — an album that found Robert Smith and Co. snapping out of their mid-’80s pop phase in favor of a darker, more cinematic sound.

Echo & The Bunnymen premiere video for 'Lovers on the Run' — first single off 'Meteorites'

Echo & The Bunnymen premiere video for ‘Lovers on the Run’ — first single off ‘Meteorites’

Echo & The Bunnymen today premiered the first music video to promote their upcoming album Meteorites, a Roger Sargent-directed clip for sweeping single “Lovers on the Run” that finds frontman Ian McCulloch sitting in a dark corner as images are projected across him.

Paul Westerberg's 'Suicaine Gratifaction' to be released on vinyl for first time

Paul Westerberg’s ‘Suicaine Gratifaction’ to be released on vinyl for first time

Plain Recordings continues its run of 180-gram Paul Westerberg reissues, announcing this week that it will follow up its new editions of 14 Songs and Eventually with the release the once and current Replacements frontman’s third solo album — 1999’s Suicaine Gratification — on vinyl for the first time ever this fall.