Peter Murphy avoided jail time last week when he pleaded guilty to meth possession and no contest to hit-and-run driving in connection with a Southern California car crash, for which he was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to attend 45 days of Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
This week’s new releases include brand-new studio albums from Kitchens of Distinction, Gary Numan and Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham, plus live set from The Chills and John Foxx and The Maths, and a compilation of 30 years’ worth of material from Trevor Horn’s electro-pop label ZTT Records.
Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Daniel Ash, The Chameleons, Specimen, Concrete Blonde, The Shadow Project, Nitzer Ebb, Killing Joke, Soft Cell, Echo & The Bunnymen, Love and Rockets, 1919, For Against, Revolting Cocks and much, much more.
The Cure returned for its second headlining slot at this year’s two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival, and this time shook up its standard festival set to inject some of the rarities that Robert Smith and Co. dredged up for shows this past week in Moterrey, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.
Before rain snuffed out today’s final day, the Austin City Limits Music Festival ramped up for a second consecutive weekend, this time with many of the performances being webcast. Watch the full 90-minute set by Depeche Mode, an abbreviated version of the band’s standard Delta Machine tour set,
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 posts about the Pixies, The Cure, The Church’s Steve Kilbey and Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs, Daniel Ash, David J, The Pogues, Morrissey and more.
The second weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival is underway, and this time, the fest is providing a live webcast of many of the performances, including full sets by both Depeche Mode tonight — the final stop of the current North American leg of the ‘Delta Machine’ tour — and The Cure on Saturday night.
Q&A: Daniel Ash on Love and Rockets’ reunion, his new band — and figuring out how to play “So Alive” 
Q&A: Chris Frantz talks Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and new book ‘Remain in Love’ 
Q&A: Steve Wynn on The Dream Syndicate’s first new album in nearly 30 years 
Q&A: Bauhaus’ David J on his ‘accidental’ concept album ‘Not Long For This World’ 
Q&A: Peter Murphy on ‘Ninth,’ Bauhaus’ break-up, reuniting Dalis Car 
Q&A: Joey Santiago on Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour, possible ‘Surfer Rosa’ shows, new album talk 
Q&A: Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon on new album, changing the world with music 
Q&A: Peter Hook talks ‘Unknown Pleasures’ tour, re-recording Joy Division 