Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark today unveiled plans to tour North America this spring and summer, hitting five western cities in April around the band’s two appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, then returning in July for six more concerts in the east.
The reunited ‘Last Splash’-era lineup of The Breeders — Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson — this morning announced it will make its debut with a concert March 29 at The Bellhouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., prior to already announced dates later this spring in Europe.
This week’s new releases include the digital debut of Depeche Mode’s new single “Heaven,” off the upcoming ‘Delta Machine,’ plus Sugar’s eight-record box set called, naturally, ‘A Box of Sugar,’ and featuring the first-ever vinyl pressings of the ‘Besides’ comp and the ‘Joke is Always On Us, Sometimes’ live album.
Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Shriekback, Bigod 20, Joy Division, Altered Images, Revolting Cocks, D.A.F., Bauhaus, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Wake, Depeche Mode, The Cult, Japan and much more.
After announcing just before Christmas that their new album had just been mastered, My Bloody Valentine took the stage tonight in London for the first live date of the year, with Kevin Shields surprising fans by answering a heckler with news news that it could be released in “maybe two or three days.”
Morrissey has postponed six more U.S. concerts on top of the three already canceled or due to be rescheduled after he was hospitalized in Royal Oak, Mich., and diagnosed a bleeding ulcer — not the suspected bladder infection first reported by one of his reps — according to reports by Billboard and Brooklyn Vegan.
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 Stone Roses, Depeche Mode, Morrissey, The Replacements, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Names, They Might Be Giants, Husker Du, The House of Love and more.
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 