The House of Love — largely dormant following a couple years’ worth of activity surrounding ‘Days Run Away,’ the band’s 2005 reunion album — will make what appears to be its first live appearance in more than four years later this summer when the beloved indie act appears at the Off Festival in Katowice, Poland.

On Dec. 3 last year, Iva Davies led the current incarnation of Icehouse through selections from the group’s 1980 debut ‘Flowers’ at the Homebake 2011 festival in the band’s native Australia. Six months later, superb-quality video has emerged of the hour-long set.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Pet Shop Boys, Mission of Burma, David Byrne and Paul Weller, plus older favorites from Propaganda, Violent Femmes, The Smiths, The Seahorses, The Cult, Ramones, INXS and more.

While The Jesus and Mary Chain just wrapped up a short run of West Coast dates, the brothers Reid continue to expand its late-summer North American tour, today announcing 10 new concerts in September, including dates in New York City, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Cleveland and more.

The Sex Pistols only released a single studio album during their short initial career, but it’s certainly a landmark — and, fittingly, Universal Music this fall will commemorate the 35th anniversary of ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ by turning that 11-track album into a four-disc ‘super deluxe’ box set.

In this week’s link round-up we find Lloyd Cole writing about David Bowie’s ‘Low,’ plus interviews with Jim Reid of the recently reunited Jesus and Mary Chain, Ivan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger of The Beat (aka The English Beat) and New Wave piano man Joe Jackson.

The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Die Warzu, Love and Rockets, Kate Bush, The Church, The Birthday Party and much more