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Public Image Ltd.'s 'This Is PiL' cover art, deluxe edition live DVD revealed

Public Image Ltd.’s ‘This Is PiL’ cover art, deluxe edition live DVD revealed

With Public Image Ltd.’s first new album in 20 years — ‘This Is PiL’ — arriving at the end of this month, we can now bring you the record’s cover art as well as details of the U.K. deluxe edition, which will include a bonus DVD featuring John Lydon and Co.’s full performance at a London club last month.

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2012)

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2012)

This month’s tape includes brand-new recordings from Public Image Ltd. and X’s John Doe and Exene Cervenka, plus favorites both new and old from Depeche Mode, Southern Death Cult, Sad Lovers and Giants, My Bloody Valentine and New Order, and a few covers from the likes of School of Seven Bells and Grant-Lee Phillips.

Mission of Burma reveals cover art, tracklist for 'Unsound' — band's 4th post-reunion LP

Mission of Burma reveals cover art, tracklist for ‘Unsound’ — band’s 4th post-reunion LP

We brought you news in late March of ‘Unsound,’ the upcoming fifth studio album — and fourth post-reunion effort — from Boston post-punk legends Mission of Burma. Now the band has revealed the cover art and full tracklist for the collection, which is due out July 10 on Fire Records.

Video: Soundgarden, 'Live to Rise' — from the soundtrack to 'The Avengers'

Video: Soundgarden, ‘Live to Rise’ — from the soundtrack to ‘The Avengers’

Soundgarden has followed up its sporadic touring and last year’s best-of by hitting the recording studio to cut its first new track in 15 years: ‘Live to Rise,’ a typically sludgy rocker that appears on the soundtrack to the about-to-open comic book blockbuster ‘The Avengers.’ Check out the music video here.

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan: 20 songs demoed for new album, tour planned for 2013

Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan: 20 songs demoed for new album, tour planned for 2013

Last week, Depeche Mode offered up a sneak peak of its recording studio being set up, and now frontman Dave Gahan reveals the band already has demoed about 20 new songs for its as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2009’s ‘Sounds of the Universe’ — and already is making plans to take the new songs on the road next year.

Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser to make rare solo appearances at UK's Meltdown festival

Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser to make rare solo appearances at UK’s Meltdown festival

Elizabeth Fraser, the unforgettable voice of the Cocteau Twins, will return to the concert stage this summer for a pair of rare performances at the Antony-curated Meltdown festival at London’s Royal Albert Hall, which are being billed as her first solo concerts since the Cocteaus split up in 1998.

John Peel's record collection: First 100 titles in 'A' section now online for browsing

John Peel’s record collection: First 100 titles in ‘A’ section now online for browsing

The process of putting the late John Peel’s legendary record collection — reportedly numbering 26,000 LPs and 40,000 7-inches — online has begun, with the first 100 titles in his ‘A’ section debuting today at The Space. Each week through Oct. 1, the first 100 titles under each letter of the alphabet will join the site.