To promote the release this week of Peter Murphy’s new six-track digital EP ‘The Secret Bees of Ninth,’ the folks over at RollingStone.com are offering a free download of the collection’s opening song, ‘Gaslit,’ which previously appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese release of ‘Ninth.’

Just a day after the first track from Q magazine’s upcoming full-album tribute to U2′s 20-year-old ‘Achtung Baby’ — Jack White’s cover of ‘Love is Blindness’ — hit the web comes our second taste: Damien Rice’s stark and intense makeover of ‘One.’

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music form Peter Murphy, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel, plus old favorites from Robyn Hitchcock, John Foxx, Wall of Voodoo, Midnight Oil, The Communards and more. Replay at 2 p.m EDT Friday.

Robyn Hitchcock this month will release ‘Chronolology,’ a 16-track, hand-picked, digital-only greatest-hits set that’s being marketed as the artist’s first-ever best-of — even though he’s been treated to at least three such compilations, all released during the mid-1990s.

Yesterday we learned the full tracklist of Q magazine’s upcoming full-album tribute to U2’s 20-year-old ‘Achtung Baby,’ and now we have our first taste of ‘AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered’: guitar slayer Jack White’s bluesy rumble through the album-closing ‘Love is Blindness.’

New Order has commissioned Factory Records graphic artist Peter Saville to design a pair of posters — based on his classic Substance album cover — for the reunited group’s European charity concerts next week in support of longtime band associate Michael Shamberg, who is fighting a ‘debilitating illness.’

U2 has revealed the full tracklist for Q magazine’s ‘AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered’ tribute album, which will feature Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Jack White, Garbage, The Killers, Patti Smith, Damien Rice, Gavin Friday, Snow Patrol, Glasvegas and U2 itself (in remixed form).