We interrupt our ongoing MBV Watch feature to mark the birthday of Kevin Shields — he’s 48 today — by presenting this full 14-song, 53-minute ‘Isn’t Anything’-era My Bloody Valentine concert filmed at the University of London Union on Feb. 16, 1989.

As the build-up continues toward Depeche Mode’s release of ‘Remixes 2: 81-11’ next month, FACT Magazine today premiered the brand new ‘Master and Servant’ (RSS Mix) — a remix that, unless the tracklist has changed, does not actually appear on the new album.

Einstürzende Neubauten next week will reissue its 2000 album ‘Silence is Sexy’ — an ‘unexpected exploration of silence’ that the group proclaims is ‘the most complex work of the Neubauten’ — before embarking on a short European tour.

The release of ex-Bauhaus leader Peter Murphy’s new solo album ‘Ninth’ is still nearly three weeks away, but the folks at Nettwerk Music have dropped a fourth preview cut from the record: the rocker ‘Memory Go.’

Blondie — anchored by original members Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and Clem Burke — will release their long-in-the-works ninth studio album ‘Panic of Girls’ in the U.K. next month and in the U.S. in September, and are previewing the release with a new video for lead-off single ‘Mother.’

Just days after news broke of the upcoming compilation ‘Total: From Joy Division to New Order,’ the set’s lone unreleased track — a latter-day New Order outtake called ‘Hellbent’ — has leaked after being played on Irish radio.

Frontman Wayne Hussey has tapped goth-rock contemporaries Fields of the Nephilim and Gene Loves Jezebel to open The Mission’s upcoming 25th anniversary concert in London — and recently announced plans to add a second U.K. performance and ‘some mainland European shows’ in October.