Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Erasure, the Bangles and Duran Duran, plus old favorites by the Gun Club, Red Flag, Let’s Active, The Art of Noise, David Byrne, Lou Barlow, Real Life and more.

Having wrapped their global Pandemonium Tour with a final show last December, the Pet Shop Boys now are at work writing material for their upcoming 11th album, which they hope to begin recording next month and then release sometime next year, singer Neil Tennant says in a recent post to the band’s official website.

Kate Bush will give fans their first taste of her new album ’50 Words for Snow’ — the singer’s first collection of new material since 2005′s ‘Aerial’ — next week when she releases ‘Wild Man’ as the record’s first single via digital outlets worldwide.

Peter Murphy next week will release ‘The Secret Bees of Ninth,’ a six-track digital-only EP that features the previously unreleased songs ‘Rose Hunter,’ ‘Good Works’ and ‘Secret,’ plus bonus and extended tracks from his most recent studio album, ‘Ninth.’

This month’s tape features new music from Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain and INXS with new lead singer Ciaran Gribbin, plus rarities from The Smiths, Elvis Costello and Ian McCulloch and classics from The Replacements, Propaganda, Camper Van Beethoven and the late R.E.M.

R.E.M.’s rare 1981 ‘Cassette Set’ demo tape — 400 copies were sent to labels, clubs and journalists — has surfaced online, giving many fans their first taste of producer Mitch Easter’s original mixes of ‘Radio Free Europe,’ ‘Sitting Still’ and ‘White Tornado.’