Synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys this weekend announced they’ve teamed up with choreographer Javier de Frutos to develop a full-length ballet based on the Hans Christian Andersen story ‘The Most Incredible Thing’ that’s set to premiere at London’s Sadler’s Wells dance house next March.

This week’s new releases include expanded reissues of a-ha’s ‘Hunting High and Low’ and ‘Scoundrel Days,’ plus Wire’s reunion album ‘Send,’ plus the CD edition of Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor’s debut as How to Destroy Angels.

We’ve run into a bit of technical difficulty with our tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ playlist. When we’re unable to catch the show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — as was the case this Fourth of July night — we’re usually able to recreate it using DogstarRadio.com’s excellent search function.

OK, so it’s not the most cheerful song if you actually listen to the lyrics, but there’s no denying this sounds great today: X’s classic country rocker ‘Fourth of July,’ written by short-lived member Dave Alvin and recorded for the ‘See How We Are’ album.

The Pixies will reissue two post-reunion concert DVDs — ‘Acoustic: Live in Newport’ and ‘Live at the Paradise in Boston’ — on a single Blu-ray disc this summer, bringing together 63 songs over three separate concerts spanning more than 20 years.

The reconstituted Public Image Ltd. today canceled the entire mid-August German leg of its ongoing reunion tour over ‘production scheduling problems,’ and said it has no plans to rebook the six scrapped concerts.