Public Image Ltd. this week debuted the third single — the bass-driven “Car Chase” off the band’s upcoming 11th album End of World, which is due out in August.

Public Image Ltd. today announced the release this summer of the the band’s 11th album, titled End of World, and an accompanying tour of the U.K. and Europe.

Nora Forster, a music promoter and mother of the late Slits frontwoman Ari Up who married John Lydon in 1979, has died after living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Public Image Ltd. appeared on Ireland’s “The Late Late Show” tonight as part of the band’s bid to represent that nation at the 67th annual Eurovision Song Contest.

Public Image Ltd. this month released a moving new single called “Hawaii,” described by the band as a “love letter” to frontman John Lydon’s wife Nora Forster.

Finding a full episode of MTV’s “120 Minutes” on YouTube is an increasingly impossible task. That’s why we were thrilled when a sharp-eyed Slicing Up Eyeballs reader recently pointed us to a trove of episodes uploaded to the Internet Archive — including one of our all-time favorites.

John Lydon will bring Public Image Ltd. back to North America this fall for an 18-date run as he commemorates his post-punk group’s 40th anniversary with a new documentary, giant box set and a world tour all bearing the name “The Public Image is Rotten.” See the full tour dates right here.

he new documentary “The Public Image is Rotten” — chronicling John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd. — will screen in theaters in the U.K. and Europe this summer and then North America this fall, according to the band. And here’s your first taste of the project, via the trailer here.

Public Image Ltd. this week revealed the tracklist of its upcoming new box set, a massive 7-disc collection called The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From The Heart) that collects singles, B-sides, rarities, 12-inch mixes, unreleased material, and live sets both on CD and DVD. See the full tracklists right here.

John Lydon’s reactivated Public Image Ltd. will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with tours of the U.K., Europe and Japan, along with the release of a new documentary and a career-spanning box that are both titled “The Public Image Is Rotten,” the band announced today. See those tour dates here.

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present the out-of-print, oft-bootlegged Public Image Ltd. concert film “Anarchy Movie ’85,” which only ever was released officially on VHS in Japan. This VHS transfer has surprisingly great picture and audio quality.

The massive touring production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice classic “Jesus Christ Superstar” that was to have starred Sex Pistols/Public Image Ltd. frontman John Lydon and hit 54 cities across North America this summer has been canceled less than two weeks before it was slated to open.

Keith Levene, founding member of both The Clash and Public Image Ltd., plans to resurrect what was to be PiL’s fourth album —1984’s Commercial Zone, released in two different incarnations — and “enhance it with original material,” finishing the album 30 years later.