This week sees the release of a new album by The Alarm, a Pet Shop Boys complication, a Flaming Lips rarities set, and an And Also the Trees reissue.

The Alarm is back with a brand-new album called Forwards, and Mike Peters has just released a third single off the upcoming record, a song called “Whatever.”

Mike Peters of The Alarm celebrated his medical recovery with the new single “Next” earlier this month, and now he’s announcing a whole new album.

Mike Peters of Welsh rockers The Alarm is back with a triumphant new single called “Next,” a song he wrote while being treated for his latest relapse of leukemia.

Main Man Records this spring will release Hero: A Tribute to David Bowie, an ultra-limited white-vinyl LP — the label says just 300 copies are being pressed — that features The Alarm and members of Blondie, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Heaven 17 and more honoring the Thin White Duke. Full details right here.

he Alarm has been on tour in the U.S. this summer with contemporaries Modern English and Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel, a package that drew a high-profile guest in Cleveland last night: Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who joined the Mike Peters-led band onstage to help perform its 1987 single “Rain in the Summertime.”

In late June, Mike Peters released the first album by The Alarm in eight years, an 11-song effort called Equals that features Billy Duffy of The Cult on one song. Now comes the music video for one of the album’s standouts: “Thirteen Dead Reindeer,” a driving rockers with some electronic flourishes.