Love and Rockets

Plus: Squirrel Nut Zippers, Midlake, King Woman openers in Brooklyn, The Microphones, Luna, Imperial Triumphant/Pyrrhon, Billy Idol and more tour and festival news.

This week in Indie Basement: Wand’s Cory Hanson goes solo, Jarvis Cocker and LA’s Automatic make remix albums, Hooverphonic reissue their debut album, and The Catenary Wires (ex Heavenly) announce their third LP.

Here are 13 classic ’80s goth songs by artists who didn’t make our list classic goth albums.

The original lineup of Bauhaus are reuniting for Los Angeles shows right after Halloween. Their 11/3 and 11/4 shows at Hollywood Palladium sold out instantly, and now they’ve added a third show…

Undead! Undead! Undead!

”Hit shuffle and consider drinking an overpriced beer out of a plastic cup for enhanced effect,” Trent says.

Poptone, the group featuring Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins of Tones on Tails, Love & Rockets and Bauhaus along with Diva Dompe, will release their self-titled debut LP on June 8 via Cleopatra.

David J reunited with his Bauhaus bandmate Peter Murphy at Guadalajara, Mexico’ Roxy Festival last weekend (4/21) to play a set of their their classics, including “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” “Kick in the Eye,” “She’s in Parties,” “Double Dare,” “Sigmata Martyr.” Watch video from that show, and they’ll do it again at three shows in San Francisco in June.

Plus: Yo La Tengo, Bonny Doon, ‘Dark Side of the Mule’ and more recently announced tours.