Punknews.org reports that Henry Rollins has reunited with, if not quite the best, at least the most commercially successful line-up of the Rollins Band. Sim Cain, Chris Haskett and Melvin Gibbs (who replaced Andrew Weiss in 1993) have been rehearsing with Henry and plan to tour by August.

Two bands and 26 years later, Psychedelic Furs (and Love Spit Love) frontman Richard Butler will release his first solo album in one week. After hearing streams of three new songs on Butler's Myspace page, I'm sort of happy that earlier reports of a new Furs album turned out to be untrue. I'd hate to have that sacred name attached to this "the-kind-of-crap-Nic-Harcourt-creams-himself-over" garbage.

Gigwise.com spoke to Robert Smith about the next album from The Cure after a recent show with the latest and least populated line-up of the band in over 20 years.

Says Fat Bob: "The idea of playing with this four-piece, without introducing other people, and recreating some of the songs with a pared down sound, is what we are all trying to do with the next record. We have four bits in the song and they all work so well, that we do not want any other bits. That's the point of doing this."

A full album and concert tour from The Cure without keyboards? That pretty much rules out faithful renditions of their entire catalog between 1980 and 2004. I hope you really like "Boys Don't Cry"... they might have to play it twice.