Michelle Shocked will have a lot of free time to think about Sunday’s (March 17) anti-gay tirade. All but one show in her US tour have been cancelled.

Billboard reports that 10 dates on her tour of the West Coast and Midwest have been vacated. It does not appear she should be too optimistic about the one hold out – a May 4jaunt at the Harmony Bar in Madison, Wisconsin, either. The person who answered their phone told Billboard “I won’t know a damn thing until the boss comes back in eight days.”

The Evanston [Illinois] SPACE, one of the first venues to cancel, posted this statement to Facebook. “Many of you have reached out already following an ugly rant given by Michelle Shocked at her show in San Francisco last night. After speaking with the promoter of that show about the nature of the remarks, it’s clear that this is no longer a show we’re willing to put our name on. The May 5th performance at SPACE has been cancelled and refunds will be issued at point of purchase.” A similar note was put on Twitter.

Shocked’s assumed surname became the source of many a pun when she told a San Francisco audience “When they stop Prop 8 [the California initiative that banned gay marriage] and force priests at gunpoint to marry gays, it will be the downfall of civilization and Jesus will come back.”

She later told the crowd “You are going to leave here and tell people ‘Michelle Shocked said God hates faggots.’”

Amid the fallout, Shocked has been silent.

Shocked’s cancelled dates, as compiled by Billboard are as follows:

March 23, McCabe’s – Santa Monica, CA

March 28, Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA

March 29, HopMonk – Novato, CA

April 24, the Palms Playhouse – Winter, CA

April 25, the Alberta Rose Theatre – Portland, OR

April 26, Meanders Kitchen – Seattle, WA

April 27, Cozmic – Eugene, OR

May 3, eTown Hall – Boulder, CO

May 5, S.P.A.C.E – Evanston, IL

June 23, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Telluride CO.

Blondie are set to embark on a tour of the UK and Ireland this summer.

Of the jaunt, which kicks off at Nottingham’s Sherwood Pines Forest Park on June 14, frontwoman Debbie Harry said: “England will always have a special place in our hearts –we’re all so excited about the forthcoming tour of the UK.”

The band will play the Isle of Wight Festival on June 16 as part of the tour and will also head up two London shows, at Camden’s Roundhouse July 7 and Kew Gardens on July 9.

Blondie released their last album, ‘Panic Of Girls’, in 2011. The follow up to 2003’s ‘The Curse Of Blondie’, it contained a cover of Beirut’s ‘Sunday Smile’. Beirut’s Zach Condon appeared on the album, providing guest vocals.

Blondie will play:

Nottingham Sherwood Pines Forest Park (June 14)

Thetford Forest (15)

Isle of Wight Festival (16)

Liverpool Academy (18)

Isle of Man Villa Marina (19)

Gloucestershire Westonbirt Arboretum (21)

Kent Bedgebury Pinetum (22)

Dublin Olympia (25)

Belfast Waterfront (26)

Yorkshire Dalby Forest (28)

Staffordshire Cannock Chase Forest (29)

Glasgow Clyde Auditorium (July 1)

Edinburgh Usher Hall (2)

Newcastle Academy (4)

Cheshire Delamere Forest (6)

London Roundhouse (7)

London Kew Gardens (9)

The Men have unveiled their first ever music video for the track ‘I Saw Her Face’ – watch it below.

Speaking about the video, singer Mark Perro told NME via email: “We were trying to make a video like Earth, Wind and Fire’s ‘Lets Groove Tonight'”. Drummer Rich Samis added: “This was shot in December 2012 at our friend Alexander Perrelli’s apartment. All video effects were generated through the use of commercial grade video mixers and enhancers. The raw video footage was shot entirely on VHS cameras. Our friend Brian Chillemi was nice enough to help us out in the painstaking process of editing this video. Brian and our buddy ZZ Ramirez helped out with the camera work. Nick’s [Chiericozzi – guitarist] guitar is actually on fire on some shots. We like it.”

The track is taken from the Brooklyn quintet’s fourth album ‘New Moon’, which was released earlier this month (March 5). The band will play London’s Garage tonight (March 19) along with fellow NYC rockers Parquet Courts.

The Men released their debut LP ‘Immaculada’ in 2010, which was followed by ‘Leave Home’ in 2011 and the critically acclaimed ‘Open Your Heart’ in 2012.

Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy was reportedly arrested on Saturday (March 16) on suspicion of causing injuries while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and for hit-and-run offences.

According to the Glendale News Press, the singer of the British goth rock group allegedly injured another driver after crashing a car in Glendale, Southern California before fleeing to Los Angeles, where he was held up by an eyewitness until police arrived. The passer by was “afraid [Murphy] would kill someone with his driving,” police told reporters.

Police officers in Glendale said Murphy, who now resides in Turkey, appeared to be “very confused” and had difficulty recalling what day and time it was, Police said. The singer denied he had been drinking alcohol, but said he had taken his regular medication for depression. He admitted he had been involved in a traffic collision, telling police he was jet-lagged after a recent flight.

Officers also report that they later found a small plastic bag inside the police patrol car where Murphy had been detained – which they believe may contain Methamphetamine (more commonly knows as crystal meth). Murphy denied the bag belonged to him, but police believe he was trying to get rid of the substance in the car.

The singer was arrested on suspicion of causing injuries while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, felony hit-and-run and possessing methamphetamine, police said. He remains in police custody awaiting bail.

Bauhaus released five albums over their career – the first being 1980’s ‘In The Flat Field’ before 1981’s ‘Mask’, 1982’s ‘The Sky’s Gone Out’ and 1983’s ‘Burning From The Inside’. Bauhaus first broke up in 1983, with Peter Murphy embarking on a solo career and other members forming Tones On Tail and then Love and Rockets. The band reunited for a 1998 tour, and again from 2005. They released their last album ‘Go Away White’ in 2008.

Earlier this year, Peter Murphy announced that he would be setting out to perform Bauhaus material on a 49-date US and European tour. He is due to play five dates in the UK in June.

Ian McCulloch has recorded an album worth of orchestral versions of Echo And The Bunnymen songs as part of his new solo album. Scroll down to hear the new version of ‘Bring On The Dancing Horses’ now.

McCulloch’s latest solo album will be a double album with one disc dedicated to orchestral versions of the Liverpool band’s greatest hits. The idea for the album came about following a show McCulloch played at the Union Chapel in London in May 2012. Producer Flood (PJ Harvey, The Killers) has re-recorded the tracks, which will be released under the title ‘Holy Ghosts’.

Speaking about the Union Chapel show which inspired the plan to re-record his bands songs in a new fashion, McCulloch said: “It was like, something’s happening here that you might want to document. The fact that it was so spontaneously decided we’d record it was lucky, because on the night I’d more or less forgotten. Usually you’re too aware of everything being mic’d up and all that, but this time, after the first chord had been hit, I was in a world of me own.”

Other songs which have been reworked by McCulloch and Flood include The Bunnymen’s ‘Lips Like Sugar’, ‘Rescue’, ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’, and ‘The Killing Moon’. Holy Ghosts is released on April 22 via Edsel Records and will come with McCulloch’s fourth solo studio album ‘Pro Patria Mori’.

Echo & The Bunnymen will support Primal Scream in London on Thursday (March 21) as part of the Noel Gallagher curated Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Michelle Shocked lived up to her nom de plume on Sunday (March 17) by telling a San Francisco concert audience that gay marriage will lead to the apocalypse during a series of bizarre homophobic rants.

According to the Bay Area Reporter, Shocked (nee Karen Michelle Johnston) played a two set show at Yoshi’s. The former Grammy nominee completed the first set without a hitch. The second set, however, went awry as soon as she told the crowd it would be “all about reality.”

As detailed in the Reporter:

“‘When they stop Prop 8 [the California initiative that banned gay marriage] and force priests at gunpoint to marry gays, it will be the downfall of civilization and Jesus will come back,’ she said.

“Loud gasps were heard from the audience. Many fans walked out.

David Bowie’s producer will take part in a new stage show as part of The Record Producers Live series.

Jason Molina, the singer and guiding force behind Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company has passed away due to natural causes. He was 39 years old.

“This is especially hard for us to share,” his label, Secretly Canadian, wrote in a press release. “Jason is the cornerstone of Secretly Canadian. Without him there would be no us — plain and simple.”

The singer had been mostly absent from the world of music since cancelling a tour with Will Johnson in 2009 to deal with alcoholism and related health issues.

Molina was born in Lorain, Ohio. Although he would make his name as a performer of far more delicate music, Molina’s musical career began playing bass in heavy metal bands around Cleveland, Ohio. However, Molina found his true calling as a singer-songwriter. He began distributing homemade albums under a variety of different names– Songs: Radix, Songs: Albian and Songs: Unitas. The end result was Songs: Ohia, with a breakthrough self-titled debut in 1997.

Songs: Ohia released eight albums, including the live Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma, before Molina halted the project in the wake of 2003’s Magnolia Electric Co. He continued to record solo music under his own name, including the collaboration with kindred spirit Oldham, before assembling a new, Crazy Horse-like band under the name of Magnolia Electric Company in 2005. They released five full lengths, the last being Josephina in 2009.

Molina’s struggles with alcoholism were made public in 2011, when his family solicited donations to help pay for medical bills stemming from several trips to rehab. In a post to the Magnolia Electric Co. website titled “Where is jason molia [sic]” the family expressed optimism that Molina, then “working on a farm in West Virginia raising chickens,” had been making progress towards “becoming healthy” and was “looking forward to making great music again.” Eight months later Molina posted a thank you note on his website for help of all sorts (“good vibes are worth more than you might think”), mentioning that he had written to 500 fans who had sent get well soon letters.

“Jason was incredibly humbled by his fans’ support through the years,” said Secretly Canadian in their release “and said that the two most important words he could ever say are ‘Thank you.'”

Molina’s last project, a 10” LP that accompanied a William Schaff art book, was released in September.