Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about Simple Minds, Morrissey, Meat Puppets, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, New Order, Fine Young Cannibals, XTC, The Fall, The Breeders, OMD and Gibby Haynes — plus our latest mixtape and the launch of our Best of the ’80s poll.
FRIDAY, FEB. 8. 2013
Still ill: Morrissey postpones 5 more concerts as doctors order 2 more weeks rest
‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray’ on Mark E. Smith and The Fall with Kevin Seal — 1987
Full-album stream: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, ‘Push the Sky Away’
THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013
Meat Puppets return with ‘Rat Farm’ this spring — plus U.S. tour, SXSW shows
Video: The House of Love, ‘A Baby Got Back On Its Feet’ — off ‘She Paints Words in Red’
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6, 2013
New Order confirms Coachella warm-ups, promises more U.S. dates ‘later in the year’
Vintage Video: XTC’s Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding get in bed with cable-access TV
Fine Young Cannibals’ two albums to receive 2CD reissues with B-sides, remixes
Linkage: Flaming Lips cover Stone Roses LP, dueling Black Flags, Primal Scream, Pulp
TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 2013
Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 107, aired 2/5/13
‘Scared To Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989’ 5CD box set tracklist revealed
Simple Minds reveal tracklists for ‘Celebrate — Greatest Hits+’ best-ofs
Morrissey to reissue tweaked ‘Kill Uncle,’ release 3 new songs as B-sides to ’89 single
The Breeders confirm ‘Last Splash’ 20th anniverary concerts in North America, Europe
Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (February 2013)
MONDAY, FEB. 4, 2013
Morrissey postpones concerts in Las Vegas, Phoenix ‘due to doctor’s orders’
Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s: Vote for your top albums of 1980
Video: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, ‘Jubilee Street’ — NSFW clip from new album
Stream: Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes teams with Jack White for 7-inch
Video: OMD, ‘Atomic Ranch’ — 2nd of 3 animated clips from ‘English Electric’
New releases: My Bloody Valentine, Depeche Mode, Roxy Music, Bauhaus, Bjork
SUNDAY, FEB. 3, 2013
Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/3/13)
