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 Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Johnny Marr, The Replacements, Violent Femmes, Alison Moyet, Peter Murphy, OMD, The Boomtown Rats and more.

The 2013 installment of Record Store Day is still three months away, but details are starting to emerge about what bands will be offering limited-edition vinyl releases to commemorate the day — a list that so far includes new releases from the likes of Hüsker Dü, Robyn Hitchcock, Paul Weller and Wire.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The Smiths, Tones on Tail, Public Image Ltd., Gene Loves Jezebel, Pailhead, Sad Lovers and Giants, New Order, Alien Sex Fiend, Killing Joke and more.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Ministry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Bauhaus, Balaam and the Angel, Love and Rockets, Clan of Xymox, Rose of Avalanche, Front 242, Joy Division and more.

We’ve come to the close of another year, which means it’s time to tally up what people have been reading on Slicing Up Eyeballs over the past 12 months. A lot of posts about Depeche Mode, it turns out. While the band only logs one entry in the Top 10, they’ve got six headlines in the Top 20 — a good year from the boys from Basildon.

As promised on last night’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio, here’s an extended version of this year’s Christmas mix — a nearly 100-minute set featuring seasonal songs from the likes of The Fall, Al Jourgensen, Cocteau Twins, The Smithereens and more — for your streaming and/or downloading pleasure.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The Sisters of Mercy, The Jazz Butcher, A Certain Ratio and Tones on Tail, plus holiday songs from Al Jourgensen, Throwing Muses, Cocteau Twins and more.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Joy Division, David J, Specimen, Concrete Blonde, Skinny Puppy, Theatre of Pain, The Wolfgang Press, The Mission, Revolting Cocks, The Cure, Ministry and much, much more.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Revolting Cocks, The Chameleons, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Fad Gadget, The Mission, Soft Cell, The The, Modern English, UK Decay and much, much more.

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present a somewhat odd pairing: Downtown Julie Brown — better known for hosting “Club MTV” than her occasional Sunday night stints — running through a “120 Minutes X-Ray” segment on U.K. post-punk act The Lucy Show on the Jan. 25, 1987, episode.

The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Love and Rockets, Southern Death Cult, The Human League, The Stranglers, Killing Joke, The March Violets, Bauhaus, The Psychedelic Furs and much more.

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This edition includes items about Joe Strummer, R.E.M., “120 Minutes,” The Cure, Andy Partridge, Bob Mould, PiL, Mark Eitzel, Dinosaur Jr, Psychedelic Furs, Peter Gabriel and more.

The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Concrete Blonde, Clan of Xymox, Love and Rockets, The Teardrop Explodes, Cetu Javu, The Sugarcubes, Skinny Puppy nd much more.