When Peter Hook & The Light played their first of this week’s two shows in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, the band was joined by a pair of special guests: Moby and Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, who helped the legendary bassist perform a total of four Joy Division classics at The Music Box.

Following last year’s release of a disc of re-recorded greatest hits, the surviving members of INXS have been promising new music — and today they deliver, offering the first taste of what’s to come in the form of an Andrew Farriss home-studio demo called ‘Tiny Summer.’

Demon Music Group today released video trailers for the second two titles in The Jesus and Mary Chain’s upcoming 2CD/1DVD reissue series: 1989’s ‘Automatic’ and 1992’s ‘Honey’s Dead.’

The Waterboys return next week with their first new album in four years, the 14-track ‘An Appointment with Mr. Yeats,’ which features songs bandleader Mike Scott created from the lyrics of Irish poet W.B. Yeats for the stage show of the same name.

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured an hour of all live recordings, with in-concert cuts from The Smiths, Love and Rockets, New Order, The The, David Bowie, The Cure and more.

Dinosaur Jr will continue their celebration of all things ‘Bug’ by taking their ongoing tour commemorating the 1988 album — and on-stage interviewer Henry Rollins — to the West Coast for six December concerts in California, Oregon and Washington.

Earlier this summer, Simple Minds treated fans to a brand-new single called ‘Stagefright’ — the band’s first new material since 2009’s ‘Graffiti Soul’ — that is now available here as a free download.

X are extending the 30th anniversary celebration of their debut ‘Los Angeles’ — which began with a run of West Coast dates last Christmas — with a new 10-date December leg that follows the band’s previously announced fall tour, which will feature a performance of the 1980 album front-to-back each night.

While initially announced as U.K.-only, Rhino Records has decided to release a limited number of The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ box sets in the U.S. exclusively through Rhino.com. Even better: They’ve given us a copy of the deluxe CD-and-vinyl edition to give away to one very lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader.

Kate Bush this morning announced she will release a brand-new album called ’50 Words for Snow’ — a 65-minute collection featuring ‘seven brand new tracks set against a background of falling snow’ — in late November on her newly launched record label, Fish People.

This week’s new releases include new albums from Gary Numan (‘Dead Son Rising’) and Blondie (‘Panic of Girls’), plus reissue from the Art of Noise (‘Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise’) and The Raincoats (‘Odyshape’), plus the first-ever DVD release of Sonic Youth’s ‘1991: The Year Punk Broke.’

Welcome to Slicing Up Eyeballs’ new weekly feature: the Week in Rock, which, as its name implies, rounds up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past, uh, week. Basically, it’s one-stop shopping for any readers who might have been too busy during the week to keep tabs on all the headlines.

We commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today with this footage of David Bowie performing two classic songs — Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘America’ and his own ‘Heroes’ — to open the Concert For New York City at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 20 2001.