Welcome to Slicing Up Eyeballs’ new weekly feature: the Week in Rock, which, as its name pretty much 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.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 2011:
The Cure at Bestival: Roger O’Donnell rejoins band for 32-song set (video, setlist)
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 2011:
Peter Hook: ‘New Order without Peter Hook is like Queen without Freddie Mercury’
Bob Mould sets fall ‘See a Little Light’ book tour with ‘reading and music’ performances
Video: U2 ‘From the Sky Down’ trailer — documentary about ‘Achtung Baby’
THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 2011:
Video: Trailers for Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Psychocandy,’ ‘Darklands’ reissues
The Fall to release ‘Ersatz G.B.’ — 29th album — in November, embark on U.K. tour
Video: ‘1991: The Year Punk Broke’ DVD trailer, featuring Sonic Youth, Nirvana
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7, 2011:
Vintage Video: ‘20/20’ probes ‘New Wave rock’ phenomenon in 1979 segment
Video: Erasure, ‘When I Start To (Break It All Down),’ off ‘Tomorrow’s World’
Mark Burgess to perform The Chameleons’ ‘Script of the Bridge’ in New York, Oakland
TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 2011:
Q&A: Peter Hook on bringing Joy Division’s ‘Closer’ to U.S.; may perform ‘Still’ next
Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 38, first aired 9/6/11
Peter Murphy bringing ‘Ninth’ tour back to U.S. for fall dates with She Wants Revenge
Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (September 2011)
MBV Watch: My Bloody Valentine ‘Loveless,’ ‘Isn’t Anything’ reissues bumped to 2012
MONDAY, SEPT. 5, 2011:
New Order to reunite — without Peter Hook — for October concerts in Paris, Brussels
New releases: Icehouse best-of, Ministry’s ‘Psalm 69′ on vinyl, Freeez reissue
SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011:
Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 9/4/11
