Welcome to another installment of the Week in Rock, which, as its name pretty much implies, rounds up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week — offering one-stop shopping for anything you might have missed. And this week, that included news about New Order, R.E.M., Wall of Voodoo, Kate Bush and more, plus a new Slicing Up Eyeballs mixtape and a contest to win the new B-52s live album.
FRIDAY, OCT. 7, 2011
Peter Hook: New Order planning U.S. tour, reuniting ‘for financial reasons mainly’
Video: Jane’s Addiction plays ‘Irresistible Force,’ ‘Stop!’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
THURSDAY, OCT. 6, 2011
Contest: Win The B-52s’ ‘With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, Ga.’ live CD
Wall of Voodoo’s ‘Lost Weekend: The Best of the I.R.S. Years’ out this fall
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 2011
Video: R.E.M. ‘Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011’ trailer
Milestones: Depeche Mode’s ‘Speak & Spell’ released Oct. 5, 1981 — 30 years ago today
TUESDAY, OCT. 4, 2011
Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 42, first aired 10/4/11
Pet Shop Boys writing songs for 11th album, to be recorded this fall and out in 2012
Kate Bush to release ‘Wild Man’ single next week — first track off ‘50 Words for Snow’
Peter Murphy to release ‘The Secret Bees of Ninth’ 6-song digital EP next week
MONDAY, OCT. 3, 2011
Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (October 2011)
Stream: R.E.M. ‘Radio Free Europe’ original Mitch Easter mix from ‘Cassette Set’ demo
Label to replace Jesus and Mary Chain’s new ‘Darklands’ reissues with tracking error
New releases: Erasure, PWEI, Dinosaur Jr, The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain
SUNDAY, OCT. 2, 2011
Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 10/2/11
INXS taps singer Ciaran Gribbin to replace J.D. Fortune, plans fall tour and new album
