The year’s not quite over yet, which means we’ve still got time to drop in the results of the Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll to determine the best albums and reissues/box sets/compilations of this past year — think of this as a minor detour before we wrap up the big Best of the ’80s poll, coming next week.

The year’s not quite over yet, which means we’ve still got time to drop in the results of the Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll to determine the best albums and reissues/box sets/compilations of this past year — think of this as a minor detour before we wrap up the giant Best of the ’80s poll, coming next week.

As we first mentioned last month, Paul Westerberg’s post-Replacements solo debut —1993’s 14 Songs, featuring alt-rock radio hit “World Class Fad” — will receive its first-ever vinyl release next year in an 180-gram pressing similar to the previously announced release of his 1996 follow-up album Eventually.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night celebration of the “darker side of classic alternative” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured music from Belfegore, Skinny Puppy, Wire, The Sisters of Mercy, Fad Gadget, Ski Patrol, Peter Murphy, The Cure, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, KMFDM and more.

previously unreleased and apparently never-completed 5-minute-long Talking Heads instrumental called “Theme” has surfaced online via a recording of the first of the band’s two sets opening for a pair of performances by Television at CBGB’s on the night of July 30, 1976.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured all Christmas music, from the likes of The Pogues, Al Jourgensen, U2, The Smithereens, R.E.M., Miracle Legion, Kate Bush, Ramones, Husker Du, Cocteau Twins, The Fall, Squeeze, X, The Pretenders and more.

Seeing as how we’re a bit late in delivering the December entry in the Auto Reverse mixtape series, we’re going to break format slightly and instead drop a huge Christmas mix on you — a 40-song, two-hour collection of festive fare from the likes of X, R.E.M., Cocteau Twins and more.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Public Image Ltd., Morrissey, New Model Army, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Fall, Alien Sex Fiend, March Violets, The Glove, Japan, The Sisters of Mercy and more.

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 news about Tears For Fears, Bad Religion, The Replacements, Aztec Camera, David J, Orange Juice, The Fixx, Gary Numan and more.

Aztec Camera’s 1983 debut album High Land, Hard Rain will receive a (slightly) belated 30th anniversary reissue in North America in early 2014, a 2CD set that expands on last year’s European re-release with 16 bonus tracks that include B-sides, remixes, alternate versions and a host of live radio session material.

Southern California punk giants Bad Religion dropped by TBS’ “Conan” show last night to spread some Yuletide cheer, ripping through their appropriately raucous take on the classic hymn “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” off the band’s recently released holiday album, Christmas Songs.

David J, the former bassist of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, has launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise $30,000 from fans to fund the completion of his next solo album — An Eclipse of Ships, described as “a journal of the heart and a paean to Woman as muse.”

Following last April’s vinyl-only Record Store Day releases, Domino next year will reissue all four original albums from Scottish indie-pop act Orange Juice — You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever (1982), Rip It Up (1982), Texas Fever (1984) and The Orange Juice (1984) — on CD, as digital downloads and, once again, on vinyl.