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 R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Sparks, New Order, Midnight Oil, Daniel Ash, The House of Love, Peter Murphy and more — plus our latest Auto Reverse mixtape and the results of the Best of 1980 poll (topped by Joy Division’s Closer).
SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013
Morrissey cancels tonight’s San Francisco concert over ‘ongoing medical condition’
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013
Top 100 Albums of 1980: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 1
Sparks to release ‘Two Hands One Mouth’ live album, bring show to L.A., San Francisco
‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Martha Quinn interviews Gene Loves Jezebel — 1986
Depeche Mode to perform at South By Southwest during first-ever visit to festival
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
Stream: New Order, ‘Blue Monday’ — John Digweed & Nick Muir 30th anniversary remix
Vintage Video: Big Audio Dynamite in Rio de Janeiro, 1987 — watch full 45-minute set
New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ turns 30 today — an audiovisual retrospective, 1983-2013
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013
The B-52s and The Go-Go’s teaming up for joint U.S. tour this summer
Midnight Oil’s ‘Essential Oils’ 2CD best-of set to receive U.S. release next month
R.E.M. to reissue ‘Green’ in 25th anniversary 2CD set, release live Record Store Day EP
Midge Ure to receive 2CD best-of ‘The Works,’ prepping live set from U.S. tour
The Jesus and Mary Chain to headline Canada’s Sled Island festival this summer
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013
Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 110, aired 3/5/13
Spurned by David Bowie, Morrissey turns to Rick Astley for sleeve of new reissue single
Depeche Mode announce South By Southwest Q&A to discuss ‘Delta Machine,’ world tour
Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (March 2013)
Daniel Ash of Bauhaus to host all-inclusive, $2,000-a-person weekend in Las Vegas
Stream: The House of Love, ‘A Baby Got Back On Its Feet’ — off ‘She Paints Words in Red’
Video: Paul Weller shows off his picks for Amoeba Music’s ‘What’s In My Bag?’
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013
Close Lobsters, The Bats, The Monochrome Set, The Wolfhounds playing NYC Popfest
Contest: Win Agent Orange’s ‘Living in Darkness’ LP, CD reissues from Drastic Plastic Records
Orange Juice’s 4 original studio albums to be reissued on vinyl for Record Store Day
The Glove’s ‘Blue Sunshine’ to be reissued as 2LP set on blue vinyl for Record Store Day
Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays on Factory Records 10-inch for Record Store Day
The Cure’s ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’ to receive red-vinyl reissue for Record Store Day
New releases: Replacements, Trent Reznor, Robyn Hitchcock, Thurston Moore, TMBG
SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013
Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/3/13)
Peter Murphy to play all-Bauhaus concerts in U.S. to mark band’s 35th anniversary
