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 Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, The Fall, R.E.M., The Three O’Clock, Ian McCulloch, Skinny Puppy, Visage, The Specials, Mark Mulcahy and more — plus voting is now open for the Top 100 Albums of 1982.
SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013
Video: Johnny Marr plays The Smiths’ ‘There Is a Light That Never Goes Out’ at Coachella
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013
Coachella live webcast: The Stone Roses, New Order, Violent Femmes, Nick Cave, OMD and more
R.E.M.’s ‘Murmur’ turns 30 today — hear a dozen demos of tracks off classic album
The Fall to release ‘Re-Mit’ — 30th studio album — next month, embark on U.K. tour
‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Love and Rockets’ Daniel Ash talks to Dave Kendall — 1991
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
Skinny Puppy tackles glorification, horror of guns on new concept album ‘Weapon’
Video: The Three O’Clock plays ‘With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend’ live on ‘Conan’
Linkage: Depeche Mode’s Vienna webcast, plus Ian McCulloch, Kate Bush, Dead Can Dance
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013
Video: Ian McCulloch on writing ‘The Killing Moon,’ aka ‘the greatest song ever written’
The Three O’Clock to release new compilation with 10 unreleased tracks, play ‘Conan’
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013
Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 115, aired 4/9/13
Adam Ant announces massive 2-month, 37-date North American summer tour
The Cure’s Robert Smith to Chilean fans: ‘Just come to the concert. It’ll be really good’
Stream: Miracle Legion’s Mark Mulcahy, ‘She Makes The World Turn Backwards’
The Specials returning to North America this summer for second leg of tour
Contest: Win tickets to see Killing Joke play New York City’s Irving Plaza on April 19
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013
Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 3: Vote for your top albums of 1982
‘Margaret on the Guillotine’: Revisiting the classic anti-Thatcher songs of the ’80s
Stream: Visage, ‘Shameless Fashion’ — lead single off band’s 1st album in 29 years
Video: Depeche Mode, ‘Soft Touch/Raw Nerve’ — performed live in the studio
New releases: OMD, Big Country, Morrissey, Electronic, Sparks, The Fall, The House of Love
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013
Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/7/13)
