Some bands like to announce their entire tours at once, others prefer to dribble out dates here and there. The Psychedelic Furs in recent years have established themselves firmly in the latter camp, which is why it’s once again time to check in with the status of the rockers’ ever-expanding spring U.S. trek.

Warner Music UK today launched a new official website for The Smiths, an timeline dubbed “The Interactive Sound of The Smiths: 1982-1987” that lets visitors scroll through the history of the band as presented through its discography, with each single and full album available to stream via Spotify.

Friends of Devo’s Robert “Bob 2” Casale — who died unexpectedly two weeks ago from heart failure — are trying to raise $100,000 to support the late musician’s wife and children, with Casale’s brother and bandmate, Gerald Casale, noting that the 61-year-old “had no will or insurance” at the time of his death.

This week’s new releases include the first-ever vinyl pressing of Paul Westerberg’s second solo album ‘Eventually,’ plus new studio records from Missing Persons featuring Dale Bozzio, Laibach and Marc Almond of Soft Cell, plus an expanded reissue of The Blue Nile’s third album.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from The The, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Throwing Muses, Revolting Cocks, The Mission, Lords of Acid, Joy Division, 13th Chime, The Chameleons, Revolting Cocks, Bauhaus and more.

Welcome to the Week in Rock. This week featured news about Echo & The Bunnymen, XTC, Soundgarden, James, Steve Kibley, Simple Minds, Joe Strummer and more — plus we debuted the latest in our series of Auto Reverse mixtapes for your downloading/streaming pleasure.

Been a while since we’ve done a “120 Minutes” Rewind — the pickings were getting awfully slim on YouTube — but it’s time to revive the feature, and there’s no better way to do it than with this “120 X-Ray” spotlight on the mighty Joe Strummer.

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video we return to that treasure trove of quality early ’80s concert footage, the West German TV show “Rockpalast,” for this New Gold Dream-era performance by Simple Minds. Here, you can watch the full 90-minute performance by Jim Kerr and Co. filmed on June 6, 1982.

With just a couple days left in February, we’ve just managed to squeeze in this month’s (belated) installment in the Auto Reverse series: two fresh 45-minute sides that you can stream via Mixcloud, or download, at least for a limited time, courtesy of the link included right here.

The Church’s Steve Kilbey will perform with former bandmate Richard Ploog for the first time in nearly 25 years next month when the drummer — who left after 1990’s Gold Afternoon Fix — joins Kilbey and Mark Gable of The Choirboys for a “one-off special tour” called “Discover Australia: A Stumble Through Australian Pop History.”

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured tracks by Simple Minds, Ramones, Miracle Legion, Hoodoo Gurus, Mojo Nixon, The Jam, Echo & The Bunnymen, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, Devo, Joe Jackson, The Toy Dolls, Squeeze, Dinosaur Jr, James, The Afghan Whigs and more.

Echo & The Bunnymen this morning revealed the first details of their 2014 touring plans in support of forthcoming album Meteorites, announcing a 12-date tour this May that mostly will play the U.K. but also will include a trio of concerts in major cities in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Manchester-bred rockers James today announced they’ll release their next album — La Petite Mort, the first taste of which, “Frozen Britain,” you can stream below — this June, a record that bassist Jim Glennie says “stretched us and the songs and pushed us to new heights in craftsmanship and intensity.”