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 of the death of Scruffy the Cat’s Charlie Chesterman, plus items on For Against, They Might Be Giants, Jimmy Somerville, Jane’s Addiction, Johnny Marr and more — plus the beginning of voting for the Top 100 albums of 1989.
FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 2013
For Against’s ‘Echelons,’ ‘December,’ ‘In the Marshes’ collected in new vinyl box set
Video: Nine Inch Nails bring ‘All Time Low’ to ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ in network TV debut
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 2013
Video: Johnny Marr gets ‘The Right Thing Right’ during visit to ‘Conan’
They Might Be Giants’ ‘Flood,’ 3 others on Elektra getting expanded 2-albums-in-1 reissues
Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 136, aired 11/5/13
TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 2013
Charlie Chesterman, frontman of Scruffy the Cat, loses battle with cancer
Video: Jane’s Addiction blasts through ‘Stop!,’ an 11-minute ‘Three Days’ on Kimmel
Stream Erasure’s new Christmas album ‘Snow Globe’ in full a week ahead of release
MONDAY, NOV. 4, 2013
Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 10: Vote for your top albums of 1989
Video: Jimmy Somerville drops in on busker singing Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’
New releases: David Bowie’s ‘The Next Day’ reissue, plus audiophile XTC and new Melvins
SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 2013
Video: The Cure plays ‘Burn’ for first time ever at New Orleans’ Voodoo Music Experience
Morrissey does Morrissey: ‘Walking Dead’s’ Governor to read ‘Autobiography’ audiobook
Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/3/13)
