Android users: Your long national nightmare is over, as today we launch the much-requested Android version of the handy Slicing Up Eyeballs app, perhaps the easiest way to stay on top of the latest album and reissue news, tour dates, streaming music and video, and more from your favorite artists.

David J, of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, this week released the first single off his upcoming solo album, a gentle, acoustic number called “You Suit a Rainy Day” that precedes next month’s arrival of An Eclipse of Ships, an album he’s described as “a journal of the heart and a paean to Woman as muse.”

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured music by Morrissey, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Talking Heads, Electronic, The Replacements, Erasure, The Church, Concrete Blonde, Ian McCulloch, Orange Juice, Martin L. Gore, The Sugarcubes and more.

Having just wrapped up their North American tour, the Pixies this morning took the opportunity to debut yet another new music video — this time for the song “Greens and Blues” off the band’s EP2 — and fleshed out its world tour with dates in South America, Europe and Japan — plus a lone U.S. appearance.

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.