The Pixies are set to debut their second new bassist in a year — Paz Lenchantin, who played in A Perfect Circle and Billy Corgan’s brief post-Smashing Pumpkins outfit Zwan — at a just-announced warm-up gig next week in Northampton, Mass., that will feature an opening set from Miracle Legion’s Mark Mulcahy.

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured new music from the Pixies, Tears For Fears, ChameleonsVox, The Mission and Morrissey, plus old favorites from The The, Front 242, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joe Strummer, Midnight Oil, Aztec Camera, Pet Shop Boys, Love and Rockets and more.

Last summer, the members of New Order — Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, as well as former bassist Peter Hook — and sleeve designer Peter Saville were interviewed by Swedish National Television for a 30-minute documentary on the story behind their iconic 1983 single “Blue Monday.”

Steve Wynn’s reunited Dream Syndicate — featuring Dennis Duck, Mark Walton and new guitarist Jason Victor — has only played a handful of dates in the U.S. since first coming together in the fall of 2012, so, for many, this film of the band’s full 100-minute set in Cleveland last November is a godsend.

Last month, former Jam frontman Paul Weller participated in Save the Children’s Christmas Tree Sessions benefit, performing five songs — including a brand-new one called “Gravity” — while backed by the London Metropolitan Orchestra, a 20-minute set that is now available to watch.

And it all comes down to this: After 1o months of voting in our year-by-year Best of the ’80s polls to determine the best albums of each year of the 1980s, we wrap it all up with the grandaddy of them all, the big all-decade poll designed to crown, once and for all, Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers favorite records of the ’80s.

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart will reunite once again as the Eurythmics to perform a yet-to-be-announced Beatles cover at “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles,” a television special that’s being taped on Jan. 27 in Los Angeles the day after the Grammy Awards.

Peter Gabriel’s companion to 2010′s Scratch My Back, out in the U.K. since September, gets a belated U.S. release this week. It features versions of his songs covered by many of the artists (Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, Paul Simon) he covered on the original release.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from The Cult, Morrissey, 1,000 Homo DJs, Gang of Four, The Cure, Throwing Muses, Clan of Xymox, Joy Division, Soft Cell, Coil, The Cramps, Bauhaus, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Wake, Christian Death and more.

The Pixies are ringing in 2014 with a second batch of new songs, today releasing a second four-song EP of brand-new material and debuting the video for one of the songs: the rocker “Blue Eyed Hexe,” which the band debuted last September at a warm-up gig.

In a wide-ranging new Q&A with fans, Morrissey reveals that he’s about to start recording a new album, he’s midway through writing his first novel and that he once tried and failed to get David Bowie to record a duet of the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin.'”

The Church’s Steve Kilbey dropped a New Year’s surprise for fans, releasing a nearly 3-hour documentary that features performances, interviews and “general horsing around” that he filmed during the short 1991 U.S. tour by Jack Frost, his group with Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens.

Sarah Records — which released music from bands such as The Field Mice, Another Sunny Day and Boyracer between 1987 and 1995 — is the subject of a new feature-length documentary that aims to show how “you can run a successful business without surrendering personal ethics.”