Tonight’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured music from The Church, Hunters & Collectors, The Chameleons, Bauhaus, The House of Love, Shop Assistants, Ramones, New Order, The Godfathers, Galaxie 500 and more. Replay at 2 p.m. Eastern on Friday.

Rhino Records is branching out into the literary world with today’s debut of ‘Single Notes,’ a new eBook series that kicks off with Binky Philips’ story of how his band, The Planets, became a ‘CBGB almost-was’ and Lyndsey Parker’s memoir of unabashed Duran Duran fandom.

Seattle’s KEXP has been uploading past in-studio sessions to YouTube of late, and the latest beneficiary of this is Dinosaur Jr. The trio stopped in on Dec. 17, 2011, to record live versions of a couple classics and its trademark cover of The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven,’ plus have a little chat with Henry Rollins.

Here’s video shot in the last week of Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore covering the Rolling Stones’ ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)’ in Rio and bandmate Lee Ranaldo doing his take on Talking Heads”Thank You For Sending Me An Angel,’ before segueing into his own song ‘Fire Island (Phases),’ in Barcelona.

A who’s who of pop royalty — including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Tom Jones — feted Queen Elizabeth on Sunday night at the massive Diamond Jubilee Concert, but long-running pop-ska band Madness had perhaps the best perch, performing two of its best-known hits from the roof of Buckingham Palace.

Before he gets to his belated 25th anniversary tour and reissue of ‘So’ this fall, Peter Gabriel will release a newly restored, HD version of his Grammy-winning 1994 concert film ‘Secret World Live’ — filmed over two nights in November 1993 in Modena, Italy, during the tour for 1993’s ‘Us’ — on both DVD and Blu-ray.

The playlist from this week’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Death Cult, Kate Bush, Cetu Javu, Cocteau Twins, The Mission, Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, The House of Love, Concrete Blonde, Gene Loves Jezebel and much more.

John Lydon’s reactivated Public Image Ltd. is planning a North American tour later this year, the group announced on its website today. No details have been released about the trek, which comes more than two years after PiL’s post-Coachella tour of North America in the spring of 2010.

This month’s Auto Reverse mixtape includes brand new, live and previously unreleased recordings from Ian McCulloch, Ultravox, David Byrne, Robyn Hitchcock and World Party, plus favorites new and old from The Go-Betweens, Gang of Four, The The, KMFDM, Love and Rockets, The Cure, Orange Juice and more.

This week’s new releases include the first new album in 27 years from Dexys Midnight Runners (now named Dexys), plus reissues from David Bowie (‘Ziggy Stardust’), Propaganda (‘Wishful Thinking’), Germs (‘GI’) and Bob Mould’s Sugar (‘Beaster’), as well as a new collection of Ministry remixes and covers.

Morrissey recently wrapped up a run of dates in the Far East and in the western U.S. and, as he’s known to do, today released a statement in which he ranks his Top 10 tour stops (Jakarta’s No. 1) and once again bemoans his lack of a record label, indicating his finished album is no closer to being released.

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This edition includes news about Jah Wobble and Keith Levene, The Cure, The Pogues, The Smithereens, World Party, Bronski Beat and Communards, The Waterboys’ Mike Scott and much, much more.

Last night, Britain’s BBC Four aired the first installment of the new three-part ‘Punk Britannia’ documentary series, billed as a look at the ‘historic cosmology, meteoric impact and smouldering aftermath of the most genuinely transformative force in British popular music history.’ Watch Part 1 here.