Front 242 — featuring Jean-Luc De Meyer, Daniel Bressanutti, Patrick Codenys and Richard 23 — will make a rare visit to the United States this September, but are only slated to perform three concerts, with performances planned in New York City, Tampa, Fla., and Chicago, as part of the Cold Waves Festival.

This week’s new releases include the brand-new studio album from the Pixies (‘Indie Cindy’), plus a four-disc box set from The Sound, a reissue of X’s ‘Under the Big Black Sun,’ the documentary “The Rise and Fall of The Clash,” the U.S. release of Prefab Sprout’s latest album and an Inspiral Carpets reissue.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Throwing Muses, Wire, Abecedarians, Malaria!, Ghost Dance, Chris & Cosey, The Cramps, Kate Bush, The Birthday Party, Joy Division, The Stranglers, Death in June, Revolting Cocks, The Church, Alien Sex Fiend and more.

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 about R.E.M., The Replacements, Spiritualized, Wire, Bryan Ferry, Pixies, Peter Hook, PiL’s Keith Levene, XTC and more.

Finally. It’s taken more than a year, but reunited college-rock icons The Replacements finally will play a hometown gig this September, as the band has been announced to headline the soon-to-be-razed Midway Stadium in St. Paul, marking the first Twin Cities appearance by the ‘Mats since 1991.

On the heels of the success of his recent Joy Division memoir, bassist Peter Hook’s first book — 2009’s ‘The Haçienda: How Not To Run a Club” — was just published in the U.S. for the first time this week, and we’ve got copies of the brand-new paperback to award to two very lucky, U.S.-based Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

Back in 1990, New Order scored its one and only U.K. No. 1 single with “World in Motion,” the theme to England’s 1990 World Cup campaign, a track that also featured members of the team — most notably John Barnes, who performs the rap toward the end of the song.