This month’s Auto Reverse mixtape features new music from both the Pixies and ex-Pixie Kim Deal, plus some vintage tunes by The Replacements, X, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, New Order, The Mission, Robyn Hitchcock, The Cure, King Missile, The Godfathers, Ramones and The Bubblemen.

The Mission this September will release its new studio album The Brightest Light, an 11-song collection that marks the first time original band members Wayne Hussey, Simon Hinkler and Craig Adams have recorded together since the sessions for 1990’s Carved in Sand.

This week’s new releases include the Pet Shop Boys’ second new album in a year (‘Electric’), plus an expanded reissue of The Cult’s ‘Electric,’ a repress of Peter Buck’s 2012 vinyl-only solo debut and a new monkey-themed 7-inch, a collection of Style Council albums and a reissue of Frank Black’s ‘Oddballs.’

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Alien Sex Fiend, Revolting Cocks, Tubeway Army, David J, Virgin Prunes, Gang of Four, The Mission, Xmal Deutchland, The Smiths, The Cramps, Public Image Ltd., Killing Joke, Single Gun Theory and much, much 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 posts about Electronic, Morrissey, Simple Minds, Johnny Marr, The Waterboys, Killing Joke, Mojo Nixon, Echo & The Bunnymen, New Order, Pet Shop Boys and more.

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr will follow up his lengthy spring U.S. tour with a second round of American dates late this fall in support of his new solo album The Messenger, playing 18 shows this October and November — including a slot at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas.

Three days after he was supposed to launch a South American tour in Peru, Morrissey late Friday finally addressed the “corrosively toxic food poisoning” that put the whole tour in jeopardy, issuing a statement in which he apologized to fans and announced he will be ready to perform later this month.