Alison Moyet today announced an extensive, 24-date tour of the U.K. and Ireland this fall in support of her upcoming album ‘the minutes’ — that’s the just-revealed cover art posted above — and said the concerts will place the new album “center stage” and focus on “significant electronic material in her back catalog.”

This week sees the publication of a revised edition of Simon Goddard’s “Songs That Saved Your Life: The Art of The Smiths 1982-87” — which tells the stories behind every song from The Smiths’ catalog — and to mark the occasion Titan Books has hooked us up with copies to award three lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

Occultation Recordings is planning deluxe vinyl reissues of The Wild Swans’ third album, 2011’s The Coldest Winter For A Hundred Years, and a 2003 compilation of ’80s radio sessions, demos and rarities called Incandescent — but first the label is taking the unusual step of asking fans what they’d like to see included.

This week’s new releases include brand-new albums from Johnny Marr (‘The Messenger’), KMFDM (‘Kunst’) and John Foxx (‘Evidence’), plus reissues from Fine Young Cannibals, The Blue Aeroplanes and The Sound, as well as best-ofs from Kirsty MacColl and The Human League.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Skinny Puppy, Fad Gadget, Bauhaus, Japan, Ministry, The Sound, Cabaret Voltaire, Echo & The Bunnymen, Clan of Xymox, Killing Joke and 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 Allison Moyet, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Morrissey, Bernard Sumner, The Method Actors, The Waterboys, The Primitives, Primal Scream, Johnny Marr and more.

Depeche Mode will launch the release of its new album Delta Machine next month with a free and very intimate performance of new material off that record in Vienna on March 24, just days after its worldwide release, announced presenter Electronic Beats, which also will stream the full show shortly thereafter.