The classic third album from XTC — 1979’s ‘Drums and Wires’ — appears to be next in line to receive an audiophile vinyl pressing following last year’s ‘Skylarking’ reissue, which was ‘corrected’ and re-released ‘as it was intended to sound, but never has.’

This week’s new releases include Ramones reissues on 180-gram audiophile vinyl, plus a 2CD reissue of Peter Murphy’s debut ‘Should the World Fail to Fall Apart,’ a brand-new They Might Be Giants album called ‘Join Us’ and a DVD of Lou Reed’s 2009 appearance at Lollapalooza.

Well, it’s about time: After nearly 2½ with the same basic look, Slicing Up Eyeballs was due for a makeover. So today we debut Version 2.0 of the website — or, rather, the beginning of Version 2.0, since the redesign is still very much a work in progress. Please let us know what you think.

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has released a new video for ‘Circulation’ off his new album ‘Demolished Thoughts.’ He’s also got a slate of new tour dates, plus a live streaming concert via NPR that you can hear here. And Sonic Youth is headed to South America and is re-issuing ‘Hits Are For Squares.’

Australian synth/rock act Icehouse — best remembered in the U.S. for their 1987 hit ‘Electric Blue,’ co-written by John Oates — this summer will release a comprehensive best-of called ‘White Heat: 30 Hits,’ which, over two CDs, will chronologically present each of the band’s 30 singles, and also will include a DVD with 32 music videos.

This week’s Morrissey news includes reports the singer was attacked by a dog, that he had concertgoers searched for illicit meat products and, finally, that he banned his apparent archenemy — no, not Mike Joyce, but, rather, the guy who runs the Morrissey-solo.com fansite — from attending his concerts ever again.

With little fanfare last month, the reunited original lineup of Big Audio Dynamite debuted its first new song in 21 years at a gig in Bournemouth, England — a mid-tempo rocker called ‘Rob Peter Pay Paul’ that the band reprised the next day during its performance at the mammoth Glastonbury festival.