Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie and Ride frontman Mark Gardener have completed their long-in-the-works album together — a collaboration they debuted with their 2012 single “The Places We Go” — and will release the record worldwide this September, Gardener announced this week.

Today we debut our long-overdue web store — aka the Slicing Up Eyeballs Merch Table — and, to inaugurate it, we’re introducing a selection of three different buttons, one bearing the Eyeballs logo plus two featuring era-appropriate illustrations of cassette tapes.

Peter Murphy will return to the road for a late spring/early summer U.S. tour in support of his forthcoming 10th album Lion, and, while he has yet to formally announce the itinerary, dates have begun popping up in New York, Atlanta, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, and even Omaha, Neb.

The new Pixies music keeps flowing, and, following the instant-release of a new EP and the announcement of a new album compiling the band’s recently released material, the Pixies also have a debuted a music video for the song “Snakes,” which appears both on EP3 and Indie Cindy.

With the release next week of The Mighty Lemon Drops’ new Uptight: The Early Recordings 1985/1986 compilation, Cherry Red Records today debuted one of the set’s previously unreleased tracks: a demo recording of Happy Head single “My Biggest Thrill” made during a July 1986 session.

After 37 years at the helm of The Pretenders, iconic frontwoman Chrissie Hynde is going solo, announcing plans to release her first-ever album under her own name, an 11-song collection called Stockholm that’s due out on June 9 and is preceded by the single “Dark Sunglasses.”

With news over the past weekend that Sasquatch! Music Festival in Washington state was canceling its second weekend due to low ticket sales, it’s perhaps no surprise that New Order — which had scheduled other West Coast dates around the appearance — moved quickly to lock in a replacement gig.

The Pixies today announced the release of the third in their series of self-released vinyl-and-digital EPs over the last seven months, and now will compile all 12 new songs released since last summer’s “Bagboy” digital single as a full-length album that will make the band’s new music available on CD.

Peter Murphy returns with brand-new music late this spring as he releases his much-anticipated 10th album Lion, an 11-track collection produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth that the former Bauhaus frontman previewed in rough form over the PA before concerts on his 2013 tour.

This week’s new releases include a second batch of 180-gram audiophile vinyl Depeche Mode reissues, plus an 11-disc box set from The Stranglers, an expanded reissue of Aztec Camera’s debut ‘High Land, Hard Rain,’ and heavyweight vinyl reissues of all six albums by The Jam.

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 Kate Bush, Daniel Ash, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Robyn Hitchcock and Steve Kilbey, The Sound, New Order, R.E.M., The Stooges’ Scott Asheton and more.

The Jesus and Mary Chain — who performed live just a handful of times last year — have been confirmed for their first show of 2014 as organizers of the Cultura Ingelsa Festival in Sao Paolo, Brazil, announced this week that the brothers Reid will close out the the 18th annual music fest on May 25.

The famously stage-averse Kate Bush — who, until now, has toured just once, in 1979 — today shocked fans worldwide by announcing “we will be performing some live shows this coming August and September.” More specifically, Bush confirmed a run of 15 concerts at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.