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The Week in Rock: March 2-8, 2014

The Week in Rock: March 2-8, 2014

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 The Psychedelic Furs, Bob Mould, Morrissey, Pixies, David J, Peter Hook, New Order, Devo, The Smiths and more — plus we launched our brand-new Android app.

New Order to headline Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre a week after Sasquatch! festival

New Order to headline Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre a week after Sasquatch! festival

New Order has yet to reveal any summer touring plans, but it appears the band is booking U.S. dates around its recently announced slot at the Sasquatch! Music Festival, as the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles has announced the group will perform there with special guest La Roux on July 13.

Morrissey’s new album ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ due late June/early July

Morrissey’s new album ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ due late June/early July

Morrissey today revealed the title of his forthcoming album — the ever-subtle World Peace Is None Of Your Business — and announced that the 12-track album is “provisionally” set to be released in late June or early July worldwide by Capitol subsidiary Harvest Records.

Bob Mould announces new album ‘Beauty & Ruin,’ plays ‘See a Little Light’ on Letterman

Bob Mould announces new album ‘Beauty & Ruin,’ plays ‘See a Little Light’ on Letterman

Bob Mould may be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Workbook at the moment, but he’s also looking ahead: Merge Records this week announced that it will release Mould’s 11th studio album, Beauty & Ruin, which “packs a staggering lifetime’s worth of emotion and experience into a 36-minute package.”

Peter Hook to perform New Order’s ‘Low-Life,’ ‘Brotherhood’ on North American tour

Peter Hook to perform New Order’s ‘Low-Life,’ ‘Brotherhood’ on North American tour

Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook has yet to debut his new show featuring full front-to-back performances of the latter group’s third and fourth albums — 1985’s Low-Life and 1986’s Brotherhood — but he’s already announcing plans to bring it to North America for a 14-date tour this November.

Slicing Up Eyeballs launches Android app

Slicing Up Eyeballs launches Android app

Android users: Your long national nightmare is over, as today we launch the much-requested Android version of the handy Slicing Up Eyeballs app, perhaps the easiest way to stay on top of the latest album and reissue news, tour dates, streaming music and video, and more from your favorite artists.

Stream: David J premieres ‘You Suit a Rainy Day’ — first single off ‘An Eclipse of Ships’

Stream: David J premieres ‘You Suit a Rainy Day’ — first single off ‘An Eclipse of Ships’

David J, of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, this week released the first single off his upcoming solo album, a gentle, acoustic number called “You Suit a Rainy Day” that precedes next month’s arrival of An Eclipse of Ships, an album he’s described as “a journal of the heart and a paean to Woman as muse.”

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 148, aired 3/4/14

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 148, aired 3/4/14

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured music by Morrissey, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Talking Heads, Electronic, The Replacements, Erasure, The Church, Concrete Blonde, Ian McCulloch, Orange Juice, Martin L. Gore, The Sugarcubes and more.

Pixies debut video for ‘Greens and Blues’ off ‘EP2,’ expand world tour

Pixies debut video for ‘Greens and Blues’ off ‘EP2,’ expand world tour

Having just wrapped up their North American tour, the Pixies this morning took the opportunity to debut yet another new music video — this time for the song “Greens and Blues” off the band’s EP2 — and fleshed out its world tour with dates in South America, Europe and Japan — plus a lone U.S. appearance.

The Psychedelic Furs expand spring U.S. tour with new East Coast dates

The Psychedelic Furs expand spring U.S. tour with new East Coast dates

Some bands like to announce their entire tours at once, others prefer to dribble out dates here and there. The Psychedelic Furs in recent years have established themselves firmly in the latter camp, which is why it’s once again time to check in with the status of the rockers’ ever-expanding spring U.S. trek.

‘Interactive Sound of The Smiths’: New official site streams discography via timeline

‘Interactive Sound of The Smiths’: New official site streams discography via timeline

Warner Music UK today launched a new official website for The Smiths, an timeline dubbed “The Interactive Sound of The Smiths: 1982-1987” that lets visitors scroll through the history of the band as presented through its discography, with each single and full album available to stream via Spotify.

Friends of Devo’s Bob Casale seeking donations to help support his wife, children

Friends of Devo’s Bob Casale seeking donations to help support his wife, children

Friends of Devo’s Robert “Bob 2” Casale — who died unexpectedly two weeks ago from heart failure — are trying to raise $100,000 to support the late musician’s wife and children, with Casale’s brother and bandmate, Gerald Casale, noting that the 61-year-old “had no will or insurance” at the time of his death.

New releases: Paul Westerberg, Missing Persons, Laibach, Marc Almond, The Blue Nile

New releases: Paul Westerberg, Missing Persons, Laibach, Marc Almond, The Blue Nile

This week’s new releases include the first-ever vinyl pressing of Paul Westerberg’s second solo album ‘Eventually,’ plus new studio records from Missing Persons featuring Dale Bozzio, Laibach and Marc Almond of Soft Cell, plus an expanded reissue of The Blue Nile’s third album.