For fans disappointed that the online debut of the late John Peel’s record collection didn’t feature actual music off those platters or broadcasts by the legendary British DJ, here’s the real deal: a streaming collection of 458 episodes of Peel’s show that totals 846 hours and spans the years 1967 to 2004.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured music by Hoodoo Gurus, Fields of the Nephilim, The Vaselines, Camper Van Beethoven, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Dance Society, The Style Council, Dinosaur Jr, Paul Westerberg, Gene Loves Jezebel and more.

For fans, one of the highlights of the Sex Pistols’ upcoming ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ box set is the “lost” 1977 studio demo of “Belsen Was a Gas” with John Lydon’s vocals, the controversial Holocaust-themed song billed as the only “original Sex Pistols composition of the era thought not to be recorded.”

Having just wrapped up their North American tour, the reunited Dead Can Dance — co-founders Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard — this morning offered fans a free download of “Opium,” a track off ‘Anastasis,’ the band’s first new album in 16 years — which you can grab in exchange for an e-mail address.

Peter Gabriel is whetting fans’ appetites for his upcoming So 25th anniversary deluxe box set with a new video that offers an animated walk-through of the eight-disc set, which features four CDs, two DVDs, two vinyl records and a 60-page book. The box set is due out Oct. 23.

On the even of the release of their new album together, David Byrne and St. Vincent stopped by “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Monday night, where they performed the record’s brassy opening track/lead single “Who” on air, then stuck around to play “The Forest Awakes” as a web-only exclusive.

Sonic Youth today announced that it finally will release a long-in-the-works archival, 14-track live album that was recorded on 4-track cassette on Aug. 11, 1985, at Chicago’s Smart Bar while the band was touring the U.S. in support of the the release earlier that year of the group’s second studio album, ‘Bad Moon Rising.’

Mudhoney this fall will release a concert DVD featuring newly re-discovered, professionally shot footage of the band’s 40-minute set at the Berlin Independent Days festival in 1988 in front of Sub Pop Records reps, music critics and fans in what’s now being billed as “the first grunge gig in Europe.”

Peter Murphy returns to Los Angeles this Friday for his third show there this year when he headlines the “Stan Lee’s In Parties” kickoff concert for this weekend’s Comikaze comic-book, sci-fi and fantasy fest, an event at Club Nokia that will be hosted by the comic book legend himself and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

This week’s new releases include brand-new albums from Pet Shop Boys, David Byrne and St. Vincent and Tom Tom Club, plus reissues from The Stone Roses and Aztec Camera, a live CD/DVD of The English Beat’s US Festival performances, and best-ofs from Duran Duran and Propaganda.

Dinosaur Jr’s third post-reunion album, and 10th full-length effort overall, ‘I Bet On Sky,’ is due out in less than 10 days now, but, starting Sunday night, the band is streaming the full 10-track album via NPR Music. The reunited band recorded the album earlier this year, and it follows 2007′s ‘Beyond’ and 2009′s ‘Farm.’

This week’s round-up of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines includes items about Morrissey, Modern English, R.E.M., The Primitives, the US Festival, The Cult, Ministry, Bob Mould, Pet Shop Boys, The Vaselines, David Byrne and more — plus our latest Auto Reverse mixtape.

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we take a look at one of the early shows via this seven-and-a-half-minute reel of Alan Hunter’s hosting segments from the episode that aired on Sept. 28, 1986. The opening features a skit of sorts with Dave Kendall prepping Hunter for the night’s broadcast.