This week’s new releases include expanded reissues of all three of The Beat’s original albums, plus a new CD of Duke Ellington interpretations from Joe Jackson (‘The Duke’), an alleged expanded reissue of Ministry’s 1983 synthpop debut ‘With Sympathy’ and the CD and digital releases of ‘The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends.’

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This edition includes items about the Sex Pistols, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Simple Minds, Morrissey, The House of Love, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cure, The Fixx, Icehouse, Ministry and more.

The Cure played a pair of German festivals this weekend, and, lucky for us, one of them — tonight’s set at the Southside Festival — was webcast in part, and you can now watch a capture of that full 70-minute stream, via Chain of Flowers. The video above features the first 14 songs of the 28-song set.

After an ‘instant sell-out’ of Morrissey’s October date at the famed Radio City Music Hall, the former Smiths singer today announced two more New York City concerts at the smaller Terminal 5 venue. Moz will now follow his Oct. 10 date at Radio City with concerts on Oct. 12 and 13 at Terminal 5.

Been a while since we dusted off the Vintage Video series, so now’s a great time to dip into the vast reaches of YouTube for this 90-minute Echo & The Bunnymen concert filmed in March 1983 shortly after the release of Porcupine and broadcast by the renowned German TV show “Rockpalast.”

News this week of Thurston Moore’s new collaboration with (former?) wife Kim Gordon and Yoko Ono didn’t help answer questions about the future of Sonic Youth, nor does Matador Records’ announcement this morning — complete with debut MP3 — that Moore has started a new band called Chelsea Light Moving.

The Fixx returns next month with ‘Beautiful Friction,’ the band’s first album in nearly a decade and the first featuring the group’s classic mid-’80s — singer Cy Curnin, keyboard player Rupert Greenall, guitarist Jamie West-Oram, drummer Adam Woods and bassist Dan K. Brown — lineup since 1991’s ‘Ink.’

Back in 2008, the BBC first aired an hour-long radio documentary on the life and work of post-punk guitar legend John McGeoch, who played with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd. and Magazine, among others. If you’ve never heard the program, or don’t know much about McGeoch, you can stream it here.

Simple Minds today unveiled plans for a nine-date summer tour of Australia and New Zealand at the end of this year that also will feature ’80s-era contemporaries Devo and The Church sharing the bill and will hit a mixture of indoor venues and wineries taking part in the popular A Day on the Green concert series.

The House of Love — largely dormant following a couple years’ worth of activity surrounding ‘Days Run Away,’ the band’s 2005 reunion album — will make what appears to be its first live appearance in more than four years later this summer when the beloved indie act appears at the Off Festival in Katowice, Poland.

On Dec. 3 last year, Iva Davies led the current incarnation of Icehouse through selections from the group’s 1980 debut ‘Flowers’ at the Homebake 2011 festival in the band’s native Australia. Six months later, superb-quality video has emerged of the hour-long set.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from Pet Shop Boys, Mission of Burma, David Byrne and Paul Weller, plus older favorites from Propaganda, Violent Femmes, The Smiths, The Seahorses, The Cult, Ramones, INXS and more.

While The Jesus and Mary Chain just wrapped up a short run of West Coast dates, the brothers Reid continue to expand its late-summer North American tour, today announcing 10 new concerts in September, including dates in New York City, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Cleveland and more.