The Pixies this morning announced that, in addition to a handful of recently unveiled festival dates, the band will stage its own North American tour this spring, unveiling 12 non-festival shows in May with a promise that “more dates will be announced shortly, too.” The band says it will debut new music on the tour.

This week’s new releases include brand-new studio albums from U.K. post-punk groups Gang of Four (‘What Happens Next’) and The Pop Group (‘Citizen Zombie’), plus a five-disc box set from The Sound that collects three studio albums, an EP, a live record and a disc of early tracks.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured brand-new music from Wire, The Church and Gang of Four, plus old favorites by Specimen, The Sisterhood, A Certain Ratio, Revolting Cocks, The The, Public Image Ltd., The Naked and the Dead, Poesie Noire, The Sound more.

Well, that’s embarrassing: We missed our own birthday. Exactly six years ago yesterday, Slicing Up Eyeballs launched with nothing more than a simple 91-word post announcing plans to provide “the latest info on new albums, reissues, upcoming reunions and tour dates.”

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we resurrect something we first shared way back in 2010: a pair of TV news reports from WBNS in Columbus, Ohio, about the “Cocteau Fever” surrounding the Cocteau Twins’ Sept. 19, 1985, concert there — just one of five stops on its U.S. tour that year.

The Psychedelic Furs this week rolled out what the band is calling the “first wave” of dates for its spring tour, nine shows in the eastern U.S. this May that will be followed a trio of “Fireworks Finale” concerts in September at the famed Hollywood Bowl with The B-52s. See full dates here.

Lloyd Cole opened his U.S. tour in Seattle earlier this month, and, while he was there, the singer-songwriter stopped by radio station KEXP to play a five-song, 20-minute solo-acoustic set that saw him perform a pair of songs off last year’s Standards and three tracks from Rattlesnakes.