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The Week in Rock: March 9-15, 2014

The Week in Rock: March 9-15, 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 Iggy Pop and New Order, plus The Cure, Ski Patrol, C86, The Replacements, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Roddy Frame, Pulp and more.

Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden team up for 23-date North American co-headlining tour

Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden team up for 23-date North American co-headlining tour

Exactly one week ago, a pair of multiplatinum smash albums from Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden — ’90s alternative standard bearers The Downward Spiral and Superunknown, respectively — celebrated their 20th anniversary. Tonight, those two acts announced a co-headlining tour of North America.

Rhino’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough: The '80s’ Spotify playlist — updated 3/15/14

Rhino’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough: The ’80s’ Spotify playlist — updated 3/15/14

Back in 2011, the good folks at Rhino Records requested we take a stab at curating their ‘Just Can’t Get Enough: The ’80s’ playlist on Spotify — and now that the label’s launched its own app within Spotify, we’ve been asked to freshen it up occasionally with 25 new tracks representing the classic ’80s alternative era.

Morrissey to release remastered edition of 1994’s 'Vauxhall and I' in June

Morrissey to release remastered edition of 1994’s ‘Vauxhall and I’ in June

Morrissey will follow up his just-released reissue of 1992’s Your Arsenal with a new remastered edition of that album’s follow-up — Vauhxall and I, released exactly 20 years ago today — on June 2, the singer announced today via fansite True To You. The album is remastered by Bill Inglot.

The Cure to headline BottleRock festival in Napa Valley, Calif., this spring

The Cure to headline BottleRock festival in Napa Valley, Calif., this spring

The Cure will return to North America late this spring to headline the BottleRock festival in Napa Valley, Calif., joining, at the top of the bill, OutKast, Eric Church, The Fray, Weezer and Band of Horses — plus Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker.

Ski Patrol collects its recorded output on 'Versions Of A Life (Recordings 1979-81)'

Ski Patrol collects its recorded output on ‘Versions Of A Life (Recordings 1979-81)’

U.K. postpunk act Ski Patrol next month will release a new anthology collecting the group’s recorded output from 1979 to 1981, a 14-track collection that will include their singles, previously unreleased mixes and songs from their final studio session, their John Peel radio session and more.

Deluxe reissue of legendary C86 cassette to feature 72 tracks across 3 CDs

Deluxe reissue of legendary C86 cassette to feature 72 tracks across 3 CDs

Cherry Red Records this week revealed the final tracklist for its deluxe-edition reissue of the NME’s legendary C86 cassette, which finds the original 22-song indie-pop compilation now expanded into a 3CD set — up from a planned two-disc collection — that will feature 72 total tracks.