Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Wire, Xymox, KMFDM, Mission of Burma, Alien Sex Fiend, Lowlife, The Cure, ClockDVA, Assemblage 23, The Smiths, D.A.F., Joy Division, A Split-Second, The Sisters of Mercy, Echo & The Bunnymen, 23 Skidoo and more.

Full details aren’t promised until Wednesday, but Echo & The Bunnymen today “dropp(ed) the veil slightly” on the band’s forthcoming 12th studio album, revealing the title — Meteorites — and artwork for the project via the group’s Facebook page. A full tracklist and release dates presumably will follow later this week.

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 passing of Devo’s Bob Casale, plus The Afghan Whigs, The Sisters of Mercy, The Smiths, Belly and more — plus we celebrated our fifth birthday.

Five years ago today — at precisely 10:37 p.m. MST on Feb. 20, 2009 — Slicing Up Eyeballs launched so very inauspiciously, with just a simple 91-word post announcing plans to provide “the latest info on new albums, reissues, upcoming reunions and tour dates.”

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the genre-shaping debut album from The Smiths, the John Porter-produced self-titled effort that remains, these three decades later, a point of contention among fans: Did these recordings best represent Morrissey and Marr’s early songs?

Originally released in 1993, Star — the debut album from ex-Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly’s band Belly — will receive its first-ever American vinyl release later this year when Plain Recordings reissues the title on 180-gram vinyl, the label announced on Facebook.

After three brief tours of the U.S. in 2012 in support of 5CD box set Arkeology, Karl Wallinger is bringing World Party back to America this spring for the group’s longest trek in years: a run of 25 dates opening May 24 in Boston and wrapping up June 29 in Solana Beach, Calif.