Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured new music from Bad Religion, Gary Numan and Prefab Sprout, plus songs from Sinead O’Connor, Billy Bragg, World Party, The Chills, Paul Westerberg, Tears For Fears, The Sugarcubes, Morrissey, The Stone Roses, The Beat and more.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release their fourth official live album next month in the form of Live From KCRW, a set recorded this past April in a studio for the Los Angeles radio station that will be released on CD and double vinyl at independent retailers on Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event.

Earlier this month in London, Danny Elfman took the concert stage for an ultra-rare live appearance celebrating his film scores for director Tim Burton that concluded with something even more rare: Elfman took the mic for his first public vocal performance since Oingo Boingo’s demise nearly 18 years ago.

It’s nearly Halloween, which, uh, means it’s time for Christmas carols, right? In that case, check out the new track from Southern California punk kings Bad Religion, which is, naturally, a cover of the Yuletide hymn “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” off the band’s forthcoming holiday album, Christmas Songs

This summer, after Simple Minds announced the band’s first North American tour in 11 years, frontman Jim Kerr made a somewhat unusual request of his fans: He publicly urged them to buy tickets to this month’s seven concerts, saying the group was testing the waters for possible future tours.

Well, this is a tad more than just a little embarrassing. We’re not just a couple weeks behind, but, rather, nearly two months late in posting the next installment in the Auto Reverse mixtape series — so late, in fact, that we’ve gone ahead and made it a double. So download or stream all four 45-minutes of music new and vintage.

Johnny Marr will commemorate both Halloween and his 50th birthday this Thursday by opening his second U.S. tour this year in support of his new solo album The Messenger with a show at the House of Blues in Anaheim, Calif. — and we’re giving away three pairs of tickets to see the legendary co-founder of The Smiths.