This week’s new releases include a limited-edition ‘Sonik Kick’ 7-inch singles box set from Paul Weller, plus the U.S. releases of recent albums by Alison Moyet (‘the minutes’) and British Electric Foundation (‘Dark’), plus an expanded reissue of Johnny Thunders’ 1983 album ‘Hurt Me.’

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Propaganda, Front 242, Peter Murphy, Dead Boys, Morrissey, The Bubblemen, Echo & The Bunnymen, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Cramps, Joy Division, Ministry, The Church, Death in June and much, much more.

Touring this year in support of their long-delayed comeback record mbv, shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine will play at least five concerts in the western U.S. this August in advance of the band’s headlining appearance at the FYF Fest in Los Angeles. It’s not yet clear whether more U.S. dates are planned.

Slicing Up Eyeballs this week featured posts about R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Morrissey, The Waterboys, Johnny Marr, Killing Joke, Joy Division, The Stone Roses, U2 and more — plus the Top 100 Albums of 1983 and the opening of voting in the Best of 1984 poll.

Arturo Vega, who spent 22 years as artistic director and confidant to the Ramones, creating the punk legends’ iconic logo and many of their album covers, as well as running the RamonesWorld.com website, died today, according to Punk magazine co-founder and “Please Kill Me” author Legs McNeil.

Our Best of the ’80s feature continues this month as we hit 1984, and once again ask Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to vote for their favorite albums of that year in our ongoing mission to rank the releases of each year of the decade throughout 2013, concluding with a poll to determine the best records of the entire decade.

Morrissey is heading back out on the road this summer — but it appears he’s scaled back his initial touring plans, announcing today that he’ll perform a dozen concerts in South America next month, but not, it would seem, the seven concerts previously announced for Mexico.