Our latest link round-up includes stories about following Morrissey around on tour, plus items on Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis’ stolen guitar, the Happy Mondays’ reunion album and a new solo record from Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie, plus an interview with former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck.

This week’s edition of the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured a special 1987 25th anniversary megamix, featuring extended versions and 12-inch mixes of singles off albums that were released in that year. The show will be replayed at 2 p.m. EDT Friday.

Fans of The Lemonheads hoping to see a reunion of Evan Dando and the band’s former bassist Juliana Hatfield during the group’s current tour opening for The Psychedelic Furs are in for disappointment: Hatfield is not on the tour after all. When asked at a recent show, Dando simply said, “She’s in Boston.”

Sonic Youth today offered up the first taste of its forthcoming archival live album, ‘Smart Bar – Chicago 1985,’ in the form of ‘Bad Moon Rising’ opening combo “Intro/Brave Men Run (In My Family),” which you can check right here. The full album is due out Nov. 14.

This week’s new releases include a ‘prequel’ to The Cult’s latest album, plus the second single from Pet Shop Boys’ new record, audiophile vinyl reissues from The Stone Roses and The Gun Club, and a 3-disc box set from the U.K. called ‘Teenage Kicks 1977-1981 The Music That Changed Everything.’

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured The Creatures, Sex Gang Children, The Gun Club, Joy Division, The Cramps, Love and Rockets, Morrissey, Clan of Xymox and much, much more.

This week’s round-up of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines includes items about Killing Joke, Midge Ure, New Order, Dinosaur Jr, Blondie, The Stone Roses, The Ocean Blue and more — plus the debut of Slicing Up Eyeballs as the new host of Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave.’