We’re not entirely sure what prompted this, but Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis this week dropped an excellent cover of the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers classic “Don’t Do Me Like That,” which finds the guitarist eschewing the softer acoustic side he usually displays on solo material. Hear it here.

Ministry performed the first of six special Record Store Day-related sets in Chicago on Saturday night, with frontman Al Jourgensen enlisting old bandmate Chris Connelly to help perform what was billed as a “Wax Trax!-era” set that largely focused on the band’s late-’80s, early-’90s albums. Video and setlist here.

Morrissey’s Canadian tour that was to have started Sunday night in Vancouver is on the rocks after at least the first two concerts — if not most of the trek — have been rescheduled for October “due to a medical emergency stemming from an accident incurred while traveling in Europe.” Full details here.

Party-rock favorites The B-52s are headed out on a 40th anniversary tour of North America this summer, and they’ve enlisted contemporaries Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Berlin to open the tour. OMD also will be playing four headline shows in the U.S. during a tour break. Full dates here.

Morrissey will follow up his May residency on Broadway with a 14-date U.S. tour this September and October in support of his forthcoming covers album California Son, a trek that will be supported by modern-day post-punk act Interpol. Check out those full dates and hear Moz’s new single right here.

Depeche Mode will continue its series of vinyl box set reissue with the release next month of Black Celebration: The 12″ Singles and Music For The Masses: The 12″ Singles, a pair of multi-disc collections featuring the original UK 12-inch singles that accompanied each album. Full details right here.

Midnight Oil has confirmed it will return to the recording studio later this year, with the band’s drummer Rob Hirst saying their live reunion “was such a positive experience that it made us even hungrier to get back to making new music together.” Full details right here, including the latest tour dates.

Finding a full episode of MTV’s “120 Minutes” on YouTube is an increasingly impossible task. That’s why we were thrilled when a sharp-eyed Slicing Up Eyeballs reader recently pointed us to a trove of episodes uploaded to the Internet Archive — including one of our all-time favorites.

Elvis Costello & The Imposters will team up with New Wave-era contemporaries Blondie for a 13-date co-headlining tour this summer that opens July 20 in Bethel, N.Y., and focuses largely on the east and west coasts, wrapping up Aug. 10 in Seattle. See the full tour itinerary right here.

The hard-touring Psychedelic Furs are heading back out on the road in the U.S. this month for a 14-date spring trek that will be followed by a 22-date North American tour this summer in which Richard Butler and Co. will share the bill with James. Full dates and details right here.

The Cure’s Robert Smith — with an assist by the band’s keyboardist Roger O’Donnell — has recorded a new version of the classic Disintegration track “Pictures of You” with the London-based Quartet Voluté for the new documentary “Dead Good.” You can hear the new version in the film’s trailer.

April fools? No, it’s true, we’re back — finally, belatedly, etc. — with the results of the fifth installment of our Best of the ’80s Redux series, the sporadic Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll in which our readers have now ranked the Top 100 songs of 1984. Check out that full list right here.

As is custom, we’ve created a Spotify playlist to accompany our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1984 readers poll results. As you can see (and hear), the playlist opens with Echo & The Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon” and closes with The Strangers’ “Skin Deep” — with 93 more songs in between. Listen right here.