Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ — the album that closed the door on the college-rock era and shot so-called alternative music straight into the mainstream — will receive a mammoth 4CD/1DVD 20th anniversary reissue featuring unreleased tracks, BBC recordings, B-sides and a full concert on DVD.

This week’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured new music from Morrissey, a fresh live cut from Echo & The Bunnymen, old faves by INXS, Gene Loves Jezebel and Violent Femmes — plus The Afghan Whigs covering The Clash and The Cure covering Depeche Mode.

The new video for ‘I Spit Roses’ by director Justin Coloma finds Peter Murphy — who’s done time as and-screen vampire — made up like some sort of pirate as he makes his way through the nautically themed story.

Last March while in Austin, Texas, for the South By Southwest music festival, former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins popped into Big Orange Recording to knock out a five-song live session for Daytrotter — which was posted Monday and is available as a free download.

After weeks of postponements due to Simon Le Bon’s vocal problems, Duran Duran has begun rescheduling many of its scrubbed concerts, including its entire U.K. arena tour and four key European shows — plus the band says it will mount a four-to-six-week U.S. tour beginning in late September.

The playlist from Sunday’s ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly Sunday night ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — features tracks by Throbbing Gristle, The Smiths, Concrete Blonde, Dead Can Dance, Fad Gadget and many more.

Indie buzz band Surfer Blood covers the Pixies classic “Gigantic” in this week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover series, in which bands drop in on the site’s Chicago offices and pick a song off a predetermined list to cover live in a very small room.