This year’s South By Southwest will feature appearances by a horde of ’80s college rock vets, including The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bob Mould performing ‘Copper Blue,’ The Wedding Present, Thomas Dolby, The Cult, Dinosaur Jr and The dB’s, plus R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Mike Mills playing Big Star’s ‘Third.’

Tonight’s episode of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from World Party, The Wedding Present, Paul Weller and The Stranglers, plus, by request, tracks by The Lucy Show, Guadalcanal Diary, Magazine, Straightjacket Fits, Cactus World News and Icicle Works.

Last month, ex- Jam frontman Paul Weller premiered the video for the first single off his upcoming ‘Sonik Kicks’ — rocker ‘That Dangerous Age’ — and today he follows that up with a new and very NSFW clip featuring album track ‘Dragonfly.’ It’s the third track Weller has previewed from the new album.

fIREHOSE — the band formed by Mike Watt and George Hurley following the 1985 death of their Minutemen bandmate D. Boon — will precede its spring tour and Coachella appearances with “lowFLOWs” the Columbia Anthology (’91-’93), a new 2CD set that compiles the band’s major-label output plus four unreleased cuts.

Dead Can Dance last week announced a 22-date European leg of its 2012 world tour, and today comes the first concrete news of U.S. concerts: The band — co-founders and mainstays Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard — will tour North America in August, and announced a first date in Virginia.

Less than 10 dates into the first leg of its “Theatre of the Escapists” tour, Jane’s Addiction has announced another U.S. leg this May, with 14 more shows added after the band — Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins, along with bassist Chris Chaney — plays South America and Mexico next month.