Organizers of Barcelona’s Primavera Sound 2013 festival unfurled a mind-bending lineup topped by headliners The Jesus and Mary Chain, Blur, My Bloody Valentine and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, in addition to appearances by Dinosaur Jr, Bob Mould, Dead Can Dance, The Breeders and many more.

Dexys — Kevin Rowland‘s relaunched and renamed Dexys Midnight Runners — appeared on BBC chat show “Later… with Jools Holland” on Tuesday night, performing “Free,” off the forthcoming ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar,’ as we well as the needs-no-introduction “Come On Eileen.”

Dexys — Kevin Rowland’s relaunched and newly shortened Dexys Midnight Runners — today debuted ‘Nowhere is Home,’ the first track to be released off the band’s forthcoming ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar,; on U.K. radio, and then promptly made the song available as a free download.

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This edition includes news about The The, Dave Gahan, Peter Murphy, The Cure, The dB’s, Elvis Costello, The Stranglers, Dead Can Dance, Peter Hook, Morrissey, The Stone Roses, The La’s and much more.

Dexys Midnight Runners — now going by the shortened band name Dexys — will celebrate the release of ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar,’ the band’s first album in 27 years, by performing it in its entirety at a pair of ‘theatrical shows’ in Glasgow and Dublin this May, the group tweeted today.

This week’s round-up of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines includes news about Dexys Midnight Runners, Fad Gadget, Dalis Car, The La’s, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Morrissey, Dinosaur Jr, Killing Joke and The Godfathers — plus news of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s return to the U.S. this spring.

Frontman Kevin Rowland this week announced that the reactivated Dexys Midnight Runners — the New Wave act still best known for its 1982 smash ‘Come On Eileen’ — will release its first new album in 27 years this June, a record titled ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ that will be put out under the shortened band name Dexys.

The week’s new releases include a host of reissues from the likes of The Church (‘Of Skins and Heart,’ ‘The Blurred Crusade’), The Soft Boys (‘A Can of Bees,’ ‘Underwater Moonlight’), Dexys Midnight Runners (‘Searching for the Young Soul Rebels’), Gary Numan (‘Automatic’), The Wedding Present (‘Live 1989’) and Nick Heyward (‘North of a Miracle’).

The BBC and EMI recently struck a new partnership to digitally release archival recordings — mainly Peel Sessions and In Concert episodes recorded between 1977 […]