As promised, Morrissey will follow his tour of South America with at least seven concerts in Japan this April and May — plus the former Smiths singer will perform for the first time ever in South Korea. It’s not clear, though, if the dates are complete, since the Japanese tour was originally billed as a 10-date run.

Prior to his still-to-be-announced tour of Japan, Morrissey will head to South America for in late February for concerts in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Colombia. So far, the singer has announced two performances in Chile and his first-ever concert in Peru; shows in Colombia and Argentina will be announced next week.

Morrissey is expected to announce a 10-date April tour of Japan later this week, followed by concerts in Thailand, the Philippines and New Zealand — and he may be planning some performances in South America in February, too.

Morrissey has followed up his Top 10 albums list by ranking his singles, again favoring recent output (‘First of the Gang to Die’ and ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ top the list), while minimizing his Smiths contributions to just two entries (‘Panic’ at No. 5 and and “Girlfriend in a Coma” at No. 6).

Today we round up the last two weeks of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines, including stories on Morrissey, New Order, Ministry, They Might Be Giants and more, plus the results of our readers poll, of which Duran Duran was the big winner.

Morrissey this week ranked his back catalog in a list that’s topped by his last three solo records — ‘Years of Refusal,’ ‘Ringleader of the Tormentors’ and ‘You Are the Quarry’ — and that relegates three latter-day works by The Smiths to Nos. 5 through 7.

As 2011 quickly winds to an end, we’re happy to roll out the first of four days’ worth of results from our second-annual Slicing Up Eyeballs Readers Poll, in which nearly 500 of you cast ballots for your favorite new, reissued and freshly compiled music of the year. First up: Your Top 10 compilations, box sets and/or live albums.

Having left The Cribs and reunited his early-2000s band The Healers, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr today offers up a free holiday track recorded with his bandmates: the 3-minute-and-40-second instrumental ‘Free Christmas,’ which can be streamed and/or downloaded here.

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines included items on Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, New Order, R.E.M., PiL, The Housemartins, Bob Mould, Sinead O’Connor, Peter Gabriel and the Minutemen, plus the third installment of our Rhino ‘Just Can’t Get Enough — The ’80s’ Spotify playlist.

Our latest link round-up is all Manchester: The Smiths’ Andy Rourke will appear on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave all weekend, plus New Order has announced a New Zealand concert next year, The Stone Roses have booked festival slots in Norway and Portugal, and Peter Hook will play Joy Division songs in the UK next May and June.

Twenty-five years ago today, The Smiths performed what would prove to be the band’s final concert, a 15-song set at London’s Brixton Academy as part of a rescheduled benefit for Artists Against Apartheid. Watch that full Dec. 12, 1986, concert here.

This week’s new releases include ‘Please Please Please: A Tribute to The Smiths,’ The Lucy Show’s rarities comp ‘Remembrances,’ a DVD and Blu-ray reissue of X’s ‘The Unheard Music,’ a 5LP Gary Numan vinyl box set and a new 2CD best-of from The Lemonheads.

This week’s headlines on Slicing Up Eyeballs included posts about The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Morrissey, The Stone Roses, Adam Ant and Bob Mould, plus a new Peter Gabriel contest and the first installment of our Rhino ‘Just Can’t Get Enough — The ’80s’ Spotify playlist.