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- FAQ: The return of Slicing Up Eyeballs
- Listen: The Jesus and Mary Chain debut ‘Always Sad’ — 2nd ‘Damage and Joy’ single
- Morrissey reschedules twice-canceled Texas dates, announces festival appearances
- Depeche Mode to release 14th album ‘Spirit’ in March — stream ‘Where’s the Revolution’
- Pixies unfurl 23-date U.S. tour this spring in support of latest album ‘Head Carrier’
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/12/17)
- Bob Mould expands solo-electric outing with 8 more North American dates in April
- Stream/Download: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Auto Reverse Mixtape (February 2017)
- Wire marks 40th anniversary with new album ‘Silver/Lead’ — hear ‘Short Elevated Period’
- Robyn Hitchcock preps new self-titled album — hear ‘I Want To Tell You About What I Want’
- ‘A busy year ahead’: Midnight Oil poised to announce reunion tour later this week
- The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst and Pearl Thompson reunite in the recording studio
- The Psychedelic Furs announce U.S. dates this spring with Robyn Hitchcock
- The Feelies set to release new album ‘In Between’ — stream track ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’
- Lloyd Cole collects first 4 solo albums, ‘lost’ 5th LP, unreleased demos in new box set
- Peter Murphy to release ‘Bare-Boned and Sacred’ live album from stripped-down tour
- Vintage Video: Galaxie 500 drifts through a 40-minute set at an Atlanta club in 1990
- Midnight Oil reunites for 2017 world tour, announces release of 3 box sets
- Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins reunite as Poptone, will resurrect old bands’ music on U.S. tour
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: New Model Army’s Slade the Leveller talks to Kevin Seal — 1987
- Shriekback launches Kickstarter to help fund first live dates in nearly 25 years
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/19/17)
- New releases: Modern English, The Feelies return — plus David Bowie, Paul Weller
- Dream Syndicate’s 1st new album in 29 years to feature Kendra Smith singing ‘perfect coda’
- Pixies expand ‘Head Carrier’ tour with 19 new North American dates this fall
- Video: Fishbone performs at KEXP’s Seattle studios — watch full 30-minute set
- Listen: Ride, ‘Charm Assault’ — shoegaze legends’ first new music in 20 years
- Echo & The Bunnymen to release 1985 live set on LP — if enough fans vote for it
- Depeche Mode asks fans to get in line for upcoming North American tour presale
- Listen: Ride, ‘Home is a Feeling’ — shoegaze legends debut 2nd new track this week
- Vintage Video: The Smiths preform hour-long set for German TV show ‘Rockpalast’ in 1984
- Listen: The Mountain Goats wrote a song about Andrew Eldritch of The Sisters of Mercy
- Erasure to release ‘World Be Gone’ — first new album in 3 years — in May
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Ministry’s Uncle Al Jourgensen submits to the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1990
- Bill Paxton, of new wave act Martini Ranch (and popular motion pictures), 1955-2017
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/26/17)
- New releases: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Colin Hay
- Listen: Robyn Hitchcock, ‘Mad Shelley’s Letterbox’ — second single off upcoming LP
- Midnight Oil may move some North American shows to larger venues after tour sells out
- Howard Jones, English Beat, Men Without Hats, Modern English team up for U.S. tour
- The Jesus and Mary Chain announce North American tour in support of ‘Damage and Joy’
- Depeche Mode unveils 28-date fall North American leg of Global Spirit Tour
- Ride announces ‘select run’ of North American concerts in July
- Goth box: 5-disc ‘Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986’ out in June
- The Suicide Commandos to release 1st new album since 1978 on revived Twin/Tone label
- Video: Depeche Mode performs ‘Where’s the Revolution’ on ‘The Tonight Show’
- Vintage Video: Talking Heads talk, and perform, on UK’s ‘South Bank Show’ in 1979
- Lost wishes: 7 things The Cure’s Robert Smith promised to release this decade, but hasn’t
- Tears For Fears and Hall & Oates team up for North American co-headlining tour
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Dinosaur Jr goes looking for a new bass player via fax — 1991
- Listen: Peter Hook and Andy Rourke talk New Order, The Smiths, Manchester and more
- Watch: Andy Partridge stars in trailer to upcoming XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/5/17)
- New releases: Kitchens of Distinction, Peter Murphy, Marc Almond, Paul Weller and more
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to release sprawling new best-of ‘Lovely Creatures’
- Listen: Wire, ‘Diamonds in Cups’ — second track to debut off upcoming ‘Silver Lead’
- ‘Do what’s right’: Prefab Sprout debuts new pro-immigration song ‘America’
- Midnight Oil adds U.S. festival date, moves Vancouver show to larger venue
- Bob Mould adds more dates, appearance at Wire’s festival to solo-electric tour of U.S.
- The Cure preparing ‘Greatest Hits,’ ‘Acoustic Hits’ vinyl picture discs for Record Store Day
- Angélique Kidjo to perform, record ‘re-imagining’ of Talking Heads’ ‘Remain in Light’
- The Specials announce 12-date tour of Canada and the U.S. coasts in June
- The Darling Buds to release first new music in 25 years — hear new single ‘Complicated’
- Depeche Mode plays surprise rehearsal set for 2 dozen stunned fans in New York City
- U2 announces ‘Joshua Tree’ 30th anniversary edition with 1987 live set, new remixes
- New Order to reinvent its catalog with 12-piece synth ensemble at Manchester dates
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Hardcore legends Bad Brains go under the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1990
- Mark Burgess records unfinished Chameleons songs for new EP, announces U.S. dates
- Petition launched to convince BBC to air new XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’
- Peter Murphy to perform ‘his greatest solo albums’ at 15-night San Francisco residency
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/12/17)
- New releases: Depeche Mode’s ‘Spirit,’ Lloyd Cole box set, CJ Ramone solo album
- ‘Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records’ to screen in Chicago next month
- John Lever, powerful drummer for The Chameleons, dies following short illness
- New Order to release ‘NOMC15’ live album capturing London concert from 2015
- Watch: Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses stops by Seattle’s KEXP for live set, interview
- Modern English touring U.S. in support of reunion album ‘Take Me To the Trees’
- Banshees’ Steven Severin releases new ambient album, gives away 23-minute track
- ‘Good evening, Pasadena!’ Depeche Mode concert film ‘101’ to screen at the Rose Bowl
- R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe to debut first-ever solo music as part of Moogfest audiovisual project
- Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — announces first tour dates
- Listen: Erasure, ‘Love You To the Sky’ — first single off upcoming ‘World Be Gone’
- Vintage Video: The House of Love plays an hour-long set at D.C.’s 9:30 Club in 1992
- Alison Moyet announces new album ‘Other,’ plots huge world tour — hear the title track
- The Chameleons’ Mark Burgess mourns John Lever: ‘He was my friend and I loved him’
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Watch most of a Kevin Seal-hosted episode from Sept. 27, 1987
- Watch: Depeche Mode launches new album ‘Spirit’ with hour-long live Berlin webcast
- Watch: Iggy Pop and Bernard Sumner perform Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/19/17)
- New releases: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Erasure, The Residents, A Flock of Seagulls
- Adam Ant to bring ‘Anthems: The Singles Tour’ to U.S. for 16-date run this September
- Stream/Download: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Auto Reverse Mixtape (March 2017)
- The The re-enlists Johnny Marr on first new single in 10 years for Record Store Day
- The Smiths to issue unreleased versions of 2 songs on Record Store Day 7-inch
- The Cars to issue unreleased ‘Live at the Agora 1978’ on vinyl for Record Store Day
- Ramones to release 10-disc set of pre-1980 7-inch singles for Record Store Day
- Peter Hook to release 4 new live albums of Joy Division, New Order classics
- Vintage Video: Minutemen throw down 37 songs in 73 minutes at this 1985 show
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Poster Children sit down with Dave Kendall during CMJ — 1991
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/26/17)
- New releases: Wire’s ‘Silver/Lead,’ plus Aimee Mann, Big Country, The Vibrators
- Contest: Win tickets to see Peter Murphy perform his solo debut in San Francisco
- The Sisters of Mercy set London, Brussels headline dates, UK festival appearance
- Modern English cancels North American tour after guitarist undergoes emergency surgery
- Sad Lovers & Giants look back with 5-disc ‘Where the Light Shines Through’ box set
- The Dead Milkmen to release new EP ‘Welcome to the End of the World’ this fall
- Mark Mulcahy to release new album ‘Possum in the Driveway,’ tour with Miracle Legion
- Watch: Trailer for ‘Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché’ — crowdfunded doc on X-Ray Spex singer
- Front 242, KMFDM, Stabbing Westward, ohGr, Severed Heads playing Cold Waves festival
- Watch: Mark Eitzel digs into new album ‘Hey Mr. Ferryman’ for KEXP live session
- First look at Tones on Tail-heavy setlist from Poptone featuring Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins
- Vintage Video: Midnight Oil lights up Alan Thicke’s ‘Thicke of the Night’ in 1984
- Watch: Trailer for ‘Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records’ documentary
- Paul Weller drafts Robert Wyatt, Boy George to guest on new album ‘A Kind Revolution’
- Front 242 announces 12-date ‘Circling Overland’ tour of North America this fall
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The world premiere of an iconic Sinead O’Connor video — 1990
- Midnight Oil to kick off worldwide reunion tour with ‘back to basics pub gig’ in Sydney
- ‘Breakfast with The Smiths’ radio show ends 8-year run as Indie1031.com goes dark
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/2/17)
- New releases: Clan of Xymox returns with ‘Days of Black,’ plus Wire’s U.S. release
- The Mission to release expanded edition of 2016 album ‘Another Fall From Grace’
- Watch: Trailer for ‘Man in the Camo Jacket’ — documentary about The Alarm’s Mike Peters
- The Psychedelic Furs expand tour with Robyn Hitchcock with new West Coast dates
- Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — expands U.S. tour
- Listen: Paul Weller, ‘Long Long Road’ and ‘Nova’ — off upcoming ‘A Kind Revolution’
- The Wedding Present re-record ‘George Best’ with Steve Albini, prep Record Store Day EP
- Violent Femmes and Echo & The Bunnymen plot North American co-headlining tour
- Free download: ‘Under What Flag,’ a 17-track tribute to Fad Gadget ‘by fans, for fans’
- The Feelies debut videos for two ‘In Between’ tracks, announce handful of tour dates
- Ride expands North American tour in support of new album ‘Weather Diaries’
- Thurston Moore to release new album ‘Rock N Roll Consciousness’ — hear first single
- Vintage Video: Watch a 40-minute ‘Juju’-era Siouxsie and the Banshees set from 1981
- ‘Breakfast with The Smiths’ radio show finds new home on The Independent FM
- Buffalo Tom’s ‘Let Me Come Over’ to receive 25th anniversary reissue with bonus live disc
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The The’s Matt Johnson earns an MTV disclaimer while hosting in 1986
- Tommy Stinson’s Bash & Pop announce U.S. dates in support of ‘Anything Could Happen’
- New Order releases ‘Music Complete: Remix EP’ ahead of U.S. performances
- Midnight Oil play surprise warm-up gig in Sydney ahead of reunion tour — setlist, video
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/9/17)
- New releases: Pere Ubu’s ‘Drive, He Said 1994-2002’ 4-disc vinyl box set
- Watch: Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash makes new video for 2009 solo rocker ‘Flame On’
- Dream Syndicate puts vinyl release of 1988 live set up to a vote via Run Out Groove
- Coachella reportedly passed on Kate Bush because ‘no one is going to understand it’
- Billy Bragg to perform in ‘one-man Clash mode’ for Bridges Not Walls tour this fall
- ‘We are still here!’: X to celebrate band’s 40th anniversary with 32-date U.S. tour
- Coachella turned down Kate Bush? Singer’s rep: ‘No discussions’ to play festival
- Watch: Morrissey walks off during ‘Everyday is Like Sunday,’ ends concert after 6 songs
- Watch: The Suicide Commandos, ‘Boogie’s Coldest Acre’ — off 1st new album since 1978
- Listen: Erasure, ‘Love You to the Sky’ (Adam Turner Remix) — off upcoming digital EP
- Morrissey cancels 3rd concert in San Antonio in 6 months, citing ‘health concerns’
- Watch: The Jesus and Mary Chain, ‘Mood Rider’ — new video off ‘Damage and Joy’
- Vintage Video: Watch 30 minutes of The Cure’s rehearsals for The Prayer Tour in 1989
- Midnight Oil digs deep with 29-song set to open ‘Great Circle’ reunion tour — video
- Premiere: The Black Watch, ‘All-Right Side of Just OK’ — off ‘Gospel According to John’
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Sisters of Mercy go under the ‘120 X-Ray’ in 1988
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/16/17)
- LIVE: Watch New Order’s performance at the first weekend of the Coachella festival
- New releases: Robyn Hitchcock’s new self-titled album, plus Big Star’s ‘Third’ live
- Listen: Rockin’ the Suburbs podcast talks ’80s college rock with Slicing Up Eyeballs
- The House of Love to headline UK’s Indie Daze festival with Creation Records-era set
- Watch: The Church’s Steve Kilbey covers The Cure classics ‘Pictures of You,’ ‘Love Song’
- Listen: The The, ‘We Can’t Stop What’s Coming’ — first new single in 10 years
- Listen: Rockin’ the Suburbs podcast digs into ‘Dark Wave’ with Slicing Up Eyeballs
- New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Jawbreaker, X, Ministry and more playing Chicago’s Riot Fest
- Watch: Blondie debuts video for ‘Long Time’ — off upcoming album ‘Pollinator’
- Listen: The Afghan Whigs, ‘Arabian Heights’ — second single off upcoming ‘In Spades’
- Folk Devils team up with Inca Babies for U.K. reunion concerts this summer
- Vintage Video: Watch Public Image Ltd.’s VHS-only ‘Anarchy Movie 85’ concert film
- J Spaceman, Sonic Boom ask fans not buy Spacemen 3’s Record Store Day releases
- Lyrics by Joy Division, The Smiths and The Stone Roses appear on Manchester streets
- Depeche Mode to announce ‘special thank you show’ in Hollywood next week
- Poptone resurrects Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets catalog in live debut — setlist, video
- Depeche Mode sets ‘exceptionally exclusive’ L.A. gig, plus record 4th Hollywood Bowl date
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Pale Saints discuss ‘The Comforts of Madness’ in 1990
- ‘Trump will kill America’ etched into vinyl of The Smiths’ Record Store Day single
- Watch: New Order closes Coachella main set with a glorious 9-minute ‘Temptation’
- Whoever’s running the TSA’s Instagram has pretty great taste in 7-inch singles
- Listen: The Smiths’ Record Store Day 7-inch with 2 previously unreleased demos
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/23/17)
- New releases: Thurston Moore, Miracle Legion’s Mark Mulcahy, Pet Shop Boys, U2
- Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of The Cure: Vote for your favorite songs by Robert Smith & Co.
- R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic For the People’ to receive 25th anniversary reissue this fall
- Watch: Depeche Mode plays ‘Where’s the Revolution’ on ‘The Late Late Show’
- ‘C88’ box set to feature The Stone Roses, The House of Love, The Vaselines and more
- KMFDM and Skinny Puppy side project ohGr announce 25-date U.S. tour this fall
- The Psychedelic Furs touring U.K. for first time in 5 years with ‘Singles’ show
- Stream/Download: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Auto Reverse Mixtape (April 2017)
- Citing vocal problems, Peter Murphy pushes 15-night San Francisco residency to 2018
- The Church returns to the U.S. this summer for ‘limited run’ of concerts
- Vintage Video: INXS hits early career heights with 90-minute ‘Rockpalast’ set in 1984
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Peter Murphy co-hosts, swears off Bauhaus reunion in 1992
- The The to sell extra copies of its Record Store Day 7-inch online this weekend
- Watch: Pixies swing by ‘Conan’ to perform ‘Head Carrier’ standout ‘Bel Esprit’
- The The apologizes for 7-inch snafu, promises to release new single on CD, digital
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (4/30/17)
- New releases: Midnight Oil, Nick Cave, Blondie, Afghan Whigs, Slowdive and more
- The Waterboys to release new double album in September, tour the U.S. in 2018
- MTV promo from 1988: ‘When I’m an old person, I think I’ll still be listening to R.E.M.’
- Listen: Alison Moyet, ‘Reassuring Pinches’ — icy synthpop off upcoming album ‘Other’
- The Afghan Whigs announce 28-city North American tour in support of ‘In Spades’
- Listen: Dave Gahan talks ’70s punk, formation of Depeche Mode on Nerdist podcast
- Saxa, The English Beat’s saxophonist and Jamaican-born ska player, 1930-2017
- Vintage Video: Hoodoo Gurus tear through ‘Stoneage Romeos’-era set in Sydney in 1984
- Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — to release live album
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Red Hot Chili Peppers light up the ‘120 X-Ray’ in 1989
- Midnight Oil details huge new 12-disc box set: Demos, rarities, B-sides, hours of live video
- Watch: Depeche Mode covers David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ at ‘Spirit’ tour opener — full setlist
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/7/17)
- New releases: Paul Weller’s ‘A Kind Revolution,’ plus The Mission, David Bowie reissues
- Midnight Oil to return to the U.S. in August for ‘final four’ additional concerts
- Paul Weller to support ‘A Kind Revolution’ with 20-date North American tour this fall
- Echo & The Bunnymen add 3 Canadian concerts following Violent Femmes tour
- Twin/Tone opens its vaults on YouTube: The Replacements, Suicide Commandos and more
- Watch: The surviving Go-Betweens look back in trailer for new documentary ‘Right Here’
- The Cars’ ‘Candy-O’ and ‘Panorama’ reissued with remastered audio, unreleased tracks
- Trent Reznor on seeing Depeche Mode in 1986: ‘It was spiritual and truly magic’
- Vintage Video: The Dead Milkmen make a mess of ‘Club MTV.’ Wubba, wubba, wubba
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- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Dave Kendall eulogizes The Smiths following band’s 1987 break-up
- Watch: U2 resurrects ‘Joshua Tree’ rarities and ‘A Sort of Homecoming,’ debuts new song
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/14/17)
- New releases: Erasure’s ‘World Be Gone,’ plus ‘Singles’ soundtrack, Buffalo Tom, Haircut 100
- The Sisters of Mercy to follow festival appearances with 18-date European tour
- OMD announces ‘The Punishment of Luxury’ album, tour — hear first new song off record
- Watch: The Jesus and Mary Chain perform ‘The Two of Us’ with Sky Ferreira on Colbert
- Wire to head out on North American tour in support of ‘Silver/Lead’ this September
- Chris Cornell, Soundgarden’s lead screamer and grunge-era icon, 1964-2017
- Watch: The The’s emotional new music video for ‘We Can’t Stop What’s Coming’
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Kurt Loder puts Social Distortion under the ‘120 X-Ray’ in 1990
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/21/17)
- New releases: Box sets from Kraftwerk and Midnight Oil, new The Charlatans album
- The absolute best of The Cure: All 225 songs ranked by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers
- Playlist: All 225 of The Cure’s songs, ranked — minus the 16 that aren’t on Spotify
- Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — announce East Coast dates
- ‘Manchester stands together’: Reactions to bombing from Johnny Marr, Peter Hook, more
- Watch: Wire plays new ‘Silver/Lead’ songs, unreleased track in KEXP session
- The Primitives release 4-song ‘New Thrills’ EP, plan rare U.S. dates in June
- Vintage Video: Einstürzende Neubauten pounds through 70-minute set on ‘Rockpalast’
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Checking in with Nine Inch Nails at Lollapalooza 1991
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/28/17)
- New releases: U2’s ‘Joshua Tree’ and Bob Marley’s ‘Exodus’ expanded, plus Erasure EP
- Listen: OMD, ‘Isotype’ — classic-sounding new single off ‘The Punishment of Luxury’
- Listen: Exclusive uncut interview with Tommy Stinson from Rockin’ the Suburbs podcast
- The Fall to release ‘New Facts Emerge’ — band’s 32nd studio album — in July
- Stream/Download: Auto Reverse Mixtape (May 2017) — Manchester, So Much to Answer For
- Q&A: Steve Wynn on The Dream Syndicate’s first new album in nearly 30 years
- 7-disc ‘Manchester North of England’ features Joy Division, Stone Roses, Oasis, more
- Lords of Acid to play ‘Voodoo-U’ album on first North American tour in 6 years
- Vintage Video: Dinosaur Jr previews ‘You’re Living All Over Me’ at UMass in 1986
- Violent Femmes to release ‘Unplugged & Unhinged’ live album ahead of Bunnymen tour