Year: 2013

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 111, aired 3/12/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour is tied to our Top 100 Albums of 1980 list, and features music from records appearing on that countdown, including songs by The Clash, X, Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen, Japan, John Foxx, Talking Heads, The Feelies and more.

The Cure, New Order return to North America this summer for Montreal's Osheaga Festival

The Cure, New Order return to North America this summer for Montreal’s Osheaga Festival

The Cure and New Order each will return to North America this summer, as both bands were announced this week as headliners at Montreal’s three-day Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts in early August — a billing that will put the two legendary acts just hours away from Chicago, which hosts Lollapalooza that same weekend.

Stream: The House of Love, 'She Paints Words in Red' — first new album in 7 years

Stream: The House of Love, ‘She Paints Words in Red’ — first new album in 7 years

We’re still two weeks out from the release of ‘She Paints Words in Red’ — The House of Love’s first new album in seven years — but Cherry Red Records this morning put the full 12-track record up on Soundcloud for all to hear. Check out a stream of the full record, the band’s first since 2005, right here.

Dead Can Dance to release 'In Concert' live album next month

Dead Can Dance to release ‘In Concert’ live album next month

Dead Can Dance will commemorate its ongoing reunion with a new live CD called ‘In Concert’ that also will be released in expanded digital and triple-vinyl formats, capturing performances from the band’s 2012 U.S. tour.

Video: Watch Depeche Mode's full 48-minute 'Live on Letterman' concert

Video: Watch Depeche Mode’s full 48-minute ‘Live on Letterman’ concert

Depeche Mode tonight formally launched its new album Delta Machine with the kick-off performance of the 2013 season of the “Live on Letterman” concert series, playing a live concert that was webcast on CBS.com and VEVO — and for those who were in the Big Apple, it also was shown live in Times Square.

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 2: Vote for your top albums of 1981

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 2: Vote for your top albums of 1981

Our year-long Best of the ’80s feature continues this month as we turn to 1981, and once again ask Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to weigh in on their favorite albums of that year in our ongoing quest to rank the releases of each year of the decade over the course of 2013.

Depeche Mode announces North American dates for 'Delta Machine' summer tour

Depeche Mode announces North American dates for ‘Delta Machine’ summer tour

With Depeche Mode set to formally launch its new album Delta Machine this evening a performance on the “Live on Letterman” concert series, the band today unveiled the long-awaited dates to its North American tour, a trek that opens Aug. 22 in Detroit and runs through Oct. 8 in Phoenix.