Year: 2013

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (9/15/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (9/15/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Pigface, The Glove, Joy Division, Shriekback, This Mortal Coil, Propaganda, Clan of Xymox, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths, Ministry, The Sisterhood, Tones on Tail, Theatre of Hate and much, much more.

Watch Peter Hook and The Roots jam out Joy Division, New Order classics on 'Fallon'

Watch Peter Hook and The Roots jam out Joy Division, New Order classics on ‘Fallon’

As advertised, Peter Hook was featured on Thursday night’s episode of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” where he sat in with The Roots, playing Joy Division and New Order classics — with Captain Kirk Douglas handling vocals — as the show went to and from commercial.

Peter Murphy to bring 'Mr. Moonlight' all-Bauhaus show back to California this fall

Peter Murphy to bring ‘Mr. Moonlight’ all-Bauhaus show back to California this fall

After taking his Mr. Moonlight Tour across the United States, Europe and even to South America this summer, Peter Murphy will bring the show — which celebrates the 35th anniversary of Bauhaus with a set comprised only of that band’s material or songs the group covered — back to California this October for five more concerts.

Update: Morrissey now says 'Autobiography' will be published in Europe, but not U.S.

Update: Morrissey now says ‘Autobiography’ will be published in Europe, but not U.S.

Morrissey’s long-in-the-works autobiography — titled, appropriately, “Autobiography” — was set to be published next week, but the singer claims a last-minute and heretofore unexplained “content disagreement” with Penguin Classics “has caused the venture to collapse,” leaving the former Smiths frontman in search of a new publisher.

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 8: Vote for your top albums of 1987

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 8: Vote for your top albums of 1987

Our year-long Best of the ’80s poll continues as we hit 1987, and once again ask Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to vote for their favorite albums of that year in our mission to rank the releases of each year of the decade throughout 2013, concluding with a poll to determine the absolute best records of the entire 1980s.

Bad Religion to put the punk back in the holidays with 'Christmas Songs' album

Bad Religion to put the punk back in the holidays with ‘Christmas Songs’ album

Turns out Erasure isn’t the only group delivering a new holiday record this year: Southern California punk kings Bad Religion will put a decidedly rougher spin on seasonal classics like “Hark! The Herald Angles Sing” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” next month with the release of the aptly titled Christmas Songs.

The Mission's 'The Brightest Light' streaming on Spotify a week ahead of release

The Mission’s ‘The Brightest Light’ streaming on Spotify a week ahead of release

With their first new album in six years — and first to feature original band members Wayne Hussey, Simon Hinkler and Craig Adams since 1990 — due out next week, The Mission has begun streaming the full 12-track The Brightest Light via Spotify. Here, you can check out the full album.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 134, aired 9/10/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 134, aired 9/10/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio was devoted to the Best of 1986, featuring music from XTC, Love and Rockets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, R.E.M., Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Concrete Blonde, The Smithereens and more.

Billy Bragg's 'Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy' to receive expanded 30th anniversary reissue

Billy Bragg’s ‘Life’s a Riot with Spy vs. Spy’ to receive expanded 30th anniversary reissue

Billy Bragg will celebrate the 30th anniversary of his debut album Life’s a Riot with Spy vs. Spy — featuring the singer-songwriter’s classic “A New England” — next month with a new reissue that features a newly remastered version of the original record plus a live solo version of the full album recorded in London.

Mazzy Star announces North American tour in support of first new album in 17 years

Mazzy Star announces North American tour in support of first new album in 17 years

Mazzy Star — the reunited dream-pop duo that David Roback of Rain Parade and Opal formed in the late ’80s with then-future Jesus and Mary Chain collaborator Hope Sandoval — this week announced a 14-date North American tour this fall in support of Seasons of Your Day, the group’s first new album in 17 years.

Peter Hook to sit in with The Roots on 'Jimmy Fallon' as U.S. tour gets underway

Peter Hook to sit in with The Roots on ‘Jimmy Fallon’ as U.S. tour gets underway

Peter Hook’s North American tour gets underway tonight in Boston — he’ll be performing New Order’s first two albums, 1981′s Movement and 1983′s Power, Corruptions & Lies, in their entirety each night — and the bassist is using the occasion to drop by “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” when the trek hits New York.

Bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim, Gene Loves Jezebel due for Beggars' next ‘5 Albums’ box sets

Bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim, Gene Loves Jezebel due for Beggars’ next ‘5 Albums’ box sets

The third round of 5 Albums box sets from reissue label Beggars Archive — pitched to fans as “the last chance to present (these) albums as physical releases in the foreseeable future” — will collect full albums, singles and assorted bonus tracks from Bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim and Gene Loves Jezebel.

Erasure records original songs, 'seasonal classics' for new holiday album 'Snow Globe'

Erasure records original songs, ‘seasonal classics’ for new holiday album ‘Snow Globe’

Synthpop duo Erasure will get festive this fall with a brand-new holiday album called Snow Globe that will include both original compositions and “seasonal classics” — a collection that singer Andy Bell says led him to rediscover his “inner choirboy.” The album is set to be released Nov. 11.