Year: 2013

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/22/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/22/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Public Image Ltd., Morrissey, New Model Army, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Fall, Alien Sex Fiend, March Violets, The Glove, Japan, The Sisters of Mercy and more.

The Week in Rock: Dec. 14-21, 2013

The Week in Rock: Dec. 14-21, 2013

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured news about Tears For Fears, Bad Religion, The Replacements, Aztec Camera, David J, Orange Juice, The Fixx, Gary Numan and more.

Aztec Camera's 'High Land, Hard Rain' to receive expanded 30th anniversary reissue

Aztec Camera’s ‘High Land, Hard Rain’ to receive expanded 30th anniversary reissue

Aztec Camera’s 1983 debut album High Land, Hard Rain will receive a (slightly) belated 30th anniversary reissue in North America in early 2014, a 2CD set that expands on last year’s European re-release with 16 bonus tracks that include B-sides, remixes, alternate versions and a host of live radio session material.

Video: Bad Religion rips through 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel' on Conan

Video: Bad Religion rips through ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel’ on Conan

Southern California punk giants Bad Religion dropped by TBS’ “Conan” show last night to spread some Yuletide cheer, ripping through their appropriately raucous take on the classic hymn “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” off the band’s recently released holiday album, Christmas Songs.

Bauhaus' David J turns to Kickstarter to fund new solo album 'An Eclipse of Ships'

Bauhaus’ David J turns to Kickstarter to fund new solo album ‘An Eclipse of Ships’

David J, the former bassist of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, has launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise $30,000 from fans to fund the completion of his next solo album — An Eclipse of Ships, described as “a journal of the heart and a paean to Woman as muse.”

Orange Juice’s 4 original studio albums to be reissued on CD, vinyl next year

Orange Juice’s 4 original studio albums to be reissued on CD, vinyl next year

Following last April’s vinyl-only Record Store Day releases, Domino next year will reissue all four original albums from Scottish indie-pop act Orange Juice — You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever (1982), Rip It Up (1982), Texas Fever (1984) and The Orange Juice (1984) — on CD, as digital downloads and, once again, on vinyl.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 140, aired 12/17/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 140, aired 12/17/13

Tonight’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured music by Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, X, Golden Palominos, Alison Moyet, Violent Femmes, The Smiths, The Waterboys, Cocteau Twins, David Bowie, Duran Duran, 10,000 Maniacs and more. Replay at 2 p.m. EST Friday.