Year: 2013

Watch 19 seconds of The Replacements rehearsing 'Favorite Thing' earlier today

Watch 19 seconds of The Replacements rehearsing ‘Favorite Thing’ earlier today

A week after teasing fans with the first footage of The Replacements rehearsals now under way in Minneapolis, the ‘Mats today did a bit better, posting to Facebook 19 seconds of Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson ripping through “Favorite Thing.”

Stream: New Order, 'Live at Bestival 2012’ — full 13-track live album

Stream: New Order, ‘Live at Bestival 2012’ — full 13-track live album

New Order next week will commemorate its highly successful reunion, and raise money for charity, with the release of a new 13-track live album recorded at the U.K.’s Bestival last September — and you can now stream the full album below (via The Guardian).

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 126, aired 7/2/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 126, aired 7/2/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured brand-new music from the Pixies, plus old favorites from Peter Gabriel, The Stone Roses, Devo, Max Q, The Ocean Blue, Midge Ure, The Replacements, Echo & The Bunnymen and more.

 Top 100 Albums of 1984: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 5

Top 100 Albums of 1984: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 5

It’s the first of the month, which means it’s time to unveil the results of Part 5 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, a year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine the best albums of each year of the 1980s — and then, when that’s wrapped up at the end of 2013, we’ll run a best-of-the-decade poll.

The Suburbs launch Kickstarter campaign to fund first new album in 27 years

The Suburbs launch Kickstarter campaign to fund first new album in 27 years

The Suburbs — contemporaries of The Replacements and Hüsker Dü in the first half of the ’80s who, more recently, have seen their song “Love is the Law” adopted as the theme for the gay marriage movement in Minnesota — are recording their first new album in 27 years and are asking fans to help fund the project.

Pixies draft The Muffs' Kim Shattuck to replace Kim Deal on 'massive global tour'

Pixies draft The Muffs’ Kim Shattuck to replace Kim Deal on ‘massive global tour’

The Pixies today followed up last week’s free release of a surprise new track with more revelations, namely that the band is about to embark on a “massive global tour” to debut material off its follow-up to 1991’s Trompe le Monde with The Muffs frontwoman Kim Shattuck replacing the departed Kim Deal.

New releases: Microdisney, New Model Army, A Certain Ratio, Visage, The Proclaimers

New releases: Microdisney, New Model Army, A Certain Ratio, Visage, The Proclaimers

This week’s new releases include reissues from Microdisney (‘Love Your Enemies,’ ‘The Clock Comes Down The Stairs’), New Model Army (a repackaged 2003 live set) and A Certain Ratio (I’d Like To See You Again’), plus new best-ofs from Visage and The Proclaimers.