Year: 2013

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 120, aired 5/21/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 120, aired 5/21/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio featured new music by Black Flag, Mark Mulcahy and British Electric Foundation, plus songs by Renegade Soundwave, Nick Cave, The Chameleons and The Smiths, and a tribute to Ray Manzarek of The Doors.

The Clash to release 12-disc 'Sound System' box set, new 2CD best-of this September

The Clash to release 12-disc ‘Sound System’ box set, new 2CD best-of this September

The Clash return to record stores in a big way this September, with the release of a 12-disc box set called Sound System — featuring five of the band’s six albums, a DVD with unseen footage and three discs’ worth of demos, non-album singles, rarities and B-sides — as well as a new double-disc best-of set.

Listen to a robot read Morrissey's Wikipedia entry out loud — for a full hour

Listen to a robot read Morrissey’s Wikipedia entry out loud — for a full hour

Because it’s increasingly true that you can indeed find anything on the Internet, here’s a brand-new way for Morrissey fans to kill an hour: by listening to a robot recite the former Smiths frontman’s full Wikipedia entry out loud for a full 59 minutes and 54 seconds.

Free MP3: Peter Hook & The Light play New Order's 'Everything's Gone Green' in Manchester

Free MP3: Peter Hook & The Light play New Order’s ‘Everything’s Gone Green’ in Manchester

To help promote his just-announced North American tour on which he’ll perform New Order’s first two albums — 1981′s Movement and 1983′s Power, Corruptions & Lies — Peter Hook is making available as a free download a live recording of that band’s third single, “Everything’s Gone Green,” recorded in Manchester.

Sad Lovers & Giants recording new music: 'We will have 70% of an album'

Sad Lovers & Giants recording new music: ‘We will have 70% of an album’

Sad Lovers & Giants — who’ve earned a strong cult following despite having broken up and re-formed multiple times since debuting in the early ’80s — are in the studio recording what could be their first album in more than a decade, with enough songs currently in the works to comprise “70 percent of an album.”

Filmmakers seek funds for documentary on Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery

Filmmakers seek funds for documentary on Camper Van Beethoven’s David Lowery

Filmmakers Michael Santorelli and Laurel Harris recently launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise $50,000 to help fund their documentary “Get Off This: A Film About Music and Perseverance,” which aims to document the life and music of David Lowery, frontman of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker.

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2013)

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2013)

Well, this is embarrassing. We’re more than two weeks later with this month’s installment of the Auto Reverse mixtape — two 45-minute sides of music new and vintage from your favorite artists. And, while we’re still using Mixcloud to stream the tape, due to popular demand, it’s downloadable, too — for a limited time.