Year: 2013

Video: Robyn Hitchcock live on KEXP during SXSW — watch 35-minute set

Video: Robyn Hitchcock live on KEXP during SXSW — watch 35-minute set

As it does each year, Seattle’s KEXP has been posting video footage of sets by bands that played live on the air for the radio station during South By Southwest last month — the latest being a six-song, 35-minute set from Robyn Hitchcock, who played several songs off his just-released new album ‘Love From London.’

Public Image Ltd. to give 'First Issue' its first-ever U.S. release with expanded reissue

Public Image Ltd. to give ‘First Issue’ its first-ever U.S. release with expanded reissue

Public Image Ltd. will follow up this month’s Record Store Day reissue of debut 7-inch “Public Image” later this year with the band’s first-ever U.S. release of debut album ‘First Issue,’ which will be released in expanded 2CD and single-LP vinyl editions with “various bonus material.”

It's official: The Cure, New Order, Nine Inch Nails set for Lollapalooza 2013

It’s official: The Cure, New Order, Nine Inch Nails set for Lollapalooza 2013

As fully expected after last week’s big leak, the lineup for this summer’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago was announced today, with headliners that include The Cure and Nine Inch Nails, as well as an appearance by New Order. Check out the full lineup; single day tickets on sale Wednesday.

Top 100 Albums of 1981: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 2

Top 100 Albums of 1981: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 2

Today we unveil the results of Part 2 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, an ambitious, year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine just what were the best albums of each year of the 1980s — and then, when that’s all said and done at the end of 2013, we’ll run a best-of-the-decade poll.

Devo to release 'New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle' on CD with 2 bonus tracks

Devo to release ‘New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle’ on CD with 2 bonus tracks

On Record Store Day last year, Devo released a 2LP vinyl live set culled from a cassette recording made of the band’s Seattle stop on its 1981 tour in support of New Traditionlalists. Come next month, fans not into that whole vinyl thing will be able hear it, too, as the band releases the concert on CD — with two bonus tracks.

Stream: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (April 2013)

Stream: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (April 2013)

Another month, another Auto Reverse mixtape — two 45-minute sides of music new and vintage. But change is in the air: We’ve altered format slightly, moving from Soundcloud to Mixcloud for the streaming mixes, which, unfortunately, are no longer available for download.

New releases: Mudhoney, Suicidal Tendencies, Jello Biafra, Violent Femmes' Victor DeLorenzo

New releases: Mudhoney, Suicidal Tendencies, Jello Biafra, Violent Femmes’ Victor DeLorenzo

This week’s new releases include brand-new studio albums from Seattle proto-grunge legends Mudhoney (‘Vanishing Point’), thrash masters Suicidal Tendencies (’13’), the Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra (‘White People and the Damage Done’) and Victor DeLorenzo of the Violent Femmes (‘Victor DeLorenzo’).