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 posts about Tears For Fears, Nine Inch Nails, Kitchens of Distinction, Alison Moyet, The House of Love, The Creatures, Nirvana and more — plus the Cure-topping Top 100 albums of 1985 list as voted on by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers.
SATURDAY, AUG. 3, 2013
Video: Nine Inch Nails at Lollapalooza 2013 — watch full 100-minute webcast
Video: Bernard Sumner and The Killers cover Joy Division’s ‘Shadowplay’ at Lollapalooza
FRIDAY, AUG. 2, 2013
Tears For Fears’ ‘The Hurting’ box set: Remixes, B-sides, radios sessions, live DVD
‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie of The Creatures — 1990
THURSDAY, AUG. 1, 2013
Top 100 Albums of 1985: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 6
Stream: Kitchens of Distinction, ‘Japan to Jupiter’ — first single off reunion album ‘Folly’
Sinead O’Connor announces 14-date ‘American Kindness’ tour this November
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013
Stream: Gary Numan, ‘I Am Dust’ — off ‘Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)’
The House of Love’s Creation Records debut to be reissued as 5LP box set
Vintage Video: Depeche Mode ended European leg of Devotional Tour 20 years ago today
Kitchens of Distinction to release ‘Folly’ — first album in 19 years — on Sept. 30
LIVE: Lollapalooza webcast featuring The Cure, Nine Inch Nails and more — full schedule
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013
Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 129, aired 7/30/13
Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ box set to feature 70 ‘remastered, remixed, rare, unreleased, live’ tracks
Modern English announces short tour along East Coast of U.S. this August
MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013
The Cure to perform in Mexico between Austin City Limits appearances this October
Debbie Harry denies reports she’s planning to end Blondie: ‘No plans to stop working’
Alison Moyet to play San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York this November
New releases: Big Country ‘At the BBC’ box set, plus Birthday Party, Icehouse, The Cult
SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013
Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/28/13)
Bernard Sumner breaks leg, is ‘unable to give it my all’ — but New Order not scrubbing tour
Video: Nine Inch Nails at Fuji Rock Festival ’13 — watch full 90-minute webcast
