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ohGr, Meat Beat Manifesto, Frontline Assembly top lineups for Cold Waves festivals

ohGr, Meat Beat Manifesto, Frontline Assembly top lineups for Cold Waves festivals

Chicago’s industrial-themed Cold Waves festival will return for a seventh installment this September, joined not just by the Los Angeles edition that debuted last year, but a New York City variation as well — with all three of the multi-day events headlined by Skinny Puppy spinoff ohGr. Full details right here.

Listen: Belly premieres 'Stars Align' — 2nd single off band's first album in 23 years

Listen: Belly premieres ‘Stars Align’ — 2nd single off band’s first album in 23 years

The reunited Belly — Tanya Donelly’s post-Throwing Muses, post-Breeders alt-rock outlet — this week debuted the second track, “Stars Align,” off of the forthcoming Dove, the band’s first new album in 23 years, The single, the follow-up to “Shiny One,” can be streamed in full right here.

Watch: The Breeders return to Conan O'Brien's show after 25 years, play 'Wait in the Car'

Watch: The Breeders return to Conan O’Brien’s show after 25 years, play ‘Wait in the Car’

The Breeders returned to Conan O’Brien’s late-night show last week for the first time in 25 years, performing the song “Wait in the Car” off the band’s just-released new album All Nerve — the group’s first record featuring the Last Splash-era lineup since, well, the Last Splash era. Watch it right here.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Iggy Pop credits David Bowie with launching his solo career — 1990

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Iggy Pop credits David Bowie with launching his solo career — 1990

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, travel back to 1991 for a re-airing of an Iggy Pop clip that had been filmed the previous summer. In it, host Dave Kendall discusses Pop’s early solo work with David Bowie, whom the singer credits with jump-starting his solo career.

Vintage Video: 10,000 Maniacs open a Grateful Dead stadium show on July 4, 1989

Vintage Video: 10,000 Maniacs open a Grateful Dead stadium show on July 4, 1989

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present this hour-long, broadcast-quality footage of 10,000 Maniacs opening for the Grateful Dead at the Buffalo Bills’ stadium on July 4, 1989. The show comes a few months after the release of the band’s fourth album, Blind Man’s Zoo.

'Midnight Oil 1984' documentary to screen in Australian theaters, worldwide — watch trailer

‘Midnight Oil 1984’ documentary to screen in Australian theaters, worldwide — watch trailer

A new documentary chronicling Midnight Oil’s pivotal year of 1984 — which saw the release of Red Sails in the Sunset and Peter Garrett’s failed run for the Australian Senate as a Nuclear Disarmament Party candidate — will screen in Australian theaters in May before an international rollout.

This week's new releases: The Cars reissues, plus The Mission, The Damned, The Essence

This week’s new releases: The Cars reissues, plus The Mission, The Damned, The Essence

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s releases include titles from The Cars, The Mission, The Damned and The Essence. Full details here.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/25/18)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/25/18)

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. EDT every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available via Sirius XM’s On Demand service for online subscribers. Check out tonight’s full playlist right here.

Listen: Michael Stipe debuts new song 'Future, If Future' ahead of March For Our Lives

Listen: Michael Stipe debuts new song ‘Future, If Future’ ahead of March For Our Lives

Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe this morning debuted a short, 40-second song called “Future, If Future” — featuring his vocals over minimal electronic accompaniment — ahead of this morning March For Our Lives gun-control events across the country. Hear the full song right here.

The Mission to release 'For Ever More' box set chronicling 2008 full-album concerts

The Mission to release ‘For Ever More’ box set chronicling 2008 full-album concerts

The Mission next week will release a new 5CD box set that collects live discs recorded during the band’s 2008 run of show in London that saw full-album performances of classic early records The First Chapter, God’s Own Medicine, Children and Carved in Sand. Full details and tracklist here.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: They Might Be Giants play 'Particle Man,' talk 'Flood' — 1990

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: They Might Be Giants play ‘Particle Man,’ talk ‘Flood’ — 1990

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we flash back to 1990 with a segment featuring They Might Be Giants in which the two Johns perform “Particle Man,” then chat with host Dave Kendall about their then-current album Flood and the record’s quirky breakout single “Birdhouse in Your Soul.”

Vintage Video: New Order blasts through hour-long 'Low-Life'-era set in Belgium

Vintage Video: New Order blasts through hour-long ‘Low-Life’-era set in Belgium

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we offer up this fantastic hour-long set by New Order that was filmed at a Belgian club in late 1985 for TV broadcast — and it’s been synced up with audio remastered by The Analog Loyalist (who you may remember for coming up with this New Order treasure).

Wire preps demo-packed expanded reissues of 'Pink Flag,' 'Chairs Missing' and '154'

Wire preps demo-packed expanded reissues of ‘Pink Flag,’ ‘Chairs Missing’ and ‘154’

Seminal post-punk act Wire will reissue its first three albums — 1977’s Pink Flag, 1978’s Chairs Missing and 1979’s 154 — in May with each remastered album packaged in a special book and featuring one or more bonus discs filled with studio demos and previously unreleased material. Full details here.