Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs

Let's Active reuniting for first performance in 24 years tonight at N.C. cancer benefit

Let’s Active reuniting for first performance in 24 years tonight at N.C. cancer benefit

Let’s Active will reunite on stage in Carrboro, N.C., for the first time in 24 years tonight at a teenage cancer benefit, with bandleader and R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter joined by founding drummer Sara Romweber and Game Theory bassist Suzi Ziegler filling in for the late Faye Hunter,

Echo & The Bunnymen livestream Wednesday night's show at Seattle's Showbox

Echo & The Bunnymen livestream Wednesday night’s show at Seattle’s Showbox

Echo & The Bunnymen currently are about midway through their North American tour in support of their latest album Meteorites, and tonight’s show in Seattle offers a special treat: It’s being broadcast live across the Internet as part of Yahoo! Screen’s live concert series. Check out the broadcast here.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 162, aired 8/5/14

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 162, aired 8/5/14

Exploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. If you caught this week’s episode, pop over to the Strangeways message board to leave requests for future shows.

Love and Rockets debut 'Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven' to be reissued on vinyl

Love and Rockets debut ‘Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven’ to be reissued on vinyl

The debut album from Love and Rockets — 1985’s Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven — will receive a vinyl reissue later this month via the Drastic Plastic label, which will press the seven-song album on both opaque blue vinyl and 200-gram black vinyl.

Scruffy the Cat to release catalog digitally, issue new collection of unreleased tracks

Scruffy the Cat to release catalog digitally, issue new collection of unreleased tracks

Scruffy the Cat — part of the late-’80s cowpunk scene that helped spawn the alt-country movement — get their due in the coming months with both the full digital release of the band’s catalog and, on CD, the arrival of a new collection of previously unreleased live and studio material.

Watch Johnny Marr and Robyn Hitchcock play 'Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want'

Watch Johnny Marr and Robyn Hitchcock play ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’

Saturday night, Johnny Marr brought a special guest on stage for the encore of his concert in Portsmouth, England: Robyn Hitchcock, who helped Marr perform the Smiths classic “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” and Hitchcock’s own “Tell Me About Your Drugs.”

New releases: Big Country, Rowland S. Howard, Elvis Costello & The Attractions

New releases: Big Country, Rowland S. Howard, Elvis Costello & The Attractions

This week’s new releases include a pair of 2CD reissues from Big Country (‘The Seer,’ ‘Peace In Our Time’) as well as a reissue of late Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard’s second solo album (2009’s ‘Pop Crimes’) and a vinyl reissue of Elvis Costello & The Attractions’ ‘All This Useless Beauty.’

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/3/14)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/3/14)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured new music from New Model Army and Daniel Ash, plus old favorites by Ministry, Lords of the New Church, Joy Division, Controlled Bleeding, Shriekback, Severed Heads, The Sound, Cabaret Voltaire and more.

Morrissey to resume touring in support of ‘World Peace’ with concerts planned across Europe

Morrissey to resume touring in support of ‘World Peace’ with concerts planned across Europe

Less than two months after aborting yet another U.S. tour due to ill health, Morrissey is making plans to hit the road again in support of his brand-new album World Peace Is None of Your Business, with concerts so far planned for Greece, Turkey, Italy, Romania, Hungary and Ireland.

New Model Army mix studio, live tracks on 'Between Wine and Blood' — stream 'Guessing'

New Model Army mix studio, live tracks on ‘Between Wine and Blood’ — stream ‘Guessing’

]Long-running U.K. post-punk act New Model Army follows up last year’s Between Dog and Wolf — the band’s 12th studio album, and first in four years — with a new collection in September entitled Between Wine and Blood that combines a mini album of six new studio tracks and an 11-song live album.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 161, aired 7/29/14

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 161, aired 7/29/14

Exploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. If you caught this week’s episode, pop over to the Strangeways message board to leave requests for future shows.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Wall of Voodoo's Stan Ridgway goes under the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Wall of Voodoo’s Stan Ridgway goes under the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

For this week’s installment of our “120 Minutes” Rewind series, we present this “120 X-Ray” segment on former Wall of Voodoo frontman Stan Ridgway. As you can see below, the segment, which aired June 11, 1989, delves into Ridgway’s time with the New Wave act then proceeds to his solo work.

David J pens 'Who Killed Mister Moonlight?' memoir — read excerpt on Ian Curtis

David J pens ‘Who Killed Mister Moonlight?’ memoir — read excerpt on Ian Curtis

David J will tell the stories behind seminal goth-rock act Bauhaus and its successor Love and Rockets — as well as tales from his own solo career and his exploration of the occult — in a new memoir entitled “Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction” that’s due to be published this fall.