The Pixies will head back out onto the road in the U.S. this spring. mounting a 23-date tour of theaters, clubs and amphitheaters in support of last year’s Head Carrier. The trek opens April 21 in Pomona, Calif., and wraps up with two dates in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 25 and 26.

Mildly popular music-news outpost Slicing Up Eyeballs creaked back into action late this evening, promising to renew its stream of posts about ’80s college rock acts — old music for old people, as it were — and the like. Here’s our founder answering a series of frequently asked questions.

Promotional clip teasing the third episode of Denis Leary’s new “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll” sitcom, airing July 30, 2015, on the FX television network, in which one of the charactes makes a reference to a certain music blog that is no longer with us.

On Feb. 20, 2009, Slicing Up Eyeballs launched onto the web not with a bang but a whimper, debuting with a simple 91-word declaration and a headline cribbed from an R.E.M. song that Google Analytics now tells me was not viewed by a single person that day.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Sisters of Mercy, This Mortal Coil, Dif Juz, Revolting Cocks, Shriekback, Nash the Slash, Sex Gang Children, The Sound, Siouxsie and the Banshees, PiL, Coil, The Mission, Flesh for Lulu, Love and Rockets and more.

The Dead Milkmen are offering fans a look inside the recording of their new song “Prisoner’s Cinema” via Weathervane Music’s “Shaking Through” series of short documentaries, which are designed to illuminate the “vision and process of recording music.” Plus, they’re offering a free download of the finished product.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Cure, John Foxx, Death Cult, Tones on Tail, Front 242, Openheimer Analysis, Virgin Prunes, Front Line Assembly, English Boy on the Loveranch, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry , The Sisters of Mercy, Mission of Burma and more.