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Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 168, aired 11/25/14

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 168, aired 11/25/14

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.

The Church announces 19-date North American tour in support of 'Further/Deeper'

The Church announces 19-date North American tour in support of ‘Further/Deeper’

The Church will follow February’s U.S. release of its new album Further/Deeper with a 19-date North American tour that will find the Aussie rockers performing both at San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival and the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas.

New releases: R.E.M., Echo & The Bunnymen, The House of Love, Soundgarden

New releases: R.E.M., Echo & The Bunnymen, The House of Love, Soundgarden

This week’s new releases include a 6DVD set of MTV footage from R.E.M., plus new live albums from Echo & The Bunnymen and The House of Love, as well a new rarities collection from Soundgarden that was compiled by guitarist Kim Thayill and is available in single and three-disc sets.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/23/14)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/23/14)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Moev, Killing Joke, Acid Horse, This Mortal Coil, A Certain Ratio, The Sugarcubes, Tones on Tail, Concrete Blonde, 1,000 Homo DJs, The Lucy Show and more.

New releases: Depeche Mode, The Cure, David Bowie, Nick Cave, The Jam, Fugazi, Bryan Ferry

New releases: Depeche Mode, The Cure, David Bowie, Nick Cave, The Jam, Fugazi, Bryan Ferry

This week’s new releases include a new live album and DVD from Depeche Mode, a Paul McCartney cover by The Cure, a new best-of from David Bowie, Nick Cave’s “20,000 Days on Earth” film, new albums from Bryan Ferry and Einstürzende Neubauten, and a collection of 1988 demos from Fugazi.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/16/14)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/16/14)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Joy Division, John Foxx, Cabaret Voltaire, Nitzer Ebb, Chris & Cosey, Specimen, Human Sexual Response, Front Line Assembly, Skeletal Family, PTP, Killing Joke, Peter Murphy and more.

'Monsters of Industrial': Skinny Puppy enlists Front Line Assembly for North American tour

‘Monsters of Industrial’: Skinny Puppy enlists Front Line Assembly for North American tour

Turns out Front Line Assembly mastermind Bill Leeb’s “Monsters of Industrial” tour is happening after all — although with a less monstrous name — after Skinny Puppy tapped FLA to replace the departed VNV Nation on the bands’ 17-date North American tour that’s slated to kick off in Toronto in late November.