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Resurrected Wax Trax Records! to open Chicago pop-up store for 1 day next month

Resurrected Wax Trax Records! to open Chicago pop-up store for 1 day next month

Not only is Wax Trax! Records being reborn as a label, but the famed Chicago record store will return next month, too — for one day only. Julia Nash is planning a one-day Wax Trax! pop-up shop inside Windy City music venue Metro on June 15 to mark the label’s first release.

Sonic Youth to launch new reissue campaign with 'Daydream Nation,' 'The Whitey Album'

Sonic Youth to launch new reissue campaign with ‘Daydream Nation,’ ‘The Whitey Album’

Sonic Youth will launch a new reissue campaign focused on the band’s ’80s pre-Geffen releases next month with new CD and 2LP pressings of landmark 1988 album Daydream Nation as well as a new CD edition of The Whitey Album, released that same year under the name Ciccone Youth.

Stream/Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2014)

Stream/Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (May 2014)

First: a mea culpa. Yes, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape Department has fallen down on the job, failing to produce a new entry in the Auto Reverse series since winter wrapped its cruel grip across this land. That dark chasm of silence even prompted one loyal listener to email us: “Why do you hate the mixtapes?”

New releases: Roddy Frame, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, Josef K, Durutti Column, Section 25

New releases: Roddy Frame, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, Josef K, Durutti Column, Section 25

This week’s new releases include the first new solo album in eight years from Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame and a new collaboration between Brian Eno and Underworld’s Karl Hyde, plus reissues of early albums from Josef K, Durutti Column and Section 25.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/4/14)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/4/14)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave celebrated the 25th anniversary of The Cure’s Disintegration, plus included music by Asylum Party, Concrete Blonde, 1,000 Homo DJs, Peter Murphy, Cocteau Twins, Shriekback, Gaye Bikers on Acid, Marc and the Mambas, The March Violets and more.

The Week in Rock: April 27-May 3, 2014

The Week in Rock: April 27-May 3, 2014

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 items about The Cure, Echo & They Bunnymen, Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg, Front 242, Pixies and more — plus we updated our ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ Spotify playlist.

Watch Arcade Fire cover R.E.M.'s 'Radio Free Europe' in Atlanta last night

Watch Arcade Fire cover R.E.M.’s ‘Radio Free Europe’ in Atlanta last night

As the Arcade Fire’s current arena tour has crisscrossed the country, the band has selected a geographically significant cover song to perform each night — sometimes in full, sometimes just barely — and last night in Atlanta, the group performed a full version of R.E.M.’s 1981 debut single “Radio Free Europe.”