Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs

ChameleonsVox to perform 'Script of the Bridge' in U.K., Europe this spring

ChameleonsVox to perform ‘Script of the Bridge’ in U.K., Europe this spring

Mark Burgess this week announced a spring tour that will find ChameleonsVox — the latest incarnation of post-punk favorites The Chameleons — performing 1983 debut album Script of the Bridge in its entirety at more than a dozen shows in the U.K. and another nine in mainland Europe.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 145, aired 2/4/14

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 145, aired 2/4/14

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured music form The Housemartins, Erasure, The Primitives, Joe Jackson, New Order, The Psychedelic Furs, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Thomas Dolby, The Pretenders, The Jam, Devo, Midge Ure and more.

The Sisters of Mercy announce European tour ahead of U.K. festival appearance

The Sisters of Mercy announce European tour ahead of U.K. festival appearance

The Sisters of Mercy this week announced a 12-date European tour in May ahead of that festival, a run of dates that will bring the goth-rock giants to Germany, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.

Pixies pull out unreleased song, 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' for NPR 'Tiny Desk Concert'

Pixies pull out unreleased song, ‘Monkey Gone to Heaven’ for NPR ‘Tiny Desk Concert’

The Pixies’ current U.S. tour took the band through Washington, D.C., recently, which afforded the group a chance to stop by NPR’s offices to perform a stripped-down “Tiny Desk Concert” — footage of which has just been posted by the public-radio giant.

New Order, Kraftwerk, Soundgarden, Bob Mould, Violent Femmes set for Sasquatch!

New Order, Kraftwerk, Soundgarden, Bob Mould, Violent Femmes set for Sasquatch!

The two-weekend Sasquatch! Music Festival — set for Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends outside of Seattle — will feature performances by New Order, Kraftwerk, Soundgarden, Bob Mould, Violent Femmes alongside the likes of OutKast, The National, Queens of the Stone Age and many, many more.

The Cure announces new album ‘4:14 Scream,' live DVDs, new 'Trilogy'-style tour

The Cure announces new album ‘4:14 Scream,’ live DVDs, new ‘Trilogy’-style tour

The Cure’s two sold-out shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March are being billed as just the beginning of “a very busy 2014” for Robert Smith and Co., with the band today announcing plans to release the long-delayed companion to 2008’s 4:13 Dream and a series of live DVDs — and a third ‘Trilogy’ tour.

Depeche Mode begin reissuing full catalog on 180-gram vinyl — first 4 titles out this week

Depeche Mode begin reissuing full catalog on 180-gram vinyl — first 4 titles out this week

Depeche Mode announced this weekend that it will embark on another full-catalog vinyl reissue campaign this year, this time re-releasing each of the band’s studio albums on 180-gram platters, beginning this week with Some Great Reward, Black Celebration, Music for the Masses and Songs of Faith and Devotion.