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Stream: Electronic 15-minute sampler of new expanded reissue — with unreleased clips

Stream: Electronic 15-minute sampler of new expanded reissue — with unreleased clips

The 1991 self-titled debut from indie supergroup Electronic — featuring New Order frontman Bernard Sumner and guitarist Johnny Marr of The Smiths, with the occasional assist from Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant — will be reissued in the U.K. next week in a 2CD expanded edition.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 114, aired 4/3/13

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

Full-album stream: OMD, 'English Electric' — new album due out next week

Full-album stream: OMD, ‘English Electric’ — new album due out next week

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark next week will release ‘English Electric’ — their second post-reunion album and 12th studio set overall — and, as is increasingly the case these days, you can now listen to the full record in advance of its actual release. Check it out via Pitchfork Advance.

Video: Robyn Hitchcock live on KEXP during SXSW — watch 35-minute set

Video: Robyn Hitchcock live on KEXP during SXSW — watch 35-minute set

As it does each year, Seattle’s KEXP has been posting video footage of sets by bands that played live on the air for the radio station during South By Southwest last month — the latest being a six-song, 35-minute set from Robyn Hitchcock, who played several songs off his just-released new album ‘Love From London.’

Public Image Ltd. to give 'First Issue' its first-ever U.S. release with expanded reissue

Public Image Ltd. to give ‘First Issue’ its first-ever U.S. release with expanded reissue

Public Image Ltd. will follow up this month’s Record Store Day reissue of debut 7-inch “Public Image” later this year with the band’s first-ever U.S. release of debut album ‘First Issue,’ which will be released in expanded 2CD and single-LP vinyl editions with “various bonus material.”

It's official: The Cure, New Order, Nine Inch Nails set for Lollapalooza 2013

It’s official: The Cure, New Order, Nine Inch Nails set for Lollapalooza 2013

As fully expected after last week’s big leak, the lineup for this summer’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago was announced today, with headliners that include The Cure and Nine Inch Nails, as well as an appearance by New Order. Check out the full lineup; single day tickets on sale Wednesday.

Top 100 Albums of 1981: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 2

Top 100 Albums of 1981: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 2

Today we unveil the results of Part 2 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, an ambitious, year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine just what were the best albums of each year of the 1980s — and then, when that’s all said and done at the end of 2013, we’ll run a best-of-the-decade poll.