Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch diagnosed with cancer; trio cancels concerts, delays album
The Beastie Boys this morning announced that Adam Yauch, aka MCA, has been diagnosed with cancer, forcing the band to cancel its planned summer concerts […]
Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs
In stores this week: New music from The Beat Farmers, Captain Sensible reissues
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday. ARTIST: The Farmers RELEASE: Fulmination BACKSTORY: The survivors of ’80s cowpunk […]
Update: Dave Kendall of ‘120 Minutes’ wants to hear that ‘Really Stupid’ song, too
Two nights ago, Slicing Up Eyeballs embarked on a (so far) futile quest to find a copy of “Really Stupid,” a long-forgotten early-’90s parody song […]
Prefab Sprout’s new album, ‘Let’s Change the World With Music,’ due in September
Beloved British sophisti-pop act Prefab Sprout returns this fall with Let’s Change the World With Music, the reclusive act’s first new album in eight years […]
Erasure reissuing ‘The Innocents,’ rare club mixes, ‘Abba-esque’ remix EP
Erasure is hopping aboard the reissue train this summer and fall, delivering a “21st anniversary” remaster of The Innocents, a CD of rare 1990 club […]
Searching for that ‘120 Minutes’ song: ‘I’m Dave Kendall … and I am really stupid’
There wasn’t much to the song: a sampled riff from AC/DC’s “Back in Black” with the distinctly British voice of “120 Minutes” creator/host Dave Kendall […]
New Order’s botched CD reissues finally to be re-reissued by Rhino Records in August
Rhino Records has set an Aug. 25 release date for its 2CD re-reissues of New Order’s first five albums following last year’s release of mislabeled, […]
Thom Yorke, Michael Stipe, Frank Black pay tribute to Miracle Legion’s Mark Mulcahy
Mark Mulcahy, frontman of nearly forgotten ’80s college-rock act Miracle Legion, is the subject of a new tribute album featuring contributions by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, […]
Lou Barlow releasing ‘Goodnight Unknown,’ opening for himself on Dinosaur Jr tour
When not playing in Sebadoh, Folk Implosion or the reconstituted Dinosaur Jr, lo-fi pioneer Lou Barlow likes to occasionally record under his own name, and, […]
Quick Spins: Pixies in Canada, Morrissey speaks, Dinosaur Jr does The Cure
Pixies play Canada While fans await U.S. dates for the band’s Doolittle anniversary trek, the Pixies today announced their first North American concert in four […]
WBCN ‘The Rock of Boston,’ station that helped break U2 in U.S., going off-air
Boston modern-rock radio station WBCN (104.1 FM), aka “The Rock of Boston,” will be pulled off the air next month and survive as a Web-only […]
Video: P.S. 22 Chorus covers The Cure’s ‘Pictures of You’
Championed by the likes of Perez Hilton, the 60-member P.S. 22 Chorus of Staten Island, N.Y., is garnering all kinds of attention for its covers […]
Mike Watt celebrates 25th anniversary of The Minutemen’s ‘Double Nickels on the Dime’
Mike Watt himself will be on hand to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Minutemen’s classic Double Nickels on the Dime double album […]
