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They Might Be Giants reschedule 46-date 'Flood' 30th anniversary tour to 2021

They Might Be Giants reschedule 46-date ‘Flood’ 30th anniversary tour to 2021

They Might Be Giants have rescheduled their coronavirus-foiled Flood 30th anniversary tour, plotting a new 46-date trek through much of 2021 during which the two Johns will perform their beloved 1990 album in its entirety each night.  Check out the new tour itinerary right here.

Stream Folk Devils' 'Forever' EP — post-punk group's first new music in 33 years

Stream Folk Devils’ ‘Forever’ EP — post-punk group’s first new music in 33 years

London’s Folk Devils, a blues-splashed post-punk act originally active from 1983 to ’87, are back with their first new music in 33 years, a three-song EP called Forever that’s due out in September but which can be streamed right now exclusively at Slicing Up Eyeballs. Listen to the EP right here.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/26/20)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/26/20)

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available via Sirius XM’s On Demand service for online subscribers. Check out tonight’s full playlist right here.

Watch the trailer for the new Go-Go's documentary debuting on Showtime

Watch the trailer for the new Go-Go’s documentary debuting on Showtime

This Friday, Showtime will premiere Alison Ellwood’s new documentary “The Go-Go’s,” which traces the rise of the hugely popular band out of the Los Angeles punk scene in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The 98-minute film premieres at 9 p.m. ET/PT on July 31. Watch the full trailer right here.

The Psychedelic Furs debut video for ‘Come All Ye Faithful’ off new LP ‘Made of Rain’

The Psychedelic Furs debut video for ‘Come All Ye Faithful’ off new LP ‘Made of Rain’

With The Psychedelic Furs’ first new album in 29 years scheduled to come out this Friday, the band has debuted the music video for the track “Come All Ye Faithful,” which was released last month as the fourth track to premiere off the new album Made of Rain. Watch the video right here.

Bauhaus to open 2021 world tour with rescheduled concerts in Mexico City

Bauhaus to open 2021 world tour with rescheduled concerts in Mexico City

Bauhaus will open what it’s referring to as a 2021 world tour with a pair of rescheduled concerts in México City next April as the reunited band slowly shifts its planned 2020 touring activity — disrupted, like everything else, by the coronavirus — to next year. Details and (some) rescheduled tour dates right here.

Throwing Muses debut cut-and-pasted video for 'Dark Blue' off upcoming 'Sun Racket'

Throwing Muses debut cut-and-pasted video for ‘Dark Blue’ off upcoming ‘Sun Racket’

With the release of their 10th album Sun Racket looming closer, the Throwing Muses today debut an illustrated, cut-and-pasted music video for “Dark Blue,” the churning first single off the college-rock veterans’ first record in seven years. Watch the video, directed by John-Mark Lapham, right here.

The Chills' 'Submarine Bells' and 'Soft Bomb' remastered and reissued on vinyl

The Chills’ ‘Submarine Bells’ and ‘Soft Bomb’ remastered and reissued on vinyl

Fire Records has just reissued The Chills’ second and third albums — 1990’s major-label debut Submarine Bells and its follow-up, 1992’s Soft Bomb — on vinyl with newly remastered sound, pressings that are available now via the label but not until November in record stores. Full details right here.

Q&A: Chris Frantz talks Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and new book 'Remain in Love'

Q&A: Chris Frantz talks Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and new book ‘Remain in Love’

There’s a refreshing optimism to Chris Frantz’s new memoir “Remain in Love,” a positivity that beams through its pages as the drummer recounts, with some amazement, career highlights like touring with the Ramones, befriending the B-52’s and playing thrilling concerts with the big-band version of Talking Heads,

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/19/20)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/19/20)

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available via Sirius XM’s On Demand service for online subscribers. Here’s tonight’s full playlist.

The Replacements' 'Pleased To Meet Me' box set to include 29 unreleased tracks

The Replacements’ ‘Pleased To Meet Me’ box set to include 29 unreleased tracks

The Replacements’ Pleased To Meet Me gets the box set treatment this fall when Rhino Records releases a 3CD/1LP edition of the band’s fifth album stuffed with 29 previously unreleased demos, rough mixes and outtakes — including Bob Stinson’s final recordings with the ‘Mats. Hear six of the unreleased tracks here.

Listen: Bob Mould, 'Forecast of Rain' — second single off upcoming 'Blue Hearts'

Listen: Bob Mould, ‘Forecast of Rain’ — second single off upcoming ‘Blue Hearts’

Bob Mould is back with a second blast of fury off his upcoming album Blue Hearts, a song called “Forecast of Rain” that targets what he sees as religious hypocrites — namely those who support President Donald Trump. You can hear the full song right here via its lyric video.

Mighty Lemon Drops' David Newton enlists Eddie Argos of Art Brut for new single

Mighty Lemon Drops’ David Newton enlists Eddie Argos of Art Brut for new single

Former Mighty Lemon Drops guitarist David Newton’s project David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels has been absent from the record racks for the better part of the last decade, but the group returns today with the premiere here at Slicing Up Eyeballs of a new single featuring Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos,