Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs

Full-album stream: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 'Push the Sky Away'

Full-album stream: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, ‘Push the Sky Away’

We’re still 10 days out from the release of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 15th studio album ‘Push the Sky Away,’ but the band this morning debuted the full record via streams at NPR in the U.S. and The Guardian in the U.K.; here you can listen to the full 43-minute work courtesy of the NPR stream.

Meat Puppets return with 'Rat Farm' this spring — plus U.S. tour, SXSW shows

Meat Puppets return with ‘Rat Farm’ this spring — plus U.S. tour, SXSW shows

Meat Puppets returns this spring with their 14th studio album — the 12-track Rat Farm, which Curt Kirkwood dubs “real blown-up folk music” — and will support the release with a spring U.S. tour that will include as-yet-unannounced appearances at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas.

Video: The House of Love, 'A Baby Got Back On Its Feet' — off 'She Paints Words in Red'

Video: The House of Love, ‘A Baby Got Back On Its Feet’ — off ‘She Paints Words in Red’

It’s still more than six weeks until the arrival of The House of Love’s sixth album She Paints Words in Red, but the wait for new music is finally over with the premiere of the band’s video for “A Baby Got Back On Its Feet,” which is both the record’s opening track and its lead-off single. Check it out right here.

New Order confirms Coachella warm-ups, promises more U.S. dates 'later in the year'

New Order confirms Coachella warm-ups, promises more U.S. dates ‘later in the year’

Johnny Marr let the cat out of the bag over the weekend, but New Order today confirmed that it will play two Coachella warm-up concerts with the former Smiths guitarist in Las Vegas and Santa Barbara, Calif., in April — and announced they’ll play “more U.S. dates later in the year.”

Vintage Video: XTC's Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding get in bed with cable-access TV

Vintage Video: XTC’s Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding get in bed with cable-access TV

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present a delightfully odd clip of XTC members Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding tucked away in bed (a sleeper sofa, to be precise), where they are being interviewed by onetime Utopia keyboardist Moogy Klingman and Lisa Yapp for New York a cable-access TV show.

Fine Young Cannibals' two albums to receive 2CD reissues with B-sides, remixes

Fine Young Cannibals’ two albums to receive 2CD reissues with B-sides, remixes

The two albums from short-lived chart toppers Fine Young Cannibals — comprised of singer Roland Gift and former English Beat members Andy Cox and David Steele — will be reissued later this month by Demon Music Group’s Edsel imprint as expanded 2CD sets featuring bonus B-sides, remixes and non-album tracks.

Linkage: Flaming Lips cover Stone Roses LP, dueling Black Flags, Primal Scream, Pulp

Linkage: Flaming Lips cover Stone Roses LP, dueling Black Flags, Primal Scream, Pulp

Our latest link round-up includes news that The Flaming Lips may be recording a full-album cover of The Stone Roses’ 1989 debut, plus the tale of the dueling Black Flag reunions, news about Primal Scream’s forthcoming album and a clip of Pulp performing its new single on U.K. television.