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Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 80, first aired 7/27/12

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 80, first aired 7/27/12

xploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, Slicing Up Eyeballs normally airs every Tuesday at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. But due to the ineptitude of the host this week, a repeat aired Tuesday night and we’re debuting this week’s show in our normal replay slot at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific on Friday at strangewaysradio.com.

Video: The Stone Roses, 'I Wanna Be Adored' in Spain — 1st pro-shot footage of reunion

Video: The Stone Roses, ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ in Spain — 1st pro-shot footage of reunion

The Stone Roses are about two-thirds of the way through their summer tour of Europe and so far most fans only have witnessed the reunion through grainy, camera-shot fan footage. Until now: As The Stone Roses Fansite points out, the very first pro-shot footage of the Roses’ reunion finally has emerged.

Video: Ceremony covers Violent Femmes' 'Kiss Off' for The A.V. Club

Video: Ceremony covers Violent Femmes’ ‘Kiss Off’ for The A.V. Club

This week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover 2012 series — in which bands that show up at the site’s Chicago offices pick a song off a pre-chosen list to cover — finds Bay Area punk act Ceremony taking a stab at the Violent Femmes’ “Kiss Off,” off that band’s classic self-titled debut.

Free MP3: Chelsea Light Moving, ‘Frank O'Hara Hit’ — 3rd track from Thurston Moore project

Free MP3: Chelsea Light Moving, ‘Frank O’Hara Hit’ — 3rd track from Thurston Moore project

Wednesday was Thurston Moore’s birthday, and the Sonic Youth frontman saw fit to give fans another gift: ‘Frank O’Hara Hit,’ the third free track from his new band Chelsea Light Moving — which you can stream and/or download below, via Matador Records, which will put out the group’s debut album at some point in the future.

Vintage Video: The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven' — 38 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage

Vintage Video: The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ — 38 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage

For our latest installment of Vintage Video we turn back to 1987 with this 38-minute reel of rare behind-the-scenes footage of The Cure during the making of its classic video for ‘Just Like Heaven.’ As the indispensable Chain of Flowers points out, this French-produced footage was posted to Vimeo by director Tim Pope.

Wayne Hussey: The Mission to record new album over next year for fall 2013 release

Wayne Hussey: The Mission to record new album over next year for fall 2013 release

The ongoing 25th anniversary reunion of goth-rock legends The Mission will lead to new music after all as frontman Wayne Hussey this week announced that he and his bandmates plan to write and record a new album over the next year with an eye toward a fall 2013 release.

Sex Pistols' 'Never Mind the Bollocks' box set to feature demos, live disc, 'Spunk' bootleg

Sex Pistols’ ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ box set to feature demos, live disc, ‘Spunk’ bootleg

The Sex Pistols this week revealed the full tracklist to this fall’s super-deluxe ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ box set, a 3CD/1DVD collection that will mark the classic punk album’s 35th anniversary with demos, B-sides, live cuts and a remastered edition of the record using newly re-discovered original master tapes.