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New releases: New Clan of Xymox EP, plus Erasure, Jane's Addiction, Bryan Ferry

New releases: New Clan of Xymox EP, plus Erasure, Jane’s Addiction, Bryan Ferry

This is a round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. May also include some other titles released in recent weeks but not previously featured. This week includes titles from Clan of Xymox and more.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/9/20)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/9/20)

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. EDT 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.

Canadian singer-songwriter records full album of songs by Go-Betweens’ Grant McLennan

Canadian singer-songwriter records full album of songs by Go-Betweens’ Grant McLennan

Canadian singer-songwriter Allister Thompson — who has recorded as The Gateless Gate, Twilight Fields and Khan Tengri — later this month will release a tribute to Grant McLennan, a collection of some of Thompson’s favorite songs written by the late Go-Betweens co-founder. Listen to three of the tracks right here.

Cold Waves' Wax Trax! Showcase in L.A. to feature Front 242, The Young Gods and more

Cold Waves’ Wax Trax! Showcase in L.A. to feature Front 242, The Young Gods and more

Just days after announcing the ninth incarnation of its Chicago industrial-music festival, Cold Waves today revealed that it will bring a bit of the Windy City to Los Angeles in late September with a Wax Trax! Records showcase featuring performances by Front 242, The Young Gods, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and more.

Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: Feb. 1-7, 2020

Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: Feb. 1-7, 2020

Our good friends at Strangeways Radio are putting together a new week-in-review video that will recap the news posted at Slicing Up Eyeballs and on the Strangeways site throughout the preceding week, hosted by Velvet Rebel. This week: News about Gang of Four’s Andy Gill, The Psychedelic Furs, Throwing Muses and more.

The Psychedelic Furs announce spring U.S. tour in support of new album 'Made of Rain'

The Psychedelic Furs announce spring U.S. tour in support of new album ‘Made of Rain’

The Psychedelic Furs today announced a 13-date spring U.S. tour — focused largely on dates in Florida and Texas — ahead of the release of Made of Rain, the band’s eighth studio album and their first full-length in nearly 30 years.  Full tour dates and all the details right here.

The Dead Milkmen are making a new album — and answering the big questions in new video series

The Dead Milkmen are making a new album — and answering the big questions in new video series

The Dead Milkmen are back in the studio, working on the band’s first new album in six years and the follow-up to 2017’s Welcome to the End of the World EP. To help bide the time, they’ve also launched a new weekly video series in which they’ll answer “big questions.” Watch the first installment right here.

Front 242, Stabbing Westward, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult headlining Cold Waves IX

Front 242, Stabbing Westward, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult headlining Cold Waves IX

Chicago’s industrial-themed Cold Waves festival returns for a ninth installment this September with a lineup topped by Front 242, Stabbing Westward, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and The Young Gods, plus Wax Trax! Records mainstays Paul Barker and Chris Connelly. Check out the full lineup.

Andrew Brough, guitarist and songwriter for New Zealand's Straitjacket Fits, has died

Andrew Brough, guitarist and songwriter for New Zealand’s Straitjacket Fits, has died

Andrew Brough, a guitarist and songwriter who played in multiple New Zealand bands in the 1980s and ’90s including Straitjacket Fits, part of Flying Nun Records’ second wave of the so-called Dunedin sound, died on Tuesday, the band announced on Facebook. More information right here.

Throwing Muses to release 'Sun Racket' — band's first album in 7 years — in May

Throwing Muses to release ‘Sun Racket’ — band’s first album in 7 years — in May

The Throwing Muses will release Sun Racket — their 10th studio album, and the college-rock favorites’ first in seven years — on the Fire Records label this May, bandleader Kristin Hersh announced this week in the latest edition of her newsletter. Full details and Kristin Hersh solo tour dates here.

Bauhaus adds new concerts in Dallas and Chicago to 2020 reunion tour

Bauhaus adds new concerts in Dallas and Chicago to 2020 reunion tour

Like clockwork, the goth-rock legends Bauhaus continue to roll out reunion dates, adding to more U.S. shows — in Dallas and Chicago — this summer to the band’s 2020 itinerary, which now includes seven concert and festival dates in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. See full dates right here.

Heaven 17 coming to North America this May for 'our first proper U.S. tour'

Heaven 17 coming to North America this May for ‘our first proper U.S. tour’

Pioneering British synthpop outfit Heaven 17 — originally a studio-only entity that didn’t perform live until nearly two decades after its founding — will stage a short North American tour this May that the duo of Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware are calling “our first proper U.S. tour.” Full dates and details right here.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/2/20)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/2/20)

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. EDT 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.