This week’s installment of Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio featured brand-new music from The Church’s Steve Kilbey, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and Pixies’ Black Francis, plus old favorites from Renegade Soundwave, The Smiths, XTC, The Soup Dragons, The Stone Roses and The Sisters of Mercy.
John Lydon’s resurrected Public Image Ltd. today announced a May 28 release date for ‘This is PiL,’ the post-punk act’s first new album in 20 years, and also unveiled the tracklist for the four-song Record Store Day EP that’s culled from the new record and which will hit shops a full month earlier.
Late-’80s Atlanta college rockers Uncle Green — who rechristened themselves 3 lb. Thrill during a major-label stint in the ’90s — will take the stage this weekend to celebrate a somewhat improbable feat: the release of their once-lost seventh album, a 32-song, double-disc set that’s been tied up in record-label limbo for 14 years.
Former Jam frontman Paul Weller today premiered the video for the first single off his new album ‘Sonik Kicks,’ the fuzzed-out rocker ‘That Dangerous Age,’ which you can watch here. As you can see, the effects-heavy performance clip adopts the same dayglo style as the album’s cover.
Three recently reunited U.K. acts — Britpop masters Blur, 2 Tone ska kings The Specials and electronic-rock pioneers New Order — will perform at a giant “Best of British” outdoor concert on Aug. 12 in Hyde Park to cap off the London Olympics, the bands announced Monday.
Slicing Up Eyeballs turns 3 today, having launched so very inauspiciously on Feb. 20, 2009, with a simple mission to provide ‘the latest info on new albums, reissues, upcoming reunions and tour dates.’ More than 2,000 posts later, this site has become so much more than that, thanks to you, the readers.
Three years, 2,172 individual posts, 3.8 million total pageviews. But out of all that, what are the most popular headlines on Slicing Up Eyeballs since this site launched on Feb. 20, 2009? Well, as you can see from the list below, they involve news about Nirvana, The Cure, U2, The Smiths, Daniel Ash and Depeche Mode.
Q&A: Daniel Ash on Love and Rockets’ reunion, his new band — and figuring out how to play “So Alive” 
Q&A: Chris Frantz talks Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and new book ‘Remain in Love’ 
Q&A: Steve Wynn on The Dream Syndicate’s first new album in nearly 30 years 
Q&A: Bauhaus’ David J on his ‘accidental’ concept album ‘Not Long For This World’ 
Q&A: Peter Murphy on ‘Ninth,’ Bauhaus’ break-up, reuniting Dalis Car 
Q&A: Joey Santiago on Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour, possible ‘Surfer Rosa’ shows, new album talk 
Q&A: Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon on new album, changing the world with music 
Q&A: Peter Hook talks ‘Unknown Pleasures’ tour, re-recording Joy Division 