Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs

Sonic Youth's new book 'Sensational Fix' to include 4 unreleased tracks on vinyl

Sonic Youth’s new book ‘Sensational Fix’ to include 4 unreleased tracks on vinyl

Nearly overlooked amid the buzz surrounding Sonic Youth’s forthcoming, back-to-the-indies album is the band’s hefty new book, which is due to be published next week. […]

Pylon's Randy Bewley, 1955-2009

Pylon’s Randy Bewley, 1955-2009

This week saw the passing of Randy Bewley, guitarist for Pylon, early-’80s Athens, Ga., post-punk contemporaries of R.E.M. and the B-52’s. Bewley, 53, suffered a […]

Dinosaur Jr prepping new album, tour

Dinosaur Jr prepping new album, tour

Despite the frosty history between seemingly catatonic guitar god J Mascis and the decidedly more emo Lou Barlow, the reunion of Dinosaur Jr’s classic ’80s […]

The Cure warming up for Coachella with theater gig at Las Vegas' Palms Casino

The Cure warming up for Coachella with theater gig at Las Vegas’ Palms Casino

For those of you who’d rather see The Cure in a (relatively) intimate club rather than standing in a field with 50,000 other people, here’s […]

 Midnight Oil reunites for Australian bushfire benefit, warm-up gigs

Midnight Oil reunites for Australian bushfire benefit, warm-up gigs

Aussie rockers Midnight Oil never were known to shy away from important causes, and that’s exactly what it’s taken to get the band back together […]

Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails summer tour dates leaked

  That didn’t take long. Just days after word emerged that the (fully) reunited Jane’s Addiction would tour this summer with Nine Inch Nails, the […]

'XTC As...': Re-branded Dukes of Stratosphear reissues due in March

‘XTC As…’: Re-branded Dukes of Stratosphear reissues due in March

The EP and album that XTC’s Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory released under the guise of their psychedelic-pop side project The Dukes of […]