Category: Album News

The Cure to release 'Seventeen Seconds,' 'Bloodflowers' picture discs on Record Store Day

The Cure to release ‘Seventeen Seconds,’ ‘Bloodflowers’ picture discs on Record Store Day

No stranger to Record Store Day exclusives, The Cure will participate this year by issuing 40th and 20th anniversary editions, respectively, of Seventeen Seconds and Bloodflowers. Both will be 12-inch vinyl picture discs, with download cards, and available in both the U.S. and U.K. Full details right here.

Premiere: The Cravats' 'Hoorahland' — reunited '77-era punk vets back with 3rd album

Premiere: The Cravats’ ‘Hoorahland’ — reunited ’77-era punk vets back with 3rd album

It took The Cravats — skronky veterans of U.K. punk’s fabled Class of 1977 — some 37 years to follow up their debut album The Cravats in Toytown with sophomore LP Dustbin of Sound. But fans need not wait anywhere near that long for album No. 3, which we here at Slicing Up Eyeballs are thrilled to premiere in full today.

Alice Bag, of L.A. punk icons The Bags, preps 3rd solo LP and tour — hear 'Breadcrumbs'

Alice Bag, of L.A. punk icons The Bags, preps 3rd solo LP and tour — hear ‘Breadcrumbs’

Alice Bag, co-founder of the iconic first-generation Los Angeles punk act The Bags, this spring will release her third solo album, a collection called Sister Dynamite that is being described as a return to the “full-throttle punk” that her late-’70s band perfected. Full tour dates and a music video right here.

The Alarm, members of The Damned, Blondie, Sex Pistols set for new David Bowie tribute LP

The Alarm, members of The Damned, Blondie, Sex Pistols set for new David Bowie tribute LP

Main Man Records this spring will release Hero: A Tribute to David Bowie, an ultra-limited white-vinyl LP — the label says just 300 copies are being pressed — that features The Alarm and members of Blondie, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Heaven 17 and more honoring the Thin White Duke. Full details right here.

The Dream Syndicate previews 'The Universe Inside' with 20-minute album opener

The Dream Syndicate previews ‘The Universe Inside’ with 20-minute album opener

Reunited Paisley Underground-era rockers The Dream Syndicate this spring will release their third album of the new century, a collection of new songs called The Universe Inside that’s only five tracks long but clocks in at nearly an hour, thanks in part to 20-minute opening jam “The Regulator” — which you can hear in its entirety right here.

Throwing Muses debut gnarled rocker 'Dark Blue' off new album 'Sun Racket'

Throwing Muses debut gnarled rocker ‘Dark Blue’ off new album ‘Sun Racket’

As we reported earlier this month, the Throwing Muses will release Sun Racket — their 10th studio album, and first in seven years — on the Fire Records label this May. Now you can get your first taste of Kristin Hersh and Co.’s new music in the form of lead-off single and album opener “Dark Blue,” a gnarled rocker that you can stream here.