Category: Digital Music

Free download: They Might Be Giants' 'Flood Live in Australia' — full album played in reverse

Free download: They Might Be Giants’ ‘Flood Live in Australia’ — full album played in reverse

They Might Be Giants are releasing tons of new music lately, thanks to the resurrection of Dial-a-Song, and now they’re giving fans another treat: a free download of a full live performance of their hit 1990 album Flood, performed in reverse order. Plug your email address into the box below, and follow the instructions.

Depeche Mode's Martin Gore announces instrumental solo album 'MG' — hear first track

Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore announces instrumental solo album ‘MG’ — hear first track

Depeche Mode songwriter and co-founder Martin Gore next month will release a 16-track electronic instrumental album titled MG, a collection Mute Records is billing as the “soundtrack to an emotional and mysterious film of your own design.” You can stream the track “Europa Hymn” now.

µ-Ziq digs up cover of OMD's 'Souvenir' he recorded as a 13-year-old in 1985

µ-Ziq digs up cover of OMD’s ‘Souvenir’ he recorded as a 13-year-old in 1985

Mike Paradinas, aka electronic-music star µ-Ziq, has been uploading dozens of archival tracks to Soundcloud that span his musical life, including what he says is the first 4-track recording he ever made: a cover of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s 1981 single “Souvenir” he recorded as a 13-year-old in 1985.

Wire announces self-titled 13th album, plus U.S. and U.K. tours — stream new track now

Wire announces self-titled 13th album, plus U.S. and U.K. tours — stream new track now

Just a year after the release of the old-songs-resurrected set Change Becomes Us, U.K. post-punk legends Wire return with another brand-new album, their 13th overall, which they’re simply calling Wire. The band has announced U.K. and U.S. tours to support the record, and have offered up the first taste of the LP.

Premiere: Colin Hay's 'Next Year People' — stream new album from Men at Work leader

Premiere: Colin Hay’s ‘Next Year People’ — stream new album from Men at Work leader

Men at Work frontman and singer-songwriter Colin Hay returns next week with Next Year People, his 12th solo album and first in nearly four years, a 12-song collection “full of quizzical, curious and cynical, yet open-hearted, songs” that we’re thrilled to premiere today at Slicing Up Eyeballs. Stream the full record here.

Stream Marsheaux's track-by-track remake of Depeche Mode's 'A Broken Frame'

Stream Marsheaux’s track-by-track remake of Depeche Mode’s ‘A Broken Frame’

For their forthcoming fifth album, contemporary Greek synthpop duo Marsheaux — Marianthi Melitsi and Sophie Sarigiannidou — have decided to remake a classic, recording a song-by-song cover of Depeche Mode’s 1982 sophomore record A Broken Frame.

Premiere: Thoughts Detecting Machines' 'New Day' — new single from Poster Children's Rick Valentin

Premiere: Thoughts Detecting Machines’ ‘New Day’ — new single from Poster Children’s Rick Valentin

Fans who’ve followed the work of Rick Valentin shouldn’t be surprised by the guitars-meets-electronics sound of his new project Thoughts Detecting Machines. As frontman of strident late-’80s indie-rockers Poster Children, Valentin would help launch, a decade later, a concurrent electronic side project called Salaryman.