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Contest: Win Jane's Addiction's new 'Live in NYC' on double vinyl or Blu-ray

Contest: Win Jane’s Addiction’s new ‘Live in NYC’ on double vinyl or Blu-ray

Jane’s Addiction last month released Live in NYC, a multi-format document capturing 12 songs performed at the band’s July 25, 2011, concert at New York City’s Terminal 5 — and we’ve got one copy each of the new release on double-vinyl and Blu-ray to give away to two lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

Cassette Store Day to feature exclusives from Flaming Lips, Birthday Party and more

Cassette Store Day to feature exclusives from Flaming Lips, Birthday Party and more

Move over, vinyl: Taking their cue from the wildly successful Record Store Day, some lovers of the lowly but resurgent cassette tape format have launched International Cassette Store Day, which will take place Sept. 7 and feature limited-edition cassette releases from The Flaming Lips, The Birthday Party and more.

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (July 2013)

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (July 2013)

This month’s Auto Reverse mixtape features new music from both the Pixies and ex-Pixie Kim Deal, plus some vintage tunes by The Replacements, X, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, New Order, The Mission, Robyn Hitchcock, The Cure, King Missile, The Godfathers, Ramones and The Bubblemen.

The Mission to release 'The Brightest Light' following U.S. tour this September

The Mission to release ‘The Brightest Light’ following U.S. tour this September

The Mission this September will release its new studio album The Brightest Light, an 11-song collection that marks the first time original band members Wayne Hussey, Simon Hinkler and Craig Adams have recorded together since the sessions for 1990’s Carved in Sand.

New releases: Pet Shop Boys, The Cult, Peter Buck, The Style Council, Frank Black

New releases: Pet Shop Boys, The Cult, Peter Buck, The Style Council, Frank Black

This week’s new releases include the Pet Shop Boys’ second new album in a year (‘Electric’), plus an expanded reissue of The Cult’s ‘Electric,’ a repress of Peter Buck’s 2012 vinyl-only solo debut and a new monkey-themed 7-inch, a collection of Style Council albums and a reissue of Frank Black’s ‘Oddballs.’

The Week in Rock: July 7-13, 2013

The Week in Rock: July 7-13, 2013

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about Electronic, Morrissey, Simple Minds, Johnny Marr, The Waterboys, Killing Joke, Mojo Nixon, Echo & The Bunnymen, New Order, Pet Shop Boys and more.

Johnny Marr returning to the U.S. for 18-date fall tour in support of 'The Messenger'

Johnny Marr returning to the U.S. for 18-date fall tour in support of ‘The Messenger’

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr will follow up his lengthy spring U.S. tour with a second round of American dates late this fall in support of his new solo album The Messenger, playing 18 shows this October and November — including a slot at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas.

Felled by penne pasta, Morrissey admits 'humiliation and mortification' over South American tour

Felled by penne pasta, Morrissey admits ‘humiliation and mortification’ over South American tour

Three days after he was supposed to launch a South American tour in Peru, Morrissey late Friday finally addressed the “corrosively toxic food poisoning” that put the whole tour in jeopardy, issuing a statement in which he apologized to fans and announced he will be ready to perform later this month.

Simple Minds add 2nd U.S. show as they bring 'Greatest Hits+' tour to North America

Simple Minds add 2nd U.S. show as they bring ‘Greatest Hits+’ tour to North America

Simple Minds today officially announced their first U.S. concerts in more than a decade — the New York City show we reported earlier this week, plus a second concert in Red Bank, N.J., that will feature the band’s “Greatest Hits+” show — while also hinting that Canadian dates are to be announced soon as well.

'The Mojo Manifesto': Get your first glimpse of upcoming Mojo Nixon documentary

‘The Mojo Manifesto’: Get your first glimpse of upcoming Mojo Nixon documentary

The folks at Freedom Records & Films are in the process of putting together a documentary on Mojo Nixon, that one-of-a-kind loud-mouthed rocker who rose to semi-fame in the late ’80s with singles “Elvis is Everywhere” and “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child.”

Promoter: Morrissey to reschedule Chilean concerts in August, but cancels Peru shows

Promoter: Morrissey to reschedule Chilean concerts in August, but cancels Peru shows

The Chilean concert promoter that originally announced Morrissey had postponed his entire South American tour after he and part of his team suffered “severe food poisoning” now says the ex-Smiths singer is rescheduling his concerts in Chile, but that the shows planned in Peru are “canceled definitively.”

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman testifies under the ‘120 X-Ray' — 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman testifies under the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present one of the show’s odder moments, a “120 X-Ray” segment on Killing Joke from 1989 that features Jaz Coleman testifying against the “frivolous nature of materialism” — he actually appears to be reading from a prepared statement .

Alan Wilder wants to sell you the Mercedes he bought when he was in Depeche Mode

Alan Wilder wants to sell you the Mercedes he bought when he was in Depeche Mode

Two years after he sold a huge collection of Depeche Mode memorabilia — including platinum records, vintage musical equipment and his leather stage trousers — former bandmember Alan Wilder is now offering fans the chance to buy his wheels: The musician is taking bids on his 1991 Mercedes 300SL convertible.