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Electronic reunion: Bernard Sumner joins Johnny Marr to play 'Getting Away With It'

Electronic reunion: Bernard Sumner joins Johnny Marr to play ‘Getting Away With It’

After missed opportunities at a pair of U.S. shows booked around Coachella this past April, it finally happened: Bernard Sumner joined Johnny Marr on stage in England tonight for a one-song Electronic reunion as the duo performed their 1989 single “Getting Away With It” during the ex-Smiths guitarist’s slot opening for New Order.

The Week in Rock: June 30-July 6, 2013

The Week in Rock: June 30-July 6, 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 Curt Smith and Tears For Fears, Bauhaus, The Chills, The Replacements, New Order, The Suburbs, Pixies and more — plus, The Smiths topping the Slicing Up Eyeballs 1984 readers polls.

Curt Smith preps new album 'Deceptively Heavy' as Tears For Fears return to the studio

Curt Smith preps new album ‘Deceptively Heavy’ as Tears For Fears return to the studio

Tears For Fears co-founder Curt Smith this week announced the impending release of Deceptively Heavy, his fourth solo album, and first in five years, as he prepares to return to the studio next week with Roland Orzabal to work on what could become the follow-up to their band’s 2004 reunion album Everybody Loves a Happy Ending.

Bauhaus at The Haçienda: Footage unearthed of Peter Murphy and Co. at New Order's club

Bauhaus at The Haçienda: Footage unearthed of Peter Murphy and Co. at New Order’s club

Peter Hook’s site fac51thehacienda.com has been slowly uploading early ’80s concert footage shot at New Order’s club The Haçienda over the past couple years, and this week added a real gem: four clips of Bauhaus performing at the Manchester club on Aug. 14, 1982, less than a year before the band broke up.

Stream: The Chills, 'Molten Gold' — first new song in nearly a decade

Stream: The Chills, ‘Molten Gold’ — first new song in nearly a decade

Last week, Fire Records announced a “special ongoing partnership” with New Zealand indie-pop legends The Chills that it headlined “The Past, The Present, The Future.” Now, as bandleader Martin Phillipps celebrates his 50th birthday this week, the label has premiered the band’s first new music in nine years: “Molten Gold.”

Watch 19 seconds of The Replacements rehearsing 'Favorite Thing' earlier today

Watch 19 seconds of The Replacements rehearsing ‘Favorite Thing’ earlier today

A week after teasing fans with the first footage of The Replacements rehearsals now under way in Minneapolis, the ‘Mats today did a bit better, posting to Facebook 19 seconds of Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson ripping through “Favorite Thing.”

Stream: New Order, 'Live at Bestival 2012’ — full 13-track live album

Stream: New Order, ‘Live at Bestival 2012’ — full 13-track live album

New Order next week will commemorate its highly successful reunion, and raise money for charity, with the release of a new 13-track live album recorded at the U.K.’s Bestival last September — and you can now stream the full album below (via The Guardian).

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 126, aired 7/2/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 126, aired 7/2/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured brand-new music from the Pixies, plus old favorites from Peter Gabriel, The Stone Roses, Devo, Max Q, The Ocean Blue, Midge Ure, The Replacements, Echo & The Bunnymen and more.

 Top 100 Albums of 1984: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 5

Top 100 Albums of 1984: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 5

It’s the first of the month, which means it’s time to unveil the results of Part 5 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, a year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine the best albums of each year of the 1980s — and then, when that’s wrapped up at the end of 2013, we’ll run a best-of-the-decade poll.

The Suburbs launch Kickstarter campaign to fund first new album in 27 years

The Suburbs launch Kickstarter campaign to fund first new album in 27 years

The Suburbs — contemporaries of The Replacements and Hüsker Dü in the first half of the ’80s who, more recently, have seen their song “Love is the Law” adopted as the theme for the gay marriage movement in Minnesota — are recording their first new album in 27 years and are asking fans to help fund the project.

Pixies draft The Muffs' Kim Shattuck to replace Kim Deal on 'massive global tour'

Pixies draft The Muffs’ Kim Shattuck to replace Kim Deal on ‘massive global tour’

The Pixies today followed up last week’s free release of a surprise new track with more revelations, namely that the band is about to embark on a “massive global tour” to debut material off its follow-up to 1991’s Trompe le Monde with The Muffs frontwoman Kim Shattuck replacing the departed Kim Deal.

New releases: Microdisney, New Model Army, A Certain Ratio, Visage, The Proclaimers

New releases: Microdisney, New Model Army, A Certain Ratio, Visage, The Proclaimers

This week’s new releases include reissues from Microdisney (‘Love Your Enemies,’ ‘The Clock Comes Down The Stairs’), New Model Army (a repackaged 2003 live set) and A Certain Ratio (I’d Like To See You Again’), plus new best-ofs from Visage and The Proclaimers.

The Week in Rock: June 23-29, 2013

The Week in Rock: June 23-29, 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 the passing of Devo’s Alan Myers, as well as the Pixies, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Replacements, Nine Inch Nails, Morrissey, The Cult, Nitzer Ebb and more.