Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Morrissey to release 'definitive master' of 'Your Arsenal' with full '91 live show on DVD

Morrissey to release ‘definitive master’ of ‘Your Arsenal’ with full ’91 live show on DVD

Morrissey’s reissue campaign moves forward once again come February with the release of the “definitive master” of his third album, 1992’s Your Arsenal, featuring, as usual these days, a slightly tweaked tracklist, plus an unusually generous bonus: a DVD featuring a previously unreleased 18-song live performance.

The Dream Syndicate to reissue 1982 live set 'The Day Before Wine and Roses'

The Dream Syndicate to reissue 1982 live set ‘The Day Before Wine and Roses’

Omnivore Recordings next year will reissue a long-out-of-print 1982 live set by The Dream Syndicate that was recorded during an on-air performance at Los Angeles radio station KPFK-FM a few weeks before Steve Wynn and Co. entered the studio to cut their classic debut album The Days of Wine and Roses.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 139, aired 12/3/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 139, aired 12/3/13

Exploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. If you caught this week’s episode, pop over to the Strangeways message board to leave comments or requests for future shows.

Slicing Up Eyeballs' Best of the 1980s: Vote for your 25 favorite albums from 1980-1989

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the 1980s: Vote for your 25 favorite albums from 1980-1989

Well, here we are: the end of Best of the ’80s album polls. Time for the big one. The grandaddy of them all. Yes, today we ask Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers — after having ranked the best records of each year of the 1980s — to wrap up this year by crowning the absolute best albums of the entire 1980s.

Contest: Win tickets to see MGMT with Dinosaur Jr at Brooklyn's Barclays Center

Contest: Win tickets to see MGMT with Dinosaur Jr at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center

Indie-rock legends Dinosaur Jr help cap off a year of busy touring with a big show in Brooklyn, New York, in support of MGMT — and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader who can get him or herself to the Barclays Center on Dec. 13.

New releases: Black Flag, Nick Cave, David J, US Festival, Rozz Williams, TMBG, Lou Reed

New releases: Black Flag, Nick Cave, David J, US Festival, Rozz Williams, TMBG, Lou Reed

This week’s new releases include the first new album from Black Flag since 1985, plus a Nick Cave live album, reissues from David J, Lemonheads, Ghost Dance and They Might Be Giants, a posthumous collection from Rozz Williams, a new Lou Reed compilation and a long-awaited US Festival DVD.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/1/13)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/1/13)

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Magazine, Killing Joke, Sad Lovers and Giants, The Mission, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, A Certain Ratio, Bauhaus, Wire, Front 242, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Damned, Death Cult and more.