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Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry and Peter Murphy to co-headline world tour next year

Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry and Peter Murphy to co-headline world tour next year

Tweet Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry has completed work on Ark, his first solo album in a decade, and plans to support the record with […]

Video: Morrissey storms off stage after getting hit in head by drink at Liverpool’s Echo Arena

Tweet Morrissey’s reputation as the world’s most unreliable concert draw remains solidly intact, thanks to incoming reports he walked offstage just one-and-a-half songs into tonight’s […]

Video: Pixies play 'Here Comes Your Man' on 'Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'

Video: Pixies play ‘Here Comes Your Man’ on ‘Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’

Tweet As promised, the Pixies appeared on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” last night to perform the closest thing the band ever had to […]

Pet Shop Boys cover Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida,' Madness' 'My Girl' on new 'Christmas' EP

Pet Shop Boys cover Coldplay’s ‘Viva la Vida,’ Madness’ ‘My Girl’ on new ‘Christmas’ EP

Tweet The Pet Shop Boys this week announced plans to release a Christmas-themed EP — simply entitled Christmas — in December that will include covers […]

Video: Bad Lieutenant plays New Order’s ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ in Paris

Tweet Here’s a clip of Bad Lieutenant — aka  Bernard Sumner and a couple other guys on acoustic guitars — running through the New Order […]

The Chameleons reissuing 1985's 'What Does Anything Mean? Basically' with 10 bonus demos

The Chameleons reissuing 1985’s ‘What Does Anything Mean? Basically’ with 10 bonus demos

Tweet Influential U.K. post-punk act The Chameleons are reissuing their  out-of-print 1985 sophomore album What Does Anything Mean? Basically this fall in an expanded 2CD […]

Free download: Pixies' 'Doolittle' tour live EP

Free download: Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour live EP

Tweet Midway through the band’s concert in Los Angeles tonight, the Pixies slipped fans a treat via Twitter and Facebook: a free, four-song downloadable live […]

Echo & The Bunnymen's U.S. tour canceled over IRS issues, band to return in 2010

Echo & The Bunnymen’s U.S. tour canceled over IRS issues, band to return in 2010

Tweet Echo & The Bunnymen today announced it was forced to cancel this month’s eight-date American tour “due to unreasonable demands (that have) been presented […]

Vintage Video: The Cure's 'Wish' TV commercial, from MTV's '120 Minutes'

Vintage Video: The Cure’s ‘Wish’ TV commercial, from MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’

Tweet We here at Slicing Up Eyeballs World HQ recently had a stash of old VHS tapes — filled with vintage “120 Minutes” and “MTV […]

The Alarm's Mike Peters reschedules fall U.K. tour to April to care for his ailing wife

The Alarm’s Mike Peters reschedules fall U.K. tour to April to care for his ailing wife

Tweet The Alarm’s planned “Release the Pressure” tour of the U.K. this November and December has been bumped until April as frontman Mike Peters deals […]

Video: Pixies 'Doolittle' tour stage production

Video: Pixies ‘Doolittle’ tour stage production

Tweet With the Pixies set to open the U.S. leg of their Doolittle 20th anniversary tour Wednesday in Los Angeles, we thought we’d offer American […]

New releases: Devo, Paul Weller, Freur reissues, plus Nirvana's 'Bleach'

New releases: Devo, Paul Weller, Freur reissues, plus Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’

Tweet Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, reissues and/or box sets. ARTIST: Devo RELEASES: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are […]

Einstürzende Neubauten's 'Elektrokohle (Von Wegen)' DVD shows 1989 East Berlin concert

Einstürzende Neubauten’s ‘Elektrokohle (Von Wegen)’ DVD shows 1989 East Berlin concert

Tweet German avant garde/industrial act Einstürzende Neubauten marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall next month with the release of “Elektrokohle […]