Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Contest: Win The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ 8CD box set — featuring band’s entire discography

Last September, we gave away a copy of the CD-and-vinyl version of The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ box set to one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader, and now, with the newly remastered albums released individually, the fine folks at Rhino Records have provided us with three copies of the 8-disc CD box set to give away.

Read the first 23 pages of Jonathan Lethem's 33⅓ book on Talking Heads' 'Fear of Music'

Read the first 23 pages of Jonathan Lethem’s 33⅓ book on Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’

The next book in the ever-expanding 33⅓ series of album dissections finds celebrated novelist Jonathan Lethem tackling Talking Heads’ 1979 classic ‘Fear of Music’ — and while the 160-page book won’t arrive until later this month, you can now read the first 23 pages online.

Heaven 17 to perform 1983's 'The Luxury Gap' on 9-date U.K. tour this fall

Heaven 17 to perform 1983’s ‘The Luxury Gap’ on 9-date U.K. tour this fall

Synthpop pioneers Heaven 17 — Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory — will follow up last fall’s first-ever front-to-back performances of their1983 album ‘The Luxury Gap’ by mounting a nine-date U.K. tour this October and November that’ll find the group playing the record in its entirety each night.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs on Strangeways Radio; Episode 67, first aired 4/10/12

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs show on Strangeways Radio featured new and previously unreleased music from Dalis Car, World Party, Squeeze and Peter Gabriel, plus old favorites from The House of Love, Billy Bragg, Section 25, Aztec Camera, The Blue Aeroplanes, The Jasmine Minks and The Cure.

Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart subject of new film by director of Replacements documentary

Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart subject of new film by director of Replacements documentary

Gorman Bechard, director of the 2011 documentary ‘Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements,’ is next setting his filmmaking sights on Grant Hart, and has begun raising money from fans to fund a planned new film called ‘Every Everything’ about the former Hüsker Dü drummer, singer and songwriter.

Video: Pulp performs 'Common People,' 'Like a Friend' on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'

Video: Pulp performs ‘Common People,’ ‘Like a Friend’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’

Pulp kicked off its first trip to the U.S. since 1998 with a performance on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ last night, trotting out Britpop national anthem ‘Common People’ for broadcast and then playing ‘Like a Friend’ — the band’s contribution to the soundtrack of the 1998 film version of ‘Great Expectations’ — for the show’s website.

Morrissey adds Manchester date to summer tour — billed as 'only UK concert of 2012’

Morrissey adds Manchester date to summer tour — billed as ‘only UK concert of 2012’

Morrissey fans in the U.K. will get just one chance to see the singer in concert this year — on July 28, when he plays a hometown arena show in Manchester. The date, announced over the weekend via fansite True To You, goes on sale 9 a.m. April 27, and is billed as ‘Morrissey’s only U.K. concert of 2012.’