Recent Dark Wave Playlists

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (December 2011)

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (December 2011)

This month’s mixtape includes new and previously unreleased music from Paul Weller, Peter Murphy, The Lucy Show and Hussey-Regan, featuring The Mission’s Wayne Hussey — plus some older favorites by the likes of The Wild Swans, Magazine, The Stone Roses, Orange Juice, Revenge and The Alarm.

New releases: The Cure, Elvis Costello, The Cramps, Peter Murphy, The Dead Milkmen

New releases: The Cure, Elvis Costello, The Cramps, Peter Murphy, The Dead Milkmen

This week’s new releases include ‘Bestival Live 2011,’ a new 2CD concert album from The Cure, plus the box set Elvis Costello doesn’t want you to buy, a collection of early Cramps singles, three Meat Puppets reissues and domestic CD releases of recent sets from Peter Murphy, Gary Numan and The Dead Milkmen.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 12/4/11

The playlist from tonight’s edition of ‘Dark Wave’ — the weekly ‘darker side of alternative’ show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Danzig, Stan Ridgway, Duran Duran, The Teardrop Explodes, Giorgio Moroder, Cabaret Voltaire, Ciccone Youth and much more.

The Week in Rock: Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2011

The Week in Rock: Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2011

This week’s headlines on Slicing Up Eyeballs included posts about The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Morrissey, The Stone Roses, Adam Ant and Bob Mould, plus a new Peter Gabriel contest and the first installment of our Rhino ‘Just Can’t Get Enough — The ’80s’ Spotify playlist.

Video: Stone Roses' Ian Brown, John Squire reunite onstage at Mick Jones' benefit gig

Video: Stone Roses’ Ian Brown, John Squire reunite onstage at Mick Jones’ benefit gig

The Stone Roses’ reunion is still six months out, but frontman Ian Brown and guitarist John Squire gave fans a preview last night when they performed on stage together for the first time in 16 years at the Manchester stop of the “Justice Tonight” tour headlined by The Clash’s Mick Jones — who is performing his old band’s songs.

Spotify playlist: Rhino's 'Just Can't Get Enough — The '80s,' by Slicing Up Eyeballs (Week 1)

Spotify playlist: Rhino’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough — The ’80s,’ by Slicing Up Eyeballs (Week 1)

Rhino Records has asked us here at Slicing Up Eyeballs to guest-curate their weekly Rhinofy playlist ‘Just Can’t Get Enough — The ’80s’ on the Spotify streaming-music service for the month of December, which means we’ll have a new 20-song playlist posted each of the next four Fridays — starting today.

Adam Ant rolls out U.S. tour in February — first American trek in 16 years

Adam Ant rolls out U.S. tour in February — first American trek in 16 years

With a new album reportedly in the works, New Wave/post-punk hero Adam Ant will bring his ongoing comeback tour — currently hitting dates throughout the U.K. this winter — across the pond to the U.S. in February, marking his first American trek in 16 years.