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'Midnight Oil 1984' documentary to screen in Australian theaters, worldwide — watch trailer

‘Midnight Oil 1984’ documentary to screen in Australian theaters, worldwide — watch trailer

A new documentary chronicling Midnight Oil’s pivotal year of 1984 — which saw the release of Red Sails in the Sunset and Peter Garrett’s failed run for the Australian Senate as a Nuclear Disarmament Party candidate — will screen in Australian theaters in May before an international rollout.

This week's new releases: The Cars reissues, plus The Mission, The Damned, The Essence

This week’s new releases: The Cars reissues, plus The Mission, The Damned, The Essence

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s releases include titles from The Cars, The Mission, The Damned and The Essence. Full details here.

Listen: Michael Stipe debuts new song 'Future, If Future' ahead of March For Our Lives

Listen: Michael Stipe debuts new song ‘Future, If Future’ ahead of March For Our Lives

Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe this morning debuted a short, 40-second song called “Future, If Future” — featuring his vocals over minimal electronic accompaniment — ahead of this morning March For Our Lives gun-control events across the country. Hear the full song right here.

The Mission to release 'For Ever More' box set chronicling 2008 full-album concerts

The Mission to release ‘For Ever More’ box set chronicling 2008 full-album concerts

The Mission next week will release a new 5CD box set that collects live discs recorded during the band’s 2008 run of show in London that saw full-album performances of classic early records The First Chapter, God’s Own Medicine, Children and Carved in Sand. Full details and tracklist here.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: They Might Be Giants play 'Particle Man,' talk 'Flood' — 1990

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: They Might Be Giants play ‘Particle Man,’ talk ‘Flood’ — 1990

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we flash back to 1990 with a segment featuring They Might Be Giants in which the two Johns perform “Particle Man,” then chat with host Dave Kendall about their then-current album Flood and the record’s quirky breakout single “Birdhouse in Your Soul.”

Vintage Video: New Order blasts through hour-long 'Low-Life'-era set in Belgium

Vintage Video: New Order blasts through hour-long ‘Low-Life’-era set in Belgium

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we offer up this fantastic hour-long set by New Order that was filmed at a Belgian club in late 1985 for TV broadcast — and it’s been synced up with audio remastered by The Analog Loyalist (who you may remember for coming up with this New Order treasure).

Wire preps demo-packed expanded reissues of 'Pink Flag,' 'Chairs Missing' and '154'

Wire preps demo-packed expanded reissues of ‘Pink Flag,’ ‘Chairs Missing’ and ‘154’

Seminal post-punk act Wire will reissue its first three albums — 1977’s Pink Flag, 1978’s Chairs Missing and 1979’s 154 — in May with each remastered album packaged in a special book and featuring one or more bonus discs filled with studio demos and previously unreleased material. Full details here.

Public Image Ltd. to release 'Album'-era live set on double LP for Record Store Day

Public Image Ltd. to release ‘Album’-era live set on double LP for Record Store Day

Public Image Ltd. will release a 14-track live album that was recorded in 1986 — and previously only available on CD as part of the super deluxe reissue of Album — as a double-LP vinyl edition with a bonus “Concert” poster next month for Record Store Day. Full details and tracklist here.

Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees: All 176 songs ranked by Slicing Up Eyeballs' readers

Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees: All 176 songs ranked by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers

Today we unveil the results of Round 6 of our Slicing Up Eyeballs artist poll series, a ranking of all 176 songs officially released by goth/post-punk icons Siouxsie and the Banshees over the band’s decades-spanning career, from debut single “Hong Kong Garden” in 1978 to once-unreleased tracks that came out in the 2000s.

Playlist: All 176 Siouxsie and the Banshees songs, ranked — minus the 48 not on Spotify

Playlist: All 176 Siouxsie and the Banshees songs, ranked — minus the 48 not on Spotify

Now that we’ve revealed the results of our latest Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll — one that ranks all 176 songs recorded by Siouxsie and the Banshees — it’s only natural we’d throw together a Spotify playlist of the ranked countdown. Well, minus the 48 songs (mostly missing B-sides) that aren’t on the streaming service.

This week's new releases: Alice Bag, Guided By Voices, Fugazi members reunite

This week’s new releases: Alice Bag, Guided By Voices, Fugazi members reunite

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s releases include titles from Alice Bag of The Bags, Guided By Voices and The Messthetics, featuring Fugazi’s rhythm section.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: The Smithereens' Pat DiNizio talks 'A Girl Like You' inspiration

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Smithereens’ Pat DiNizio talks ‘A Girl Like You’ inspiration

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present this interview with the late Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens broadcast circa 1989/1990 in which he discusses his band’s crossover hit “A Girl Like You.” The song, DiNizio explains, was written based on the screenplay to Cameron Crowe’s 1989 film “Say Anything.”

Vintage Video: The Church shines in rare early pro-shot concert footage from 1982

Vintage Video: The Church shines in rare early pro-shot concert footage from 1982

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present some very rare, very high-quality early concert footage of The Church — 50-plus minutes of the band performing at what’s believed to be Hodern Pavilion in its hometown of Sydney, Australia, in 1982. Watch the full set right here.