Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch diagnosed with cancer; trio cancels concerts, delays album
The Beastie Boys this morning announced that Adam Yauch, aka MCA, has been diagnosed with cancer, forcing the band to cancel its planned summer concerts […]
Recent Dark Wave Playlists
In stores this week: New music from The Beat Farmers, Captain Sensible reissues
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday. ARTIST: The Farmers RELEASE: Fulmination BACKSTORY: The survivors of ’80s cowpunk […]
Update: Dave Kendall of ‘120 Minutes’ wants to hear that ‘Really Stupid’ song, too
Two nights ago, Slicing Up Eyeballs embarked on a (so far) futile quest to find a copy of “Really Stupid,” a long-forgotten early-’90s parody song […]
Prefab Sprout’s new album, ‘Let’s Change the World With Music,’ due in September
Beloved British sophisti-pop act Prefab Sprout returns this fall with Let’s Change the World With Music, the reclusive act’s first new album in eight years […]
Erasure reissuing ‘The Innocents,’ rare club mixes, ‘Abba-esque’ remix EP
Erasure is hopping aboard the reissue train this summer and fall, delivering a “21st anniversary” remaster of The Innocents, a CD of rare 1990 club […]
Searching for that ‘120 Minutes’ song: ‘I’m Dave Kendall … and I am really stupid’
There wasn’t much to the song: a sampled riff from AC/DC’s “Back in Black” with the distinctly British voice of “120 Minutes” creator/host Dave Kendall […]
New Order’s botched CD reissues finally to be re-reissued by Rhino Records in August
Rhino Records has set an Aug. 25 release date for its 2CD re-reissues of New Order’s first five albums following last year’s release of mislabeled, […]
