Tag: Electronic

New releases: Electronic, XTC, Green Day, Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute, Duran Duran

New releases: Electronic, XTC, Green Day, Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute, Duran Duran

This week’s new releases include reissues from Electronic, XTC, Green Day and Duran Duran, plus a new installment of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute series.

Electronic reissuing "Get the Message" best-of on double-vinyl, expanded 30-track 2CD set

Electronic reissuing “Get the Message” best-of on double-vinyl, expanded 30-track 2CD set

The 2006 best-of celebrating Manchester supergroup Electronic — featuring New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr of The Smiths — will be reissued next month.

Denise Johnson, whose voice lifted Primal Scream, A Certain Ratio and New Order, dies

Denise Johnson, whose voice lifted Primal Scream, A Certain Ratio and New Order, dies

Denise Johnson, the Manchester-born singer whose soulful voice lifted the music of Primal Scream — most memorably on Screamadelica — A Certain Ratio, New Order and more has died at the age of 56, according to U.K. press reports and musicians she’d worked with. No cause of death has been announced.

New releases: Depeche Mode box set, plus Pet Shop Boys, Innocence Mission, Electronic

New releases: Depeche Mode box set, plus Pet Shop Boys, Innocence Mission, Electronic

This is 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. May also include some other titles released in recent weeks but not previously featured. This week’s titles include a Depeche Mode box set.

Electronic's Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr reunite  in Greece to play 'Get the Message'

Electronic’s Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr reunite in Greece to play ‘Get the Message’

A pair of legendary Manchester musicians — New Order’s Bernard Sumner and The Smiths’ Johnny Marr — shared the stage in Athens, Greece, on Sunday for a one-song reunion of their former band Electronic, performing the 1991 single “Get the Message.” Watch it right here.

Electronic reunion: Bernard Sumner joins Johnny Marr to play 'Getting Away With It'

Electronic reunion: Bernard Sumner joins Johnny Marr to play ‘Getting Away With It’

After missed opportunities at a pair of U.S. shows booked around Coachella this past April, it finally happened: Bernard Sumner joined Johnny Marr on stage in England tonight for a one-song Electronic reunion as the duo performed their 1989 single “Getting Away With It” during the ex-Smiths guitarist’s slot opening for New Order.

Video: Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy tear up 'I Fought the Law' and 'How Soon Is Now?'

Video: Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy tear up ‘I Fought the Law’ and ‘How Soon Is Now?’

Johnny Marr surprised fans in San Francisco on Saturday night by pulling an old friend on stage: Billy Duffy of The Cult, who joined Marr and his band to rip through “I Fought the Law,” the 1958 classic by The Crickets’ Sonny Curtis popularized first by the Bobby Fuller Four and then The Clash.