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The Week in Rock: Dec. 4-10, 2011

The Week in Rock: Dec. 4-10, 2011

This week’s round-up of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines includes posts about Midnight Oil, The Cure, Wire, Gary Numan, The Church and New Order, plus our December mixtape and the second installment of our Rhino ‘Just Can’t Get Enough — The ’80s’ Spotify playlist.

Vintage Video: Hüsker Dü rocks Minneapolis daytime talk show 'Good Company' in 1986

Vintage Video: Hüsker Dü rocks Minneapolis daytime talk show ‘Good Company’ in 1986

Been a while since our last installment of Vintage Video, and even though that post featured the legendary Hüsker Dü, this clips was to good to pass up. The straight-from-VHS video quality’s not the best, but the band’s appearance on a Twin Cities daytime talk show called ‘Good Company’ in April 1986 is priceless.

Bob Mould to perform Sugar's 'Copper Blue' on 'very limited' 20th anniversary tour

Bob Mould to perform Sugar’s ‘Copper Blue’ on ‘very limited’ 20th anniversary tour

Bob Mould will mark the 20th anniversary of ‘Copper Blue’ — the classic debut from his early-’90s trio Sugar — by performing the album in full with his current band at a ‘very limited’ number of concerts next year, the former Hüsker Dü frontman announced during a tribute concert celebrating his career last week in Los Angeles.

Linkage: Bob Mould tribute, plus The Cure, The Fall, Fugazi, Bush Tetras’ Laura Kennedy

This week’s round-up includes videos from the recent Bob Mould tribute concert, photos of The Cure’s first ‘Reflections’ gig in New York, an interview with The Fall’s Mark E. Smith, a look at Fugazi’s 800-show online concert archive and news of the passing of the Bush Tetras’ Laura Kennedy.

The Week in Rock: Nov. 13-19, 2011

The Week in Rock: Nov. 13-19, 2011

Our round-up of what made headlines at Slicing Up Eyeballs over the past week includes posts about New Order, Joy Division, Morrissey, the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Kate Bush, Dinosaur Jr, The Fall and much, much more.

Video: Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart half-hour performance, interview on Seattle's KEXP

Video: Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart half-hour performance, interview on Seattle’s KEXP

Last June, former Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart dropped by the studios of Seattle’s KEXP for a half-hour interview and on-air performance — which you can now watch in full after the radio station this week posted the set on YouTube.

The Week in Rock: Oct. 9-15, 2011

The Week in Rock: Oct. 9-15, 2011

This week’s headlines on Slicing Up Eyeballs included posts about about Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, The Mission, Big Country, New Order, Robyn Hitchcock and much, much more, plus news on how to score a free Slicing Up Eyeballs sticker.