Tag: Siouxsie and the Banshees

Andy Anderson, former drummer for The Cure, reveals he has terminal cancer

Andy Anderson, former drummer for The Cure, reveals he has terminal cancer

Drummer Andy Anderson, who joined The Cure after Lol Tolhurst moved to keyboards and played on the band’s 1984 album The Top, revealed on Facebook this week that he has Stage 4 cancer, a terminal diagnosis that there is “no way of returning back from.” Read his full statement here.

This week's new releases: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Paul Weller, The Chills, Devo

This week’s new releases: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Paul Weller, The Chills, Devo

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 reissues from Siouxsie and the Banshees and Devo, plus new albums from Paul Weller and The Chills.

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.

'120 Minutes' Rewind: Robert Smith of The Cure, aka 'the thinking man's Duran Duran'

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Robert Smith of The Cure, aka ‘the thinking man’s Duran Duran’

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present this early Martha Quinn intro’d interview with Robert Smith from 1986, conducted to promote The Cure’s then-new compilation Standing on a Beach, and broadcast during the first year of “120 Minutes'” existence. Watch it right here.

Slicing Up Eyeballs' Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees: Vote for your 25 favorite songs

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees: Vote for your 25 favorite songs

After a brief diversion, we’re back with the sixth installment in our ongoing artist poll series, this time asking you, the readers of Slicing Up Eyeballs, to help us rank every song released by legendary post-punks Siouxsie and the Banshees over the band’s 20-year career. Vote here for up to 25 of the Banshees’ 175 songs.