Archive for April, 2009

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: Morrissey
RELEASES: Southpaw Grammar: Expanded Edition, Maladjusted: Expanded Edition, “Something Is Squeezing My Skull”
BACKSTORY: Not much of interest being released this week — unless you’re a Moz fan, either in the UK or with a predilection for buying imports. The singer is [...]

Noise-rock legends Sonic Youth this morning unfurled the itinerary for their summer tour of the U.S. in support of forthcoming LP The Eternal, which drops June 8 via Matador Records.
The 21-date trek opens June 28 in Chicago and wraps Aug. 2 in Oakland, Calif.
According to the band, tickets for most of the shows will go [...]

It didn’t seem to garner much attention, but after so much had been made about Brian Eno not performing with David Byrne on his current “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno” tour, he did just that earlier this month.
Talking-Heads.net reports the famously stage-shy Eno joined Byrne in London to sing along on the [...]

A new live-performance video for Morrissey’s next single, “Something is Squeezing My Skull,” was posted today on the singer’s MySpace page.
The single itself comes out Monday in the UK; click here for tracklist.

Video: Morrissey, “Something is Squeezing My Skull”
Morrissey -Something Is Squeezing My Skull
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS:

Nauseated Morrissey cancels post-Coachella date on trouble-plagued [...]

It wasn’t quite on the scale of 1990’s near-riot, but some 12,000 Depeche Mode fans descended on Hollywood and Vine yesterday — some lining up for hours — to catch the electro legends’ performance for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Marking this week’s release of Sounds of the Universe, the band played a seven-song set, mixing [...]

Fans of Sonic Youth this week got the first official taste of the band’s forthcoming The Eternal, as Matador Records posted the album’s first MP3— the Kim Gordon-sung “Sacred Trickster” — online for free download.
The record doesn’t come out until June 8, but those who pre-order it through Matador’s Buy Early Get Now program will [...]

Tipped first by the Pixies’ tease of a big announcement on their Facebook page, then the appearance online last night of this image (left), speculation ran rampant — for a few frenzied hours, at least — that the legendary college rockers were about to drop their first new album since 1991’s Trompe Le Monde.
Turns out [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: Depeche Mode
ALBUM: Sounds of the Universe
BACKSTORY: Preceded by the single “Wrong,” the electro pioneers return with their 12th studio album, available in a variety of formats, including vinyl and a super-deluxe 3CD/2DVD set that also features two books and retails for [...]

Perhaps The Cure were on to something after all when they abruptly ended Friday night’s warm-up gig in Las Vegas.
Practice for the main event?
Sunday night, Robert Smith and Co.’s headlining set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival barrelled well past the fest’s 12:01 a.m. curfew, and organizers ultimately pulled the plug mid-song — [...]

With the once-again-reactivated Pixies promising “a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT on Monday” on the band’s Facebook page, several more European summer festival dates have begun surfacing.
In addition to the band’s previously announced slot at the UK’s Isle of Wight Festival, Black Francis and Co. also will play Where the Action Is in Stockholm, Sweden, with Neil Young, [...]