Archive for July, 2009

Nearing the end of its summer tour of the U.S., Sonic Youth this week announced a seven-date “southwest mini-tour” this fall as it extends its promotion of its new album The Eternal deeper into California, Arizona and Texas.
The band — which also tacked on a final date to its summer trek on Monday in San [...]

The first two albums from hugely influential college-rock act The Feelies — Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth — will be reissued in September as remastered CD and vinyl editions accompanied by digital-only bonus tracks.
Due out Sept. 8 on Bar/None Records in North America and Domino Records in the rest of the world, the two [...]

The Pixies’ Doolittle 20th anniversary tour comes to America in November for 14 concerts in nine different cities, including multiple-night stands in New York, Chicago, Seattle and Oakland.
The band last month announced an October run of 12 European concerts — including four nights in London and two shows each in Dublin and Paris — at [...]

The Meat Puppets have announced a second round of tour dates in support of their just-released 12th studio album, Sewn Together — this time co-headlining with Athens, Ga., rockers Dead Confederate.
The 10-date trek — which follows the band’s May/June tour — opens Sept. 16 and is confined to the western U.S., with shows scheduled in [...]

Expanded box-set reissues of Bauhaus’ first two albums — In the Flat Field and Mask — will help inaugurate the new Beggars Archive series of back-catalog and archival releases from the venerable Beggars Banquet label.
In addition to those titles, Beggars plans to give the deluxe reissue treatment to the Pixies, The Fall, Gary Numan, The [...]

R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn and Young Fresh Fellows’ Scott McCaughey will tour the U.S. this summer and fall under a trio of musical guises — The Minus 5, The Baseball Project and The Steve Wynn IV — that apparently are all one in the same.
The triple-bill concerts, which run Aug. 26 through [...]

The Cult is reissuing its 1985 breakthrough album Love in two expanded editions this summer to coincide with its worldwide Love Live Tour, which kicks off in San Diego in August.
On Sept. 7 in Europe and Sept. 8 in the U.S. and Canada, Beggars Banquet will issue Love: Omnibus Edition, a limited-edition four-disc box set [...]

Jane’s Addiction yesterday canceled the Australian leg of its reunion tour after drummer Stephen Perkins was hospitalized with an elbow infection, although the band is still planning to keep its Aug. 7 slot at Lollapalooza.
According to the band’s publicist, Perkins was admitted to Infectious Disease Ward at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after the band [...]

Echo & The Bunnymen will release its 10th album, The Fountain, and bring its celebrated Ocean Rain tour to North America in October, with dates announced already in Canada and California.
Due out Oct. 12, The Fountain will be preceded by first single “Think I Need it To” on Sept. 28. Yet that tune and three [...]

Yesterday, Slicing Up Eyeballs hit a somewhat negligible milestone, the six-month mark in its still-nascent existence chronicling the past, present and future of ’80s college rock.
To mark the occasion, I thought it would be worth noting the site’s most-viewed posts over that span, which saw more than 160 news items posted.
It’s something I’d actually been [...]