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  • Contest: Win Peter Gabriel’s ‘Live Blood’ — new 2CD orchestral live album

    Contest: Win Peter Gabriel’s ‘Live Blood’ — new 2CD orchestral live album

    • April 24, 2012
    • Contests
    • 131 comments

    Today marks the release of Peter Gabriel’s new ‘Live Blood’ — featuring performances of classics such as “Solsbury Hill,” “Don’t Give Up” and “Red Rain” with a full orchestra recorded in London last year — and we’ve got three copies of the album to award to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ 8CD box set — featuring band’s entire discography

    Contest: Win The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ 8CD box set — featuring band’s entire discography

    • April 12, 2012
    • Contests
    • 682 comments

    Last September, we gave away a copy of the CD-and-vinyl version of The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ box set to one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader, and now, with the newly remastered albums released individually, the fine folks at Rhino Records have provided us with three copies of the 8-disc CD box set to give away.

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  • Contest: Win The B-52s’ ‘With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, Ga.’ live DVD

    Contest: Win The B-52s’ ‘With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, Ga.’ live DVD

    • March 12, 2012
    • Contests
    • 74 comments

    Last fall, we gave away a handful of copies of The B-52s’ first-ever live album, and now that the companion concert film is nearly here, the fine folks at Universal Music Group have provided us with three copies of the ‘With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, Ga.’ DVD to award to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win Peter Gabriel 12-album prize pack, plus signed ‘New Blood’ lithograph

    Contest: Win Peter Gabriel 12-album prize pack, plus signed ‘New Blood’ lithograph

    • November 30, 2011
    • Contests
    • 222 comments

    We’ve got a whopper of a Peter Gabriel prize pack to give away to one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader: 12 CDs, including his latest album, the orchestral ‘New Blood,’ which represents nearly his entirely discography, plus a lithograph of the ‘New Blood’ cover signed by Gabriel himself — all courtesy of EMI Music.

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  • Contest: Win The Japanese Popstars’ ‘Take Forever’ 12-inch featuring Robert Smith

    Contest: Win The Japanese Popstars’ ‘Take Forever’ 12-inch featuring Robert Smith

    • October 28, 2011
    • Contests
    • 120 comments

    The Japanese Popstars next week will release a 12-inch with remixes of ‘Take Forever,’ the track they recorded with Robert Smith on vocals — and thanks to the fine folks over at Astralwerks, one Slicing Up Eyeballs reader can win that plus a signed copy of the group’s remix 12-inch with an exclusive Depeche Mode mix.

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  • Contest: Win Peter Gabriel’s ‘New Blood: Live in London’ orchestral concert DVD

    Contest: Win Peter Gabriel’s ‘New Blood: Live in London’ orchestral concert DVD

    • October 26, 2011
    • Contests
    • 78 comments

    Peter Gabriel this week released his new concert film ‘New Blood: Live in London’ — which captures a performance earlier this year with his New Blood Orchestra — and to commemorate the release, the fine folks at Universal Music are providing us with four copies of the new DVD to give away to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win a Jane’s Addiction ‘The Great Escape Artist’ signed guitar — and new CD

    Contest: Win a Jane’s Addiction ‘The Great Escape Artist’ signed guitar — and new CD

    • October 24, 2011
    • Contests
    • 3 comments

    To celebrate the release of ‘The Great Escape Artist,’ alt-rock pioneers Jane’s Addiction have teamed up with Slicing Up Eyeballs to give away a Paul Reed Smith SE Custom 24 guitar signed by Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, and bassist Chris Chaney.

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  • Contest: Win The B-52s’ ‘With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, Ga.’ live CD

    Contest: Win The B-52s’ ‘With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, Ga.’ live CD

    • October 6, 2011
    • Contests
    • 127 comments

    The B-52s next week will release their first-ever live album — the 18-track With the ‘Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, Ga.’ — and the folks at Universal Music Group have provided us with three copies of the disc to award to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win The Bangles’ ‘Sweetheart of the Sun’ — first new album in 8 years

    Contest: Win The Bangles’ ‘Sweetheart of the Sun’ — first new album in 8 years

    • September 29, 2011
    • Contests
    • 97 comments

    The Bangles — featuring original members Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson and Vicki Peterson — returned to record racks this week with ‘Sweetheart of the Sun,’ and Universal Music has provided us with three copies to award to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win The Smiths ‘Complete’ box set — 8 CDs, 8 LPs, 25 7-inches, 1 DVD and more

    Contest: Win The Smiths ‘Complete’ box set — 8 CDs, 8 LPs, 25 7-inches, 1 DVD and more

    • September 12, 2011
    • Contests
    • 1,039 comments

    While initially announced as U.K.-only, Rhino Records has decided to release a limited number of The Smiths’ ‘Complete’ box sets in the U.S. exclusively through Rhino.com. Even better: They’ve given us a copy of the deluxe CD-and-vinyl edition to give away to one very lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader.

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  • Contest: Win R.E.M.’s ‘Lifes Rich Pageant’ expanded 25th anniversary reissue

    Contest: Win R.E.M.’s ‘Lifes Rich Pageant’ expanded 25th anniversary reissue

    • July 12, 2011
    • Contests
    • 211 comments

    Today marks the release of the 25th anniversary reissue of R.E.M.’s ‘Lifes Rich Pageant,’ and to help celebrate, the fine folks at EMI Music have provided us with a copy of the set — featuring a whopping 19 previously unreleased studio demos — to award to one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader.

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  • Contest: Win ‘David Bowie: Starman,’ new biography of the Thin White Duke

    Contest: Win ‘David Bowie: Starman,’ new biography of the Thin White Duke

    • July 11, 2011
    • Books, Contests
    • 150 comments

    Next week, Little, Brown and Company will publish ‘David Bowie: Starman,’ an exhaustive 544-page biography of the Thin White Duke by former Mojo magazine editor Paul Trynka — and the publishing house has been kind enough to offer up copies for three lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win free Lollapalooza tickets

    Contest: Win free Lollapalooza tickets

    • July 8, 2011
    • Contests
    • no comments

    Our partners at GroopEase are giving away two pairs of three-day passes along with $500 cash to see The Cars, Big Audio Dynamite, Foo Fighters and more at the massive Lollapalooza festival in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 5-7.

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  • Contest: Win Japanese Popstars prize pack, featuring Depeche Mode, Robert Smith

    Contest: Win Japanese Popstars prize pack, featuring Depeche Mode, Robert Smith

    • July 6, 2011
    • Contests
    • 72 comments

    The Japanese Popstars not only enlisted Robert Smith to sing on their new album, they’ve also just released a limited-edition 12-single single with an exclusive Depeche Mode remix — and now, thanks to the folks at Astralwerks, one Slicing Up Eyeballs reader can win both.

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  • Contest: Win Depeche Mode ‘Remixes 2: 81-11′ 6LP deluxe vinyl, 3CD editions

    Contest: Win Depeche Mode ‘Remixes 2: 81-11′ 6LP deluxe vinyl, 3CD editions

    • June 3, 2011
    • Contests
    • 360 comments

    The fine folks at Rhino Records have provided us with a copy of the super-limited 6LP deluxe vinyl edition of Depeche Mode’s forthcoming ‘Remixes 2: 81-11′ set to award to one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader — and copies of the 3CD version for five runners up.

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  • Contest: Win a copy of Primal Scream’s ‘Screamadelica Live’ CD/DVD

    Contest: Win a copy of Primal Scream’s ‘Screamadelica Live’ CD/DVD

    • May 31, 2011
    • Contests
    • 69 comments

    To celebrate the release today of Primal Scream’s CD/DVD set ‘Screamadelica Live’ — filmed/recorded last fall during a performance of the band’s landmark 1991 album ‘Screamadelica’ in London — the folks at Universal Music have given us three copies to award to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win free Bonnaroo tickets

    Contest: Win free Bonnaroo tickets

    • May 10, 2011
    • Contests
    • 1 comment

    Our partners at groopEase — a daily deal-style site geared toward helping fans discover new music — are giving away two pairs of three-day passes (valued at $550 per pair) to the fabled Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., June 9-12.

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  • Contest: Win an R.E.M. ‘IRS years’ prize pack — featuring 5 ’80s-era CDs and 2 LPs

    Contest: Win an R.E.M. ‘IRS years’ prize pack — featuring 5 ’80s-era CDs and 2 LPs

    • April 7, 2011
    • Contests
    • 464 comments

    To help celebrate the release of R.E.M.’s latest album ‘Collapse Into Now,’ the folks at EMI Music — who now control the band’s classic college-rock output on I.R.S. Records — have provided us with a 5CD/2LP prize pack to award to a lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader.

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  • Contest: Win copy of Prefab Sprout’s new CD ‘Let’s Change the World With Music’

    Contest: Win copy of Prefab Sprout’s new CD ‘Let’s Change the World With Music’

    • March 29, 2011
    • Contests
    • 95 comments

    ‘Let’s Change the World With Music ‘— the first new album in eight years from U.K. sophistipop act Prefab Sprout — recently received a belated U.S. release via Tompkins Square Records, and to mark the occasion, the label is providing us with 10 CDs to give away to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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  • Contest: Win copy of Bob Geldof’s ‘How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell’

    Contest: Win copy of Bob Geldof’s ‘How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell’

    • March 24, 2011
    • Contests, Video
    • 40 comments

    The first solo album in a decade from Boomtown Rats leader Bob Geldof — the cheekily titled How to ‘Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell’ — is now out in the U.S., and to help mark the occasion, Mercury/Vagrant Records slipped us three copies of the CD to award to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

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