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Vintage Video: Talking Heads live in 1978 — watch 80-minute ‘More Songs’-era set

Vintage Video: Talking Heads live in 1978 — watch 80-minute ‘More Songs’-era set

For this week’s this installment of Vintage Video, we travel all the way back to 1978, when things apparently still were filmed in black and white, and the Talking Heads were still a herky-jerky four-piece yet to discover world music and on-stage guest musicians.

Mick Jones re-teams with Big Audio Dynamite bandmates on Dreadzone’s ‘Too Late’

Mick Jones re-teams with Big Audio Dynamite bandmates on Dreadzone’s ‘Too Late’

While the Big Audio Dynamite reunion didn’t result in any new recordings, frontman Mick Jones has re-teamed with that band’s rhythm section — drummer Greg Roberts and bassist Leo “E-Z Kill” Williams — to lend guitar and backing vocals to new single “Too Late,” from the duo’s band Dreadzone.

The Church’s Steve Kilbey and Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs add San Francisco concert

The Church’s Steve Kilbey and Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs add San Francisco concert

It’s hardly a tour or anything, but Steve Kilbey of The Church and The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli — who have been writing new music together over the past year — have now added a second performance together this fall, a show in San Francisco that comes two days after their sold-out Los Angeles gig.

Selections from Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Top 100 Albums of 1986 — a Spotify playlist

Selections from Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Top 100 Albums of 1986 — a Spotify playlist

This week we posted the results of the latest round of our Best of the ’80s feature, a year-long series of readers’ polls that now has us at 1986. To coincide with the publication of the Top 100 Albums of 1986 list, here’s a handy Spotify playlist featuring one song apiece off each of the albums on that list.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 133, aired 9/3/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 133, aired 9/3/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour featured brand-new music from the Pixies, Throwing Muses, Tears For Fears, The Chills, Dean Wareham and The Mission, plus old favorites by Husker Du, Big Audio Dynamite, Oingo Boingo, Midnight Oil, The Pretenders and more.

Danny Elfman to sing publicly in U.S. for first time in 18 years this Halloween — tour in works

Danny Elfman to sing publicly in U.S. for first time in 18 years this Halloween — tour in works

Eighteen years to the day after Oingo Boingo’s farewell concert at the Universal Amphitheater, the band’s former frontman, Danny Elfman, will take the concert stage for an ultra-rare live performance on Halloween, conducting and singing a program called “Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton.”

Top 100 Albums of 1986: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 7

Top 100 Albums of 1986: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 7

We’ve reached September, which means it’s time to unveil the results of Part 7 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, a year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine the best albums of each year of the 1980s — and then, at the end of 2013, we’ll run a monster best-of-the-decade poll to crown the overall champs.

Pixies release new 4-song ‘EP-1’ — watch video for new song ‘Indie Cindy’

Pixies release new 4-song ‘EP-1’ — watch video for new song ‘Indie Cindy’

With their fall tour set to open next week with a club run in Los Angeles, the Pixies today released the first in a series of new EPs — a four-song set cleverly titled EP-1 that’s available as a digital download or on limited-edition 10-inch vinyl — and premiered the music video for one of those songs, “Indie Cindy.”

Video: The Mission, ‘Sometimes the Brightest Light Comes From the Darkest Place’

Video: The Mission, ‘Sometimes the Brightest Light Comes From the Darkest Place’

The Mission opens its first North American tour in more than a decade tonight in Washington, D.C., and the band is using the occasion to debut the music video for “Sometimes the Brightest Light Comes From the Darkest Place,” the lead single from forthcoming album The Brightest Light.

New releases: Nine Inch Nails, The Breeders, Happy Mondays, Ride, Dexys

New releases: Nine Inch Nails, The Breeders, Happy Mondays, Ride, Dexys

This week sees the release of the first new Nine Inch Nails album in five years (‘Hesitation Marks’), the deluxe vinyl ‘Last Splash’ reissue box set from The Breeders, a pair of ‘Original Album Series’ box sets from Happy Mondays and Ride, plus the bleated U.S. release of the first Dexys album in nearly 30 years.

The Week in Rock: Aug. 25-31, 2013

The Week in Rock: Aug. 25-31, 2013

Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about The Replacements, The Cure, Roddy Frame, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Throwing Muses, The Church, Nine Inch Nails, Sebadoh, Butthole Surfers, The Chills and more.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: MTV Europe checks in with The Jesus and Mary Chain — 1992

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: MTV Europe checks in with The Jesus and Mary Chain — 1992

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we’re going to cheat slightly and turn to MTV Europe’s version of the show for this 1992 spotlight on The Jesus and Mary Chain circa Honey’s Dead. The 7-minute reel features footage of brothers Jim and William Reid being interviewed mixed in with some live footage.

The Church’s Steve Kilbey and Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs to play together in L.A.

The Church’s Steve Kilbey and Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs to play together in L.A.

After working on songs together off and on for the past few months, Steve Kilbey of The Church and The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli will go public with their new collaboration this October when the duo plays a show in Los Angeles that will feature new music as well as “a wide selection of songs encompassing both of their careers.”