Tag: Dexys

Out this week: Madchester box set, Dexys, Bush Tetras, Billy Idol, Sugarcubes, TMBG + more

Out this week: Madchester box set, Dexys, Bush Tetras, Billy Idol, Sugarcubes, TMBG + more

This week’s new releases include a Madchester-themed box set, new albums from Bush Tetras and Dexys, and reissues of The Sugarcubes, Reagan Youth and more.

New releases: Thurston Moore, Billy Idol, Half Man Half Biscuit, Inspiral Carpets, Annie Lennox

New releases: Thurston Moore, Billy Idol, Half Man Half Biscuit, Inspiral Carpets, Annie Lennox

This week’s new releases include new studio albums from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Billy Idol, Half Man Half Biscuit, Inspiral Carpets and Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox, plus reissues from The Pop Group and a six-disc box set of recent material from the reunited Dexys.

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: June 3-9, 2012

The Week in Rock: June 3-9, 2012

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines include news about The Cure, The Stone Roses, Pixies, The Cult, The Mission, Killing Joke, Bob Mould, Meat Puppets, Budgie, Morrissey, Dinosaur Jr, Madness, Sonic Youth, Peter Gabriel and PiL — plus our latest Auto Reverse mixtape for your downloading pleasure.

New releases: Dexys, Ministry, David Bowie, Propaganda, Germs, Bob Mould’s Sugar

New releases: Dexys, Ministry, David Bowie, Propaganda, Germs, Bob Mould’s Sugar

This week’s new releases include the first new album in 27 years from Dexys Midnight Runners (now named Dexys), plus reissues from David Bowie (‘Ziggy Stardust’), Propaganda (‘Wishful Thinking’), Germs (‘GI’) and Bob Mould’s Sugar (‘Beaster’), as well as a new collection of Ministry remixes and covers.

Video: Dexys perform ‘Free,’ ‘Come On Eileen’ on ‘Later… with Jools Holland’

Video: Dexys perform ‘Free,’ ‘Come On Eileen’ on ‘Later… with Jools Holland’

Dexys — Kevin Rowland‘s relaunched and renamed Dexys Midnight Runners — appeared on BBC chat show “Later… with Jools Holland” on Tuesday night, performing “Free,” off the forthcoming ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar,’ as we well as the needs-no-introduction “Come On Eileen.”

The Week in Rock: March 4-10, 2012

The Week in Rock: March 4-10, 2012

This week’s round-up of Slicing Up Eyeballs headlines includes news about The Jesus and Mary Chain, Paul Weller, Dexys, fIREHOSE, Dead Can Dance, World Party, Fields of the Nephilim, Mark E. Smith, Cocteau Twins and much more — plus our latest Auto Reverse mixtape.

Free MP3: Dexys, ‘Nowhere is Home’ — off new album ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’

Free MP3: Dexys, ‘Nowhere is Home’ — off new album ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’

Dexys — Kevin Rowland’s relaunched and newly shortened Dexys Midnight Runners — today debuted ‘Nowhere is Home,’ the first track to be released off the band’s forthcoming ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar,; on U.K. radio, and then promptly made the song available as a free download.

Dexys Midnight Runners to play new album at ‘theatrical shows’ in Glasgow, London

Dexys Midnight Runners to play new album at ‘theatrical shows’ in Glasgow, London

Dexys Midnight Runners — now going by the shortened band name Dexys — will celebrate the release of ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar,’ the band’s first album in 27 years, by performing it in its entirety at a pair of ‘theatrical shows’ in Glasgow and Dublin this May, the group tweeted today.

Dexys Midnight Runners announce ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ — first album in 27 years

Dexys Midnight Runners announce ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ — first album in 27 years

Frontman Kevin Rowland this week announced that the reactivated Dexys Midnight Runners — the New Wave act still best known for its 1982 smash ‘Come On Eileen’ — will release its first new album in 27 years this June, a record titled ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar’ that will be put out under the shortened band name Dexys.