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  • Daniel Ash reveals new band and album, says Bauhaus reunion likely to resume in 2022

    Daniel Ash reveals new band and album, says Bauhaus reunion likely to resume in 2022

    • 1 February 2021
    • Album News, Reunions
    • 4 comments

    With the Bauhaus reunion sidelined by COVID-19, guitarist Daniel Ash found plenty of time in 2020 to focus on a new album by his new band — a trio called Ashes and Diamonds — with plans to release the record later this year, he announced in a podcast interview Monday. More details here.

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  • Members of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths remake ‘Tower of Strength’ for COVID relief

    Members of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths remake ‘Tower of Strength’ for COVID relief

    • 10 August 2020
    • Causes, Single News
    • 6 comments

    Wayne Hussey has enlisted current and former members of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Cult, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus and The Smiths for an all-star remake of The Mission’s 1988 anthem “Tower of Strength” to benefit “key workers dealing with COVID-19 globally.” Full details right here.

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  • The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst and Budgie of the Banshees to release album as LXB

    The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst and Budgie of the Banshees to release album as LXB

    • 23 May 2020
    • Album News
    • 7 comments

    Two key drummers of the early post-punk era — The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst and Budgie of Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Creatures — have formed a new band called LXB that could release its already-recorded debut album before the end of this year, the two announced during an interview on Sirius XM’s Volume.

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  • Tones on Tail’s album ‘Pop’ to be reissued on vinyl for first time on Record Store Day

    Tones on Tail’s album ‘Pop’ to be reissued on vinyl for first time on Record Store Day

    • 9 March 2020
    • Album News, Vinyl
    • 9 comments

    Beggars Banquet will reissue the lone studio album from Bauhaus offshoot Tones on Tail — 1984’s nine-song set Pop — for the first time ever on Record Store Day, packing the album in a new sleeve featuring revised artwork and silver foil text. Full details and tracklist right here.

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  • ‘Hit Parade’ podcast charts 1989 U.S. breakthrough by British alternative titans

    ‘Hit Parade’ podcast charts 1989 U.S. breakthrough by British alternative titans

    • 6 November 2019
    • Podcast
    • 1 comment

    Here at Slicing Up Eyeballs HQ, we’ve been fans of Chris Molanphy’s deeply nerdy chart-history podcast “Hit Parade” since its debut in 2017. But the latest episode — the “Lost and Lonely Edition,” which charts the slow rise to U.S. hit-making status by The Cure, Depeche Mode and New Order — was practically made for us.

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  • You’ll hear nothing but Bauhaus & Family on tonight’s edition of Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’

    You’ll hear nothing but Bauhaus & Family on tonight’s edition of Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’

    • 3 November 2019
    • Radio
    • 2 comments

    or those not lucky enough to be at tonight’s first Bauhaus concert in 13 years, be sure to tune in to the Slicing Up Eyeballs-hosted “Dark Wave” at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave for a special Bauhaus & Family edition. Full details right here.

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  • Tones on Tail’s Glenn Campling shares rare live footage of band performing in 1984

    Tones on Tail’s Glenn Campling shares rare live footage of band performing in 1984

    • 14 September 2019
    • Video
    • 6 comments

    If you’ve ever gone looking for live footage of Tones on Tail — Daniel Ash’s and Kevin Haskins’ post-Bauhaus, pre-Love and Rockets project — you know what a black hole that is. Which is why it’s so thrilling to see Glenn Campling, the band’s bassist, sharing rare live footage of the trio performing in Scotland in 1984.

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  • Undead, undead, undead: Bauhaus reunites for first concert in 13 years this November

    Undead, undead, undead: Bauhaus reunites for first concert in 13 years this November

    • 10 September 2019
    • Reunions
    • 3 comments

    Goth-rock legends Bauhaus will reunite for their first concert in 13 years this November, a performance that comes after the band seemingly had split into competing camps in recent years, with bassist David J touring with frontman Peter Murphy and guitarist Daniel Ash teaming up with drummer Kevin Haskins as Poptone.

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  • Vintage Video: Love and Rockets’ amazing low-budget TV commercial for ‘Express’

    Vintage Video: Love and Rockets’ amazing low-budget TV commercial for ‘Express’

    • 24 May 2018
    • Video, Vintage Video
    • 7 comments

    For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we offer up this delightfully low-budget television commercial promoting Love and Rockets’ 1986 album Express — the existence of which is fairly surprising, considering it would be three years before the band’s real commercial breakthrough in the U.S. with “So Alive.”

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  • Poptone announces North American summer tour as debut album release looms

    Poptone announces North American summer tour as debut album release looms

    • 21 May 2018
    • Tour Dates, Video
    • 0 comments

    Having just completed a run of West Coast dates, and with their debut album due out next month, Poptone — Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, plus Haskins’ daughter Diva Dompe — have just rolled out more North American tour dates, a nine-concert run this summer that’ll see the band hitting the Midwest and East Coast.

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  • Listen: Poptone premieres new recording of Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’ — off upcoming debut LP

    Listen: Poptone premieres new recording of Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’ — off upcoming debut LP

    • 19 April 2018
    • Digital Music
    • 6 comments

    After last year’s tour of the U.S., Poptone — featuring longtime bandmates Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, plus Haskins’ daughter Diva Dompe on bass — are preparing their debut EP, a 13-song live radio session featuring performances of originally recorded by Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets and Bauhaus.

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