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  • David Bowie and Morrissey’s live cover of T. Rex’s ‘Cosmic Dancer’ gets official release

    David Bowie and Morrissey’s live cover of T. Rex’s ‘Cosmic Dancer’ gets official release

    • 14 November 2020
    • Digital Music, Vinyl
    • 1 comment

    On June 2, 1991 — the third night of Morrissey’s first-ever solo tour of the U.S. — David Bowie joined the former Smiths frontman onstage in Los Angeles to duet on a cover of T. Rex’s “Cosmic Dancer.” Now, nearly 30 years later, Morrissey is finally giving that recording an official release, first digitally and then 7-inch vinyl.

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  • Goodbye, Cruel World: Festival with Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo is canceled

    Goodbye, Cruel World: Festival with Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo is canceled

    • 26 May 2020
    • Festivals
    • 24 comments

    The “ongoing uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic” today led promoter Goldenvoice has pulled the plug on the rescheduled Cruel World festival in Los Angeles, which would have celebrate the ’80s alternative era with a bill topped by Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie and Devo. Get your full information on refunds here.

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  • Matthew Seligman, bassist for The Soft Boys, Thomas Dolby and more, dies of COVID-19

    Matthew Seligman, bassist for The Soft Boys, Thomas Dolby and more, dies of COVID-19

    • 17 April 2020
    • Obits
    • 1 comment

    Matthew Seligman, the highly inventive bassist for The Soft Boys who went on to record with Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, The Waterboys, Peter Murphy, Morrissey and more, and who played with David Bowie at Live Aid, died Friday after being in a coma for two weeks with COVID-19, his longtime friend Dolby announced,

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  • Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: March 14-20, 2020

    Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: March 14-20, 2020

    • 20 March 2020
    • Strangeways Week in Review
    • 0 comments

    Check out the latest installment right here — this week’s episode features items on The Pretenders, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, The Psychedelic Furs, Morrissey and U2’s Bono, plus a countdown of the top 10 albums by Depeche Mode as voted by Strangeways Radio fans. Watch the whole thing right here.

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  • Cruel World festival moved to September with Morrissey, Bauhaus and more still on board

    Cruel World festival moved to September with Morrissey, Bauhaus and more still on board

    • 18 March 2020
    • Festivals
    • 0 comments

    The Cruel World music festival lives on. Goldenvoice, the event’s promoter, today announced the inaugural Los Angeles-based festival with the ’80s-heavy bill — Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie and Devo — is being moved to Sept. 12 from May 2 over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. Full details right here.

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  • Cruel World festival appears to be postponed indefinitely — but details are scarce

    Cruel World festival appears to be postponed indefinitely — but details are scarce

    • 17 March 2020
    • Festivals
    • 7 comments

    The inaugural Cruel World music festival that boasted a bill topped by ’80s alternative stalwarts Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo and Echo & The Bunnymen appears to have been postponed indefinitely in response to the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, but promoters have barely communicated anything to ticketholders.

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  • New releases: Cocteau Twins, Game Theory, Heaven 17, The Damned, Primitives, Morrissey

    New releases: Cocteau Twins, Game Theory, Heaven 17, The Damned, Primitives, Morrissey

    • 16 March 2020
    • New Releases
    • 1 comment

    This is a round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. May also include some other titles released in recent weeks but not previously featured. This week: Cocteau Twins, Game Theory, Heaven 17 and more.

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  • Echo & The Bunnymen playing 2 California concerts ahead of Cruel World festival

    Echo & The Bunnymen playing 2 California concerts ahead of Cruel World festival

    • 2 March 2020
    • Tour Dates
    • 0 comments

    Echo & The Bunnymen today announced a pair of warm-up concerts in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, Calif., in the days leading up to the band’s appearance at the Morrissey-headlined Cruel World festival outside of Los Angeles in early May. Check out full details right here.

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  • Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: Feb. 15-21, 2020

    Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: Feb. 15-21, 2020

    • 21 February 2020
    • Strangeways Week in Review
    • 0 comments

    Our good friends at Strangeways Radio are putting together a new week-in-review video that will recap the news posted at Slicing Up Eyeballs and on the Strangeways site throughout the preceding week, hosted by Velvet Rebel. News this week about Morrissey, Bauhaus, Midnight Oil, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and more.

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  • Morrissey to play 5-night Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace

    Morrissey to play 5-night Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace

    • 20 February 2020
    • Tour Dates
    • 9 comments

    Morrissey will follow up his poorly selling U.K. dates and a headlining appearance at the Cruel World ’80s alternative extravaganza with a residency in Las Vegas, with five performances scheduled at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in late June and early July. Full dates and details right here.

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  • Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: Feb. 8-14, 2020

    Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: Feb. 8-14, 2020

    • 14 February 2020
    • Strangeways Week in Review
    • 0 comments

    Check out the latest installment right here — this week’s episode covers news about the Morrissey-headlined Cruel World festival, Front 242, Erasure, Bryan Ferry, Clan of Xymox and more. Plus, the episode is shot from the Hard Cafe Vault, where Velvet Rebel shows off memorabilia from Devo, Debbie Harry, The Cure and Morrissey.

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