Despite proclaiming Swords a ‘meek disaster’ last December, Morrissey has gone ahead and made a music video to promote one of the (best) tracks off his late-2009 b-sides album: ‘Ganglord,’ the flip side to 2006’s ‘The Youngest Was the Most Loved.’

The Smiths’ classic second album, ‘Meat is Murder,’ was released Feb. 14, 1985 — exactly 25 years ago today. To mark the occasion, we’ve assembled live video of nearly every track on the album (”Well I Wonder” being the missing link).

The editor of Smiths Indeed — the classic fanzine published from 1986 to 1989 and sold at The Smiths’ ‘The Queen Is Dead’ shows in the UK — is reprinting the full set of 12 issues in a limited-edition run for the second time.

Esteemed UK publishing house Faber & Faber has posted “An Open Letter to Morrissey” on its blog, imploring the former Smiths singer to not only complete his long-discussed autobiography but let the company publish it — noting that, “History demands it; destiny commands it.”

[tweetmeme]A previously unheard alternate take of The Smiths’ 1984 B-side “Girl Afraid” has surfaced on a just-discovered Rough Trade Records reference cassette of the band’s Hatful of Hollow LP, which suggests a different tracklist originally was planned for the celebrated compilation album.
According to an article in the January issue of the U.K.’s Record Collector magazine, [...]

[tweetmeme]As we start a new year, it’s worth one last look back at 2009, the inaugural year for Slicing Up Eyeballs. This site launched Feb. 20, so we don’t yet have a full year of data — although there were 396 posts during that period. Listed below are the top 10 most-viewed stories of the [...]

[tweetmeme]Morrissey today issued a lengthy and somewhat whiny statement to his fans in which he reflects back on his troubled 2009, addressing, for the first time, his on-stage collapse and the concert two weeks later during which he was pelted in the head with a bottle, as well as apologizing for the performance of his [...]

[tweetmeme]Apparently having regained his voice, the oft-ailing Morrissey dropped by the new “Lopez Tonight” late-night talk show last night to perform “Don’t Make Fun Of Daddy’s Voice,” the “Let Me Kiss You” B-side that appears on the singer’s new compilation, Swords. Moz’s short U.S. tour in support of the B-sides disc wraps up with performances [...]

[tweetmeme]The increasingly commitment-phobic Morrissey abruptly canceled tonight’s concert in Indio, Calif., without official explanation — bringing the total number of shows Moz has canceled or postponed in 2009 to at least 20. And that’s not even counting the two U.K. performances the ex-Smith cut short after first collapsing on stage and then, two weeks later, [...]

[tweetmeme]The early-2000s lineup of Jane’s Addiction — with Chris Chaney manning the bass instead of original member Eric Avery — will end the decade at a relatively tiny club in Aspen, Colo. The band is set to play Dec. 31 at the 450-capacity Belly Up Aspen — for a whopping $265 a ticket. According to [...]