The Dream Syndicate’s long-out-of-print sophomore album ‘Medicine Show’ will be reissued this spring in remastered and expanded form, and to mark the occasion, former frontman Steve Wynn will perform the record and its predecessor, ‘The Days of Wine and Roses,’ in their entirety at a pair of Atlanta concerts.

Universal Music Group is scrapping its Siouxsie and the Banshees reissue program midstream, meaning the band’s’ final four albums — 1987’s Through the Looking Glass 1988’s Peepshow, 1991’s Superstition and 1995’s The Rapture — will not receive expanded re-releases as originally planned, ex-bassist Steven Severin reports.

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).

Revered as an iconic singles band, New Order delivered, with its fifth album “Technique,” what now holds up — alongside 1985’s “Low-Life” — as its strongest front-to-back effort. The album was released on this date in 1989.

[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 [...]

Morrissey is asking fans not to buy a pair of just-announced box sets of his solo 7-inch singles — in addition to recent singles boxes and vinyl reissues of The Smiths’ catalog — because he had no input in them nor, perhaps more importantly, will he make any money off of them.
In a statement to [...]

Rhino Records has set an Aug. 25 release date for its 2CD re-reissues of New Order’s first five albums following last year’s release of mislabeled, poorly mastered editions that apparently included some tracks ripped straight from vinyl — complete with skips, crackles and pops.
The expanded reissues of Movement (1981), Power Corruption and Lies (1983), Low-Life [...]

Rhino Records today released a digital version of its four-disc Factory Records: Communications 1978-92 box set via iTunes, collecting 63 tracks — spanning Joy Division to the Happy Mondays — from the famed Manchester record label.
The set initially was released on limited-edition CD in the U.K. this past January; in the U.S., it only will [...]

The U.K arm of Rhino Records is poised to issue a CD version of The Smiths’ 7-inch Singles Box that was released late last year — and it’ll feature 14 more tracks than the vinyl edition.
That’s because the 12-CD set — due out June 29 in the U.K. — uses, for the most part, the [...]

Epic/Legacy will release an expanded reissue of the 1985 debut from Mick Jones’ terrific post-Clash project, Big Audio Dynamite, on Sept. 8, according to Pause and Play. The 2CD This is Big Audio Dynamite: Legacy Edition will feature a second disc full of b-sides and rarities.
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The next batch of books in the ever-popular 33 1/3 [...]