Tag: The Dead Milkmen

Out this week: Love and Rockets, Josef K, Dead Milkmen, Tears For Fears, Chameleons

Out this week: Love and Rockets, Josef K, Dead Milkmen, Tears For Fears, Chameleons

This week sees the release of an archival Love and Rockets albums and two reissues, a new album by The Dead Milkmen, and reissues of Tears For Fears, Josef K and more.

The Dead Milkmen debut “Philadelphia Femdom” — off upcoming “Quaker City Quiet Pills”

The Dead Milkmen debut “Philadelphia Femdom” — off upcoming “Quaker City Quiet Pills”

The Dead Milkmen this week released the second single off their first new album in nearly a decade, “Philadelphia Femdom,” a song the band calls a “BDSM nightmare.”

Dead Milkmen debut “Grandpa’s Not A Racist (He Just Voted For One)” off upcoming album

Dead Milkmen debut “Grandpa’s Not A Racist (He Just Voted For One)” off upcoming album

The Dead Milkmen are back with their first new album in nearly a decade — Quaker City Quiet Pills — and they’ve just debuted lead-off single.

The Dead Milkmen to release cover of ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’

The Dead Milkmen to release cover of ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’

The Dead Milkmen this month will release their first new music in three years, a cover of Heaven 17’s classic banned-by-the-BBC debut single “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang,” which will be issued as a transparent-red 7-inch vinyl single and digitally. Full details right here.

The Dead Milkmen are making a new album — and answering the big questions in new video series

The Dead Milkmen are making a new album — and answering the big questions in new video series

The Dead Milkmen are back in the studio, working on the band’s first new album in six years and the follow-up to 2017’s Welcome to the End of the World EP. To help bide the time, they’ve also launched a new weekly video series in which they’ll answer “big questions.” Watch the first installment right here.

This week’s new releases: The Dead Milkmen, Alison Moyet, Frankie Goes to Hollywood

This week’s new releases: The Dead Milkmen, Alison Moyet, Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Record Rack: 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. This week’s releases include titles from The Dead Milkmen, Alison Moyet and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Premiere: The Dead Milkmen, ‘Only the Dead Get Off at Kymlinge’ — off upcoming EP

Premiere: The Dead Milkmen, ‘Only the Dead Get Off at Kymlinge’ — off upcoming EP

The Dead Milkmen are back with their first new song in two years, a propulsive rocker about a haunted Swedish train that serves as the first taste of the skewed punk outfit’s Welcome to the End of the World EP — and which we’re thrilled to premiere today at Slicing Up Eyeballs. Stream it here.

Vintage Video: The Dead Milkmen make a mess of ‘Club MTV.’ Wubba, wubba, wubba

Vintage Video: The Dead Milkmen make a mess of ‘Club MTV.’ Wubba, wubba, wubba

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we revisit The Dead Milkmen’s notorious 1988 “performance” of their improbable hit “Punk Rock Girl” on “Club MTV” — which was decidedly not the usual cable-television outlet for such unkempt college radio faves. Watch the whole thing here.

The Dead Milkmen to release new EP ‘Welcome to the End of the World’ this fall

The Dead Milkmen to release new EP ‘Welcome to the End of the World’ this fall

The Dead Milkmen will follow up their 2014 album Pretty Music For Pretty People this fall with a brand new EP titled Welcome to the End of the World, to be released on vinyl and digital formats with 50 percent of all after-tax profits being donated to Girls Rock Philly.

Go in the studio with Dead Milkmen via new ‘Shaking Through’ short film — plus free MP3

Go in the studio with Dead Milkmen via new ‘Shaking Through’ short film — plus free MP3

The Dead Milkmen are offering fans a look inside the recording of their new song “Prisoner’s Cinema” via Weathervane Music’s “Shaking Through” series of short documentaries, which are designed to illuminate the “vision and process of recording music.” Plus, they’re offering a free download of the finished product.

Vintage Audio: Dead Milkmen remake ‘Bitchin’ Camaro’ for WXPN radio promo in 1985

Vintage Audio: Dead Milkmen remake ‘Bitchin’ Camaro’ for WXPN radio promo in 1985

Well, here’s a fun one: The Dead Milkmen today shared a radio promo they recorded in 1985 for the University of Pennsylvania’s WXPN radio station, a re-write of “Bitchin’ Camaro” that announces the show “Yesterday’s Now Music Today” is moving from Sunday nights to weekday afternoon. Check it out here.

The Dead Milkmen to bring ‘Pretty Music for Pretty People’ to West Coast on spring tour

The Dead Milkmen to bring ‘Pretty Music for Pretty People’ to West Coast on spring tour

The Dead Milkmen will head to the West Coast this spring — the important thing here is that we get to the part where you ask them how they’re gonna get there — for a seven-date tour that will take them from Vancover, B.C., down to San Diego playing shows in support of their recently released new album Pretty Music for Pretty People.

The Dead Milkmen return with ‘Pretty Music For Pretty People’ — hear the title track now

The Dead Milkmen return with ‘Pretty Music For Pretty People’ — hear the title track now

After releasing a steady stream of 7-inch singles over the past couple years, The Dead Milkmen return next month with their first new album in three years, a 17-track collection called Pretty Music For Pretty People that, perhaps not surprisingly, contains many of the songs included on those limited-edition 45s.