[tweetmeme]Alan McGee’s legendary Creation Records label — home to such ’80s and ’90s Brit luminaries as The Jesus and Mary Chain (shown above), Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, The House of Love and Oasis — will be the subject of “Upside Down,” a new documentary expected to hit theaters, DVD and television next [...]
22
Nov
2009
‘Upside Down’ documentary to tell story of Alan McGee and Creation Records
Tags: Alan McGee, Bob Mould, Bobby Gillespie, Britpop, Creation Records, Document Productions Ltd., Jim Reid, My Bloody Valentine, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Primal Scream, Sony, Sugar, Teenage Fanclub, The House of Love, The Jesus and Mary Chain
02
Mar
2009
In stores Tuesday: U2, Erasure, Revolting Cocks, Marty Willson-Piper
Tags: Al Jourgensen, Bill Rieflin, Bono, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, David Byrne, Erasure, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Jeremy Wheatley, Live at the BBC, Marty Willson-Piper, Ministry, MySpace, Nightjar, No Line on the Horizon, Peter Buck, Pop! Remixed, R.E.M., RevCo, Revolting Cocks, Robyn Hitchcock, Scott McCaughey, Sex-O Olympic-O, Steve Lillywhite, Talking Heads, Terry Bickers, The Church, The House of Love, U2, Venus 3
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: U2
ALBUM: No Line on the Horizon
FORMAT: CD, LP, download
BACKSTORY: Bono and Co.’s 12th album leaked nearly two weeks ago, prompting the band to stream it on MySpace well before its official release date. The disc finds U2 working with longtime associates [...]
28
Feb
2009
The House of Love releasing ‘Live at the BBC’
Seminal Creation Records act The House of Love issues a new archival release next week: Live at the BBC, due out Monday in the U.K.
The 19-track disc features previously unreleased live cuts culled from four different BBC concert performances recorded in the early ’90s, following founding guitarist Terry Bickers’ departure.
The band’s principals — Guy Chadwick [...]
20
Feb
2009
‘Welcome to the Occupation’
Tags: Alternative Rock, College Rock, Hoodoo Gurus, Indie Rock, Pixies, Slicing Up Eyeballs, Sonic Youth, The Cure, The Godfathers, The House of Love, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Replacements, The Smiths
Welcome to Slicing Up Eyeballs, a site devoted to the past, present and future of ’80s college, indie and modern rock — the bands that set the stage for the post-Nirvana grunge and alternative revolutions.
We’ll be keeping tabs on everyone from The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Cure to Sonic Youth, Pixies [...]
