Tag: The Seer

New releases: Big Country, Rowland S. Howard, Elvis Costello & The Attractions

New releases: Big Country, Rowland S. Howard, Elvis Costello & The Attractions

This week’s new releases include a pair of 2CD reissues from Big Country (‘The Seer,’ ‘Peace In Our Time’) as well as a reissue of late Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard’s second solo album (2009’s ‘Pop Crimes’) and a vinyl reissue of Elvis Costello & The Attractions’ ‘All This Useless Beauty.’

Readers Poll 2012: Best albums of the year

Readers Poll 2012: Best albums of the year

We’re counting down the top 10 albums of 2012 as voted on by Slicing Up Eyeballs readers earlier this month. This list includes albums released this year by Dinosaur Jr, Ultravox, Public Image Ltd., Killing Joke, The Fixx, Pet Shop Boys, members of Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance and more.

New releases: Swans, Nick Cave, Juliana Hatfield, This Mortal Coil, The Distractions

New releases: Swans, Nick Cave, Juliana Hatfield, This Mortal Coil, The Distractions

This week’s new releases include ‘The Seer,’ a new 2CD set from Swans, plus a soundtrack to the film ‘Lawless’ by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, a covers album from Juliana Hatfield, CD reissues of the This Mortal Coil catalog, a collection of synthpop remixes and the first new album in 22 years from Manchester’s The Distractions.

Vintage Video: Big Country on ‘Rockpalast’ in 1986 — watch full 100-minute concert

Vintage Video: Big Country on ‘Rockpalast’ in 1986 — watch full 100-minute concert

For our latest installment of Vintage Video, we turn, yet again, to the fabulous archive of the German TV show ‘Rockpalast,’ this time for a full, 100-minute concert by Big Country that was filmed March 15, 1986, during the band’s tour ahead of the release of its third album, ‘The Seer.’