Tag: The Three O’Clock

Rain Parade to release “Last Rays of a Dying Sun” — first new album in 38 years — this spring

Rain Parade to release “Last Rays of a Dying Sun” — first new album in 38 years — this spring

Rain Parade, one of the leading lights of the Paisley Underground scene in 1980s Los Angeles, this spring will release Last Rays of a Dying Sun.

David Roback, co-founder of The Rain Parade, Opal and Mazzy Star, dead at 61

David Roback, co-founder of The Rain Parade, Opal and Mazzy Star, dead at 61

David Roback, who helped create the neo-psychedelic Paisley Underground scene of the 1980s through his bands The Rain Parade and Opal before gaining his greatest acclaim alongside Hope Sandoval in Mazzy Star, died Monday, the Los Angeles Times reported. More details right here.

New Game Theory set to feature unreleased music with The Three O’Clock’s Michael Quercio

New Game Theory set to feature unreleased music with The Three O’Clock’s Michael Quercio

Omnivore Recordings this spring will finish its Game Theory reissue campaign by releasing a new collection of almost entirely unreleased material recorded by the jangle-pop outfit’s final lineup in 1989 and 1990, when late frontman Scott Miller brought on board Michael Quercio of the recently broken-up The Three O’Clock.

New releases: Paisley Underground all-stars, plus ‘Lost 80s,’ X, U2, Wire Train, Josef K

New releases: Paisley Underground all-stars, plus ‘Lost 80s,’ X, U2, Wire Train, Josef K

This is 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. Since we missed last week’s round-up, a few that just came out last Friday, too. Includes new/reissued releases from X, U2, Wire Train and more.

Bangles, Three O’Clock, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade team up for California shows

Bangles, Three O’Clock, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade team up for California shows

After nearly 30 years, a full-blown reunion of the Paisley Underground will take place this December in California as four of the scene’s key acts — headliners The Bangles, plus the newly reunited The Three O’Clock, The Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade — team up for at least two concerts in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

New releases: ‘Scared to Get Happy,’ Lloyd Cole, Poltergeist, Jane’s Addiction, Midge Ure

New releases: ‘Scared to Get Happy,’ Lloyd Cole, Poltergeist, Jane’s Addiction, Midge Ure

This week’s new releases include the ‘Scared To Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989’ box set, new albums from Lloyd Cole and Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant, live albums from Jane’s Addiction and Midge Ure, a new Three O’Clock compilation and Teardrop Explodes, Devo and Primitives reissues.

Video: The Three O’Clock plays ‘With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend’ live on ‘Conan’

Video: The Three O’Clock plays ‘With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend’ live on ‘Conan’

The reunion of The Three O’Clock hit national TV last night, as the Paisley Underground favorites stopped by “Conan” to perform their 1982 classic “With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend” in advance of the band’s appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this weekend and next.

The Three O’Clock to release new compilation with 10 unreleased tracks, play ‘Conan’

The Three O’Clock to release new compilation with 10 unreleased tracks, play ‘Conan’

The Three O’Clock will celebrate their current reunion with a brand-new compilation album this summer — The Hidden World Revealed, featuring 10 previously unreleased tracks — and with a performance on “Conan” tonight ahead of the band’s appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Contest: Win tickets to see The Three O’Clock at The Glass House in Pomona, Calif.

Contest: Win tickets to see The Three O’Clock at The Glass House in Pomona, Calif.

The Three O’Clock will warm up for their twin appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival next month with an intimate club gig at The Glass House in Pomona, Calif., on April 6 — and the fine folks there have given us four pairs of tickets to give away to lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

The Three O’Clock add L.A.-area, San Francisco club dates to Coachella reunion

The Three O’Clock add L.A.-area, San Francisco club dates to Coachella reunion

Paisley Underground standard-bearers The Three O’Clock will prepare for their Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival reunion this April with a far more intimate warm-up gig in Pomona, Calif. — part of the mammoth music fest’s slate Los Angeles-area concerts taking place before and between the event’s twin weekends.

Coachella 2013: The Stone Roses, New Order, OMD, Nick Cave, Johnny Marr, Blur and more

Coachella 2013: The Stone Roses, New Order, OMD, Nick Cave, Johnny Marr, Blur and more

The original lineup of The Stone Roses will makes its U.S. debut at April’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, joining headliners Blur, Phoenix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, plus a bill that also includes New Order, OMD, both Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Johnny Marr and more.