Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs

Vintage Video: Ministry at First Avenue, 1983 — watch full ‘With Sympathy’-era set

Vintage Video: Ministry at First Avenue, 1983 — watch full ‘With Sympathy’-era set

For this week’s this installment of Vintage Video, we travel back 30 years to a kinder, gentler time, an era before Al Jourgensen discovered speed metal and riddled his face with tattoos and piercings, and was, instead, simply content to rock a sharp hat, sing in a faux British accent and craft some high-grade early-’80s synthpop.

Depeche Mode debuts ‘Should Be Higher’ video as tour arrives in North America

Depeche Mode debuts ‘Should Be Higher’ video as tour arrives in North America

Depeche Mode’s global tour in support of new album Delta Machine opens its 24-date North American leg tonight in Detroit and, to mark the occasion, the band today debuted a live performance video for “Should Be Higher,” which has been expected to be the record’s third single.

Black Francis howls like a madman on this isolated vocal track to Pixies’ ‘Debaser’

Black Francis howls like a madman on this isolated vocal track to Pixies’ ‘Debaser’

Anyone who’s listened to the Pixies’ “Debaser” knows Black Francis sounds fairly deranged on that classic opener to 1989’s Doolittle. But give the isolated vocal track a listen, and, well, as Fluxblog’s Matthew Perpetua notes, the Pixies’ frontman “just sounds like a maniac screaming on the street.”

‘120 Memories’ event in Philadelphia next week to celebrate ‘the era of Kendall’

‘120 Memories’ event in Philadelphia next week to celebrate ‘the era of Kendall’

As frequent visitors to this site know, we like to revisit that classic staple of Sunday night TV, MTV’s “120 Minutes,” each Friday with our weekly 120 Minutes Rewind series. So it’s great to see our friend and fellow aficionado Chris Cummins going a step further, and hosting a live “120 Memories” event in Philadelphia.

Free MP3: The Mission, ‘Sometimes the Brightest Light Comes From the Darkest Place’ (MG-T Mix)

Free MP3: The Mission, ‘Sometimes the Brightest Light Comes From the Darkest Place’ (MG-T Mix)

While they’ve already previewed one song from their upcoming reunion album, The Mission this week released the record’s first official single: “Sometimes the Brightest Light Comes From the Darkest Place,” which is not only available for sale digitally, but it can also be downloaded, for free, in remixed form.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 132, aired 8/20/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 132, aired 8/20/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour celebrates the tunes of 1985, with music from The Jesus and Mary Chain, New Order, The Cure, Kate Bush, The Sisters of Mercy, Simple Minds, The Dead Milkmen, Big Audio Dynamite, The Smiths, The Cult, INXS and more.

A Split-Second to play first U.S. show in 25 years this December in New York City

A Split-Second to play first U.S. show in 25 years this December in New York City

Belgian EBM/New Beat outfit A Split-Second — a member of the hugely influential Wax Trax! Records stable in the late ’80s — will make a rare live appearance in New York City this December in what’s being billed as the group’s first U.S. appearance in about a quarter-century.

The Replacements’ ‘All Shook Down’ to get first U.S. vinyl release on Black Friday

The Replacements’ ‘All Shook Down’ to get first U.S. vinyl release on Black Friday

Record Store Day’s Black Friday spinoff is still a good three months away, but we’re getting our first hint of what’s to come: Namely the first-ever U.S. vinyl release of The Replacements’ final album, 1990’s All Shook Down. As Modern Vinyl points out, Org Music has announced a pair of Black Friday pressings.

Primal Scream returns to the U.S. for 4-date West Coast in support of ‘More Light’

Primal Scream returns to the U.S. for 4-date West Coast in support of ‘More Light’

Bobbie Gillespie will bring Primal Scream back to the West Coast of the U.S. for the first time in four years this October when the band plays four concerts in four California cities — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pomona and Solana Beach — in support its 10th studio album, More Light, which was released earlier this year.

Stream: Tears For Fears gives Arcade Fire’s ‘Ready to Start’ an electro-orchestral makeover

Stream: Tears For Fears gives Arcade Fire’s ‘Ready to Start’ an electro-orchestral makeover

Tears For Fears have reconvened in the studio this summer to record a follow-up to 2004’s Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, and while that’s expected to keep Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith busy for the next few months, they did treat fans today to some new music: a cover of The Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start.”

The Lords of the New Church’s three original albums to be reissued this fall

The Lords of the New Church’s three original albums to be reissued this fall

The three long-out-of-print studio albums released by the original lineup of The Lords of the New Church — the so-called postpunk supergroup that featured frontman Stiv Bators of The Dead Boys and guitarist Brian James of The Damned — between 1982 and 1984 will be reissued on CD this fall.

The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr each to be immortalized via new coffee-table books

The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr each to be immortalized via new coffee-table books

Make room on those coffee tables, college-rock fans: Both The Replacements and Dinosaur Jr will be the subject of new oversized, photo-laden hardback books due to published this November, with the former compiled by the author of the recent ‘Mats oral history, and the latter authorized by the band itself.

Al Jourgensen chronicles “Caddyshack”-like campaign against “thug gang” of raccoons

Al Jourgensen chronicles “Caddyshack”-like campaign against “thug gang” of raccoons

On Friday, Ministry debuted the video for new single “PermaWar,” and while bandleader Al Jourgensen gave the clip a cursory plug on his recently launched Facebook page, he was preoccupied with something far more pressing: a “Caddyshack”-like battle against a “thug gang of asshole raccoons.”