Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Depeche Mode meets MTV contest winner in London — 1991

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Depeche Mode meets MTV contest winner in London — 1991

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we travel back to June 23, 1991, for an episode built around MTV’s “120 Minutes Naked Power Grab” contest, which offered one lucky viewer the chance to be “president” of Mute Records for a week. Here’s 12 minutes of footage from the episode featuring the winner and DM.

Video: New Order plays ‘Love Vigilantes,’ ‘Regret’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’

Video: New Order plays ‘Love Vigilantes,’ ‘Regret’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’

New Order is in the midst of its second short run of U.S. dates this year, and, just as Bernard Sumner did this past spring when they stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the band using the opportunity this time to once again perform on network television. This time the group dropped in on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

Vintage Video: Public Image Ltd. live at ‘Rockpalast’ 1983 — watch full hour-long set

Vintage Video: Public Image Ltd. live at ‘Rockpalast’ 1983 — watch full hour-long set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we bring you the full hour-long performance by Public Image Ltd. on the West German TV show “Rockpalast” in 1983, a 13-song set that recently was released on both CD and DVD — but the folks at the RockpalastOfficial YouTube channel put it online.

Pixies set Los Angeles, New York club runs, debut second video for ‘Bagboy’

Pixies set Los Angeles, New York club runs, debut second video for ‘Bagboy’

The Pixies will debut their new Kim Deal-less lineup with four Los Angeles concerts prior to their appearance at Riot Fest Chicago this September, to be followed by four more small club shows in New York City before the band embarks on a previously announced European tour.

Tears For Fears’ ‘The Hurting’ getting expanded reissue, 4-disc box set in October?

Tears For Fears’ ‘The Hurting’ getting expanded reissue, 4-disc box set in October?

On March 7 of this year — 30 years to the day after the release of The Hurting — Tears For Fears launched a new website bearing that album’s cover photo and an inscription that led some to speculate a long-overdue expanded reissue of that record finally would be released.

Bill Leeb proposes ‘Monsters of Industrial’ tour pairing Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly

Bill Leeb proposes ‘Monsters of Industrial’ tour pairing Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly

Electro-industrial cousins Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly both released brand-new studio albums this year, and Bill Leeb — who launched FLA after leaving Skinny Puppy in 1985 — has a pretty great idea: a North American “Monsters of Industrial” tour featuring both acts.

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 128, aired 7/23/13

Playlist: Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio; Episode 128, aired 7/23/13

This week’s Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour on Strangeways Radio celebrated the Best of 1984, with music from The Alarm, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Husker Du, OMD, Hoodoo Gurus, U2, The Replacements, Echo & The Bunnymen, Midnight Oil, Lloyd Cole and more.

Mick Karn ‘Birthday Download Day’ to honor late Japan and Dalis Car bassist, support family

Mick Karn ‘Birthday Download Day’ to honor late Japan and Dalis Car bassist, support family

Peter Murphy and the Burning Shed label are honoring late Japan and Dalis Car bassist Mick Karn on what would have been his 55th birthday Wednesday with a “Download Day,” urging fans to buy Karn’s music in tribute to musician and to show that there is demand for it as a way of keeping his CDs in print.

New Model Army to release new album ‘Between Dog and Wolf’ in September

New Model Army to release new album ‘Between Dog and Wolf’ in September

New Model Army returns this fall with its 12th studio album and first in four years, a 14-track set dubbed Between Dog and Wolf on which the band debuts its new bassist and of which bandleader Justin Sullivan declares, “Sonically, this is the best album we’ve ever made, whilst creatively it has opened lots of new doors.”

The House of Love to record November concerts in London for live CD/DVD set

The House of Love to record November concerts in London for live CD/DVD set

The House of Love will follow up this year’s brand-new studio album She Paints Words In Red with a live CD/DVD package that will be recorded at a pair of special concerts at a 200-seat club in London this November and released on Cherry Red Records next year, the reunited band recently announced.

Elvis Costello and The Roots debut ‘Walk Us Uptown’ — first single off ‘Wise Up Ghost’

Elvis Costello and The Roots debut ‘Walk Us Uptown’ — first single off ‘Wise Up Ghost’

The unlikely pairing of Elvis Costello and The Roots this week debuted the first fruit of their new collaboration, premiering on Pitchfork the single and lyric video for “Walk Us Uptown,” the first single off the forthcoming Wise Up Ghost. The album is due out Sept. 17 on Blue Note Records.

Midnight Oil quashes reunion talk as band’s longtime manager Gary Morris quits

Midnight Oil quashes reunion talk as band’s longtime manager Gary Morris quits

Just days after manager Gary Morris told Australian media that Midnight Oil had been offered up to $200,000 per show to reunite and tour the U.S., the band has issued a statement saying it had no current plans to reform in the wake of Peter Garrett’s newfound unemployment, and that Morris was resigning his position.

Prefab Sprout returns with new studio album ‘Crimson/Red’ this October

Prefab Sprout returns with new studio album ‘Crimson/Red’ this October

Fans of reclusive songwriting genius Paddy McAloon spent a good part of last month debating the authenticity of a 10-song album called The Devil Came A Calling that mysteriously appeared online June 10, but now the verdict’s in: It is, indeed, a new Prefab Sprout album and it’s due out this fall.