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Happy birthday Leon Theremin (inventor of the, uh, theremin). You led a long, interesting life, music comrade—even though you helped the KGB spy on us. (Asshole.) Read the Big Pink and Dr. Dog in MAGNET on homemade theremins: The post Happy Birthday Leon Theremin appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Members of The Call have assembled in a California recording studio to finish unreleased material from the band's vaults for an album called The Lost Tapes. The post Members of The Call finishing unreleased recordings to be issued as “The Lost Tapes” appeared first on Slicing Up Eyeballs.  » Read More

Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck seemingly have been joined at the musical hip since McCaughey started his tenure as a R.E.M. sideman in the mid-'90s. The post Listen: Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck cover Kevn Kinney’s “MacDougal Blues” appeared first on Slicing Up Eyeballs.  » Read More

This week's new releases include an expanded vinyl reissue of Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense," plus reissues of music by Joe Strummer, Erasure, Ministry and more. The post New releases: “Stop Making Sense,” Sonic Youth, PiL, Joe Strummer, Ministry, Erasure + more appeared first on Slicing Up Eyeballs.  » Read More

The Cult’s Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Death Cult with a special one-off U.S. performance in Los Angeles this fall followed by a dozen dates in the U.K. and Ireland. The post Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy to resurrect Death Cult for 40th anniversary concerts appeared first on Slicing Up Eyeballs.  » Read More

Sesame Street muppets Elmo and Abby Cadabby stopped by Australian radio station triple j, where DJ Lucy Smith exposed them to some Australian bands and asked after Oscar The Grouch. “Grouchy as ever,” Elmo said about how Oscar’s doing. “It’s not that he’s angry, he just chooses to be a little bit miserable about everything.”  » Read More

For the past couple weeks, Lorde has been making the rounds at European festivals, with a set list that de-emphasizes her most recent album Solar Power in favor of cuts from her first two LPs. She’s also broken out some new songs at these shows. Though if anyone has hopes for a quick follow-up of Solar Power,  » Read More

The Irish boy band Westlife have announced their first-ever North American tour. The group, which broke up in 2012 and reunited in 2018, will perform four concerts around St. Patrick’s Day next year in Toronto, Boston, New York City, and Chicago.  » Read More

Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy are performing together as Death Cult for the first time in 39 years. Death Cult were a stepping stone between Astbury’s previous band Southern Death Cult and the Cult, and they put out a couple of singles and the 1983 Death Cult EP before adopting a new name.  » Read More