The House of Love releasing ‘Live at the BBC’
Seminal Creation Records act The House of Love issues a new archival release next week: Live at the BBC, due out Monday in the U.K. […]
Month: February 2009
Depeche Mode debuts creepy ‘Wrong’ video, unveils iTunes Pass details
With its 12th album, Sounds of the Universe, due April 21, Depeche Mode continued with its pre-release build-up this week, debuting a seriously creepy video […]
Sonic Youth’s new book ‘Sensational Fix’ to include 4 unreleased tracks on vinyl
Nearly overlooked amid the buzz surrounding Sonic Youth’s forthcoming, back-to-the-indies album is the band’s hefty new book, which is due to be published next week. […]
Pylon’s Randy Bewley, 1955-2009
This week saw the passing of Randy Bewley, guitarist for Pylon, early-’80s Athens, Ga., post-punk contemporaries of R.E.M. and the B-52’s. Bewley, 53, suffered a […]
Dinosaur Jr prepping new album, tour
Despite the frosty history between seemingly catatonic guitar god J Mascis and the decidedly more emo Lou Barlow, the reunion of Dinosaur Jr’s classic ’80s […]
The Cure warming up for Coachella with theater gig at Las Vegas’ Palms Casino
For those of you who’d rather see The Cure in a (relatively) intimate club rather than standing in a field with 50,000 other people, here’s […]
Midnight Oil reunites for Australian bushfire benefit, warm-up gigs
Aussie rockers Midnight Oil never were known to shy away from important causes, and that’s exactly what it’s taken to get the band back together […]
Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails summer tour dates leaked
That didn’t take long. Just days after word emerged that the (fully) reunited Jane’s Addiction would tour this summer with Nine Inch Nails, the purported […]
‘XTC As…’: Re-branded Dukes of Stratosphear reissues due in March
The EP and album that XTC’s Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory released under the guise of their psychedelic-pop side project The Dukes of […]
Sirius XM’s 1st Wave to dedicate a week to Robert Smith and The Cure in April
Details are still a bit sketchy, but Sirius XM’s 1st Wave channel — for longtime XM listeners, that’s the watered-down replacement for the late, lamented […]
‘Lost and Then I’m Found’: The Godfathers play U.S. for first time in 20 years
The Godfathers — one of the best, if not most underrated, U.K. rock bands of the 1980s — triumphantly reformed in 2008, and capped the […]
Tommy Stinson on Replacements reunion: ‘I just don’t know if we have it in us’
Despite word last fall that The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson spent a few days jamming in Minneapolis, Stinson tells Billboard.com that it’s unlikely […]
Depeche Mode announces U.S. ‘Sounds of the Universe’ tour dates
Electro pioneers Depeche Mode this week unfurled the dates and cities — but not the venues — for the North American leg of its grandiosely […]
