Archive for June, 2009

The members of Sonic Youth will play DJ each night next week when the band hosts a show on Sirius XMU, the indie-rock station on Sirius XM satellite radio.
“The Sonic Youth Show” will air from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern Monday, July 6, through Friday, July 10, on XM channel 43 and Sirius channel 26.
According [...]

The reunited Pixies will celebrate the 20th anniversary of 1989’s Doolittle by playing their classic sophomore album in its entirety at 11 European concerts in October, the band announced today.
The fall run, which includes four nights in London and a pair of shows in Dublin (see full tour dates below), will see the group tackle [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: Nouvelle Vague
RELEASE: NV3
BACKSTORY: The French collective, which specializes in bossa nova-styled New Wave and postpunk covers, has given its third record has a decidedly country flair. For the first time, the group duets with the original artists, with Depeche Mode’s Martin [...]

Boozy Celtic punk act The Pogues — including once-ousted frontman Shane MacGowan and his new teeth — will embark on a 12-date tour of the U.S. this October plus play the Voodoo Experience rock festival in New Orleans on Nov. 1.
The Pogues, who have been playing sporadically since first reuniting in 2001, will hit the [...]

R.E.M. next month will give fans a preview of its forthcoming 2CD Live at the Olympia with a digital EP called Reckoning Songs From the Olympia that collects four songs from the just-reissued Reckoning that the band performed during its 2007 “Dublin Working Rehearsals.”
To be released on iTunes and other digital services July 7, the [...]

Marking the release of its second post-reunion album, Farm, this week, Dinosaur Jr appeared on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on Thursday to perform “Pieces.”

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Word of a planned Sonic Youth box set emerged this week when Beck let slip that he’ll be  covering the band’s 1986 album EVOL in its entirety — on cassette, no less — for the project.
Sonic Youth, which just released its 16th studio album, The Eternal, hasn’t announced plans for a box set. But Beck [...]

(We take a short break from our regularly scheduled programming to honor the passing of a true music legend, a man who, despite leading a deeply troubled life, forever changed the face of music. Even for those of us who spent much of the ’80s seeking out alternatives to Top 40 pop, it’s still hard [...]

Rhino Records today released a digital version of its four-disc Factory Records: Communications 1978-92 box set via iTunes, collecting 63 tracks — spanning Joy Division to the Happy Mondays — from the famed Manchester record label.
The set initially was released on limited-edition CD in the U.K. this past January; in the U.S., it only will [...]

With its new album, Farm, hitting stores today, Dinosaur Jr has announced a nearly two-month, coast-to-coast North American tour that runs from the end of September through late November.
The classic indie-rock act — featuring original members J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph — will play a pair of shows in New York and Massachusetts [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: R.E.M.
RELEASE: Reckoning: Deluxe Edition
BACKSTORY: The second installment in the band’s 2CD reissue series features the classic 1984 album on one disc, and a 16-track bonus disc that includes  a concert recorded July 7, 1984, at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom, featuring live performances [...]

The U.K arm of Rhino Records is poised to issue a CD version of The Smiths’ 7-inch Singles Box that was released late last year — and it’ll feature 14 more tracks than the vinyl edition.
That’s because the 12-CD set — due out June 29 in the U.K. — uses, for the most part, the [...]