Archive for September, 2009

Sub Pop Records began taking pre-orders today for the 20th anniversary deluxe reissue of Nirvana’s 1989 debut Bleach as Pitchfork offered up the first taste of the set’s extras: an MP3 of “Scoff” recorded live at the Pine Street Theatre in Portland, Ore.
Due out Nov. 3, Bleach: Deluxe Edition will include the original 13-track album [...]

David Bowie’s 2004 concert DVD “A Reality Tour” will be released in remastered audio form on two CDs — with three bonus tracks — early next year by Columbia/Legacy.
The 33-track A Reality Tour is set for release Jan. 26, and will feature the entire DVD tracklist — recorded in November 2003 in Dublin — plus [...]

Turns out Peter Hook’s Freebass may not be the only Stone Roses/Smiths collaboration afoot: Ex-Roses vocalist Ian Brown this week told the BBC he’s planning to write and record an album with Johnny Marr, the Smiths’ erstwhile guitarist.
According to Brown, he and Marr hope to write soundtrack music for a friend’s in-the-works TV series: “The [...]

Retired drummer Bill Berry and bassman Mike Mills jumped onstage last night with Peter Buck and the rest of The Minus 5 for a near-reunion of R.E.M.’s classic lineup in Athens, Ga. — a get-together that could have spawned a full reunion, since Michael Stipe was in the audience at the 40 Watt Club, according [...]

Former New Order bassist Peter Hook’s long-gestating Freebass project — which also features the four-stringed talents of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke and Gary “Mani” Mounfield of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream — is poised to release its debut EP, dubbed Two Worlds Collide.
The four-track collection will be released “soon” by Hook’s just-launched — and [...]

Gary Numan’s appearances at Nine Inch Nails’ final live gigs could lead to a studio collaboration with Trent Reznor, the synthpop pioneer told The Quietus: “I know he wants to carry on doing music things. We went out a few days after (the LA gigs) with a few other people and the way he puts [...]

Former Clash bandmates Mick Jones and Nicky “Topper” Headon recently recorded together for the first time in 27 years as part of a documentary being made about agit-folkie Billy Bragg’s Jail Guitar Doors prisoner-rehabilitation program.
Borrowing the name of the “Clash City Rockers” b-side, Bragg launched Jail Guitar Doors two years ago to help provide [...]

Is Uncle Al going soft? First ex-Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen lets slip plans to record a pop album, and now he’s announcing he’ll release a Christmas song — hey, just like Bob Dylan! — later this year in memory of late Killing Joke/Ministry bassist Paul Raven.
Building up to Tuesday’s release of Revolting Cocks remix disc Sex-O [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Ian Brown
RELEASES: My Way
BACKSTORY: The former Stone Roses singer delivers his sixth solo CD, recorded at Battery Studios, where he and his ex-bandmates recorded their seminal debut 20 years earlier. Brown told the NME that [...]

U2 took a short break from the North American leg of its 360° Tour to return to the “Saturday Night Live” stage last night, performing three songs for broadcast and a fourth for the audience after the Megan Fox-hosted show finished taping. For diehard fans, the highlight had to have been the as-the-credits-roll run [...]