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New releases: Elvis Costello’s 1978 ‘Live at Hollywood High,’ Nick Cave’s ‘The Road’

New releases: Elvis Costello’s 1978 ‘Live at Hollywood High,’ Nick Cave’s ‘The Road’

Tweet Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, reissues and/or box sets. ARTIST: Elvis Costello RELEASES: Live at Hollywood High BACKSTORY: The 20-song […]

Pet Shop Boys to release ‘Pandemonium’ live CD and concert DVD in February

Pet Shop Boys to release ‘Pandemonium’ live CD and concert DVD in February

Tweet The Pet Shop Boys next month will commemorate their Pandemonium world tour with the release of a live CD/DVD package that captures the trek’s […]

Video: Elvis Costello and Ron Sexsmith play ‘Everyday I Write the Book’ on ‘Spectacle’

Video: Elvis Costello and Ron Sexsmith play ‘Everyday I Write the Book’ on ‘Spectacle’

Tweet We caught up on a few TiVo’d episodes of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…” this weekend at Slicing Up Eyeballs World HQ, and while it’s […]

Pixies’ Black Francis prepping ‘NonStopErotik’ solo album, 2nd Grand Duchy record

Pixies’ Black Francis prepping ‘NonStopErotik’ solo album, 2nd Grand Duchy record

Tweet Six years into the Pixies’ reunion, the band still hasn’t delivered a new album — yet frontman Black Francis has been madly prolific, and […]

Shocker: My Bloody Valentine ‘Loveless,’ ‘Isn’t Anything’ reissues delayed. Again

Tweet To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the reissues of My Bloody Valentine’s two albums — 1988’s Isn’t Anything and 1991’s Loveless — have been pushed back […]

Vintage Video: Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper’s ‘Elvis Is Everywhere,’ on the King’s birthday

Vintage Video: Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper’s ‘Elvis Is Everywhere,’ on the King’s birthday

Tweet Being that today is Elvis Presley’s birthday — the King would have been 75 if he’d lived — it seems only fitting to resurrect […]

Expanded reissues of Buzzcocks’ first three albums to be released in U.S. next month

Expanded reissues of Buzzcocks’ first three albums to be released in U.S. next month

Tweet The expanded 2CD reissues of the Buzzcocks’ first three albums — Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978), Love Bites (1978) and A Different […]

Video: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch sings ‘Killing Moon’ on East Village Radio

Video: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch sings ‘Killing Moon’ on East Village Radio

Tweet Although Echo & The Bunnymens’ fall U.S. tour still hasn’t been rescheduled after being scuttled over IRS issues, frontman Ian McCulloch did devote a […]

Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Steven Severin brings ‘Music for Silents’ concerts to U.S.

Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Steven Severin brings ‘Music for Silents’ concerts to U.S.

Tweet Former Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist Steven Severin will embark on a rare but brief U.S. tour this month to perform his electronic scores […]

Reissue of Duran Duran spinoff Arcadia’s ‘So Red the Rose’ delayed until April

Reissue of Duran Duran spinoff Arcadia’s ‘So Red the Rose’ delayed until April

Tweet The expanded 2CD/1DVD reissue of the lone album from mid-’80s Duran Duran spinoff Arcadia has been pushed back two months so it follows the […]

Alan Wilder’s Recoil to release ‘Selected’ best-of, tour U.S. and Europe in spring

Alan Wilder’s Recoil to release ‘Selected’ best-of, tour U.S. and Europe in spring

Tweet Electronic act Recoil — aka former Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder — will release a new best-of compilation called Selected in single- and double-disc […]

Alternate take of The Smiths’ ‘Girl Afraid’ surfaces on rare ‘Hatful of Hollow’ cassette

Alternate take of The Smiths’ ‘Girl Afraid’ surfaces on rare ‘Hatful of Hollow’ cassette

Tweet A previously unheard alternate take of The Smiths’ 1984 B-side “Girl Afraid” has surfaced on a just-discovered Rough Trade Records reference cassette of the […]

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe turns 50 today

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe turns 50 today

Tweet Today marks a milestone in the history of college rock: R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, in many ways the mumbly voice of ’80 indie and […]