Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday: ARTIST: The Screaming Blue Messiahs RELEASES: Gun Shy, Bikini Red BACKSTORY: […]

U2’s The Unforgettable Fire will be remastered and reissued in a “super deluxe” box set this October that will include “B-sides, rare and previously unreleased […]

Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant — the new band featuring a Peter Hook-less New Order — this week announced it will release its debut album, Never […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.” […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]