Category: Album News

Reunited Dead Milkmen preparing to record first new studio album in 15 years

Reunited Dead Milkmen preparing to record first new studio album in 15 years

Tweet Beloved Philly punk-jokesters The Dead Milkmen — who reunited in late 2008 and went on to play a handful of concerts last year — […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The The’s Matt Johnson previews new music with debut ‘Radio Cineola’ broadcast

The The’s Matt Johnson previews new music with debut ‘Radio Cineola’ broadcast

Tweet The The’s Matt Johnson today debuted both a new monthly web broadcast and some brand-new music with the first installment of “Radio Cineola,” which […]

Hoodoo Gurus’ 9th album, ‘Purity of Essence,’ due in March; watch ‘Crackin’ Up’ video

Hoodoo Gurus’ 9th album, ‘Purity of Essence,’ due in March; watch ‘Crackin’ Up’ video

Tweet Aussie guitar-rock heroes Hoodoo Gurus this spring will release Purity of Essence — the band’s ninth studio album and first under a new deal […]

The Church releasing new ‘Operetta’ EP, reissuing ‘Back With Two Beasts,’ ‘Shriek’

The Church releasing new ‘Operetta’ EP, reissuing ‘Back With Two Beasts,’ ‘Shriek’

Tweet Fans of Aussie rock legends The Church have three reasons to do a bit of post-Christmas shopping this week: The band is releasing a […]

Love and Rockets’ Daniel Ash releases 4-track ‘It’s a Burn Out’ solo EP on iTunes

Love and Rockets’ Daniel Ash releases 4-track ‘It’s a Burn Out’ solo EP on iTunes

Tweet Daniel Ash — key player in ’80s darkwave acts Bauhaus, Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail — this month quietly released the four-track […]

U2 ‘Artificial Horizon’ fan club CD features 13 remixes by likes of Trent Reznor, Jacknife Lee

U2 ‘Artificial Horizon’ fan club CD features 13 remixes by likes of Trent Reznor, Jacknife Lee

U2 today announced that its upcoming fan club CD will be titled Artificial Horizon and will feature 13 remixes of the band’s latter-period work by the likes of Trent Rreznor and David Holmes — including some that haven’t been released previously.

Morrissey calls last 3 albums his ‘life’s peaks,’ apologizes for ‘meek disaster’ of ‘Swords’

Morrissey calls last 3 albums his ‘life’s peaks,’ apologizes for ‘meek disaster’ of ‘Swords’

Tweet Morrissey today issued a lengthy and somewhat whiny statement to his fans in which he reflects back on his troubled 2009, addressing, for the […]

The Everybody: Pixies’ Joey Santiago, David Lovering let fans remix debut album ‘Avatar’

The Everybody: Pixies’ Joey Santiago, David Lovering let fans remix debut album ‘Avatar’

Tweet Perhaps tired of waiting for a chance to record a new Pixies album, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering have formed a new […]

Paul Westerberg inks publishing deal with Bug Music for solo work, Replacements catalog

Paul Westerberg inks publishing deal with Bug Music for solo work, Replacements catalog

Tweet Paul Westerberg this week signed a new deal with Bug Music Publishing — which bills itself as the “largest independent contemporary music publisher in […]

Elvis Costello’s ‘Live at Hollywood High,’ 2nd ‘Costello Show’ release, due in January

Elvis Costello’s ‘Live at Hollywood High,’ 2nd ‘Costello Show’ release, due in January

Tweet As promised, the second release in Elvis Costello’s newly launched The Costello Show series of live archival releases will chronicle the singer’s historic June […]