Category: Concerts

Primal Scream to perform ‘Screamadelica’ live in London for first time this November

Primal Scream to perform ‘Screamadelica’ live in London for first time this November

Primal Scream will perform its 1991 classic Screamadelica— the album that saw the band shed its C86 indie-pop sound in favor of house-influenced, druggy dance-rock — in its entirety for the first time ever Nov. 27 at London’s Olympia.

Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Mudhoney, Iggy & Stooges set for All Tomorrow’s Parties NY

Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Mudhoney, Iggy & Stooges set for All Tomorrow’s Parties NY

Sonic Youth and The Breeders are among the acts announced today for the third installment of All Tomorrow’s Parties New York, set for Labor Day weekend and already featuring full-album performances by Iggy & The Stooges (Raw Power) and Mudhoney (Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles).

Peter Hook debuts unfinished Joy Division song, New Order outtake at FAC251 opening

Peter Hook debuts unfinished Joy Division song, New Order outtake at FAC251 opening

Peter Hook last night christened his new Manchester club FAC251 — housed in the former headquarters of Factory Records — with members of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays helping perform a career-spanning set that included the live debuts of an unfinished Joy Division song and a New Order outtake.

Coachella lineup: Public Image Ltd., Echo & The Bunnymen, The Specials, Faith No More

Coachella lineup: Public Image Ltd., Echo & The Bunnymen, The Specials, Faith No More

Tweet The lineup for this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival finally was unveiled today, and, as usual, there are a number of reformed […]

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 […]

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 […]

Video + setlist: Public Image Ltd. reunites in Birmingham, 1st concert in 17 years

Video + setlist: Public Image Ltd. reunites in Birmingham, 1st concert in 17 years

Tweet John Lydon resurrected Public Image Ltd. last night for its first concert in 17 years as the iconic post-punk band kicked off its seven-date […]

Video: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic sings ‘I Bleed’ with 3/4ths of Pixies at Winston Calling benefit

Video: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic sings ‘I Bleed’ with 3/4ths of Pixies at Winston Calling benefit

Tweet Last night in Los Angeles,  Black Francis hosted a benefit concert called Winston Calling that featured appearances by most of the Pixies — Kim […]

Morrissey postpones Indio, Calif., concert over ‘blown voice’ — 20th cancellation this year

Morrissey postpones Indio, Calif., concert over ‘blown voice’ — 20th cancellation this year

Tweet The increasingly commitment-phobic Morrissey abruptly canceled tonight’s concert in Indio, Calif., without official explanation — bringing the total number of shows Moz has canceled […]

The Replacements’ ‘Let It Be’ subject of 25th anniversary concert in Minneapolis

The Replacements’ ‘Let It Be’ subject of 25th anniversary concert in Minneapolis

Tweet The Replacements’ utterly peerless 1984 album Let It Be will be the subject of a 25th anniversary bash at Minneapolis’ famed First Avenue next […]

Video: Morrissey storms off stage after getting hit in head by drink at Liverpool’s Echo Arena

Tweet Morrissey’s reputation as the world’s most unreliable concert draw remains solidly intact, thanks to incoming reports he walked offstage just one-and-a-half songs into tonight’s […]

Video: Morrissey returns to stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall, 3 nights after collapse

Video: Morrissey returns to stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall, 3 nights after collapse

Three nights after collapsing on stage and being rushed to the hospital, Morrissey resumed his fall European tour tonight at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall […]

Update: Morrissey released from hospital, Monday’s Bournemouth concert postponed

Update: Morrissey released from hospital, Monday’s Bournemouth concert postponed

Morrissey was released from a British hospital today after suffering breathing difficulties and collapsing on stage just one song into his concert Saturday night in […]