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  • Superchunk covers The Sisters of Mercy’s ‘Alice’ for new Halloween single

    Superchunk covers The Sisters of Mercy’s ‘Alice’ for new Halloween single

    • 30 October 2020
    • Digital Music, Single News
    • 0 comments

    Indie-rock powerhouse Superchunk has resurrected its Halloween single tradition, today releasing the track “There’s a Ghost” — the band’s first new song in two years — with a cover of The Sisters of Mercy’s 1983 single “Alice” as the B-side. You can hear both right here via Bandcamp.

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  • Hear Ministry’s 2 ‘lost mixes’ of ‘Everyday (Is Halloween)’ and unreleased B-sides

    Hear Ministry’s 2 ‘lost mixes’ of ‘Everyday (Is Halloween)’ and unreleased B-sides

    • 30 October 2020
    • Digital Music, Single News
    • 1 comment

    Cleopatra Records today digitally released two newly unearthed and previously unreleased mixes of Ministry’s classic 1985 single “Everyday (Is Halloween),” along with thepreviously unreleased song “Playground” and an unissued instrumental version of “I See Red.” Hear the whole thing right here.

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  • Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman gets ‘Happy’ with first new solo music in 33 years

    Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman gets ‘Happy’ with first new solo music in 33 years

    • 29 October 2020
    • Digital Music, Single News, Video
    • 5 comments

    Former Oingo Boingo frontman and famed film composer Danny Elfman today debuted his first solo music in 36 years — and first rock music since his band’s 1994 swan song — in the form of “Happy,” a characteristically twisted song he’d meant to debut at his planned performance at this year’s Coachella festival.

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  • Pixies debut new song ‘Hear Me Out’ ahead of release of limited-edition 12-inch single

    Pixies debut new song ‘Hear Me Out’ ahead of release of limited-edition 12-inch single

    • 4 October 2020
    • Single News, Video
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    The Pixies are back with a brand new single, the Paz Lenchantin-sung “Hear Me Out” that is accompanied by the western-themed video posted here and will appear as the A-side of a new limited-edition 12-inch single the band is set to release later this month. Check out the full music video right here.

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  • Ministry unearths 2 ‘lost mixes’ of ‘Everyday (Is Halloween)’ for new 12-inch

    Ministry unearths 2 ‘lost mixes’ of ‘Everyday (Is Halloween)’ for new 12-inch

    • 20 September 2020
    • Single News, Vinyl
    • 8 comments

    Cleopatra Records next month will release a new 12-inch vinyl single featuring a pair of newly unearthed and previously unreleased mixes of Ministry’s classic 1985 single “Everyday (Is Halloween),” with another previously unreleased song on the B-side. Full details and tracklist right here.

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  • Listen: New Order returns with ‘Be a Rebel’ — group’s first new music in 5 years

    Listen: New Order returns with ‘Be a Rebel’ — group’s first new music in 5 years

    • 8 September 2020
    • Digital Music, Single News
    • 10 comments

    New Order today debuted their first new song in five years, the single “Be a Rebel” — you can stream it below — that had been intended to promote the group’s much-anticipated U.S. co-headlining tour with Pet Shop Boys, a trek that’s now been pushed to 2021. Hear the full new song right here.

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  • The Cure’s Robert Smith collaborates with Gorillaz on band’s ‘Song Machine’ series

    The Cure’s Robert Smith collaborates with Gorillaz on band’s ‘Song Machine’ series

    • 7 September 2020
    • Digital Music, Single News
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    The rumored appearance by The Cure’s Robert Smith on the next installment of Gorillaz’s “Song Machine” series was confirmed by the group on Twitter today, though it’s not yet clear when the song — the sixth episode in the series — will arrive. More information on the project right here.

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  • New Order to release first new single in 5 years; ‘Substance’ back on streaming services

    New Order to release first new single in 5 years; ‘Substance’ back on streaming services

    • 7 September 2020
    • Digital Music, Single News
    • 2 comments

    After teasing something since last week, New Order today announced it will debut “Be a Rebel,” the group’s first new single in five years, on BBC’s Radio 2 on Tuesday morning, music that comes as the band should have been on a hugely anticipated, but now delayed, U.S. tour with Pet Shop Boys. Hear a sample here.

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  • The Dead Milkmen to release cover of ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’

    The Dead Milkmen to release cover of ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’

    • 11 August 2020
    • Single News
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    The Dead Milkmen this month will release their first new music in three years, a cover of Heaven 17’s classic banned-by-the-BBC debut single “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang,” which will be issued as a transparent-red 7-inch vinyl single and digitally. Full details right here.

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  • Members of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths remake ‘Tower of Strength’ for COVID relief

    Members of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths remake ‘Tower of Strength’ for COVID relief

    • 10 August 2020
    • Causes, Single News
    • 6 comments

    Wayne Hussey has enlisted current and former members of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Cult, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus and The Smiths for an all-star remake of The Mission’s 1988 anthem “Tower of Strength” to benefit “key workers dealing with COVID-19 globally.” Full details right here.

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  • Midnight Oil to release ‘Gadigal Land’ — first new song in 17 years — this week

    Midnight Oil to release ‘Gadigal Land’ — first new song in 17 years — this week

    • 2 August 2020
    • Reunions, Single News
    • 4 comments

    Midnight Oil this week will release the reunited band’s first new music in 17 years, a song called “Gadigal Land” that is the first single to debut from the group’s forthcoming mini-album The Makarrata Project that was recorded in collaboration with “our First Nations friends.” Full details right here.

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