Echo & The Bunnymen today announced a pair of warm-up concerts in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, Calif., in the days leading up to the band’s appearance at the Morrissey-headlined Cruel World festival outside of Los Angeles in early May. Check out full details right here.
Alice Bag, co-founder of the iconic first-generation Los Angeles punk act The Bags, this spring will release her third solo album, a collection called Sister Dynamite that is being described as a return to the “full-throttle punk” that her late-’70s band perfected. Full tour dates and a music video right here.
Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon will embark on her first-ever solo tour this year, performing concerts across Europe and North America this spring and summer in support of her debut album No Home Record, which was released last October. Full dates and details right here.
New Order and Pet Shop Boys today added a second stop at the Hollywood Bowl to their co-headlining “Unity Tour” following a quick sellout of the Los Angeles venue. Tickets for the newly added 12th show of their joint tour, set for Oct. 3, go on sale at 12 p.m. local time Friday, March 6.
The Cure today announced the band’s first live date of 2020, a headlining slot at the Open’er Festival in Poland on the Fourth of July. But don’t expect another summer of European festivals from Robert Smith and Co. The band says this is the only one they’ll play this year. Full details right here.
Paul Weller this week announced plans to release his 15th solo album, a record titled On Sunset, in June, along with a new slate of U.K. tour dates later this year and a promise via his publicists that “North American dates will be announced shortly.” Full details and U.K. tour dates right here.
Another week, another concert announcement: The Bauhaus reunion continues to roll out one show at a time, with the latest being news of a late-September concert in Atlanta. The goth-rock legends — Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, David J — will play the Coca-Cola Roxy on Sept. 23. Full details and such right here.
Electronic-music giants New Order and Pet Shop Boys are teaming up for a co-headlining tour of North America this September and October, an 11-date trek called “The Unity Tour” that will find each act playing full sets and rotating who closes the show each night. Full dates and details right here.
German electronic-music pioneers slash robots Kraftwerk will bring their 3-D show back to North America this summer for an extensive tour, a 27-date trek that will hit both coats, a few dates in Canada and a good number of cities across the United States. Full details right here.
Clan of Xymox has debuted a video for its suitably dark new single “She” — released this month ahead of a planned 2020 studio album — and will return to the U.S. in March for another round of concerts in California and across the southern reaches of the country. Full dates and details right here.
The Pixies have canceled or postponed a run of concerts set to begin this week in Japan and China as concerns grow about the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The cancellation earlier this month of the band’s Chinese dates was linked publicly to the coronoavirus, though the postponement of the Japanese concerts has not.
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