Tag: Echo and the Bunnymen

Catching up with Depeche Mode… and Paul Westerberg, Duran Duran, Echo & Bunnymen

Catching up with Depeche Mode… and Paul Westerberg, Duran Duran, Echo & Bunnymen

Round-up of headlines from last week while we were on vacation, including news about Paul Westerberg, Echo & The Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Talking Heads’ Christ Frantz, Duran Duran and more.

‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ soundtrack features New Order, Replacements, Echo & Bunnymen

‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ soundtrack features New Order, Replacements, Echo & Bunnymen

Out March 23, the soundtrack to ‘Hot Tube Time Machine’ features such ’80s film staples as Echo & The Bunnymen’s ‘Bring On the Dancing Horses’ and New Order’s ‘Bizarre Love Triangle,’ plus tracks by The Replacements (‘I Will Dare’), INXS (‘What You Need’) and The English Beat (‘Save it For Later’).

Echo & The Bunnymen set 10-date North American tour to follow Coachella

Echo & The Bunnymen set 10-date North American tour to follow Coachella

Echo & The Bunnymen today unveiled a 10-date North American tour in April and May that will follow the band’s appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival — a run of dates that serves as a make-up for the November trek derailed by the group’s much-publicized IRS issues.

Echo & The Bunnymen’s post-Coachella tour taking shape with Reno, SF, NYC dates

Echo & The Bunnymen are set to unveil a “large” post-Coachella tour of the U.S. next week, although several dates — April 18 in Reno, April 19 in San Francisco and May 1 in New York City — already have emerged.

Guitar cam: Watch Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant play ‘Seven Seas’

Guitar cam: Watch Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant play ‘Seven Seas’

In this clip, Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant has attached a Flip Mino HD camera to the necks of his 12-string Vox Teardrop while playing the band’s 1984 single “Seven Seas” in what appears to be an Ian McCulloch-less soundcheck or rehearsal.

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 […]

Video: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch sings ‘Killing Moon’ on East Village Radio

Video: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch sings ‘Killing Moon’ on East Village Radio

Tweet Although Echo & The Bunnymens’ fall U.S. tour still hasn’t been rescheduled after being scuttled over IRS issues, frontman Ian McCulloch did devote a […]

Elizabeth Fraser breaks silence about aborted Cocteau Twins reunion, releases new single

Elizabeth Fraser breaks silence about aborted Cocteau Twins reunion, releases new single

Tweet Eilzabeth Fraser, the reclusive former frontwoman of the Cocteau Twins, recently broke her silence about the fabled dreampop act’s aborted 2005 reunion in what’s […]

Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant cancels debut U.S. concerts over immigration issues

Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant cancels debut U.S. concerts over immigration issues

Tweet Visa problems have scuttled the debut American concerts by New Order spinoff Bad Lieutenant — including two dates opening for the Pixies in New […]

Echo & The Bunnymen’s U.S. tour canceled over IRS issues, band to return in 2010

Echo & The Bunnymen’s U.S. tour canceled over IRS issues, band to return in 2010

Tweet Echo & The Bunnymen today announced it was forced to cancel this month’s eight-date American tour “due to unreasonable demands (that have) been presented […]

Video: Echo & The Bunnymen play ‘I Think I Need It Too’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Video: Echo & The Bunnymen play ‘I Think I Need It Too’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Echo & The Bunnymen made room between its three North American Ocean Rain dates to squeeze in an appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last […]

New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Bad Lieutenant CDs; Talking Heads on Blu-ray

New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Bad Lieutenant CDs; Talking Heads on Blu-ray

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday. ARTIST: Echo & The Bunnymen RELEASE: The Fountain BACKSTORY: The […]

Rhino Records gutted by layoffs; future of The Cure’s reissue series in doubt?

Rhino Records gutted by layoffs; future of The Cure’s reissue series in doubt?

Tweet Revered catalog label Rhino Records — which put out the Left of the Dial box set and countless classic college-rock reissues by the likes […]