[tweetmeme]The lineup for this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival finally was unveiled today, and, as usual, there are a number of reformed ’80s college rock staples on the bill, including Public Image Ltd., Echo & The Bunnymen, The Specials, Faith No More, Devo and Gary Numan.
The April 16-18 festival, held at the Empire [...]

[tweetmeme]Three rare Bauhaus and Gary Numan + Tubeway Army compilation CDs that were previously available only as bonus discs included in recent reissue packages will be available for individual purchase through Beggars Archive beginning in January for a limited time.
Starting Jan. 4, the archival arm of Beggars Banquet will sell Bauhaus’ Live in the Studio [...]

[tweetmeme]Last month, on the eve of its airing on BBC Four, we offered up a few previews of “Synth Britannia,” the much-buzzed documentary that tracks the rise of British synthpop in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Now, particularly for those fans outside of the U.K. who couldn’t see the broadcast, we’re thrilled to be [...]

[tweetmeme]Beggars Archive this week offered the first details of its forthcoming “Omnibus Edition” reissue of The Fall’s beloved 1985 album This Nation’s Saving Grace, which will be re-released next year as a 3CD set filled out with mixes, outtakes and Peel Sessions tracks.
The imprint — a new series of back-catalog and archival releases from the [...]

Tonight, those of you in the U.K. will be able to watch what looks to be a great new documentary on BBC Four: the 90-minute “Synth Britannia,” which tracks the rise of British synthpop in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The doc features appearances by Vince Clarke, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan, Neil Tennant and [...]

Perhaps ramping up excitement for a possible Gary Numan collaboration, Trent Reznor this week posted a pair of high-quality HD videos on Nine Inch Nails’ site of NIN performing with the synth legend at a July concert in London. Numan, who also appeared at some of NIN’s final live appearances last month, is shown [...]

Gary Numan’s appearances at Nine Inch Nails’ final live gigs could lead to a studio collaboration with Trent Reznor, the synthpop pioneer told The Quietus: “I know he wants to carry on doing music things. We went out a few days after (the LA gigs) with a few other people and the way he puts [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Duran Duran
RELEASES: Rio: Collector’s Edition, Live At Hammersmith ‘82
BACKSTORY: Delayed until next month in the U.S., this week sees the U.K. release of a pair of archival Duran Duran titles: an expanded 2CD reissue of 1982’s [...]

Trent Reznor retired Nine Inch Nails from the concert stage last night in Los Angeles with an epic three-plus-hour, 37-song, guest-filled set at the Wiltern that ended with the frontman alone at his keyboard singing Year Zero’s “In This Twilight.”
Reznor assured fans, however, that he’s not done making music, even under the NIN banner. Early [...]

An apparently recuperating Trent Reznor today rejiggered the final dates of Nine Inch Nails’ sold-out Wave Goodbye farewell club tour after being forced to cancel a second straight Los Angeles show this week due to illness.
Having already postponed last night’s Henry Fonda Theater show, Reznor today moved Saturday’s Wiltern concert to Thursday, declaring that the [...]