[tweetmeme]Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, reissues and/or box sets.
ARTIST: Nitzer Ebb
RELEASES: Catalogue, Compilation
BACKSTORY: The five-disc Catalogue collects each of the reunited Nitzer Ebb’s Mute albums — That Total Age (1987), Belief(1989), Showtime(1990), Ebbhead(1991) and Big Hit (1995) — in a picture slipcase, while Compilation is a three-disc best-of/remix set that merges [...]

[tweetmeme]This has been around for some time, but it’s certainly worth sharing for fans who haven’t seen it: The Replacements, in all of their early glory, playing a label showcase put on by Minneapolis’ Twin/Tone Records at the 7th Street Entry on Sept. 5, 1981. The ‘Mats, who had released Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take [...]

Former Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart will hit the road next month for a 17-date North American tour in support of the just-released Hot Wax, his first solo album in a decade.
Hart will open the tour Nov. 5 in Des Moines, Iowa, and crisscross the country — hitting Montreal and Quebec, too — through the [...]

Voyageur Press, the imprint behind the 2007 oral history “The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting,” next year will publish a new book about another Twin Cities-bred pillar of ’80s college rock: Hüsker Dü.
Andrew Earles’ 304-page “Hüsker Dü: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock” is scheduled to be published either May [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Kraftwerk
RELEASES: Autobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans Europe Express, The Man-Machine, Computer World, Techno Pop, The Mix, Tour De France
BACKSTORY: Although the release of its box set The Catalogue has been delayed until Nov. 17, this week still will [...]

As promised, Bob Mould and L.A. noise-punk duo No Age helped close out All Tomorrow’s Parties New York last Sunday night with a set heavy on Hüsker Dü classics, including “Something I Learned Today,” “Makes No Sense At All,” “I Apologize,” “Could You Be the One?” and “New Day Rising” (in addition to some No Age tunes [...]

Former Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart once again steps out from behind the kit on next month’s Hot Wax, his first solo album in a decade, and his third overall.
The nine-track, 30-minute disc — due Oct. 6 on Con D’or Records — was recorded in Montreal and Minneapolis, and features guest spots by members [...]

Noise-rock duo No Age has enlisted Bob Mould to help perform an entire Hüsker Dü album at the second-annual All Tomorrow’s Parties New York, set for Sept. 11-13 in Monticello, N.Y.
Although neither party has revealed which Hüsker album will be played, it won’t be the first time Mould has rocked out with No Age; he [...]

 
Mike Watt himself will be on hand to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Minutemen’s classic Double Nickels on the Dime double album at the Bowery Poetry Club & Cafe in New York City later next week.
The July 25 event will pay tribute to the sprawling, 45-track album, which was released in July 1984 [...]

Former Husker Du and Sugar frontman — and occasional electronic-music dabbler — Bob Mould this week announced a brief slate of U.S. tour dates this October in support of his latest album, Life and Times.
The nine-date trek — which will feature Mould backed by a full band — opens Oct. 7 in Boston and wraps [...]