The Cult takes its Love Live Tour back to Europe, adds Arizona festival date

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British hard-rockers The Cult will take their Love Live Tour — during which the band has been performing its 1985 classic ‘Love’ in its entirety — back to Europe this summer for a 14-date run of festivals and theater shows.

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New releases: The Cult’s ‘Love’ reissued, Love and Rockets tribute album

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Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: The Cult
RELEASE: Love: Expanded Edition
BACKSTORY: Beggars Archive releases a two-disc remastered edition of the band’s breakthrough 1985 album, featuring a second disc of B-sides and remixes from the record’s three singles (”She Sells Sanctuary,” “Rain” and “Revolution”). [...]

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The Cult’s ‘Love’ to be reissued in deluxe 4-disc ‘Omnibus’ box set in September

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The Cult is reissuing its 1985 breakthrough album Love in two expanded editions this summer to coincide with its worldwide Love Live Tour, which kicks off in San Diego in August.
On Sept. 7 in Europe and Sept. 8 in the U.S. and Canada, Beggars Banquet will issue Love: Omnibus Edition, a limited-edition four-disc box set [...]

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The Cult to perform 1985’s ‘Love’ on upcoming world tour

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Keeping in tune with the latest in concert fads, longtime UK rockers The Cult will perform their classic 1985 breakthrough Love in its entirety on a just-announced late-summer/fall trek aptly dubbed the Love Live World Tour.
The band —Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, plus assorted sidemen —promises a main set featuring the full album, including fan [...]

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In stores Tuesday: New live, studio albums from reactivated Flipper

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Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: Flipper
RELEASE: Love and Fight
BACKSTORY: After reunited a few years ago, seminal San Francisco punk act Flipper returns this week with not one but two new releases: the band’s first studio album since 1993, Love; and Fight, a live album recorded in [...]

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In stores Tuesday: The Damned reissues, Joy Division live LP

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Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: The Damned
ALBUM: Phantasmagoria, Anything
FORMAT: CD
BACKSTORY: Expanded and remastered double-disc editions of two of the band’s mid-’80s, post-Captain Sensible albums; of the two, Anything is probably better known, mostly for its killer cover of Love’s “Alone Again Or.” Each album contains [...]

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