[tweetmeme]This week saw the passing of a key figure in the ’80s and early-’90s industrial-dance scene: Dannie Flesher, co-founder of Chicago’s hugely influential Wax Trax! Records, the label behind such pioneering acts as Ministry, Front 242, KMFDM and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.
Flesher, 58, died Sunday at a care facility in his hometown [...]
13
Jan
2010
Dannie Flesher, co-founder of Chicago’s famed Wax Trax! Records, 1951-2010
Tags: Chris Connelly, Dannie Flesher, Front 242, Greg Kot, JIm Nash, KMFDM, Ministry, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, TVT Records, Waveformless, Wax Trax! Records
28
Sep
2009
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen records Christmas song in memory of Killing Joke’s Paul Raven
Tags: Al Jourgensen, Bob Dylan, Dean Karr, Killing Joke, Mark Gemini Thwaite, Ministry, Mob Research, Paul Raven, Peter Murphy, Pigface, Prong, Revolting Cocks, The Mission UK, Youth
Is Uncle Al going soft? First ex-Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen lets slip plans to record a pop album, and now he’s announcing he’ll release a Christmas song — hey, just like Bob Dylan! — later this year in memory of late Killing Joke/Ministry bassist Paul Raven.
Building up to Tuesday’s release of Revolting Cocks remix disc Sex-O [...]
27
Sep
2009
New releases: Ian Brown’s ‘My Way,’ Mark Mulcahy tribute, Elvis Costello’s ‘El Mocambo’
Tags: 7 Worlds Collide, Crowded House, Dead Can Dance, Elvis Costello, Ian Brown, Johnny Marr, Mark Mulcahy, Melvins, Miracle Legion, Neil Finn, Radiohead, Revolting Cocks, Split Enz, The Stone Roses, Wilco
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Ian Brown
RELEASES: My Way
BACKSTORY: The former Stone Roses singer delivers his sixth solo CD, recorded at Battery Studios, where he and his ex-bandmates recorded their seminal debut 20 years earlier. Brown told the NME that [...]
23
Sep
2009
Al Jourgensen goes pop? Ex-Ministry frontman threatens to make ’80s synthpop album
Tags: Al Jourgensen, Fad Gadget, Mark Gemini Thwaite, Ministry, Peter Murphy, Revolting Cocks, The Mission UK, The The, With Sympathy
With Ministry now over and a bunch of ringers currently out on the road as the Revolting Cocks, industrial godfather Al Jourgensen is threatening to go back to his much-derided roots and do the near-unthinkable: record a pop album.
In an interview last week with VampiresFreaks.com to promote the RevCo tour, Jourgensen claims he is working [...]
29
Aug
2009
Revolting Cocks map first headlining tour in 20 years — but without Al Jourgensen
Tags: Al Jourgensen, Clayton Worbeck, Josh Bradford, LuBriCaTouR, Ministry, RevCo, Revolting Cocks, Sin Quirin
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen this week announced his spin-off band Revolting Cocks will mount its first headlining tour in two decades this fall — although that’s really just in name only, since Jourgensen’s no longer even in the band, which is comprised of all new touring members.
Formed in 1983, Jourgensen’s RevCo long as been a sort [...]
02
Mar
2009
In stores Tuesday: U2, Erasure, Revolting Cocks, Marty Willson-Piper
Tags: Al Jourgensen, Bill Rieflin, Bono, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, David Byrne, Erasure, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Jeremy Wheatley, Live at the BBC, Marty Willson-Piper, Ministry, MySpace, Nightjar, No Line on the Horizon, Peter Buck, Pop! Remixed, R.E.M., RevCo, Revolting Cocks, Robyn Hitchcock, Scott McCaughey, Sex-O Olympic-O, Steve Lillywhite, Talking Heads, Terry Bickers, The Church, The House of Love, U2, Venus 3
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: U2
ALBUM: No Line on the Horizon
FORMAT: CD, LP, download
BACKSTORY: Bono and Co.’s 12th album leaked nearly two weeks ago, prompting the band to stream it on MySpace well before its official release date. The disc finds U2 working with longtime associates [...]
