Australian rockers The Church will return to North America in April and May for “An Intimate Space,” a special 30th anniversary tour that will find the band performing unplugged — and running through three decades’ worth of material in reverse chronological order.
27
Dec
2009
The Church releasing new ‘Operetta’ EP, reissuing ‘Back With Two Beasts,’ ‘Shriek’
Tags: Back With Two Beasts, Cactus World News, Frank Kearns, Jeff VanderMeer, Operetta, Shreik: An Afterword, Shriek: Excerpts From the Soundtrack, The Church
[tweetmeme]Fans of Aussie rock legends The Church have three reasons to do a bit of post-Christmas shopping this week: The band is releasing a brand-new EP — featuring a 34-minute jam, no less — and making two of its recent website-only discs available commercially worldwide.
Due out Tuesday, the four-track Operetta EP features material left over [...]
12
May
2009
In stores Tuesday: New studio albums from The Church, Meat Puppets
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: The Church
RELEASE: Untitled #23
BACKSTORY: The classic Australian band’s latest studio album has been available Down Under and online for some time, but it finally gets a U.S. release this week. The band, on its Web site, calls “a haunting, dark, thrilling, [...]
11
Apr
2009
The Church issues new ‘Untitled #23′ album, plots summer tour of U.S.
One of Australia’s greatest and most overlooked musical exports, The Church, this week unveiled the dates of its “So Love May Find Us” tour of the U.S. in June and July.
The American trek follows the release of Untitled #23, a record that the band, on its Web site, calls “a haunting, dark, thrilling, ecstatic, melodic, [...]
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 [...]
