John Lydon with Public Image Ltd.
John Lydon will take the reformed Public Image Ltd. on its first North American tour in 18 years this spring, today announcing a 16-date club tour to follow the band’s performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
[tweetmeme]The expanded 2CD reissues of the Buzzcocks’ first three albums — Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978), Love Bites (1978) and A Different Kind of Tension (1979) — that were released in the U.K. in 2008 will make a belated American appearance next month courtesy of Mute Records.
Due out Feb. 9, the three sets [...]
[tweetmeme]Visa problems have scuttled the debut American concerts by New Order spinoff Bad Lieutenant — including two dates opening for the Pixies in New York and Chicago — the band announced today, just the latest bureaucratic setback for U.K. acts attempting to tour the United States.
The Bernard Sumner-led act posted on its website today that [...]
Punk-era survivors The Damned abruptly scuttled their upcoming U.S. tour today — the eve of the trek’s opening night in Cleveland — citing immigration issues that prevent the band from entering the country.
It’s the second time this year the Damned has scrapped U.S. concerts; in December, the band announced it was canceling its New [...]
John Lydon, ex-Sex Pistol and erstwhile reality TV star, is reactivating the long-dormant Public Image Ltd. for a five-date U.K. tour this December to mark the 30th anniversary of the postpunk band’s classic second album, Metal Box.
The concerts will mark the first PiL performances in 17 years, and, Lydon notes on his Web site, while [...]
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday.
ARTIST: The Farmers
RELEASE: Fulmination
BACKSTORY: The survivors of ’80s cowpunk faves The Beat Farmers have soldiered on despite the deaths of two of their three lead singers (Country Dick Montana in 1995 and Buddy Blue in 2006). Like The Dead, they’ve shortened their [...]
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 [...]
