The short career of enigmatic Liverpool indie-pop act The La’s will be celebrated this spring with Callin’ All, a four-disc, 91-track box set that compiles singles, b-sides, unreleased outtakes and live material — and no fewer than six versions of ‘There She Goes,’ the band’s signature tune.

Peter Hook last night christened his new Manchester club FAC251 — housed in the former headquarters of Factory Records — with members of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays helping perform a career-spanning set that included the live debuts of an unfinished Joy Division song and a New Order outtake.

[tweetmeme]For music fans of a certain stripe, Christmas — and its Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping splurges — is a great time of year: It’s when you get the people you love to buy you those pricey multi-disc box sets you couldn’t quite cough up for yourself during the year. Here at Slicing Up [...]

Turns out Peter Hook’s Freebass may not be the only Stone Roses/Smiths collaboration afoot: Ex-Roses vocalist Ian Brown this week told the BBC he’s planning to write and record an album with Johnny Marr, the Smiths’ erstwhile guitarist.
According to Brown, he and Marr hope to write soundtrack music for a friend’s in-the-works TV series: “The [...]

Former New Order bassist Peter Hook’s long-gestating Freebass project — which also features the four-stringed talents of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke and Gary “Mani” Mounfield of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream — is poised to release its debut EP, dubbed Two Worlds Collide.
The four-track collection will be released “soon” by Hook’s just-launched — and [...]

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 [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Prefab Sprout
RELEASE: Let’s Change the World With Music
BACKSTORY: For the reclusive U.K.  sophisti-pop act’s first new album in eight years, bandleader Paddy McAloon delivers the long-lost follow-up to 1990’s Jordan: The Comeback. The new album, however, does [...]

 
The Stone Roses last week marked the 20th anniversary of the band’s classic debut — arguably one of the best British albums of all time — by reissuing 1989’s The Stone Roses in multiple formats. To mark the occasion, we’ve rounded up some of the extensive press coverage of this undoubtedly historic event, including reviews [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: The Stone Roses
RELEASE: The Stone Roses
BACKSTORY: The U.S. editions of the 20th anniversary reissue of the Roses’ debut have been pushed to Sept. 8, but the album is out this week in the U.K. in four formats: a single-disc “Special [...]

With Peter Hook having acrimoniously split from New Order, the rest of the legendary synthrock act has enlisted Blur bassist Alex James for a new project dubbed Bad Lieutenant.
The BBC reports the new band — featuring Joy Division/New Order members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, along with late-era New Order guitarist Phil Cunningham and singer-guitarist [...]