Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday: ARTIST: R.E.M. RELEASE: Reckoning: Deluxe Edition BACKSTORY: The second installment in […]

The U.K arm of Rhino Records is poised to issue a CD version of The Smiths’ 7-inch Singles Box that was released late last year […]

No stranger to the two-wheeler, ex-Talking Head David Byrne this fall will publish “Bicycle Diaries,” a 320-page text-and-photo account of his observations gleaned while cycling […]

Reunited 2 Tone ska legends The Specials have announced a second U.K. tour this fall as part of the band’s 30th anniversary celebration — a […]

The hard-rocking Living Colour today announced plans to release its fifth album, The Chair in the Doorway, on Sept. 15, marking the quartet’s second full-length […]

The Pixies’ Frank Black is touring North America next month in two guises: as Black Francis, and with Grand Duchy, the grungy synthpop duo he […]

Details are scarce, but it appears ’80s stalwarts — and John Hughes soundtrack stars — The Psychedelic Furs are plotting a fall club tour of […]

Dormant since 2007, the Pixies tore out of hibernation this weekend with a private gig and festival set in Stockholm and a high-profile slot at […]

  Eighteen years after their first album together, Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey — the heart of ’80 jangle-pop outfit The dB’s — have just […]

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 […]

Manchester legends The Stone Roses are ramping up for the mammoth re-release of their 1989 debut album by reissuing five classic singles on 7-inch and […]

Former Husker Du and Sugar frontman — and occasional electronic-music dabbler — Bob Mould this week announced a brief slate of U.S. tour dates this […]

Sonic Youth marked this week’s release of its new album — Matador Records debut The Eternal — with a number of promotional events, including a […]