Category: Album News

Erasure sets fall U.K. tour, announces release date, single for ‘Tomorrow’s World’

Erasure sets fall U.K. tour, announces release date, single for ‘Tomorrow’s World’

Erasure has unveiled a fall tour of the U.K. in support of new album ‘Tomorrow’s World’ — which the band reveals will arrive Oct. 3 in the U.K. and Oct. 4 in the U.K., preceded by first single ‘When I Start to (Break It All Down).’

The Alarm celebrates 30th anniversary with ‘The Sound and The Fury’ album, film

The Alarm celebrates 30th anniversary with ‘The Sound and The Fury’ album, film

Mike Peters is marking the 30th anniversary of The Alarm with ‘The Sound and The Fury,’ a 12-track collection of “brand-new recordings of songs that have been written at various stages throughout (his) songwriting history” that will come with a 90-minute making-of documentary.

Throwing Muses to release ‘Anthology’ best-of with 22-track bonus disc, go on tour

Throwing Muses to release ‘Anthology’ best-of with 22-track bonus disc, go on tour

4AD will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Throwing Muses’ debut with the band’s first-ever compilation, a 21-song set called ‘Anthology’ that will come with, in its initial limited release, a hard-back book and a bonus disc with 22 additional B-sides and rarities.

Dalis Car ‘InGladAloneness’ EP tracklist, cover art revealed — possibly out next month

Dalis Car ‘InGladAloneness’ EP tracklist, cover art revealed — possibly out next month

The second and final release by Dalis Car — recorded by Peter Murphy and a dying Mick Karn last fall — will be a five-track EP titled ‘InGladAloneness’ and out as early as next month.

Throbbing Gristle to release final album ‘Desertshore,’ reissue early records

The surviving members of Throbbing Gristle have relaunched their Industrial Records imprint in order to reissue the bulk of their late-’70s/early-’80s catalog and release the band’s final studio album: a long-in-the-works re-interpretation of Nico’s 1970 record ‘Desertshore.’

U2 preps ‘Achtung Baby,’ ‘Zooropa’ reissues for expanded ZOO TV-era box set this fall

U2 preps ‘Achtung Baby,’ ‘Zooropa’ reissues for expanded ZOO TV-era box set this fall

U2 finally is set to release its long-expected reissue of 1991’s ‘Achtung Baby’ later this year paired with a re-released edition of the band’s 1993 companion album ‘Zooropa’ in a combined ZOO TV-era box set, Rolling Stone reports.

Erasure announces new album ‘Tomorrow’s World,’ sets 25-date North American tour

Erasure today announced the completion of ‘Tomorrow’s World,’ the group’s first new record in four years, which will arrive this fall on Mute Records and be accompanied by a 25-date North American tour.

Tones on Tail ‘Weird Pop’ vinyl best-of to feature rare and unreleased tracks

Tones on Tail ‘Weird Pop’ vinyl best-of to feature rare and unreleased tracks

For a band with just one album and a handful of EPs and singles, Bauhaus spinoff Tones on Tail already has been the subject of more than its share of compilations, and now comes another: ‘Weird Pop,’ a double-vinyl best-of that features at least one previously unreleased cut and several other rarities.

Lou Reed records album with Metallica: ‘Berlin’ meets ‘Master of Puppets’

Lou Reed records album with Metallica: ‘Berlin’ meets ‘Master of Puppets’

No stranger to odd musical detours — whether it be ‘Metal Machine Music’ or his most recent project, ‘Hudson River Wind Meditations’ — the legendary Lou Reed has a particularly unlikely musical partner for his next album: thrash-metal titans Metallica.

Stream: OMD, ‘History of Modern (part I)’ — off forthcoming ‘Live in Berlin’ album

Stream: OMD, ‘History of Modern (part I)’ — off forthcoming ‘Live in Berlin’ album

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark will release a 20-track live album and hardback book called ‘History of Modern Tour: Live in Berlin’ this August to commemorate the group’s rapturously received comeback last year. Stream one of the tracks here.

Free MP3: Gary Numan, ‘The Fall’ — off ‘Dead Son Rising,’ new album due in September

Free MP3: Gary Numan, ‘The Fall’ — off ‘Dead Son Rising,’ new album due in September

Gary Numan is set to release a new album called ‘Dead Son Rising’ this September that will feature ‘a mixture of new songs, instrumental tracks and specially commissioned remixes’ that he will sell exclusively through his website and on a just-announced seven-date U.K. tour.

Free MP3s: Echo & The Bunnymen, ‘Pride’ and ‘Show of Strength’ — off ‘Do It Clean’ live CD

Free MP3s: Echo & The Bunnymen, ‘Pride’ and ‘Show of Strength’ — off ‘Do It Clean’ live CD

Fans of Echo & The Bunnymen can commemorate the band’s recent gigs performing their first two albums — 1980’s ‘Crocodiles’ and 1981’s ‘Heaven Up Here’ — back-to-back with a brand-new live CD called ‘Do It Clean.’

Martin Gore: Techno album with Vince Clarke ‘might not see the light of day for awhile’

Martin Gore and Vince Clarke are finished recording a new all-instrumental dance record and must now mix the project — but Gore warns in a new interview with Billboard.com that ‘even though it probably will be finished quite soon, it might not see the light of day for awhile.’