Category: Album News

Meat Puppets set spring tour to coincide with new CD, ‘Sewn Together’

Meat Puppets set spring tour to coincide with new CD, ‘Sewn Together’

Now three years into their second reunion, the Kirkwood brothers this week announced a new spate of Meat Puppets dates to coincide with the May […]

Elvis Costello reteams with T Bone Burnett for ‘Secret’ new Americana record

Elvis Costello reteams with T Bone Burnett for ‘Secret’ new Americana record

Angry older man Elvis Costello follows up 2008’s quick-turn Momofuku by reteaming with T Bone Burnett, who worked with the rocker on 1986’s King of […]

In stores Tuesday: Pet Shop Boys import, new KMFDM, Dukes of Stratosphear reissues

In stores Tuesday: Pet Shop Boys import, new KMFDM, Dukes of Stratosphear reissues

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday: ARTIST: Pet Shop Boys ALBUM: Yes BACKSTORY: PSB’s 10th studio album […]

Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails offer free Trent Reznor-produced EP for download

Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails offer free Trent Reznor-produced EP for download

Continuing its new retro-’80s bent, the recently re-reunited Jane’s Addiction on Friday issued its first new recordings since 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual to feature […]

Kim Deal covers Bob Marley for new Breeders ‘Fate to Fatal’ EP

Kim Deal covers Bob Marley for new Breeders ‘Fate to Fatal’ EP

News surfaced this week that The Breeders — the side project Pixies bassist Kim Deal launched in 1988 — will self-release a four-track EP called […]

Johnny Marr interviews Pet Shop Boys

Johnny Marr interviews Pet Shop Boys

Today’s London Observer features an interview of the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe by Johnny Marr, who’s played on a number of […]

Sonic Youth previews ‘The Eternal’ with 2½-minute mash-up

Sonic Youth previews ‘The Eternal’ with 2½-minute mash-up

Now that Sonic Youth has freed itself from the shackles of major-labeldom, what publication does the band offer an exclusive preview of its forthcoming Matador […]

The House of Love releasing ‘Live at the BBC’

The House of Love releasing ‘Live at the BBC’

Seminal Creation Records act The House of Love issues a new archival release next week: Live at the BBC, due out Monday in the U.K. […]

Depeche Mode debuts creepy ‘Wrong’ video, unveils iTunes Pass details

Depeche Mode debuts creepy ‘Wrong’ video, unveils iTunes Pass details

With its 12th album, Sounds of the Universe, due April 21, Depeche Mode continued with its pre-release build-up this week, debuting a seriously creepy video […]

Dinosaur Jr prepping new album, tour

Dinosaur Jr prepping new album, tour

Despite the frosty history between seemingly catatonic guitar god J Mascis and the decidedly more emo Lou Barlow, the reunion of Dinosaur Jr’s classic ’80s […]

Depeche Mode announces U.S. ‘Sounds of the Universe’ tour dates

Depeche Mode announces U.S. ‘Sounds of the Universe’ tour dates

Electro pioneers Depeche Mode this week unfurled the dates and cities — but not the venues — for the North American leg of its grandiosely […]

Tracklist, cover art revealed for Sonic Youth’s ‘The Eternal’

Tracklist, cover art revealed for Sonic Youth’s ‘The Eternal’

After spending nearly two decades signed to a major label, New York noise-rock legends Sonic Youth are back where they were circa 1986: on an […]