Video: Death Cab for Cutie’s ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ tribute to John Hughes
Tweet In what’s likley to be a staple of this year’s awards season, tonight’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards in Los Angeles featured a tribute to […]
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808 State’s ‘Ninety,’ ‘ex:el,’ ‘Gorgeous,’ ‘Don Solaris’ re-reissued with ‘restored’ artwork
Tweet Expanded 2CD reissues of Manchester acid-house outfit 808 State’s second, third and fourth albums are being re-reissued with “restored” artwork and new packaging under […]
The Cure’s Robert Smith contributes rare solo song to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ soundtrack
Tweet Robert Smith, iconic frontman of The Cure, will make a rare solo appearance on the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s live-action “Alice in Wonderland” later […]
Reunited Dead Milkmen preparing to record first new studio album in 15 years
Tweet Beloved Philly punk-jokesters The Dead Milkmen — who reunited in late 2008 and went on to play a handful of concerts last year — […]
Video: Elvis Costello and Ron Sexsmith play ‘Everyday I Write the Book’ on ‘Spectacle’
Tweet We caught up on a few TiVo’d episodes of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…” this weekend at Slicing Up Eyeballs World HQ, and while it’s […]
Vintage Video: Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper’s ‘Elvis Is Everywhere,’ on the King’s birthday
Tweet Being that today is Elvis Presley’s birthday — the King would have been 75 if he’d lived — it seems only fitting to resurrect […]
Video: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch sings ‘Killing Moon’ on East Village Radio
Tweet Although Echo & The Bunnymens’ fall U.S. tour still hasn’t been rescheduled after being scuttled over IRS issues, frontman Ian McCulloch did devote a […]
Alternate take of The Smiths’ ‘Girl Afraid’ surfaces on rare ‘Hatful of Hollow’ cassette
Tweet A previously unheard alternate take of The Smiths’ 1984 B-side “Girl Afraid” has surfaced on a just-discovered Rough Trade Records reference cassette of the […]
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe turns 50 today
Tweet Today marks a milestone in the history of college rock: R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, in many ways the mumbly voice of ’80 indie and […]
Big Country to release ‘Peace In Our Time: Live In Moscow 1988’ CD/DVD package
Tweet Scottish rockers Big Country this month commemorate their groundbreaking late-’80s concert behind the Iron Curtain with the archival CD/DVD package Peace In Our Time: […]
Hoodoo Gurus’ 9th album, ‘Purity of Essence,’ due in March; watch ‘Crackin’ Up’ video
Tweet Aussie guitar-rock heroes Hoodoo Gurus this spring will release Purity of Essence — the band’s ninth studio album and first under a new deal […]
Vintage Video: U2 rings out the 1980s with New Year’s gig at Dublin’s Point Depot
Tweet For a lot of us, the go-to New Year’s song is, somewhat unimaginatively, U2’s “New Year’s Day.” Yet while I’ve always associated U2 with […]
Video: Trailer for ‘Fix: The Ministry Movie’
Tweet Al Jourgensen may be hard at work on a purported synthpop album (and recording Christmas songs), but he’s not quite done with Ministry, the […]
