Tweet The first glimpse — and unfortunately, it really was just a glimpse — of John Lydon’s reformed Public Image Ltd. emerged last night when […]

Tweet As promised, New Wave vets Simple Minds and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are teaming up to perform Kraftwerk’s 1978 classic “Neon Lights” during […]

Tweet Eilzabeth Fraser, the reclusive former frontwoman of the Cocteau Twins, recently broke her silence about the fabled dreampop act’s aborted 2005 reunion in what’s […]

Tweet John Lydon confirmed this week that he hopes to mount a more extensive Public Image Ltd. reunion tour next year, and may even record […]

Tweet The enigmatic Matt Johnson appears to be on the verge of releasing the first new The The album in a decade: a score to […]

Tweet Nearly three weeks after playing Doolittle’s “Here Comes Your Man” on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien,” the Pixies brought their U.S. tour to […]

Alan McGee’s legendary Creation Records label — home to such ’80s and ’90s Brit luminaries as The Jesus and Mary Chain (shown above), Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, The House of Love and Oasis — will be the subject of ‘Upside Down,’ a new documentary expected to hit theaters, DVD and television next year.

Tweet Elvis Costello dropped by “The Colbert Report” on Thursday to pimp the new season of his own talk show, “Spectacle,” but since he was […]

Tweet Depeche Mode this week unveiled the fourth video from this year’s Sounds of the Universe, an effects-laden clip for “Fragile Tension,” part of the […]

Tweet There was a bit of a hubub a few weeks ago when the NME reported that  The Clash’s classic 1979 double album London Calling […]

Last month, on the eve of its airing on BBC Four, we offered up a few previews of “Synth Britannia,” the much-buzzed documentary that tracks the rise of British synthpop in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Now, particularly for those fans outside of the U.K. who couldn’t see the broadcast, we’re thrilled to be able to post the entire 90-minute program, which features appearances by Vince Clarke, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan, Neil Tennant and Martin Gore.

Tweet R.E.M. recently set up camp in a Portland, Ore., recording studio to begin work with producer Jacknife Lee on the follow-up to 2008’s back-to-rock […]

Tweet When he’s not working with Modest Mouse, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has been writing and recording with The Cribs, and, on Thursday, Marr and […]