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Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — expands North American tour

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — expands North American tour

With just a few more show left this month, Poptone — the band featuring Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins that performs a Tones on Tail-heavy set, along with music by Bauhaus and Love and Rockets — has unveiled a new run of North American dates into December. See full dates here.

Watch: Poptone plays Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’ live — plus 20-minute interview with group

Watch: Poptone plays Tones on Tail’s ‘Go!’ live — plus 20-minute interview with group

If you haven’t gotten a chance to see Poptone yet, here’s a great live video of the group performing the Tones on Tail classic “Go!” The clip was put together by Eli Kampero using footage shot at three Los Angeles-area shows in April and May. Plus, see a 20-minute interview with the whole group.

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — announce East Coast dates

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — announce East Coast dates

Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins continue to expand their inaugural U.S. tour as Poptone — which will perform a Tones on Tail-heavy set, along with music by Bauhaus and Love and Rockets — with the addition today of much-anticipated East Coast dates in August.

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — to release live album

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — to release live album

Poptone, the new project that reunites former Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets bandmates Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, today announced plans to release a live album following the group’s inaugural tour — a still-expanding U.S. run of concerts that opens next week in Tempe, Ariz.

Poptone resurrects Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets catalog in live debut — setlist, video

Poptone resurrects Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets catalog in live debut — setlist, video

Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins debuted their new project Poptone on Thursday night with the first of two performances at a Los Angeles studio, playing, as expected, an 18-song set heavy on their short-lived early ’80s post-Bauhaus project Tones on Tail. We’ve got the full setlist and a selection of live video.

Watch: Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash makes new video for 2009 solo rocker ‘Flame On’

Watch: Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash makes new video for 2009 solo rocker ‘Flame On’

When Daniel Ash goes out on tour with Kevin Haskins as Poptone, their set will largely be comprised of songs by their old bands: Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail. But there is one Ash solo track that appears on the leaked Poptone setlist: “Flame On.” Now the song’s got a new video.

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — expands U.S. tour

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — expands U.S. tour

Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins have expanded their maiden U.S. tour as Poptone — which will perform a Tones on Tail-heavy set, along with music by Bauhaus and Love and Rockets — by adding new summer concerts in Utah, Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota and Illinois.

First look at Tones on Tail-heavy setlist from Poptone featuring Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins

First look at Tones on Tail-heavy setlist from Poptone featuring Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins

When news first surfaced last month that Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins have reunited as Poptone to perform the music of their collective back catalog, fans were particularly excited at the prospect of hearing Tones on Tail songs played live — as that band only toured in 1984, and hasn’t reunited like Bauhaus and Love and Rockets.

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — announces first tour dates

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — announces first tour dates

Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins have confirmed the first tour dates for their highly anticipated new project Poptone, which will perform the music of the bandmates’ prior acts Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets at nine concerts in five states in the western U.S. Tickets to the new shows go on sale Friday.

Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins reunite as Poptone, will resurrect old bands’ music on U.S. tour

Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins reunite as Poptone, will resurrect old bands’ music on U.S. tour

Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — who spent large swaths of the ’80s and ’90s performing together in the seminal acts Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets — are reuniting to form a new band called Poptone with Haskins’ daughter Diva that will perform the music of those three classic acts this summer.

Contest: Win a copy of Daniel Ash’s ‘Stripped’ — new album of re-recorded songs

Contest: Win a copy of Daniel Ash’s ‘Stripped’ — new album of re-recorded songs

Last year, Daniel Ash embarked on a crowdfunded recording project to remake songs from his back catalog in new, stripped-down arrangements. The resulting album, Stripped, features re-recordings of some of his favorite tracks — and we’ve now got CD copies to give away to four lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

Check out Daniel Ash’s electro makeover of Love and Rockets’ 1989 hit ‘So Alive’

Check out Daniel Ash’s electro makeover of Love and Rockets’ 1989 hit ‘So Alive’

Daniel Ash has treated fans to the first taste of his forthcoming album Stripped, which will feature re-recorded selections from his catalog with Bauhaus, Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail. And the first track to emerge is Ash’s new electro take on Love and Rockets’ 1989 hit single “So Alive.”

Daniel Ash turns to fans to help fund, select songs for new ‘Stripped’ album

Daniel Ash turns to fans to help fund, select songs for new ‘Stripped’ album

Daniel Ash of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail is turning to his fans to fund his new album Stripped and help select the songs from “the many albums I have been a part of,” a selection of tracks that Ash will then re-record in stripped-down arrangements.