Year: 2013

OMD cancels rest of 2013 concerts after Malcolm Holmes suffers medical emergency

OMD cancels rest of 2013 concerts after Malcolm Holmes suffers medical emergency

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark announced it will cancel the remainder of its North American tour — concerts that had been planned for Detroit, Minneapolis and Chicago — after drummer Malcolm Holmes suffered a medical emergency that forced the band to cut short tonight’s show in Toronto.

Pixies join The Replacements at Riot Fest in Chicago — new lineup's first U.S. date

Pixies join The Replacements at Riot Fest in Chicago — new lineup’s first U.S. date

The Pixies are now set to debut their new Kim Deal-less lineup at Chicago’s Riot Fest this September, joining a bill that includes The Replacements, Blondie, Violent Femmes, Mission of Burma, X, Dinosaur Jr and Peter Hook, among many others. The Pixies were added today alongside Joan Jett, TSOL and Suicidal Tendencies.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Psychedelic Furs submit to the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Psychedelic Furs submit to the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present a “120 X-Ray” segment on The Psychedelic Furs in which Richard Butler and his bandmates discuss the making of their then-new album Book of Days, and their shift back to touring smaller venues. Check out the 3-minute clip, which also features some live footage.

The Dream Syndicate to play Chicago this November — band's second U.S. reunion date

The Dream Syndicate to play Chicago this November — band’s second U.S. reunion date

The Dream Syndicate has been taking this reunion thing a little slowly, only having played one U.S. date since getting back together last fall — an appearance last month at Wilco’s Solid Sound festival in North Adams, Mass. That’s going to change this fall, though, at least for fans in Chicago.

Big Country debuts 'In a Broken Promise Land' video, extends North American tour

Big Country debuts ‘In a Broken Promise Land’ video, extends North American tour

The reconfigured Big Country — with The Alarm’s Mike Peters filling in for late frontman Stuart Adamson — already has been on tour in the U.S. and Canada since early June, and has now extended that summer-long North American trek with dates that run through the month of August.

The Mission teases fans with 'The Brightest Light' album sampler — stream now

The Mission teases fans with ‘The Brightest Light’ album sampler — stream now

Following the announcement this week that The Mission will release its new studio album The Brightest Light this September, the band today has shared a streaming sampler to let fans get short tastes of the album’s 11 songs. The new album is due out Sept. 17 in North America.

Banshees' Steven Severin scoring new animated haunted house doc 'Borley Rectory'

Banshees’ Steven Severin scoring new animated haunted house doc ‘Borley Rectory’

Steven Severin these days devotes himself to making new music for old movies, composing and performing scores for decades-old silent films. Now, though, he’s providing the score to “Borley Rectory,” an animated documentary about the “most famous haunted house in England.”