Sad Lovers & Giants — who’ve earned a strong cult following despite having broken up and re-formed multiple times since debuting in the early ’80s — are in the studio recording what could be their first album in more than a decade, with enough songs currently in the works to comprise “70 percent of an album.”
Filmmakers Michael Santorelli and Laurel Harris recently launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise $50,000 to help fund their documentary “Get Off This: A Film About Music and Perseverance,” which aims to document the life and music of David Lowery, frontman of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker.
Well, this is embarrassing. We’re more than two weeks later with this month’s installment of the Auto Reverse mixtape — two 45-minute sides of music new and vintage from your favorite artists. And, while we’re still using Mixcloud to stream the tape, due to popular demand, it’s downloadable, too — for a limited time.
This week’s new releases include the first new album in 29 years from Visage (‘Hearts and Knives’), plus a new studio LP from Texas, a live CD/DVD set from John Foxx and The Maths, a Section 25 reissue, a new Iggy Pop best-of, and the U.S. release of a Talking Heads vinyl reissue.
Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” featured music from My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Front 242, The Cure, Public Image Ltd., Play Dead, Coil, KMFDM, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Shriekback, Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor, Soiuxsie and the Banshees, The church, Love and Rockets and much, much more.
Welcome to the Week in Rock, where we round up all of the headlines posted on this site over the past week. This week featured posts about The Cult, Public Image Ltd., R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Echo & The Bunnymen, Peter Hook, The Psychedelic Furs, Love and Rockets, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine and more.
Tonight’s “Saturday Night Live” season finale was notable for its final appearances by a number of soon-to-be-former castmembers, including, in all likelihood, Fred Armisen, who reprised his Ian Rubbish punk character with a live band that included Kim Gordon, Steve Jones, J Mascis, Carrie Brownstein, Aimee Mann and more.
Q&A: Daniel Ash on Love and Rockets’ reunion, his new band — and figuring out how to play “So Alive” 
Q&A: Chris Frantz talks Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and new book ‘Remain in Love’ 
Q&A: Steve Wynn on The Dream Syndicate’s first new album in nearly 30 years 
Q&A: Bauhaus’ David J on his ‘accidental’ concept album ‘Not Long For This World’ 
Q&A: Peter Murphy on ‘Ninth,’ Bauhaus’ break-up, reuniting Dalis Car 
Q&A: Joey Santiago on Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour, possible ‘Surfer Rosa’ shows, new album talk 
Q&A: Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon on new album, changing the world with music 
Q&A: Peter Hook talks ‘Unknown Pleasures’ tour, re-recording Joy Division 