R.E.M. ‘This Is Not a Show’ concert film to receive limited theatrical screenings
In conjunction with this month’s release of its Live at the Olympia album, R.E.M. is presenting “This Is Not a Theatrical Release,” a series of […]
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Video: Sonic Youth performs ‘EVOL’ classic ‘Starpower’ on ‘Gossip Girl’
As threatened, indie-rock legends Sonic Youth took to the tube last night, making an appearance on teen soap “Gossip Girl” to perform “Starpower” off 1986’s […]
New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Bad Lieutenant CDs; Talking Heads on Blu-ray
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday. ARTIST: Echo & The Bunnymen RELEASE: The Fountain BACKSTORY: The […]
New Hüsker Dü biography due in 2010
Tweet Voyageur Press, the imprint behind the 2007 oral history “The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting,” next year will publish a new book about […]
Video: The Primitives playing ‘Crash’ and more at first U.K. reunion concert
Long-departed U.K. indie-pop act The Primitives — sometimes lumped together with the mid-to-late-’80s C86 scene — has somewhat quietly reformed, playing its first gigs in […]
Sonic Youth releasing acoustic ‘Gossip Girl’ version of 1986’s ‘Starpower’
Not only will Sonic Youth do a highly improbable guest turn on teen soap “Gossip Girl” next week, but the band also is releasing a […]
Video: Love and Rockets’ Daniel Ash interviewed by artist Shepard Fairey
Missed this when it was first came out, but it’s still worth sharing: In August, Love and Rockets’ Daniel Ash sat down with celebrated street […]
Pixies selling live CDs, downloads, ‘USB bracelets’ of European ‘Doolittle’ concerts
The Pixies are commemorating this fall’s Doolittle 20th anniversary tour by releasing limited-edition, professionally recorded live CDs, digital downloads and “USB bracelets” of its concerts […]
The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’ gets 3CD deluxe reissue in 2010, plus ‘In Orange’ on DVD
The Cure will reissue its 1989 masterwork Disintegration in an expanded and remastered 3CD edition next spring, Robert Smith announced today, the first salvo in what appears to be a flood of new archival releases from the legendary band — including the first-ever DVD release of 1987’s long-out-of-print “In Orange” concert film.
Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant playing Chicago, New York; full U.S. tour in 2010
Bad Lieutenant, Bernard Sumner’s just-launched New Order spinoff, will make it U.S. debut this fall with headlining concerts in New York and Chicago — in […]
New releases: Kraftwerk reissues, new CDs from Mission of Burma, Lou Barlow
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday. ARTIST: Kraftwerk RELEASES: Autobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans Europe Express, […]
Video: U2 and Virgin Prunes’ Gavin Friday cover David Bowie’s ‘The Jean Genie’
Stadium headliners U2 did something pretty unusual last night: Bono and Co. served as a backing band for longtime friend Gavin Friday at the Irish […]
C86 vets Close Lobsters to reissue singles on ‘Forever, Until Victory!’ compilation
Short-lived Scottish indie-pop outfit Close Lobsters — one of the 22 bands included on the NME’s genre-defining and now-legendary C86 compilation cassette — next week […]
