In stores Tuesday: New Bob Mould, Erasure box set, Depeche Mode single
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday: ARTIST: Bob Mould ALBUM: Life and Times BACKSTORY: Thirty years after […]
Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs
Wayne Hussey chronicles The Mission’s final gig with ‘Live & Last’
Frontman Wayne Hussey retired The Mission — aka The Mission UK on these shores — a year ago with a series of album-spanning gigs in […]
X letting fans help pick setlists on ‘Total Request Live’ tour
With its original lineup —Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebrake — still in place, the reunited X hits the road again […]
Cassette art: Turning old tapes into Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, Ian Brown
The alleged vinyl resurgence may be all the rage in the media right now, but for many of us who came of musical age […]
Video: Depeche Mode live in the studio
With the release of Sounds of the Universe just three weeks out — although for the curious/impatient, the record did leak last week — Depeche Mode […]
R.E.M. planning ‘Reckoning’ reissue, ‘Dublin Working Rehearsals’ live album
With touring and promotion of 2008’s Accelerate now finished, R.E.M. this year will issue, at a minimum, a pair of archival releases, hitting both ends […]
Smiths, New Order, Stone Roses spotlighted in new book on Manchester scene
Perhaps best known for his bio “The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop,” Brit rock scribe/musician John Robb has set his sights on […]
