Category: Album News

Mute Records teases something involving Depeche Mode's Martin Gore

Mute Records teases something involving Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore

Is Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore preparing to debut new music next week? Mute Records is teasing something involving Gore happening Nov. 17 — this Tuesday — but it’s not clear what that may be. The label tweeted a stylized image of Gore on Saturday with that date. No other information is yet known.

Stabbing Westward covers The Cure, Ministry, Echo & The Bunnymen on new EP

Stabbing Westward covers The Cure, Ministry, Echo & The Bunnymen on new EP

Industrial rockers Stabbing Westward have released a new Halloween-themed EP called Hallowed Hymns that features new covers of The Cure’s “Burn” — two versions, in fact — as well as Ministry’s “(Every Day Is) Halloween” and Echo & The Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon.” Listen to the new EP right here.

Midnight Oil debuts 'First Nation' — 2nd track off 'The Makarrata Project' mini LP

Midnight Oil debuts ‘First Nation’ — 2nd track off ‘The Makarrata Project’ mini LP

Midnight Oil has released a music video for the second song released off its upcoming mini-album The Makarrata Project, a collaboration with “our First Nations friends” that marks the Oils’ first new music in 17 years. Fittingly, the song is called “First Nation.” Watch the full video right here.

New compilation to celebrate lost gems of mid-'80s 'American jangle underground'

New compilation to celebrate lost gems of mid-’80s ‘American jangle underground’

The Captured Tracks record label will launch its new compilation series Excavations this fall with a 28-song collection of largely forgotten indie gems from the era that followed post-punk called Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987. Full details right here.

Cabaret Voltaire returns with first new album in 26 years — hear first single 'Vasto'

Cabaret Voltaire returns with first new album in 26 years — hear first single ‘Vasto’

Pioneering electronic music act Cabaret Voltaire — now just co-founder Richard H. Kirk — will release its first new album in 26 years this November, an eight-song collection called Shadow of Fear that was born out of Kirk’s return to live performance in 2014. You can hear the first single, “Vasto,” right here.

Hoodoo Gurus target Trump with new single 'Hung Out to Dry,' reschedule rare U.S. tour

Hoodoo Gurus target Trump with new single ‘Hung Out to Dry,’ reschedule rare U.S. tour

ustralian rockers Hoodoo Gurus have begun work on a new studio album they plan to release next year, but have offered fans an early taste of their new music in the form of an uncharacteristically political single called “Hung Out to Dry” that goes after President Donald Trump. Check out the new song right here.