Category: Album News

Gary Numan announces North American tour this fall in support of new album 'Savage'

Gary Numan announces North American tour this fall in support of new album ‘Savage’

Gary Numan is set to release a new studio album titled Savage later this summer, and today he unveiled plans for a 22-date North American tour in support of the record this November and December. Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday, according to Numan. See full dates here.

Listen: The Dream Syndicate debuts 11-minute title track to 'How Did I Find Myself Here?'

Listen: The Dream Syndicate debuts 11-minute title track to ‘How Did I Find Myself Here?’

The reunited Dream Syndicate today announced its first new album in 29 years, an eight-song collection titled How Did I Find Myself Here? that’s due out in September and is preceded by the release of its title track, an 11-minute psychedelic journey that you can stream in full right here.

Echo & The Bunnymen sign to BMG, tease future releases coming 'very soon'

Echo & The Bunnymen sign to BMG, tease future releases coming ‘very soon’

Echo & The Bunnymen announced this week that the band has signed to BMG, marking the group’s return to a major label for the first time since the 1990s. On top of that, the band said, in a Facebook post, that it’s “looking forward to sharing future releases very soon.”

Listen: 'Everybody Wants Somewhere,' a 21-track tribute to Fugazi by California indie acts

Listen: ‘Everybody Wants Somewhere,’ a 21-track tribute to Fugazi by California indie acts

The Oakland, Calif.-based label Sell the Heart Records has just released a two-part, 21-song collection of Fugazi covers by California indie acts including No Knife, Warsaw, Great Apes, theSTART, Long Knifes, Identical Homes, My Last Line and more. Stream the whole thing here.

The Smithereens reunite with Mike Mesaros, recording new album — watch this 3-hour set

The Smithereens reunite with Mike Mesaros, recording new album — watch this 3-hour set

Original bassist Mike Mesaros is back in The Smithereens fold after a dozen years away, and, in addition to playing sporadic shows with the college-rock graduates, he’ll be on the new album the band is recording and which will be the group’s first in six years. Plus, watch a recent 3-hour set.

Pay $10,000 for Ministry's new 'AmeriKKKant' and Al Jourgensen will remix your song

Pay $10,000 for Ministry’s new ‘AmeriKKKant’ and Al Jourgensen will remix your song

Ministry will release their 14th studio album this fall, a collection called AmeriKKKant that is available for pre-order now via PledgeMusic in a variety of bundles that top out at $10,000 — a price that’ll get one of your own songs remixed and given “that Ministry sound” by Al Jourgensen himself.

Luna covers The Cure, David Bowie, Mercury Rev on new album — hear first single

Luna covers The Cure, David Bowie, Mercury Rev on new album — hear first single

Luna — Dean Wareham’s reunited post-Galaxie 500 dreampop act — will put out its first new music since 2004 in September with the simultaneous release of a 10-song covers album called A Sentimental Education and a 6-song instrumental EP titled A Place of Greater Safety.

Violent Femmes to release 'Unplugged & Unhinged' live album ahead of Bunnymen tour

Violent Femmes to release ‘Unplugged & Unhinged’ live album ahead of Bunnymen tour

Violent Femmes will reinvent their classic catalog on a new live album called 2 Mics & The Truth: Unplugged & Unhinged in America that will be released next month ahead of the band’s eagerly anticipated co-headlining tour with Echo & The Bunnymen. See full tracklist and tour dates here.

The Fall to release ‘New Facts Emerge’ — band’s 32nd studio album — in July

The Fall to release ‘New Facts Emerge’ — band’s 32nd studio album — in July

The unstoppable Mark E. Smith returns this summer with his 32nd studio album under The Fall moniker, an 11-track collection called New Facts Emerge that features a slightly stripped-down lineup of the legendary and oft-changing Manchester band.

The Primitives release 4-song 'New Thrills' EP, plan rare U.S. dates in June

The Primitives release 4-song ‘New Thrills’ EP, plan rare U.S. dates in June

Reunited indie-pop outfit The Primitives have released a new four-song EP titled New Thrills, and will help promote it later this month with a pair of U.K. shows in London and Manchester followed, in early June, by a trio or rare U.S. dates. Stream the new EP, and check out tour dates, here.

OMD announces 'The Punishment of Luxury' album, tour — hear first new song off record

OMD announces ‘The Punishment of Luxury’ album, tour — hear first new song off record

Classic synthpop outfit Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark this week announced they’ll release their 13th studio album — the group’s first record since 2013’s English Electric — this September, to be followed by a fall tour of the U.K. and Europe. We’ve got the first song released off the new album.

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — to release live album

Poptone — featuring Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins — to release live album

Poptone, the new project that reunites former Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets bandmates Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, today announced plans to release a live album following the group’s inaugural tour — a still-expanding U.S. run of concerts that opens next week in Tempe, Ariz.

The Waterboys to release new double album in September, tour the U.S. in 2018

The Waterboys to release new double album in September, tour the U.S. in 2018

The Waterboys will release their 12th album, a double record entitled Out of All This Blue, in September, a collection of 23 new songs that bandleader Mike Scott says show influences of soul, hip-hop (yes, hip-hop), R&B, funk and swamp-rock. Scott also confirmed The Waterboys will tour the U.S. in 2018.