Category: Album News

Killing Joke collects 'four hours of dub annihilation' on new 'Killing Joke in Dub' set

Killing Joke collects ‘four hours of dub annihilation’ on new ‘Killing Joke in Dub’ set

Killing Joke have launched a Pledge Music crowdsourcing campaign to fund its long-in-the-works compilation Killing Joke In Dub, a triple album of remixes that, in its deluxe incarnation, will come with a bonus 40-minute DJ mix, collecting, in the words of bassist and compiler Martin “Youth” Glover, “over four hours of dub annihilation.”

Rational Youth releases 'Magic Box' 3CD archival set — stream 15-track rarities disc

Rational Youth releases ‘Magic Box’ 3CD archival set — stream 15-track rarities disc

Canadian synthpop outfit Rational Youth is digging into its vaults with the release of a new 3CD archival set called Magic Box, which features a 27-song live album that was recorded in 1983 on two discs and a third CD collecting demos, 7-inch remixes and solo tracks from members Bill Vorn, Kevin Komoda, and Tracy Howe.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to release 'Live From KCRW' on Record Store Day's Black Friday

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to release ‘Live From KCRW’ on Record Store Day’s Black Friday

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release their fourth official live album next month in the form of Live From KCRW, a set recorded this past April in a studio for the Los Angeles radio station that will be released on CD and double vinyl at independent retailers on Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event.

Mark Burgess to release new ChameleonsVox 4-song EP, tour Europe this fall

Mark Burgess to release new ChameleonsVox 4-song EP, tour Europe this fall

Mark Burgess this week announced he’ll release a brand-new four-song EP this fall under the ChameleonsVox banner — the latest incarnation of post-punk favorites The Chameleons, also featuring long-serving drummer John Lever — later this fall to coincide with a series of dates across Europe this November and December.

The Fall to release 6-song 'The Remainderer' EP as bridge to new album due in 2014

The Fall to release 6-song ‘The Remainderer’ EP as bridge to new album due in 2014

Mark E. Smith’s iconic and ever-morphing post-punk act The Fall next month will release a six-song EP of new material on CD and 10-inch vinyl that Cherry Red Records says is intended as “a bridging point” between the band’s last album Re-Mit and the its next record, due to be released by the label in 2014.

Peter Murphy to host private $750-a-head listening party for new album 'Lion'

Peter Murphy to host private $750-a-head listening party for new album ‘Lion’

Up to 40 Peter Murphy fans will get the first crack at hearing the former Bauhaus frontman’s forthcoming album Lion next month when the singer hosts a private listening party “at a secret location in the Los Angeles area,” with the promise of “an unprecedented discussion between artist and audience.”

Stream: Arcade Fire covers Peter Gabriel's 1980 classic 'Games Without Frontiers'

Stream: Arcade Fire covers Peter Gabriel’s 1980 classic ‘Games Without Frontiers’

Peter Gabriel this week finally will release the long-planned companion to his 2010 covers album Scratch My Back, a new 12-track compilation called And I’ll Scratch Yours that features many of the artists he covered on that original album returning the favor by covering his songs.