Category: Album News

Stream: Visage, 'Shameless Fashion' — lead single off band's 1st album in 29 years

Stream: Visage, ‘Shameless Fashion’ — lead single off band’s 1st album in 29 years

Visage — best remembered for its classic 1980 single “Fade to Grey” — return next month with Hearts and Knives, the band’s fourth album and first in 29 years. The record is preceded by lead single “Shameless Fashion,” which you can download for free on the group’s Facebook page and/or stream here.

Steve Wynn 'would love' to record new Dream Syndicate album: 'I think it would be really good'

Steve Wynn ‘would love’ to record new Dream Syndicate album: ‘I think it would be really good’

Following last year’s short run of shows in Spain, The Dream Syndicate continues its reunion this year with more European concerts and a festival appearance in Massachusetts that the band is billing as its only U.S. show of 2013. But now talk has turned to whether the band will make a new album.

The Mission begin work on new album, sign deal with U.S. label for September release

The Mission begin work on new album, sign deal with U.S. label for September release

Eight months after first announcing plans for a new album, The Mission have convened in England to begin recording with producer David M. Allen — who has worked with The Cure, Depeche Mode, Wire and The Sisters of Mercy — and this week announced a new record deal and plans to release the album in September.

Devo to release 'New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle' on CD with 2 bonus tracks

Devo to release ‘New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle’ on CD with 2 bonus tracks

On Record Store Day last year, Devo released a 2LP vinyl live set culled from a cassette recording made of the band’s Seattle stop on its 1981 tour in support of New Traditionlalists. Come next month, fans not into that whole vinyl thing will be able hear it, too, as the band releases the concert on CD — with two bonus tracks.

The Call launches Pledge Music campaign to fund live reunion CD/DVD, possible box set

The Call launches Pledge Music campaign to fund live reunion CD/DVD, possible box set

The upcoming reunion of The Call — featuring the band’s original members plus Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club filling in for his late father Michael Been — will be filmed and recorded for a live DVD, CD and vinyl release, and the band has just launched a Pledge Music campaign to help fund the project.

Al Jourgensen ends Ministry (again) with final album 'From Beer to Eternity,' autobiography

Al Jourgensen ends Ministry (again) with final album ‘From Beer to Eternity,’ autobiography

It’s been less than two years since Al Jourgensen reunited his iconic industrial/metal act Ministry, but after a mid-tour health scare and the loss of sideman and best friend Mike Scaccia late last year, Uncle Al his putting an end to the band once and for all with a final album, ‘From Beer to Eternity,’ and an autobiography.