Category: Anniversary

U2 announces 'Joshua Tree' 30th anniversary edition with 1987 live set, new remixes

U2 announces ‘Joshua Tree’ 30th anniversary edition with 1987 live set, new remixes

U2 today marked the 30th anniversary of the release of The Joshua Tree by announcing a new expanded, multiformat reissue of the 1987 album that will include B-sides, outtakes, a concert recorded that year at New York’s Madison Square Garden and a set of newly commissioned remixes.

Peter Hook to perform complete works of Joy Division on 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis' death

Peter Hook to perform complete works of Joy Division on 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis’ death

Peter Hook will mark the 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis’ death by performing the complete works of Joy Division in a 500-seat, 18th century church in Macclesfield, England — a charity event dubbed “So This is Permanence” that will see all proceeds donated to the Epilepsy Society and the Churches Conservation Trust.

Vintage Audio: Richard Blade chats up Depeche Mode at Wherehouse in-store

Vintage Audio: Richard Blade chats up Depeche Mode at Wherehouse in-store

With this week marking the 25th anniversary of the release of Depeche Mode’s landmark album Violator, we once again dip into the Slicing Up Eyeballs cassette archives, this time for a recording of the KROQ broadcast during the band’s infamous in-store appearance at a Wherehouse record store on the album’s U.S. release date.

Pixies' 'Doolittle 25’ 3CD reissue to include 21 previously unreleased demos, Peel sessions

Pixies’ ‘Doolittle 25’ 3CD reissue to include 21 previously unreleased demos, Peel sessions

The Pixies will mark the 25th anniversary of their classic sophomore album Doolittle with an expanded 3CD, 50-track reissue this December that will feature, as bonus material, the record’s B-sides, two of the band’s Peel sessions in their entireties, and a full disc’s worth of demos.

Watch: Jimmy Somerville re-records Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown Boy' for 30th anniversary

Watch: Jimmy Somerville re-records Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’ for 30th anniversary

Thirty years ago this month, synthpop trio Bronski Beat released its career-making single “Smalltown Boy” — and to celebrate that milestone, the group’s lead singer, Jimmy Somerville, has recorded a haunting new stripped-down version of the song, which you can hear via a new video.

The Cure's 'Disintegration' turns 25 today — celebrate with 5 full Prayer Tour concerts

The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’ turns 25 today — celebrate with 5 full Prayer Tour concerts

Twenty-five years ago today, The Cure released what many fans consider the band’s masterwork, the gloom-struck epic Disintegration — an album that found Robert Smith and Co. snapping out of their mid-’80s pop phase in favor of a darker, more cinematic sound.