Category: Digital Music

Stream: Peter Gabriel, 'Solsbury Hill' — from forthcoming 2CD 'Live Blood' concert album

Stream: Peter Gabriel, ‘Solsbury Hill’ — from forthcoming 2CD ‘Live Blood’ concert album

Peter Gabriel this month will release a 2CD concert album called ‘Live Blood’ recorded March 23, 2011, at London’s Hammersmith Apollo — the same performance that yielded last year’s ‘New Blood: Live in London’ DVD — and today he’s teasing the release by streaming this live, orchestral version of ‘Solsbury Hill.’

Stream: Xiu Xiu covers Erasure's 'Always' for split 7-inch due out on Record Store Day

Stream: Xiu Xiu covers Erasure’s ‘Always’ for split 7-inch due out on Record Store Day

Art-rockers Xiu Xiu are doubling up with tourmates Dirty Beaches for a split 7-inch to be released on Record Store Day — which falls on April 21 this year — and they’ve opted to cover Erasure’s 1994 single ‘Always’ for the release, which you can stream here via Pitchfork.

Dreams So Real — featured in 'Athens, GA: Inside/Out' — reunites, streams demo

Dreams So Real — featured in ‘Athens, GA: Inside/Out’ — reunites, streams demo

Dreams So Real — featured in the landmark rock doc ‘Athens, GA: Inside/Out’ and whose debut single and album were produced by R.E.M.’s Peter Buck — are reuniting for a pair of rare concerts next month, and are whetting fans’ appetites by streaming a previously unreleased early-’90s demo.

Stream: The Cult, 'For the Animals' — first single off upcoming 'Choice of Weapon'

Stream: The Cult, ‘For the Animals’ — first single off upcoming ‘Choice of Weapon’

The release of The Cult’s first new album in five years is still two months away, but the band this week gave fans a second taste of the record in the guise of ‘For the Animals,’ the first official single from the 10-track ‘Choice of Weapon.’ You can stream the full track here.

Mission of Burma releasing 'Unsound' in July — stream first track 'Dust Devil'

Mission of Burma releasing ‘Unsound’ in July — stream first track ‘Dust Devil’

Boston post-punk masters Mission of Burma this summer will release ‘Unsound,’ their fourth post-reunion album (that’s three more records than they put out during their original run in the ’80s), and this week premiered the first track from that effort, called ‘Dust Devil.’

Soundgarden previews ‘Live to Rise,’ first new music in 15 years — from ‘The Avengers’

Having toured sporadically and released a new best-of, the reunited Soundgarden has now hit the recording studio, and today debuted 22 whole seconds of its first new song in 15 years: ‘Live to Rise,’ a sludgy rocker that will feature in this summer’s comic book blockbuster ‘The Avengers.’

Stream: Soulsavers f/ Dave Gahan, 'Longest Day' — first single off 'The Light the Dead See'

Stream: Soulsavers f/ Dave Gahan, ‘Longest Day’ — first single off ‘The Light the Dead See’

Electronic project Soulsavers returns in May with a new album of songs featuring the vocal talents of Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan, and today we bring you the first single, ‘Longest Day,’ which is now streaming here. The full album, The Light the Dead See, is out May 22 via Mute Records.