Sonic Youth releasing acoustic ‘Gossip Girl’ version of 1986’s ‘Starpower’
Not only will Sonic Youth do a highly improbable guest turn on teen soap “Gossip Girl” next week, but the band also is releasing […]
Category: Digital Music
Pixies selling live CDs, downloads, ‘USB bracelets’ of European ‘Doolittle’ concerts
The Pixies are commemorating this fall’s Doolittle 20th anniversary tour by releasing limited-edition, professionally recorded live CDs, digital downloads and “USB bracelets” of its concerts […]
BBC releasing Peel Sessions, live sets from Gang of Four, PiL, Duran Duran, The Specials
The BBC and EMI recently struck a new partnership to digitally release archival recordings — mainly Peel Sessions and In Concert episodes recorded between […]
Download: Nirvana’s ‘Scoff,’ live bonus track from ‘Bleach’ 20th anniversary reissue
Sub Pop Records began taking pre-orders today for the 20th anniversary deluxe reissue of Nirvana’s 1989 debut Bleach as Pitchfork offered up the first […]
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen records Christmas song in memory of Killing Joke’s Paul Raven
Is Uncle Al going soft? First ex-Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen lets slip plans to record a pop album, and now he’s announcing he’ll release a […]
Midnight Oil’s ‘Beds are Burning’ re-recorded as all-star climate-change anthem
Midnight Oil’s classic 1987 hit “Beds are Burning” — originally about Aboriginal land rights in Australia — is being turned into an all-star, new-millennium […]
Dave Kendall of ‘120 Minutes’ tracks down the Whitman Samplers’ ‘Really Stupid’
Kudos to “120 Minutes” creator/host Dave Kendall for tracking down and posting a copy of the long-forgotten early-’90s parody song “Really Stupid,” which poked fun […]
