Morrissey has extended his spring tour of Japan and Southeast Asia to include a concert in the Philippines — and he’s added a pair of dates on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Maui. According to dates posted at fansite True To You, Moz will now perform in Manila on May 13, then perform in Hawaii on May 18 and 19.
The dB’s today announced a June 12 release date for Falling Off the Sky, the jangle-pop heroes’ first album in 25 years and first to feature the band’s original lineup — Peter Holsapple, Gene Holder, Will Rigby and Chris Stamey — in 30 years. Plus, the band’s playing six separate shows at South By Southwest this month.
Peter Murphy’s very short run of March dates in the western U.S. and Mexico has grown ever so slightly, as the former Bauhaus leader announced Thursday that he’ll follow what was to have been a one-of California concert in Santa Ana with two more shows — in the same night — at a San Francisco jazz club.
It’s been a month since we last checked in with The Cure’s unfolding summer festival plans, and we can now report three more confirmations in Ireland, Russia and Austria, and a schedule that now spreads from late May to early September — with a promise of ‘2 or maybe 3 more to confirm,’ according to the band’s website.
The Stranglers — singer-bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel, drummer Jet Black and keyboard player Dave Greenfield, plus former Toy Dolls guitarist Baz Warne — next week will release ‘Giants,’ their 17th studio album and first in six years, and are previewing the disc by streaming the single ‘Time Was Once On My Side.’
Dexys Midnight Runners — now going by the shortened band name Dexys — will celebrate the release of ‘One Day I’m Going to Soar,’ the band’s first album in 27 years, by performing it in its entirety at a pair of ‘theatrical shows’ in Glasgow and Dublin this May, the group tweeted today.
Dead Can Dance tonight announced the first phase of its much-anticipated 2012 reactivation, a six-week, 22-date tour of Europe that will take the group — namely co-founders and mainstays Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard — from Istanbul to Ireland in September and October.
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