Next month, Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook will release ‘Live in New York City,’ a DVD chronicling a 2006 concert he performed in the Big Apple backed by The Fluffers.
Punk icon Poly Styrene — who fronted the late-’70s group X-Ray Spex, still best known for its anthem ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours!’ — succumbed to cancer Monday night on the eve of her new record’s U.S. release. She was 53.
Directed by Kate Bush herself, the video for the singer’s new version of ‘Deeper Understanding’ — the first single off next month’s ‘Director’s Cut’ — is a little nutty, with ‘Harry Potter’ fixture Robbie Coltrane starring as a man who falls in love with a computer program.
Another day, another birthday: Today it’s Andy Bell’s, and the Erasure singer is 47. To mark the occasion, here’s video of Erasure making its debut on UK television institution ‘Top of the Pops’ nearly 25 years ago with its hit single ‘Sometimes.’
It’s Bauhaus/Love and Rockets bassist David J’s birthday today, and it seems a good as time as any to dig up the video from that one-off classic, The Bubblemen. So here they are, Love and Rockets dressed as giant bees. Dig it.
The Social Distortion gang goes gangster in this new music video for ‘Machine Gun Blues,’ the lead-off single for the band’s 2011 album ‘Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes.’
Q&A: Daniel Ash on Love and Rockets’ reunion, his new band — and figuring out how to play “So Alive” 
Q&A: Chris Frantz talks Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and new book ‘Remain in Love’ 
Q&A: Steve Wynn on The Dream Syndicate’s first new album in nearly 30 years 
Q&A: Bauhaus’ David J on his ‘accidental’ concept album ‘Not Long For This World’ 
Q&A: Peter Murphy on ‘Ninth,’ Bauhaus’ break-up, reuniting Dalis Car 
Q&A: Joey Santiago on Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour, possible ‘Surfer Rosa’ shows, new album talk 
Q&A: Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon on new album, changing the world with music 
Q&A: Peter Hook talks ‘Unknown Pleasures’ tour, re-recording Joy Division 