Simple Minds this morning announced the release of Big Music — the band’s first new studio album in five years, and 17th overall — on Nov. 3, plus plans to spend much of the first quarter of 2015 on the road in support of the record, with a nearly 60-date tour of Europe and the U.K. planned from February into May.
This wee’s new releases include brand-new studio albums form Erasure (‘The Violet Flame’) and the Information Society (‘_hello world’), plus a new collection of remixes and rarities from the Thompson Twins, and a reissue of David Bowie’s seminal box set ‘Sound + Vision.’
Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music from Revolting Cocks, The Mission, Japan, Nitzer Ebb, The Chameleons, KMFDM, Iron Curtain, Public Image Ltd., The Birthday Party, Anne Clark, Fra Lippo Lippi, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees and more.
After releasing a steady stream of 7-inch singles over the past couple years, The Dead Milkmen return next month with their first new album in three years, a 17-track collection called Pretty Music For Pretty People that, perhaps not surprisingly, contains many of the songs included on those limited-edition 45s.
Manchester-bred rockers James this week released their new album La Petite Mort in the U.S. — it came out in early June over in the U.K. and Europe — and have now announced they’re “venturing stateside for one night only” with a performance set for Oct. 21 at New York City’s Webster Hall.
Exploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. If you caught this week’s episode, pop over to the Strangeways message board to leave requests for future shows.
In 2012, U.K. arts website The Space began posting, 100 at a time, titles from the late John Peel’s legendary record collection — reportedly numbering 26,000 LPs, 40,000 7-inches and “many thousands of” CDs. The listings included index cards, the records’ covers and, in some cases, links to stream the music on Spotify.
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 