Video: Gang of Four, ‘Never Pay for the Farm’
With their first all-new studio album in 15 years due out in two weeks, reunited post-punk icons Gang of Four this morning debuted the music video for their single ‘Never Pay for the Farm.’
With their first all-new studio album in 15 years due out in two weeks, reunited post-punk icons Gang of Four this morning debuted the music video for their single ‘Never Pay for the Farm.’
This week’s new releases include ‘Red Barked Tree,’ the new album from Wire; vinyl reissues of best-of sets from the Pixies, Love and Rockets and The Cult; the post-Husker Du debut from Grant Hart’s Nova Mob; and the CD edition of ‘Hand in Glove: The Smiths Tribute’
Highlights of tonight’s “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include not one but two tracks by the pre-Eurythmics group The Tourists (“Blind Among the Flowers,” “Circular Fever”), as well as another double shot of lesser-played Love and Rockets (”Holiday on the Moon,” “Haunted When the Minutes Drag”).
Throwing Muses today wrapped up initial recording sessions for the 4AD band’s first new album in eight years, a process that frontwoman Kristin Hersh and her bandmates have documented through a series of short, in-studio video clips.
For the past day or so, Echo & The Bunnymen’s web folk have been uploading a stream of videos to the band’s YouTube channel, including this 1985 TV appearance that finds the band joined by Billy Bragg to play The Velvet Underground’s ‘Run Run Run.’
Chicago indie-guitar heroes Eleventh Dream Day return this spring with their 10th studio album, ‘Riot Now!,’ which the band’s label, Thrill Jockey Records, is hailing as “a call back to the urgency of 1988’s ‘Prairie School Freakout.'”
Haircut One Hundred will reunite once again later this month to perform its 1982 debut ‘Pelican West’ — home to hit singles ‘Love Plus One’ and ‘Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)’ — in its entirety for the first time ever at a one-off London concert.