Video: Sonic Youth performs ‘EVOL’ classic ‘Starpower’ on ‘Gossip Girl’
As threatened, indie-rock legends Sonic Youth took to the tube last night, making an appearance on teen soap “Gossip Girl” to perform “Starpower” off 1986’s […]
Recent Dark Wave Playlists
New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Bad Lieutenant CDs; Talking Heads on Blu-ray
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday. ARTIST: Echo & The Bunnymen RELEASE: The Fountain BACKSTORY: The […]
New Hüsker Dü biography due in 2010
Tweet Voyageur Press, the imprint behind the 2007 oral history “The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting,” next year will publish a new book about […]
Video: The Primitives playing ‘Crash’ and more at first U.K. reunion concert
Long-departed U.K. indie-pop act The Primitives — sometimes lumped together with the mid-to-late-’80s C86 scene — has somewhat quietly reformed, playing its first gigs in […]
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 […]
Video: Love and Rockets’ Daniel Ash interviewed by artist Shepard Fairey
Missed this when it was first came out, but it’s still worth sharing: In August, Love and Rockets’ Daniel Ash sat down with celebrated street […]
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 […]
