Recent Dark Wave Playlists

New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Bad Lieutenant CDs; Talking Heads on Blu-ray

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

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

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'

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

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

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 […]

The Cure's 'Disintegration' gets 3CD deluxe reissue in 2010, plus 'In Orange' on DVD

The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’ gets 3CD deluxe reissue in 2010, plus ‘In Orange’ on DVD

The Cure will reissue its 1989 masterwork Disintegration in an expanded and remastered 3CD edition next spring, Robert Smith announced today, the first salvo in what appears to be a flood of new archival releases from the legendary band — including the first-ever DVD release of 1987’s long-out-of-print “In Orange” concert film.