Tag: Earth Sun Moon

Love and Rockets announces “My Dark Twin” — new 2-disc companion to “Sweet F.A.”

Love and Rockets announces “My Dark Twin” — new 2-disc companion to “Sweet F.A.”

The Beggars Arkive label continues its Love and Rockets reissue series with a new compilation called My Dark Twin that’s being billed as a companion to Sweet F.A.

Love and Rockets expands reunion tour with 10 additional concerts across U.S.

Love and Rockets expands reunion tour with 10 additional concerts across U.S.

Love and Rockets’ reunion grew significantly with the announcement of 10 more U.S. concerts, upping the trio’s total number of planned performances to 16.

Love and Rockets vinyl reissues, "The Albums 1985-1996" box set announced

Love and Rockets vinyl reissues, “The Albums 1985-1996” box set announced

Beggars Arkive this week announced the reissue of Love and Rockets’ first six albums on remastered vinyl as well as The Albums 1985-1996 colored-vinyl box set.

Vintage Video: Love and Rockets in London, 1987 — watch full 70-minute concert

Vintage Video: Love and Rockets in London, 1987 — watch full 70-minute concert

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present an exceedingly rare — on YouTube, anyway — ’80s-era concert from Love and Rockets, filmed at the band’s Oct. 15, 1987, headlining date at London’s Town & Country Club. The 70-minute concert took place just a month after the release of Earth Sun Moon.

Milestones: Daniel Ash is 53 today; watch Love and Rockets’ ‘Mirror People’ live in 1987

In honor of Daniel Ash — he of the ’80s trifecta of Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets — who turns 53 today, we dug up one of the only vintage Love and Rockets live clips we could find on YouTube, this admittedly grainy, but certainly rare, footage of the band performing ‘Mirror People’ at London’s Town & Country Club in 1987.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 6/6/10

Highlights of tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include a left-field Love and Rockets pick (‘Rain Bird’ off ‘Earth Sun Moon’) and the ‘The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight,’ the lone single from early-’80s synthpop act Dominatrix.