Tag: The Pretenders

New releases: Buzzcocks reissues, Pretenders 'Live in London,' UB40's 'Labour of Love IV'

New releases: Buzzcocks reissues, Pretenders ‘Live in London,’ UB40’s ‘Labour of Love IV’

This week’s new releases include a trio of expanded 2CD reissues from the Buzzcocks — ‘Another Music in a Different Kitchen,’ ‘Love Bites,’ ‘A Different Kind of Tension’ — plus ‘Live in London’ from The Pretenders and UB40’s latest covers album, ‘Labour of Love IV.’

Video: Shane MacGowan enlists Nick Cave, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde for Haiti single

Video: Shane MacGowan enlists Nick Cave, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde for Haiti single

In some ways it’s the antidote to the schmaltzy, celeb-soaked remakes of “We Are the World” and R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts”: a new Haiti benefit single recorded by iconic punk and post-figures such as The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave, Mick Jones of The Clash, the Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders and Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie.