Tag: The Pretenders

Chrissie Hynde goes solo with 'Stockholm' — stream 1st single 'Dark Sunglasses'

Chrissie Hynde goes solo with ‘Stockholm’ — stream 1st single ‘Dark Sunglasses’

After 37 years at the helm of The Pretenders, iconic frontwoman Chrissie Hynde is going solo, announcing plans to release her first-ever album under her own name, an 11-song collection called Stockholm that’s due out on June 9 and is preceded by the single “Dark Sunglasses.”

New releases: New Order, The Replacements, Talk Talk, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Pretenders

New releases: New Order, The Replacements, Talk Talk, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Pretenders

This week’s new releases include New Order’s collection of previously unreleased tracks from 2005 (‘Lost Sirens’), the reunion/charity EP from The Replacements (‘Songs for Slim’), two compilations from Talk Talk, an audiophile reissue from The Pretenders and a live DVD from Einstürzende Neubauten.

Video: Hood Internet covers The Pretenders' 'Back on the Chain Gang' for The AV Club

Video: Hood Internet covers The Pretenders’ ‘Back on the Chain Gang’ for The AV Club

This week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover 2012 series finds mash-up stars The Hood Internet doing a number on The Pretenders’ 1982 single ‘Back on the Chain Gang,’ slowing it down and punching it up with samples of rappers Rick Ross and Gucci Mane.

Video: Memoryhouse covers The Police's 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic'

Video: Memoryhouse covers The Police’s ‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic’

The AV Club recently launched Undercover 2012 — the third round in its ‘let’s have a band cram into a small, round room and cover a song off a list’ web series — and the latest clip finds Canadian dream-pop outfit Memoryhouse giving The Police’s 1981 hit ‘Everything Little Thing She Does Is Magic’ a makeover.

Morrissey sets 9-date U.K. tour, will headline Hop Farm fest with Lou Reed, Iggy Pop

Morrissey sets 9-date U.K. tour, will headline Hop Farm fest with Lou Reed, Iggy Pop

For his first live dates since a series of trouble-prone 2009 outings, Morrissey will return to the stage this summer with a nine-date U.K. tour leading up to a slot headlining the Hop Farm Music Festival alongside such icons as Lou Reed, Iggy & The Stooges and Patti Smith.

Linkage: The Smiths visual discography; plus The Fall, Peter Buck, Chrissie Hynde

Today’s assortment of online odds and ends includes a great new Smiths/Morrissey visual discography, a podcast of The Fall’s best Peel sessions, the first taste of Peter Buck’s and Steve Wynn’s second Baseball Project album, and an interview with Chrissie Hynde.