Tag: Ultravox

Howard Jones to release new album, tour the U.S. with Midge Ure this summer

Howard Jones to release new album, tour the U.S. with Midge Ure this summer

Howard Jones is set to release a brand-new studio album this summer and is planning to hit the road on a 27-date U.S. tour with Midge Ure.

Watch 16-minute trailer for post-punk series based on Simon Reynolds' "Rip It Up and Start Again"

Watch 16-minute trailer for post-punk series based on Simon Reynolds’ “Rip It Up and Start Again”

Nikolaos Katranis and Russell Craig Richardson are working on a four-part documentary series on post-punk music, based on Simon Reynolds’ book “Rip It Up and Start Again.”

Midge Ure to release album of 'reimagined and orchestrated' Ultravox classics, solo tracks

Midge Ure to release album of ‘reimagined and orchestrated’ Ultravox classics, solo tracks

Midge Ure will revisit the music of his band Ultravox, as well as his own solo catalog, with a new album called Orchestrated that will feature a dozen re-recordings of some of his best-known songs, including “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” and “Vienna.” Check out the full tracklist right here.

Midge Ure releasing new album, touring with Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey, Howard Jones

Midge Ure releasing new album, touring with Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, Howard Jones

Midge Ure returns this August with his first new solo album in more than a decade, a 10-song set called Fragile that he’ll promote by joining the 13-date Retro Futura Tour later this summer alongside Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, Howard Jones, China Crisis and Katrina of Katrina & The Waves.

New releases: Ramones, Bad Religion, Ultravox, Bananarama, The Godfathers, Belfegore

New releases: Ramones, Bad Religion, Ultravox, Bananarama, The Godfathers, Belfegore

This week’s new releases include box sets collecting albums from the Ramones and Ultravox, a new collection of Christmas songs form punk legends Bad Religion, plus expanded reissues of the first six albums from Bananarama, as well as The Godfathers’ 1993 album and Belfegore’s sophomore effort.

Regeneration Tour scales back, announces new West Coast dates, confirms lineups

Regeneration Tour scales back, announces new West Coast dates, confirms lineups

Still struggling from the loss of planned headliner The Human League, the promoters of this summer’s Regeneration Tour today announced they’ve been forced to scale back to a West Coast-only trek, unveiling new shows and lineups in Portland, Ore., Sacramento and Mexico City while also canceling a date in Atlanta.

The Human League drops out of Regeneration Tour: 'We just could not make it work'

The Human League drops out of Regeneration Tour: ‘We just could not make it work’

The Regeneration Tour, which bills itself as “North America’s premier ’80s tour,” has lost another high-profile act, as The Human League this week pulled out of the summer trek, announcing “we were promised one thing and delivered something so completely different we just could not make it work, much as we wanted to.”