Morrissey announced the release of a 7 inch version of "That's Entertainment."
Monday, August 31, 2020
Peter Hook + The Light covered a live version of the New Order rarity "Homage."
Hook and his band dusted off the unreleased Movement-era New Order track and performed it live yesterday (August 30th) during a John Peel tribute concert. The socially distant tribute was held yesterday to celebrate what would have been John Peel's 81st birthday. Hook revealed that New Order originally planned to perform "Homage" as part of their 1981 Peel Session, though they decided against it at the last minute.
View Peter Hook + The Light's performance of "Homage" below.
Friday, August 28, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
The 1995 War Child charity album Help will be re-released to mark its 25th anniversary.
The album features a stunning array of UK artists including The Stone Roses, Radiohead, The Charlatans, The Boo Radleys, Blur, Suede, Oasis, Portishead, Sinéad O'Connor, and The Smokin' Mojo Filters (aka Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, and Noel Gallagher) among others.
The legendary compilation was inspired by John Lennon's quote:
"The best record you can make, is recorded on Monday, cut on Tuesday, pressed up on Wednesday, packaged on Thursday, distributed on Friday, in the shops on Saturday."
Inspired, participating artists went into studios all over Europe on September 4th and within 24 hours 20 tracks were recorded. Help came together so quickly that the artwork for the album did not contain a tracklisting because at the time organizers didn't know which songs and artists would completed in time.
Recording began September 4th and only days later, September 9th, the album went on sale in shops and sold 70,000 copies that day. The compilation raised over 2 million dollars and launched War Child, which protects, educates, and supports children in war. To date the charity has aided over a million children caught in the crossfire of war.
The album will be reissued September 9th -- 25 years to the day of the original release physically on black vinyl and digitally on streaming services. Along with the original material, the 2020 version of Help will include a newly recorded version of The Smokin' Mojo Filters (McCartney, Weller, and Gallagher) covering The Beatles classic "Come Together."
View the tracklisting for the original Help release below and learn more about War Child here.
Help -- tracklisting
01. Oasis and Friends - Fade Away
02. The Boo Radleys - Oh Brother
03. The Stone Roses - Love Spreads
04. Radiohead - Lucky
05. Orbital - Adnan
06. Portishead - Mourning Air 07. Massive Attack - Fake The Aroma
08. Suede - Shipbuilding
09. The Charlatans - Time For Livin'
10. Stereo MC's - Sweetest Truth (Show No Fear)
11. Sinéad O'Connor - Ode To Billy Joe
12. Levellers - Searchlights
13. Manic Street Preachers - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
14. Terrorvision - Tom Petty Loves Veruca Salt
15. The One World Orchestra (aka The KLF) - The Magnificent
16. Planet 4 Folk Quartet - Message To Crommie
17. Terry Hall And Salad - Dream A Little Dream
18. Neneh Cherry and Trout - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
19. Blur - Eine Kleine Lift Musik
20. The Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together
Friday, August 21, 2020
Luna released a cover of Televison's classic "Marquee Moon" today.
Their sprawling cover is true to the epic original 1977 version and was recorded earlier this summer while the band social distanced; they recorded each instrument one at a time in their respective homes in Auckland, Austin, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The video was created by Justin Harwood (ex-Luna bassist) using iPhone footage shot by band members.
Luna's cover of "Marquee Moon" is available to download and stream on bandcamp and other streaming services. View the video for "Marquee Moon" below.
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Bob Mould will release his anthology in October.
Distortion 1989 - 2019 collects Mould's non-Hüsker Dü output, beginning with his debut solo album Workbook. The anthology includes 18 studio albums, 4 live albums, two compilations with rarities and collaborations, plus a 72 page booklet.
The CD edition features 24 CDs. The vinyl edition will be split into four separate boxsets; the first of these is titled Distortion 1989 - 1995. The 8 LP set includes the output from Workbook through the Sugar b-side/rarities collection Besides along with a new collection of rarities titled Distortion Plus, and a 28 page book.
The CD and vinyl editions will be released October 2nd. Head over to Bob Mould's website to learn more and to view the order options.
Monday, August 10, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Monday, July 27, 2020
Monday, July 20, 2020
In celebration of the 33rd anniversary of New Order's "True Faith," the legendary band launched a line of merchandise inspired by the iconic single.
Several items are available including True Faith totes (white and black versions), True Faith mug, black embossed notebook,4 piece button set, plus other non-True Faith items including a knit hat and Substance tote.
The items are available to pre-order while they last from New Order's UK store and will be released on August 28th.
To celebrate it’s 33rd anniversary, we’ve added some True Faith inspired merch to our store.— New Order (@neworder) July 20, 2020
Shop here >> https://t.co/W3C9LLkgEX pic.twitter.com/GAC7HCJsTB
Q magazine has folded. The legendary British magazine's final issue hits newsstands on July 28th.
The news was announced by Q's editor Ted Kessler, who shared the tragic news and posted a picture of the final issue. According to Kessler, the magazine had run a "lean" ship prior to the pandemic, however Covid19 financially wiped out Q for good.
View Kessler's post and scan of the farewell letter below.
Q was established in 1986 and had been publishing issues on a monthly basis.
R.I.P.
I have some bad news about @QMagazine. The issue that comes out on July 28 will be our last. The pandemic did for us and there was nothing more to it than that. I have attached our final cover and my editor’s letter for context.— Ted Kessler (@TedKessler1) July 20, 2020
On the plus side, we’re all available for work. pic.twitter.com/rm8qOcUBtB
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Indie culture zine Songbyrd launched a line of masks celebrating iconic musical acts including Joy Division, The Stone Roses, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Verve, Primal Scream, Oasis, and many, many more.
The neoprene masks are custom made, feature earloops, and are washable. Masks feature band logos, iconic artwork, lyrics, Noel Gallagher's legendary Liam diss ("a man with a fork in a world full of soup"), and tons more. Head here to check out the full line and order.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
The Touring Technique t-shirt is a nod to New Order's Technique and uses a black/purple combo similar to Technique's iconic artwork. All proceeds will be donated to New Order's crew members who have been out of work since the pandemic hit.
Read New Order's comments on the t-shirt and head here to pre-order. The t-shirt ships July 24th.
"We’ve toured the world with our crew, they work really hard, they’re really professional, kind, funny people who we care about enormously. They are all facing no income for some time to come because of the current pandemic. Our shows are nothing without them and we need them to be able to come back and work with us next year otherwise we can’t tour! 100% of the proceeds from this specially designed exclusive crew shirt are being donated to them, thanks to Warner merchandising for helping us facilitate this.
If you like New Order live and want to see us play next year, please buy a shirt and help our crew keep going!"
Wayne Hussey is releasing a 2020 remake of The Mission's classic "Tower Of Strength" featuring a lineup of musical luminaries.
The collective is titled Re-Mission Interational and includes Martin Gore, Gary Numan, Budgie, Lol Tolhurst, Andy Rourke, Jay Aston, Michael Aston, Michael Ciravolo, Rachel Goswell, Billy Duffy, and more. Proceeds from the single will be donated to several Covid19 related charities chosen by the artists involved in the project.
Hussey revealed a few details surrounding the project last month, and this past week he shared another list of participating musicians. The single is still a work in progress and no details regarding the release date have been made available yet, so stay tuned.
Meanwhile, since Hussey announced both Jay and Michael Aston are involved in ReMission International, inquiring minds want to know how exactly Hussey was able to convince the estranged twins to agree to work together again. It turns out Michael Ciravolo of Beauty In Chaos addressed that very issue in a blog he posted earlier this week:
"I guess I take the blame or credit, depends how you look it it of suggesting them. I have remained friends with Michael Aston since being part of the Gene Loves Jezebel Anniversary tour in 1997-1998...I can’t say I remained friends with Jay, as in his brain, I sided with his brother in their ‘dispute’. Wayne however, has remained in touch Jay as his ‘version’ of GLJ has supported The Mission over the years, even on the most recent pre-covid tour. So he and I both reached out to our respective Aston and asked them to sing on this.
As for the future? Who knows.. I don’t think this will lead to an Aston brothers reunion, but stranger things have happened. Hopefully, it as least opens the door to some sort of reconciliation, even if it doesn’t include GLJ."
Read Ciravolo's full blog post here.
Michael Stipe and Big Red Machine (Aaron Desner of The National) filmed a performance for Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show: At Home Edition which aired earlier this week.
Stipe and Desner performed the new single "No Time For Love Like Now" which was written last year prior to the pandemic, though perfectly captures 2020.
Other than a slight wardrobe change (button up/crewneck combo) the Tonight Show performance appears to have been filmed in the same studio around the same time as the official video which premiered a few weeks ago.
Watch the elegant performance from Stipe and Desner below.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Monday, June 22, 2020
Depeche Mode have announced a global LiVE SPiRiTS concert streaming event.
The never before seen full concert will stream live one time only this Thursday, June 25th at 3pm ET on You Tube. The concert stream is in celebration of the release of Spirits In The Forest, which arrives on BluRay and DVD this Friday, June 26th.
Live Spirits was captured live on the Global Spirit tour in Waldbühne, Berlin on July 23rd and July 25th 2018 and is included as bonus material on the Spirits In The Forest BluRay/DVD. A companion audio-only version of the Live Spirits concert (aka Live Spirits soundtrack) will also be released on June 26th. Head here to view all the pre-order options.
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Original German versions of five Kraftwerk albums will be issued digitally for the first time in July.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
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