A one-day concert festival has been scheduled for May 2 in Los Angeles featuring a who’s who of 80’s new wave and post punk artists. Tickets go on sale this Friday and details can be found on the Cruelworldfest.com website.
This weeks playlist features our favorite songs from the rich catalog of RIDE. This playlist contains almost 30 songs of listening from these shoegaze pioneers starting from their Smile EP all the way up to their latest album, This Is Not A Safe Place
It appears that Depeche Mode will release a DVD called Live Spirits that will be 100% concert footage of the final Berlin shows and, as always, directed by Anton Corbijn.
On this day in history (February 5, 1980), The Cure released their first compilation album Boys Don’t Cry which contained tracks from the Three Imaginary Boys album (which had yet to be released in the US) plus additional songs from the band’s 1978-1979 era.
On this day in history (February 4, 1983), Echo & The Bunnymen released their third studio album Porcupine featuring the singles The Back Of Love and The Cutter
On this day in history (February 3, 1997), David Bowie released his 20th studio album Earthling featuring the singles Little Wonder, Dead Man Walking, Telling Lies and I’m Afraid Of Americans.
On Tuesday, February 4, the stars of the Depeche Mode documentary Spirits In The Forst will be hosting a live Q&A session on Reddit. The “Ask Me Anything” session will take place on the Reddit Music community.
Morrissey has released the second single off of his forthcoming album I Am Not A Dog On A Chain. This track is Love Is On Its Way Out which has a different vibe than it’s predecessor Bobby, Don’t You Think They Know.
On this day in history (January 31, 1994), Tori Amos released her second studio album Under The Pink featuring the singles Pretty Good Year, God, Cornflake Girl and Past The Mission that featured backing vocals from Trent Reznor
On this day in history (January 30, 1989), New Order released their 5th studio album Technique featuring the singles Fine TIme, Round And Round and Run. This was the bands first album to reach #1 on the UK charts.
On this day in history (January 27, 2004), The Cure released the box set “Join The Dots: B-sides & rarities 1978-2001”. Many of us feel that this is the best collection of b-sides put out by any artist
Radiohead has transformed their website into what they are calling the “Radiohead Public Library”. The library is a digital archive containing every piece of media and merchandise from the band, spanning their entire career.