Classic Bands Archives — Page 9 of 132

Pulp to Release 30th Anniversary Edition of “Different Class” — 4 LP Set Includes 1995 Glastonbury Performance

“We don’t want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. That’s all.”⁠ The champagne fizz and E’s & Wizz of 1995 drifts back across the years like…

View Post

Sparks Announce First EP “Madder!” — Listen to New Song “Porcupine” as North American Tour Kicks Off This Week

Uninvited to the big soiree ‘Cause she rubs the folks the wrong, wrong way Rough around the edges, you might say Nothing wrong with that is what I’d say She…

View Post

Data, Desire, and Distortion — Nine Inch Nails’ Debuts Video for “As Alive As You Need Me To Be”

The way it makes me feel, infection It’s almost like a tongue on the back of my neck I never had a choice, connection I never had a chance to…

View Post

Paul Cox to Release Limited Edition Dead Or Alive Photobook

Pete Burns lived in extremis, not by volume or spectacle alone, but in the way he fractured and recomposed the cultural image of the pop star. In Dead Or Alive:…

View Post

Early 80s Chicago Post-Punk Outfit The Penthouse Plants Returns with “Dancing in the Dark” and More!

Born on Chicago’s North Side in the early 1980s, The Penthouse Plants were the kind of artful post‑punk curiosity whose reputation rarely drifted beyond city limits. Led by singer‑songwriter John…

View Post

Beborn Beton’s Stefan Netschio and A State of Flux Debut Video for Cover of Ultravox’s “Dislocation”

The sun was going down one quiet eveningSomeone came into the room while I was half-asleepWe spoke for a while, I couldn’t see his faceLater on when he was gone,…

View Post

Erasure’s Andy Bell to Embark on First Solo North American Tour This October

After a triumphant run across the UK and Europe, synthpop chanteur Andy Bell will set foot on North American stages for the first time as a solo artist, beginning October…

View Post

David Byrne Takes on the “Edgy and Untraditional” With Quirky New Single “The Avant Garde”

And when we go there you will observe It’s a passionate life, it’s a head of a curve It’s deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd Well, it’s whatever fits Somewhere between an…

View Post

NYC Post-Punk and Goth Festival A Murder of Crows Returns With Pink Turns Blue, 45 Grave, Ritual Howls, Vision Video, Soft Vein, and More!

New York’s internationally renowned gothic and post-punk festival, A Murder of Crows (AMOC), returns Labor Day weekend, August 29-30, 2025, heralded by a spirited opening bash at TV Eye on August…

View Post

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Celebrate 40 Years of “Crush” With Expanded Edition LP Re-Release

Celebrating four decades since their American breakthrough, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark have unveiled an expansive reissue of their influential album, Crush, due out October 10th via UMR/Virgin. The announcement…

View Post