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Ministry to Embark on North American Tour Performing “With Sympathy” and “Twitch” Era Material — Show at Brooklyn Paramount on May 16th Announced!

In 1983, Ministry’s debut album With Sympathy arrived in an iconic sleeve adorned with roses—a bouquet of condolences that, unbeknownst to most, marked the burial of the record itself. For…

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Watch Tones on Tail’s First Performance in 40 Years at Cruel World Fest 2024

This past weekend’s aurora borealis flares might have lit up the skies, but at the 2024 edition of Pasadena’s Cruel World Fest, one of the most anticipated reunions charged the…

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Watch Ministry Perform Songs From “With Sympathy,” “Twitch,” and More During Their Cruel World 2024 Set

Hell froze over in sunny Pasadena courtesy of the Industrial music icons Ministry, who briefly transformed back into a synth-pop band (kind of) for Cruel World Festival 2024. This surprising…

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Cruel World Festival Announces 2022 Lineup with The Damned, Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen, Morrissey, and More!

The Cruel World music festival has unveiled its lineup for the 14th of May 2022 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl. After waylaid plans due to the pandemic, the one-day…

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Cruel World Undead? Festival Hints That it will “Go Forward” in 2022

Is the Cruel World Festival making a comeback in Spring of 2022, and more importantly, will it still involve Devo? Or for that matter, any other of the acts on its…

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So Long, Cruel World? Festival with Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo and the Bunnymen, and More Canceled

Due to the “ongoing uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic” California-based concert promoter Goldenvoice has canceled the Cruel World festival in Los Angeles, which would have seen an unprecedented convergence of…

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