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  New Order are delighted to announce a remastered set of formats of Substance 1987, released via Warner on November 10. The 2023 collection will be available in 2LP, 2CD, 4CD deluxe edition, 2LP colored vinyl and 2 cassettes. Also being made available are reissues of the 12” singles "True Faith," "True Faith Remix" and "Blue Monday 88." Pre-Order by clicking the above image.. Originally released via the legendary Factory Records, Substancecompiled all of the band's singles to that point in their 12” versions with many of their respective B-sides (on the CD and cassette versions), and specially new recorded versions of "Temptation" and "Confusion." The album also included the biggest selling 12” single of all time, "Blue Monday," alongside other classic singles "The Perfect Kiss," "Bizarre Love Triangle" and the band’s debut single release "Ceremony." The album is the band’s biggest selling to

John Carpenter Official shares a second look at his forthcoming collection, 'Anthology II (Movie Themes  1976-1988)', set for release on October 6th via Sacred Bones. 'Anthology I' continues the celebration of his compositional genius via an excellently sequenced collection of some of his most iconic pieces of music from his extensive filmography, all newly recorded with his musical collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter. Following the previously shared album opener "Chariots of Pumpkins" from Halloween III, today he offers up the newly reworked version of '69th St. Bridge' from Escape From New York - a dynamic track that encapsulates the futuristic and gritty nature of the film and the intensity and urgency of the protagonist's mission via the use of throbbing bass lines, driving rhythms, and electronic textures. Carpenter comments: "This piece played during a chase across an imaginary bridge. Isaac Hayes was going after Kurt Russell,

Noir Bizarre's IHaveADreamPop! Electric Underground Railroad event is happening on September 8 and 9 at VAE Raleigh. This two-day event will feature live music, vendors, and DJ sets inside VAE's main gallery. Free and open to the public. The event starts at 12:30 PM. Le Bizarre Noir (NOIR BIZARRE) “STRANGE BLACK” is a play on words and reclaiming the idea that exploring works by people of color is often unbeknownst to a mainstream audience who had no idea we existed. Daniel Chavis wants to include everyone who is “strange and black” regardless of their background or sexual orientation, “offering something between Hillbillies and Hip Hop.”   Noir Bizarre is a mobile multimedia event covering the "grey" areas of Bohemia and Afrofuturist creatives. We invite the local Triangle community to experience the bohemian side of this Black Futurist manifesto in art, music, and other endeavors.  Learn more about  Noir Bizarre's IHaveADreamPop! Event DetailsWhere: VAE Raleigh

Bauhaus Staircase is the upcoming fourteenth studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the fourth since their 2006 reformation. It will be released on 27 October 2023 by White Noise Records. The title track was released as a single on 22 August. During 2020's COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, OMD frontman Andy McCluskey "rediscovered the creative power of total bloody boredom", writing the majority of what would become Bauhaus Staircase. Bandmate Paul Humphreys had recently become a father, which delayed his mixing of the album.Humphreys notes that the record also includes older songs that OMD "wrote for previous albums and couldn't find a way to finish." Its release – set for 27 October 2023 – was preceded by a single, the title track, on 22 August. The title is derived from the Oskar Schlemmer painting, Bauhaus Stairway (1932). McCluskey has stated that the album is likely to be OMD's last. Track Listin

The Underground Youth's eleventh album, 'Nostalgia's Glass', was just released on Fuzz Club Records.  The album is available now as a Fuzz Club store-exclusive edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies on 180g clear-pink vinyl, as well as 180g clear-blue vinyl and CD Stream/Purchase now via the & in the bio "The aim became to create a collection of songs that paid homage to our back catalogue, whilst implementing all that had been learnt along the way. I attempted to dissect not only the positive but the negative elements of nostalgia, primarily the romanticisation of the past, be it the politics of a country, the controversial legacies of film and musical icons or the sentimental idealisation of long dead toxic relationships." Craig Dyer

Beggars Arkive have announced a vinyl reissue, out October 6th, of the second Fields Of The Nephilim album The Nephilim, released 35 years ago by Situation Two/Beggars Banquet in 1988, and not pressed on vinyl since then. The album is pressed on golden brown vinyl and is expanded to a double LP. Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. You can hear their influence on bands like Swans, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky, Wolves in The Throne Room, Behemoth and more. The Nephilim was recorded in a former courthouse in the Somerset countryside where defendants who were sentenced to death were hung. “Moonchild” is the band’s best known song due to it reaching #28 in the UK single charts, and LouderSound called it a classic and said that it “perfectly encapsulates this era of the band: it h

New live album from The Jesus and Mary Chain out now, feat. tracks from ‘Psychocandy’, ‘Darklands’, ‘Automatic’, ‘Honey’s Dead’, ‘Stoned and Dethroned’, ‘Munki’ and ‘Damage and Joy’. Available on gatefold 180g double LP and CD. The black w/ white splatter version is limited to 2000 copies and exclusive to the Fuzz Club and Mary Chain stores. - - - - - - - - - - - - Recorded at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles in 2018, ‘Sunset 666’ is a new live aIbum from The Jesus and Mary Chain, due out August 4th 2023 on Fuzz Club. In 1990, a young American band, full of a precise kind of noise and darkness, were special guests on the US tour being undertaken by a group who had noise and darkness, poise and catharsis of their own. The young band: Nine Inch Nails. Those headliners: The Jesus and Mary Chain. Almost thirty years later, an invitation was extended. Would the Reid brothers care to reverse the roles and open for Nine Inch Nails on their own North American tour? Trent Reznor had been a

It was all change when The Fall signed to Fontana. Guitarist Martin Bramah, who had founded the group with Smith, returned, replacing Smith's ex-wife Brix, who had been in the group since 1983. There were few cries of sell-out, however, when The Fall signed to a major; it was just part of an evolutionary process. The three Fontana albums, Extricate, Shift- Work and Code: Selfsh were stunningly consistent. With Martin Bramah and keyboard player Marcia Schofeld dismissed from the band, The Fall worked as a four- piece (Craig Scanlon, guitar; Steve Hanley, bass; Simon 'Funky Si' Wolstencroft on drums) for the frst time in the group's career. Shift-Work from April 1991 is another commercial Fall high- water mark; it contains Idiot Joy Showland, Smith's rant against bandwagon- jumping Madchester bands ("The shapeless kecks fapping up a storm, look at what they are: a pack of worms."), the one- time album title track, The War Against Intelligence, and the bucoli

The wait is over. All three studio albums by Lush will finally be back in print on vinyl starting 11 August, 2023. + Pre-order all three albums from 4AD here + + Pre-order from the store of your choice here + Lush by Matt Anker Built around the songwriting talents of Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi, Lush successfully defined a myriad of 90s scenes such as shoegaze, dream pop and Britpop before they disbanded in 1998. A much-loved band who briefly reformed in 2016, recent years has seen a new, young audience fall in love with their music after discovering it via TikTok, Spotify et al. And outside of a lavish Record Store Day career retrospective boxset in 2016, all three studio albums – Spooky(1992), Split (1994) and Lovelife (1996) – have been unavailable on vinyl since the 90s. With demand high, the band have been working with renowned engineer / producer Kevin Vanbergen to help them remaster their catalogue, starting with their studio albums. Using the original ½” production tape

EXCLUSIVE SERIES of Peter Murphy's artworks NOW LIVE Peter Murphy unveils his debut series of artworks, exploring his iconic gothic aesthetic through self-portraiture and music iconography.  Our first release includes a very special series of 13 framed artworks and is an in-depth exploration of Peter's introspective journey throughout the last few years, with strong references to his 'Godfather of Goth' persona. Bold colours, gothic undertones, energetic brushstrokes, and distinctive references to his musical career show how interlaced the artist and musician are. 21 artworks will be released online throughout July and August. Peter Murphy has contemplated this series since he was 17, when he was accepted into art school. Unable to attend due to work, he took a different path and progressed into music. However, Peter has always been a passionate fine artist. Coming soon: There will be two additional releases of original artworks through Peter's artworks site and a

Proper Records have announced pre-orders for the re-issues of Catherine Wheel’s first 3 albums, Ferment, Chrome and Happy Days with a release date of August 18, 2023.   Formed in Great Yarmouth in 1990, Catherine Wheel – singer guitarist Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes and drummer Neil Sims – are possibly one of the greatest lost bands of that fabled decade. Swimming against several tides, they were loosely defined as 'shoegaze', and failed to fit in with the grunge or britpop movements in those years. They were of a size and scale to be supported by the upcoming Radiohead. Melody Maker said that Radiohead were like Catherine Wheel as they "function along a similar catharsis/contrivance axis, ladling existential angst into skilfully imposing song structures." Overseen by Pixies producer Gil Norton and recorded at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row Studios, where band favourites, Joy Division, had made Closer, Chrome marked a huge step forward, h

Siouxsie Sioux’s debut solo album ‘Mantaray’ is to be reissued with new artwork. The new version of the album accompanies Siouxsie’s first UK dates in ten years and her first in Europe and the US since 2008 which are being received with rapturous acclaim. She will be playing a mixture of intimate shows and festivals from now through September. ‘Mantaray’ has been remastered and cut at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios and is being released on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 2007. The black and limited edition Indies-only red vinyl versions and the ‘mini LP’ sleeve CD all feature new artwork.  ‘Mantaray’ saw Siouxsie revel in a sense of freedom, producing something much more expansive than her previous work. The first single from the album, the spellbinding ‘Into A Swan’ proved that Siouxsie was still very much in control. Fans and media alike embraced the record, and the ensuing tour sold out wherever it went. For those who had only dipped into h

(From Little Cloud Records FB)  “Dark Glasses” - The brand new single and video from Tremours is out today via Little Cloud Records ! The single is available on a limited edition three color “Psychedelic Smoke” 7” vinyl! The B-side includes a “Dark Glasses” remix by Pete International Airport ( Peter G. Holmstrom of The Dandy Warhols) Head to the Tremours Bandcamp page to check out the video and to preorder the 7” vinyl! https://tremours.bandcamp.com Watch the video for "Dark Glasses" Catch Tremours On Tour JUL 09 / Austin, TX / The 13th Floor JUL 10 / San Antonio, TX / Paper Tiger JUL 11 / Denton, TX / Rubber Gloves JUL 13 / Galveston, TX / Menard Park (Summer Concert Series) JUL 14 / El Paso, TX / Rosewood AUG 27 / Long Beach, CA / Happy Sundays Festival Follow Tremours on Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter for future updates.

Pete International Airport’s third album, It Felt Like the End of the World, is a triumph of process and vision. Named after a song by Peter G. Holmström’s other band, The Dandy Warhols, the eclectic project nails the elusive aesthetic of unexpected yet inviting sound art. The band’s quest to build immersive soundscapes that are also classic, catchy songs succeeds, in part, due to Holmström’s uncanny ability to curate and his penchant for dropping collaborators into challenging creative spaces—both virtual and actual—then letting them duke it out. Rachel Goswell from Slowdive, Alexander Hackett from Pang Attack, Dion Lunadon from A Place To Bury Strangers and the D4, and, none-other-than Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick (on 12 string bass), tangle with Peter’s usual coterie of musical foils. The results are folded into Holmström’s hyper-stylized world of symbols, themes, and archetypes.  The LP's core roster boasts the cream of the neo-psychedelic crop, of which The Dandy Warhols, an

From Witch Cat Records: Excited to announce the next Witch Cat Records release "Bioanarquía" from Thanatoloop . Available as a Limited Edition Cassette or Digital download. Available August 4th. Pre-orders start today.  Listen to the first single Nada es de Nadie on the Witch Cat Records Bandcamp Page below. At its core, Bioanarquía is an experimental psychedelic album. Multi-instrumentalist Michel Leroy uses layers of guitars, synths, electronic rhythms, and strange noises to push the boundaries of music collapsing in on itself to create walls of sound, otherworldly ambient pieces and intense chaotic moments. All is held together by Michel's rich vocals with lyrics of optimism in oppressive times. “This album I think is even more optimistic than my previous release “Vértigo”, but also with more abrasive moments. It is less industrial, more ambient, and has rhythm experiments with latin signatures, also more gaze guitars besides the acoustic one on track 3. My vocals are

Hanging Freud are a Glasgow based production duo of Paula Borges and Jonathan Skinner. As a duo they combine their somewhat nomadic past with multicultural backgrounds of coming from Sao Paulo (Brazil) and London (UK), into a body of work that is more often than not described as uncompromising and genre defying. The band joins hands with the Belgian label Spleen+(division of Alfa Matrix, home to artists such as Front 242 and Trisomie 21) for the release of their 7th studio album, "Worship". The album will be released on digital platforms, double CD (with exclusive EP) and coloured LPs. The first single/video "Falling Tooth" is available below, with free download. “Falling Tooth” evokes the band’s influences ranging from post punk, ethereal, synthgaze, cold wave, ambient pop or yet experimental electronica. Paula’s vocals are dark, haunting, almost glacial, her enunciation is both plaintive and full of echoing fragile grace. While the cinematic music warps them all