ALISON MOYET: RELEASES ‘MINUTES AND SECONDS LIVE’ ALBUM

ALISON MOYET released a live album, 'Minutes and Seconds Live', on November 10th.
The album - which was recorded at various shows on Moyet's recent tour for her album 'The Minutes' - will feature thirteen tracks including solo versions of tracks she recorded with YAZOO.

SPANDAU BALLET RELEASE ‘SOUL BOYS OF THE WESTERN WORLD’

Spandau Ballet will released their documentary movie 'Soul Boys of the Western World' on DVD and Blu-Ray. The full-length film tells the story of the band's rise, fall and reunion. This archive-only documentary film tells the story of a group of working-class London lads who created a global music Empire, but at a price none of them imagined.
The box set editions will contain three limited edition prints featuring previously unseen images as well as archive interviews and performances including over two hours of rare and unreleased content.

Spandau Ballet have announced an extensive arena tour across the UK and Ireland in March next year. the dates will be the band's first tour since their much acclaimed reunion in 2009.

MADNESS: RELEASE 35TH ANNIVERSARY ‘ONE STEP BEYOND’ CD & DVD EDITION

MADNESS will mark the 35th anniversary of their debut album, 'One Step Beyond', with the release of an expanded CD and DVD edition featuring the original album remastered, two previously unreleased tracks, videos, live performances, a filmed documentary and a 'Fab Toones!' recording made in the band's rehearsal studio in 1979...

Billy Idol: Kings & Queens of the Underground

A behind-the-scenes web series for Billy Idol's new album, 'Kings & Queens of the Underground.'


Check out Billy Idol's new video for his hot new single "Can't Break Me Down."

Billy Idol: Racy, Real and Rocking Out

Check out this video interview with Billy Idol talking about writing his new album and biography.



Get a taste for Billy Idol's upcoming tour in February for his new album. Billy Idol and Steve Stevens perform "Rebel Yell" on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Billy Idol also performs his great new single "Can't Break Me Down."

R.E.M.’s Peter Buck: Releases "I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again" solo album, touring

Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck is back with his second solo album, another vinyl-only release — ambitiously titled I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again — that he’ll support with a short round of dates later this month in the Midwest and South opening for and then backing roots-rocker Alejandro Escovedo

Like his 2012 self-titled solo debut, Buck’s new album is being released through Mississippi Records, and can be ordered through the label. Amazon.com also shows it being released Tuesday.
Buck announced the effort via a recent posting to R.E.M.’s website (see below), and more recently, discussed the pending tour with Escovedo, which opens next week in Milwaukee: “I’ve known Alejandro since the ‘True Believer’ days, and it’s an honor to be able to open for him. I’m also looking forward to backing him during his set. See y’all there.”
See full tour dates below.

From Peter Buck: “Bo Diddley 3AM”
Hey everybody, this is Peter. I am back in Mexico gearing up for the 3rd annual Todos Santos Music Festival. By gearing up I mean that I am drinking tequila at 3am and listening to Bo Diddley. What a mighty, mighty man he was, ever changing always the same. But that has nothing to do with this screed. I am here to talk about my second solo record.

The record is finished and will be available any day now. It is called “I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again.” No false modesty, maybe no modesty at all, I once saw an orangutan try to break into a box of live lobsters on Hollywood Blvd. That blew my mind. I am hoping my album does the same for yours. If you can’t find it at your local small retailer the best way to obtain it is on the web at www.littleaxerecords.com. They will be taking orders soon and the record should be available to ship by the end of the month. This being indie world all dates are approximate.

The last record I put out I gave the working phone number of the record company as a contact point. I got a panicked phone call at 12:30pm the next day from Eric who owns and manages Mississippi Records. He was completely freaked out, their answering machine was full and the phone was ringing every 15 seconds. In an outraged voice he told me, “We had to unplug the phone!”

A sane person might ask, who wants to be on a record label who unplugs their phone on the day of release because of too many orders? That person would be me. I spent over 30 years in what is laughably called the professional music business, and I came to the conclusion that there were 3 things that I loved: writing songs, recording songs, and playing songs. So that is how I run my business in conjunction with Mississippi Records: no interviews, no photos, no videos, no promo copies for radio play or reviews. The record is out there. It can be found. And I am pleasured beyond belief that 6,000 of you managed to find the last one. We have pressed up more this time so they should be easier to get. I am doing exactly what I love in exactly the way I want to do it.
I will be hitting the road in certain places this Spring, starting in February with Alejandro Escovedo. Keep up with REMHQ.com. It’s the only way I seem to be able to communicate regularly with the outside world beyond personal conversations.

Peter Buck

Morrissey Cancer Revelation?: Bands That Must Go Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...

From: Five Bands That Must Go Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Posted: 10/10/2014

...Morrissey and Marr have long vowed to never again perform together, and the singer is notoriously anti-establishment and would probably hate being associated with something like the Hall; but, given his recent revelation that he is battling cancer, this may be the time to recognize the band and hope against hope for a one-off reunion.

Read the original post here: www.huffingtonpost.com