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Pet Shop Boys and New Order reschedule The Unity Tour for 2022, new shows added in Brooklyn and Seattle
PET SHOP BOYS + NEW ORDER RESCHEDULE THE UNITY TOUR FOR 2022 NEW SHOWS ADDED IN BROOKLYN AND SEATTLE WELCOME DJ PAUL OAKENFOLD TO THE TOUR ![]() June 1, 2021—Pet Shop Boys and New Order confirm that due to the continuing uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, their highly anticipated North American The Unity Tour will be moving from the originally rescheduled 2021 dates to now begin in September 2022. They are also pleased to welcome DJ Paul Oakenfold to join the tour. The Unity Tour has added an extra show in Brooklyn at Barclays Center and the show at The Gorge Amphitheatre has moved to Seattle Climate Pledge Arena. Both shows go on sale this Friday, June 4 at 10am local time. Tickets for all original dates will remain valid for the new dates. Complete list of dates and more info HERE. About Pet Shop Boys:
About New Order:
In 2015, the band released their critically acclaimed album Music Complete, reaching #2 in the UK album chart. The album's title seems to shine a hue on New Order's new manifesto: new line-up, newly eclectic sound, reinvigorated in their fourth decade as a unit. New Order performed as part of Manchester International Festival 2017 for a series of unique shows in collaboration with Liam Gillick. These shows were such a success, they were taken to Turin and Vienna in May 2018 to further great acclaim and the live album released as ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes.. (2019). Continuing to play sold out shows the world over, recent live dates have seen them headline a four night residency at The Fillmore Miami where January 15 was declared forever New Order Day in the City of Miami Beach. PET SHOP BOYS / NEW ORDER THE UNITY TOUR 2022 September 17—Budweiser Stage— Toronto, ON September 19—Leader Bank Pavilion—Boston, MA September 21—Merriweather Post Pavilion—Columbia, MD September 23—Barclays Center—Brooklyn, NY September 25—TD Pavilion at the Mann—Philadelphia, PA September 28—Madison Square Garden—New York, NY September 30—Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island—Chicago, IL October 2—The Armory—Minneapolis, MN October 7—Hollywood Bowl—Los Angeles, CA October 8—Hollywood Bowl—Los Angeles, CA October 12—Chase Center—San Francisco, CA October 14—Climate Pledge Arena—Seattle, WA October 16—Rogers Arena—Vancouver, BC |
Perfume Genius Announces 2021 North American Tour Dates - Tickets On Sale This Friday!
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The Psychedelic Furs announce headline 'Made Of Rain" tour beginning September 15
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THE GUN CLUB'S 1981 PUNK-BLUES CLASSIC DEBUT FIRE OF LOVE RETURNS WITH DELUXE DOUBLE-CD
THE GUN CLUB'S 1981 PUNK-BLUES CLASSIC DEBUT FIRE OF LOVE RETURNS WITH DELUXE DOUBLE-VINYL AND DOUBLE-CD REISSUES VIA BLIXA SOUNDS |
THE GUN CLUB’S 1981 PUNK-BLUES CLASSIC DEBUT FIRE OF LOVE RETURNS WITH DELUXE DOUBLE-VINYL AND DOUBLE-CD REISSUES VIA BLIXA SOUNDS Both the LP and CD Editions Come with 10 bonus tracks and the Previously Unreleased Live At Club 88 – March 6, 1981 Street date July 23, 2021 LOS ANGELES, CA. (Tuesday June 1, 2021) — With a howling and unholy mix of punk rock and the blues, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club exploded upon the L.A. club scene in the early ’80s. They recorded their classic debut, 1981’s Fire Of Love, for the local Slash/Ruby Records label. And now that legendary album has been unearthed and brought back to life as a deluxe two-CD and two-LP set. Both the double-CD and double-vinyl editions contain a digitally remastered version of the original 11-track album, produced by fellow L.A. scenesters Chris D. of The Flesh Eaters and The Plugz’s Tito Larriva. The CD version will include 10 previously unreleased four-track demos and alternate versions, while the LP will include a download card for the digital version of the 10 bonus tracks. Both the CD and the vinyl versions will include a second disc, the previously unreleased Live At Club 88 – March 6, 1981, a concert recording capturing the band’s incendiary live set at the legendary West L.A. dive bar. The double-vinyl version will be released as a two-LP set packaged in a gatefold cover with extensive liner notes by drummer Terry Graham and remembrances from producer Tito Larriva and co-producer Chris D., as well as rare photos and ephemera. The CD version will include a booklet with liner notes, photos and ephemera. Born on June 27, 1958, Jeffrey Lee Pierce grew up in the East Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, California, before moving with his family to the San Fernando Valley, where he attended Granada Hills High School. Back then his main passion was acting. Eventually, his interest veered to music, but he held on to his love of drama and would later inject it into his music and performances. He’d been toying with guitar since the age of 10, and by his late teens and early 20s, he’d formed a few bands and wrote about reggae for Slash magazine under the pen name Ranking Señor Lea. It was in Creeping Ritual, a band Pierce formed with guitarist Brian Tristan, in which Pierce found his footing. He’d discovered the Delta blues from the record collections of Canned Heat singer Bob Hite and L.A. scenester Phast Phreddie Patterson, and decided to make them his own. Although his first bassist and drummer bailed, the band — rechristened The Gun Club by Circle Jerks’ singer and Pierce’s one-time roommate Keith Morris — became a reality with the addition of the fully formed rhythm section of bassist Rob Ritter and drummer Terry Graham. They had already played together in punk band The Bags and could hold down a solid foundation for Pierce and Tristan — now known as Kid Congo Powers — to improvise over. “He was injecting blues into the heart of punk rock, struggling to give life into something new and brilliant even if it was old and obvious at the same time,” Graham says of Pierce, in the book More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk. Fire of Love captures the Gun Club at their rawest on such originals as the unforgettable album-opener “Sex Beat,” the addictive “She’s Live Heroin to Me” and the psychobilly stomp of “For The Love Of Ivy,” an ode to Cramps guitarist and future Kid Congo bandmate Poison Ivy Rorschach. The band also delved into their influences on the set, digging up Tommy Johnson’s “Cool Drink Of Water” and Robert Johnson’s “Preaching The Blues” and jolting them back with jumper cables via Pierce’s new arrangements and “Elvis from Hell” howl. As Graham writes in the liner notes, “I couldn’t be more thrilled to know Fire Of Love has given so many a nice kick in the ass…I not only loved fighting off the Devil while a member of Gun Club, but I’m proud of what we did on Fire Of Love with Chris and Tito as our guides. And if this music continues to irk the purists, I couldn’t be more proud. Jeff, you were one hell of a great musician, but you knew that.” The Gun Club went on to record several other albums — including 1982’s Miami (reissued by Blixa Sounds in 2020) — before Pierce’s death in 1996, yet Fire Of Love is their finest hour. CD TRACK LISTING DISC 1 1. SEX BEAT 2. PREACHING THE BLUES 3. PROMISE ME 4. SHE’S LIKE HEROIN TO ME 5. FOR THE LOVE OF IVY 6. FREE SPIRIT 7. GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY 8. JACK ON FIRE 9. BLACK TRAIN 10. COOL DRINK OF WATER 11. GOODBYE JOHNNY BONUS TRACKS 12. BAD INDIAN (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 13. COOL DRINK OF WATER (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 14. FIRE OF LOVE (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 15. FOR THE LOVE OF IVY (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 16. GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 17. FIRE OF LOVE (4 TRACK DEMO) 18. DEVIL IN THE WOODS (4 TRACK DEMO) 19. GOODBYE JOHNNY (4 TRACK DEMO) 20. PREACHING THE BLUES (4 TRACK DEMO) 21. WATERMELON MAN (4 TRACK DEMO) DISC 2 / LIVE AT CLUB 88 – MARCH 6, 1981 1. DEVIL IN THE WOODS 2. BAD INDIAN 3. SHE’S LIKE HEROIN TO ME 4. PREACHING THE BLUES 5. KEYS TO THE KINGDOM 6. JACK ON FIRE 7. RAILROAD BILL 8. FIRE OF LOVE 9. SEX BEAT 10. GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY LP TRACK LISTING LP1 SIDE A 1. SEX BEAT 2. PREACHING THE BLUES 3. PROMISE ME 4. SHE’S LIKE HEROIN TO ME 5. FOR THE LOVE OF IVY 6. FREE SPIRIT SIDE B 1. GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY 2. JACK ON FIRE 3. BLACK TRAIN 4. COOL DRINK OF WATER 5. GOODBYE JOHNNY LP2 / LIVE AT CLUB 88 – MARCH 6, 1981 SIDE C 1. DEVIL IN THE WOODS 2. BAD INDIAN 3. SHE’S LIKE HEROIN TO ME 4. PREACHING THE BLUES 5. KEYS TO THE KINGDOM SIDE D 1. JACK ON FIRE 2. RAILROAD BILL 3. FIRE OF LOVE 4. SEX BEAT 5. GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY Amazon CD Pre-Order Link: http://bit.ly/fireoflove-cd Amazon LP Pre-Order Link: http://bit.ly/fireoflove Fire Of Love EPK: https://youtu.be/D7kwkoRyI5w |
The Cure’s Acclaimed 2018 Performance At London’s Royal Festival Hall Now Available To Stream
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A Place To Bury Strangers: New Single/Video for I Might Have & European Tour 2022 & Hologram Pre-Order
Today A Place To Bury Strangers release, "I Might Have", the 2nd Single & Video from their upcoming EP Hologram, out July 16 on Dedstrange.
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“I Might Have” is a fuzz-soaked sonic disaster in the best possible way. Past reflections collide with the brutality of a disintegrating world, stories of personal trauma, acceptance, and human failings emerge from the rubble of noise and destitute motorik rhythms. This is A Place To Bury Strangers at its most honest and unfiltered. Hologram serves as an abstract mirror to the moment we live in and “I Might Have” smashes that mirror into a thousand pieces.
Pre-Order Hologram at a Record Store Near You:
Special Amoeba Only Edition with Free Shipping In the US (Blue & Orange Vinyl):
Indie Store Exclusve Vinyl in Germany/Europe from Flight 13 (Blue & Red Vinyl):
Indie Store Exclusive Vinyl in the US from Rough Trade (Blue & Red Vinyl):
We are working on US Tour dates for 2022 and will announce them as soon as possible.
For now all shows are on sale for Europe & London in March/April 2022 here:

And last but not least, check out the new APTBS website. You'll find some hidden rarities on it:
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