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Chez Damier (Photo Credit: ANDREW) Punch Bowl Social and SPIN will join forces later this month to kick off Chicago’s biggest weekend of live music with an event that honors the city’s pioneering house music legacy. Featuring legendary headliner Chez Damier, the one-night celebration of the genre is slated for July 30 at Punch Bowl Social, who is celebrating its birthday, in the West Loop. Damier helped define the global house […]

Satanic duo Twin Temple have revealed in a social media post they have been removed from their upcoming shows with outlaw country star Charley Crockett due to their use of Satanic imagery. Earlier this year, Crockett announced a major summer run of dates utilizing a variety of opening acts to showcase for his audience and Twin Temple were booked for performances July 14 in Troutdale, Oregon, as we Continue reading…

(photo: Fryderyk Gabowicz / picture alliance via Getty Images) The B-52’s are revisiting one of the most intriguing detours in their catalog. On Aug. 21, Rhino will release Ancient Culture: Mesopotamia Revisited, a deluxe expansion of the band’s 1982 Mesopotamia EP that restores the project to its originally envisioned full-length form while opening the vault with unreleased songs, alternate mixes and a previously unheard live concert. Originally intended as the […]

Faust's Jean-Herve Peron (photo: Geboren Wustmann) More than 50 years after helping redraw the outer limits of rock music, the surviving founding members of German legends Faust are returning — not as a reunited band, but as four distinct creative voices. On Sept. 26, Bureau B will release Four From Faust, a series of new albums from Hans Joachim Irmler, Jean-Hervé Péron, Gunther Wüsthoff and Werner “Zappi” Diermaier. Rather than […]

(photo: Kahn and Selesnick) Amanda Palmer has unveiled one of the most personal — and communal — projects of her career with the release of the music video for “Death Thing.” Created with dancer and collaborator Coco Karol, the crowd-sourced visual centers on a ritualistic bonfire fueled by hundreds of deeply personal objects mailed to Palmer by members of her 25,000-strong Patreon community. Wedding rings and dresses, dog tags, birth […]

Scissor Sisters' Scott "Baby Daddy" Hoffman, Jake Shears and Del Marquis. Jake Shears is adding another title to his résumé. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Scissor Sisters frontman has joined the upcoming feature film Tinderbox as a producer.Based on Robert Fieseler’s acclaimed 2018 book Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, the project tells the story of the 1973 Up […]

Bonnie Tyler performing in Berlin in 2014 (photo: Clemens Bilan / Getty Images). Welsh vocalist Bonnie Tyler, whose signature husky sound propelled “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero” into enduring ’80s hits, died July 8 at the age of 75, according to her family.“Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result […]