Brendan Perry / Robin Guthrie

Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard [not pictured above] are set to commence work on a new album later this year. To coincide with the albums release in 2012, Dead Can Dance will embark upon an extensive two month world tour including dates in Asia, Australasia and South America......

No U.S. so far, but more imminently, you can catch Brendan Perry (of Dead Can Dance) & Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) on the road in the tail end of May during a string of North American dates, hitting both coasts and Chicago during a two-week+ jaunt. Those dates include May 31st at Irving Plaza, and tickets are on sale. All dates are listed below.

The shows mark Perry's first U.S. appearances since playing with Dead Can Dance in 2005, and Guthrie's first US outing since a 2009 showing at ATP New York (where he ruled). Both are welcoming a new LP. Perry's new album Ark is due via The End on May 24th, and Guthrie's new LP Emeralds is due on May 12th via Darla.

All tour dates and some video is below.

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Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay's solo album, Major General, is out tomorrow. (Editor's note: Late of the Pier is out in the US too.)

Vinyl reissues of Dead Can Dance'sSpleen and Ideal, the Jam's All Mod Cons, the Lemonheads' It's a Shame About Ray are tempting, as are three M83 vinyl reissues: Before the Dawn Heals Us, Digital Shades, Vol. 1, and Saturdays=Youth

Next week's release week is huge (new albums by Antony and the Johnsons, Animal Collective, A.C. Newman, and that's just the artists beginning with "A"), so I am saving the bulk of the month's music budget for the January 20th releases.

What new releases can you recommend? Have I left anything off the list?

Continue reading "Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week"

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Former Jam and Style Council frontman Paul Weller releases his latest solo effort, 22 Dreams, stateside tomorrow, a disc that features guest appearances by Noel Gallagher, Graham Coxon, and others.

Other albums I can strongly recommend include the Avett Brothers' Second Gleam, Benji Hughes' debut double album A Love Extreme, Bodies of Water's A Certain Feeling, Faun Fables' A Table Forgotten EP, Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh's self-titled album, and PAS/CAL's Raised on Mathew, Mark, Luke & Laura.

For the literary minded indie rock fan, Chamber Music: James Joyce collects Mercury Rev, the Minus 5, Kinski, and others interpreting James Joyce's 1907 collection of poems. Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection, also available tomorrow, can be seen as the soundtrack to the singer-songwriter's autobiography, Society's Child (out Thursday, look for a Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay from Janis Ian then).

The 9 4AD remastered SACD albums by Dead Can Dance share the reissue spotlight this week with remastered editions of U2's Boy, October, and War (all available as single CDs, with bonus CD, and on vinyl). Julie Doiron's Loneliest in the Morning, an album I truly adore, is also reissued this week with bonus tracks.

Editor's note: CSS, Dr. Dog, High Places, Forward, Russia, Black Kids all also have new albums this week - as you can see from the list below....

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4AD just put out a 'best of' Lisa Gerrard:

Simply titled "Lisa Gerrard", the album was selected and sequenced by Lisa herself. And so it's a genuine "best of" which offers a concise and entirely convincing insight into the various strands of her musical output. In short, "Lisa Gerrard" blends soundtrack work, Dead Can Dance highlights and the pick of her solo recordings into a seamless and spellbinding whole.

In April Lisa starts a tour that brings her from Australia to Europe to North America. Tickets go on sale soon for a show at the Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall in NYC on May 9th. All currently known tour dates below....

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Words can not describe how great it was. Here are some photos from Dead Can Dance's two hour reunion set at Radio City Music Hall in NYC last night (October 8, 2005).

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Tickets for some of the upcoming U.S. Dead Can Dance shows are on sale at Ticketmaster.

The presale password for the show at Radio City Music Hall on October 8th is "NEWYORK"

Thx Dan!!

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Dead Can Dance | Touring, Live CDs, & New Songs
Dead Can Dance Reuniting!

The Dead Can Dance reunion tour is underway in Europe, and I've got the North American dates, which include....(drum roll please)...October 8th at Radio City Music Hall! (all dates below)

According to their website, "The band is doing approximately thirty minutes of brand new, never-heard material in their set each night of this tour."

And like (their 4AD labelmates) the Pixies, they're selling limited edition recordings from thirteen of the shows.

"Own limited-edition recordings from the Dead Can Dance European tour of 2005. Only 500 discs will be made of each of these thirteen shows.

These are not CD-R's, but real, professionally mastered, silver-plated, pressed CDs.

Each package will be individually numbered and include pictures, art and notes from the tour and a track-list from the specific show recorded."

Get more info and place your orders here.

the rest of the dates....

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Best News Ever.

"Dead Can Dance have reunited and have lot's in store for the next year. A worldwide 2005 tour is in the mix, plus new recordings"

deadcandance.com has the European tour dates, with North American ones coming soon.

For those new to Dead Can Dance, here's a bio, and watch two videos here.