Pere Ubu

Faust brought a cement mixer and Pere Ubu brought Wayne Kramer to LPR (pics)

Faust brought a cement mixer, while Pere Ubu had MC5’s Wayne Kramer in the band.

Watch Pere Ubu's "Crocodile Smile" video from upcoming LP; Wayne Kramer playing in the band in NYC & LA

Pere Ubu’s 19th album, ‘Trouble on Beat Street,‘ is out May 26; their NYC show is with Faust, and the LA show is with Mike Watt

Pere Ubu announce new LP and tour dates, playing NYC with Faust

‘Trouble On Big Beat Street‘ is Pere Ubu‘s 19th album and will be out in May

Anton Fier (Golden Palominos, Feelies, Lounge Lizards) has died

Drummer Anton Fier also played with Swans, Bob Mould, Lloyd Cole, Yoko Ono, Pere Ubu, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Paul Haig, Arto Lindsay, and more. He was 66.

stream Pere Ubu's new album 'The Long Goodbye'

”This wraps up every song and story that Pere Ubu has been telling in different ways for the past forty plus years,” says frontman David Thomas. ”It is one definitive hour that provides the answers to the questions we’ve been asking and delivers it up into what I consider the definitive destination.”

Pere Ubu reuniting with '70s/'80s bassist Tony Maimone for shows

”It’s a band protocol that if you play for us, you fall into the ‘Once Ubu, Always Ubu’ category,” said frontman and only remaining original member David Thomas.

tours announced: Francis and the Lights, TR/ST, Screaming Females/Breeders, more

Plus: Paramore with Soccer Mommy and Jay Som (separately), Pere Ubu, Tricky / Young Magic, Parquet Courts’ A Savage, and more just announced tours.

LPR celebrating 10th anniversary w/ concert series (of Montreal, CYHSY, Doveman, Olafur Arnalds, more)

Village club Le Poisson Rouge is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of special shows including Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly, Olafur Arnarlds, Pere Ubu, Matthew Sweet, Marc Ribot, Vijay Iyer Trio & Mantana Roberts, and more.

Protomartyr's Joe Casey talks year-end lists, and offers up one of his own

“I’m always stupefied when year-end list time rolls around. Especially when I see folks post shit like their ‘100 favorite albums of the year.’ That means a single person somehow consumed and critically thought of well over a hundred albums and some how figured out how to rank them. That would be like ranking all the meals for the year, sunrises, or bowel movements. Utter insanity.” – Protomartyr’s Joe Casey.

Obnox releasing 2nd full length of 2017 (stream "Woe Is Me")

He recorded this one with Pere Ubu drummer Steve Mehlman.
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