Pere Ubu

Classic ’90s pinball machine ‘Funhouse’ takes a starring role in this video for the lead single from Pere Ubu’s upcoming 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo.

Art punk vets Pere Ubu will release 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo on September 29 via Cherry Red Records. Made with a nine-piece lineup…

In honor of Rough Trade’s 40th anniversary, this week’s edition (8/10) of BrooklynVegan.com Blog Radio on SiriusXM is dedicated entirely to the long running label and record shop. Over the course of the two hour show, songs will be played from throughout Rough Trade’s entire 40 year run

The Cleveland protopunk (punk and postpunk) icons brought their Coed Jail tour to NYC.

Pere Ubu are bringing their ‘Coed Jail!’ tour to North America, where they’ll play setlists drawn exclusively from the recordings of 1975-1982. The tour is promoting their new box set Architecture Of Language 1979-1982 which features vinyl remasters of the seminal albums ‘New Picnic Time’ (1979), The Art Of Walking (1980) and Song Of The Bailing […]

Last month, Rolling Stone ranked the 40 best emo albums of all time, and today they’re back with the 40 best punk albums of all time. Now, this is the same magazine that told you John Cougar Mellencamp, Sting and Jackson Browne all had some of the 100 best albums of the 1980s and Black Flag and Minor Threat did not, so it’d be understandable if you don’t care what they think the best punk albums of all time are, but this list is actually rock solid…

Proto-punk pioneers Rocket From the Tombs, whose members splintered off into the legendary bands Pere Ubu and Dead Boys, are set to release another reunion album this y…

Art punk legends Pere Ubu have a new album out and a North American tour on the way, which hits NYC on September 12 at Bowery Ballroom. That tour faced a roadblock when the band’s non-US citizen members were not allowed into the country, but now the band have published a note on their website, titled “We Fought the Faceless Government Clerk and the Faceless Government Clerk Lost,” which sort of presents a solution to the problem:Pere Ubu has added Cleveland guitar maestro Dave Cintron to the lineup for its September tour of the eastern USA and Canada…

Tim Wright, founding bassist of influential Cleveland band Pere Ubu and a transformative force in pioneering no wave band DNA, died this past Sunday from unreleased causes…

Hopefully the second tweet (above) from Pere Ubu isn’t a real declaration. The band, who recently scheduled a North American tour that includes a stop in NYC at Bowery Ballroom on September 12, are suffering from the old Visa Issues, which is a little strange as they’re an American band…