Marc Almond

The album also features covers by Joan Jett, Devendra Banhart, Lucinda Williams, Father John Misty, Peaches, Beth Orton, King Khan, U2 (ft. Elton John), David Johansen, and more.

The ’80s-centric Los Angeles festival Cruel World has announced it’s moving from May 2 to September 12, due to “recent circumstances.”

It’s like a John Hughes soundtrack performed live, with Violent Femmes, The Church, English Beat, Public Image Ltd, Gary Numan, Marc Almond and lots more also playing this one-day LA fest.

The first-ever NYC edition of LA party Sex Cells went down at Brooklyn Bazaar this past weekend, and most excitingly, it featured Soft Cell singer Marc Almond performing Soft Cell material (and more)…

Other upcoming shows at the venue include Marc Almond performing Soft Cell, Vio-lence, Flipper with David Yow, 108/Racetraitor, Gatecreeper/Exhumed, and more.

The tour is a collaboration with LA party Sex Cells and also features Hercules & Love Affair.

Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne), Wendy Smith (Prefab Sprout), Cosey Fanni Tutti, Midge Ure, Holly Herndon, Kelly Lee Owens, Zola jesus & more have also paid tribute.

All with the grade school type puns Ralph Wiggum would love.

Also: Paul McCartney, Marc Almond, Carrie Brownstein, Questlove, The Mountain Goats, Nikki Sixx, Nigel Godrich, Chaka Khan, and more

Also: Talking Heads, Yoko Ono, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love & more We already posted Tony Visconti, Iggy Pop, Florence + the Machine, The Mountain Goats, Questlove and Cyndi Lauper’s tributes to the late, great David Bowie, and other artists have written tributes as w…