Paul Westerberg

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The Replacements‘ reunion may be over but they are giving an official release to the storied live recordings of their February 4, 1986 show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, called For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986, on October 6 via Rhino. While you wait for the two-disc album to drop, we’ve got an exclusive set of never-before-seen photos by Caryn Rose from that very Maxwell’s show…

The legendary (and previously bootlegged) show was one of the last to feature the band’s classic lineup before Bob Stinson left the band. After decades of sitting in the vaults, the recordings are getting a proper release.

“I was next to another musician, a couple other guys that were up-and-comers and that thought they were hot shit, and we were watching Prince. The guy turned to me and said, ‘I’m fucking embarrassed to be alive.’ And that’s how I felt. He was so good. It was like, ‘What are we doing? This guy is, like, on a different planet than we are.'”

Last year, Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield said they’d be releasing a collaborative album as The I Don’t Cares call…

The Replacements reunion may be done, but frontman Paul Westerberg is staying busy. He’s got a new collaborative project with Juliana Hatfield (whose band the Juliana Hatfield Three also recently reunited) called the I …

The Replacements had been on another leg of their reunion tour, but it looks like it may have come to an end over the weekend. Pitchfork points out that at their Primavera Porta set, Paul Westerberg said it would be the last time they played together, and smashed his guitar at the show…

Make no mistake, by most standards the show was a bit of a mess, full of missed cues, flubbed lines and plenty of fooling around. Westerberg conspicuously avoided nearly all of his most heartfelt ballads, and he and the band gleefully sabotaged some of their most popular tracks, kicking “I Will Dare” into double time or tacking on a taste of the bubblegum ditty “My Boy Lollipop” to the end of an otherwise blazing “Bastards of Young…

The Replacements in Forest Hills last week (more by PSquared) In a recent Rolling Stone article titled The Replacements: The Greatest Band That Never Was, it was revealed that the band say it’s “likely” they’ll make a new album…