The Posies

The Posies announce 30th anniversary tour w/ 'Frosting on the Beater' lineup

The Posies are gearing up for this year’s 30th anniversary celebration which includes reissuing their three DGC albums — 1990’s Dear 23, 1993’s Frosting on the Beater, and 1996’s Amazing Disgrace — on vinyl and CD. Having gone on an acoustic tour earlier this year, The Posies have just announced an extensive full-electric tour that will feature the 1992-1994 lineup that made Frosting on the Beater…

The Posies played acoustic @ City Winery (pics, setlist)

The Posies, who are celebrating 30 years of chiming power pop and gorgeous harmonies, are currently on an acoustic tour which hit NYC’s City Winery on January 25. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow treated the crowd to the many Posies favorites…

The Posies reissuing '90s LPs on vinyl, going on acoustic tour

The Posies are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and are reissuing their three ’90s albums for Geffen — 1990’s Dear 23, 1993’s Frosting on the Beater, and 1996’s Amazing Disgrace — on vinyl and CD via Omnivore Recordings…

members of Mercury Rev, Midlake & Posies touring as Tears of Silver, releasing EP (listen)

The Posies’ Ken Stringfellow, Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper, and Midlake’s Jesse Chandler are will be touring together as Tears of Silver, playing selections from their different catalogs, perhaps a few covers and maybe a new song or two.

The Posies announce first album in 5 years (listen to "Unlikely Places") and "secret shows" North American tour

The Posies (Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow) will release Solid States on May 20 via My Music Empire. It’s been a rough last year for the Posies. Drummer Darius Minwalla died of unknown causes last year. Then they lost longtime bassist Joe Skyward to cancer last month, and both Auer and Stringfellow relocated from Seattle to Europe. […]

Joe Bass (Sunny Day Real Estate, Posies), RIP

Former The Posies and Sunny Day Real Estate bassist Joe Skyward, aka Joe Bass, has sadly passed away after a two-year long battle with cancer. He was 57. The Posies released a statement on their Facebook page saying: Joe Skyward, aka Joe Bass, left us last night. He had been fighting cancer for the last […]

Lucero share cover of Big Star's "I'm in Love with a Girl" featuring Jody Stephens, Jon Auer & Ken Stringfellow

Lucero‘s new album, All A Man Should Do, will be out September 18 via ATO and the band have shared another song from it, a cover of Big Star‘s “I’m in Love with a Girl…

The Posies' Ken Stringfellow made a video with Margaret Cho, on tour now (two NYC shows this weekend)

Posies singer Ken Stringfellow released his fourth solo LP, Danzig in the Moonlight, last fall which found him a little more raw mode than the harmonied pop his band is known for…

the Posies on tour w/ Brendan Benson & Aqueduct (NYC tonight) -- updated dates & some pics from the Rock Shop

The Posies don’t usually rehearse before tours, but they did for the one that starts next week in Spain. The reason: ‘Blood/Candy,’ an unusually complex album the band releases Tuesday and performed in full Thursday night at the Rock Shop in Brooklyn, N…

The Posies touring (dates) w/ Brendan Benson (who is 1 of many guests on Margaret Cho's new CD) ++ win Rock Shop tix

The Posies will debut new material for the very first time at the Rock Shop in Brooklyn on September 23rd. That show is sold out, but now there are many more chances to see the band, and with Brendan Benson (of solo and Raconteurs fame) to boot…
<< >>