Andy Bell

Today's Bandcamp fundraiser includes new special/exclusive releases by Marissa Nadler, Animal Collective, Cloud Nothings, PUP, boygenius, Jason Isbell, Sonic Youth, Ride's Andy Bell, Frankie Cosmos, and more...

plus The Tallest Man on Earth, Peter Gabriel, The Front Bottoms, Alanis Morissette, HEALTH, Zola Jesus, Kesha, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

The Charlatans' Tim Burgess is organizing online interactive listening parties of classic UK Britpop, shoegaze and alternative albums, via Twitter, all hosted by members of the bands.

A Celebration of Talk Talk and Mark Hollis included members of Talk Talk's touring band and a host of guest vocalists, including Hayden Thorpe (ex Wild Beasts), Tim Burgess (Charlatans), Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Joan As Policewoman, My Brightest Diamond, Jane Weaver, Ride's Andy Bell and …

It's part of UK label Sonic Cathedral's Singles Club which will release a Slowdive live single in November.

The duo of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke were supporting both last year's World Be Gone and this year's orchestra rework World Beyond, but these shows were mainly about the hits...

(photo via @steve_j_a)

Ride are still two months away from their first live shows of their reunion (currently Coachella is first up), but frontmen Andy Bell and Mark Gardner ran through acoustic versions of of some of the band's best known songs Thursday night (2/19) at London's 100 Club in…

As songwriter in Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure, Vince Clarke's synthpop and dance music credentials are well established. Remixing too, as he recently gave Chad Valley's "Up & Down" the old VC touch and you can stream it below...