Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Joyce Manor's first album in four years is a mix of shelved old songs, inspired new songs, and an OMD cover, and its title '40 oz. to Fresno' was derived from an auto-corrected text about Sublime. This is about as Joyce Manor-y as it gets.

Joyce Manor had originally planned to take a small break from music, but instead wrote this new album, produced by Rob Schnapf and featuring 9 songs in 17 minutes, and you can hear the under-two-minutes, back-to-basics lead single now...

Our presales for OMD‘s two Brooklyn Steel shows run today from 10 AM - 10 PM.

Synthpop icons OMD will celebrate 40 years with a North American tour in April and May of 2022 and you can get tickets to the 2 NYC shows with the BrooklynVegan presale...

Today's picks for live videos to watch while you're home and every show is cancelled include The Roots (with Erykah Badu) at Woodstock '99, OMD in 1985, Moloko in 2003, Deafheaven in 2013, and more.

Mark's playlist includes DC punks Iron Cross, Versus, Psychic TV, Slade, OMD and more.

Tributes have also come in from Jean Michel Jarre, Midge Ure (Ultravox), the Safdie Brothers, Orbital, The Orb, Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Lloyd Cole, Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Kid Congo Powers, Junior Boys, JD Samson, and many more.

OMD are currently on tour in North America with B-52's and Berlin.

This week: the brilliantly bonkers debut album from audiobooks; OMD vinyl reissues; the new album from synthpop vets Blancmange; the haunting debut single from London's POZI; and Norwegian house producer Bjorn Torske.

It's officially End-of-the-Year list season as Rough Trade Shops -- always first out of the gate -- have announced their Top 100 Albums of 2017...