Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu’s 19th album, ‘Trouble on Beat Street,‘ is out May 26; their NYC show is with Faust, and the LA show is with Mike Watt

‘Trouble On Big Beat Street‘ is Pere Ubu‘s 19th album and will be out in May

Drummer Anton Fier also played with Swans, Bob Mould, Lloyd Cole, Yoko Ono, Pere Ubu, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Paul Haig, Arto Lindsay, and more. He was 66.

”This wraps up every song and story that Pere Ubu has been telling in different ways for the past forty plus years,” says frontman David Thomas. ”It is one definitive hour that provides the answers to the questions we’ve been asking and delivers it up into what I consider the definitive destination.”

”It’s a band protocol that if you play for us, you fall into the ‘Once Ubu, Always Ubu’ category,” said frontman and only remaining original member David Thomas.

Plus: Paramore with Soccer Mommy and Jay Som (separately), Pere Ubu, Tricky / Young Magic, Parquet Courts' A Savage, and more just announced tours.

Village club Le Poisson Rouge is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of special shows including Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly, Olafur Arnarlds, Pere Ubu, Matthew Sweet, Marc Ribot, Vijay Iyer Trio & Mantana Roberts, and more.

"I'm always stupefied when year-end list time rolls around. Especially when I see folks post shit like their '100 favorite albums of the year.' That means a single person somehow consumed and critically thought of well over a hundred albums and some how figured out how to rank them. That would be like ranking all the meals for the year, sunrises, or bowel movements. Utter insanity." - Protomartyr's Joe Casey.

He recorded this one with Pere Ubu drummer Steve Mehlman.

Classic '90s pinball machine 'Funhouse' takes a starring role in this video for the lead single from Pere Ubu's upcoming 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo.