The Fixx

The Fixx are joining up with fellow early-'80s vets The English Beat for a 25-date fall tour...

As a producer, Rupert Hine worked on Tina Turner's Private Dancer, Howard Jones' Human's Lib, The Fixx's Reach the Beach, and more.

Listen to new songs by The Front Bottoms, Saintseneca, Mykki Blanco, Caroline Polachek, King Princess, Ioanna Gika, Willie Nelson (covering Tom Petty), Say Hi, and more.

Tonight's NYC-area shows include Taking Back Sunday, Mount Eerie/Julie Doiron, Tyler Childers, Morbid Angel, Turnover, Curl Up and Die, Jandek, OM, Slumberland Records' 30th Anniversary, Harry and the Potters' Yule Ball 2019, and more.

Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.

Plus: Garbage, Janelle Monae, Anna Calvi, The Hold Steady, Guided by Voices, Ty Segall, The Fixx, FACS, and more newly-announced tours.

JLCD Soundsystem honcho James Murphy was the guest on Tom Scharpling's The Best Show on Tuesday night (8/8) for a nearly three-hour, freewheeling conversation....

With all the bands aping the '80s synth sound, here's a little bit of the real thing. Moody new wavers The Fixx will release their tenth studio album, Beautiful Friction, on July 17...

The Human League recently released Credo, their first LP in ten years and ninth overall, though according to a source quoted on Wikipedia, it "will not be available domestically in the US or on iTunes...