When the band Any Trouble made its debut on Stiff Records in 1979 with the single “Yesterday’s Love” b/w “Nice Girls,” the label had already survived the defection of co-founder Jake Riviera and, with him, artists including Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Any Trouble was one of the headliners of the 1980 “Son of Stiff” tour, alongside Ten Pole Tudor, Dirty Looks, Joe “King” Carrasco and The Crowns, and The Equators, and made their LP debut that year with Where Are All the Nice Girls? Produced by
Archives for February 4, 2014
All I Ever Wanted: Rhino to Reissue Depeche Mode Catalogue on Vinyl
A dozen albums by electronic pioneers Depeche Mode will see reissue on 180-gram vinyl this winter and spring, Rhino Records announced. In more than three decades since their debut album Speak and Spell (1981), the band - vocalist Dave Gahan, guitarist/songwriter Martin Gore, keyboarist Andrew Fletcher and former members Vince Clarke (keyboards, 1980-1981) and Alan Wilder (drums/production, 1982-1995) - established themselves as one of the most commercially successful and influential bands of
Release Round-Up: Week of February 4
Burt Bacharach, Together? — Original Soundtrack Recording / Toomorrow: From the Harry Saltzman-Don Kirshner Film “Toomorrow” — Original Soundtrack Recording / The Mamas and the Papas, A Gathering of Flowers / Brotherhood, The Complete Recordings / Smith, A Group Called Smith/Minus-Plus / Troyka, Troyka / Jim Reeves, A Beautiful Life — Songs of Inspiration / The Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol. 20 — Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/25/76 — Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY 9/28/76 (Real