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Ben Folds Five Jump On The "Let's Have Bands Perform Their Old Albums Live" Bandwagon

Cheeky piano-heavy trio Ben Folds Five have announced that they're reuniting for a show where they play their 1999 album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety. The concert—which takes place in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sept. 18—is the first installment in the "let's have bands play the albums you love so they can keep raking in the nostalgia cash" series Front To Back, which is sponsored in part by nowwhat.com. (As Al Shipley put it, the site's "named after the phrase bands utter after they stop making good albums and have to just play the old ones." Ha ha! OK, it's actually an ethics-lite site sponsored by the insurance giants at State Farm. Same diff?) Anyway, as with so many music-publicity claims these days, there's something a little strange about the video announcement of the show, which I've embedded after the jump. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Sep 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
535 views, 22 comments

Latest by Chris Molanphy: @Jerkwheat: Citing "artistic differences," your band will break up in May. Then, in June, re-form without you. more »

he's just bein' weiland-y

Stone Temple Pilots Tour Going About As Well As You Expected


It's been a while since we heard of any disasters on the Stone Temple Pilots reunion tour, but last week's concert in Phoenix brought Scott Weiland and his bandmates back on the trainwreck path. It got off to an unfortunate start, as you can see from the above video, with Weiland mumbling an introduction to "Big Empty" before being propelled backwards and into the drum kit of Eric Kretz, no doubt because of the power of his inebriated yarl. (The fall comes at around the 1:23 mark, although the intro really helps contextualize things.) And the mishap must have jumbled things up in his brain even more, because he then went on to forget and alter the lyrics to the track. A description from an Arizona Republic writer who saw the whole thing go down in non-pixellated form follows: More »

12:00 PM on Mon Aug 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
10,635 views, 13 comments

Latest by N/A: great. im gonna be seein them tomorrow night at musikfest. hopefully they will give him a chair or something... i knew i shoulda got tix for van halen :) jump! more »

thank us for the music

Finally, A Band That Doesn't Need The Piles Of Cash A Reunion Tour Will Bring In

Why embark on a grueling tour made even moreso by the ravages of time when you can just watch the money from the licensing of your songs to jukebox musicals and fresh-faced kids roll in? Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus basically posited this question to the British paper The Telegraph when he told a reporter there that there was no way his band would come back for the dual purposes of cashing in and acting as a "cover band" of its older material. Of course, Ulvaeus let this little piece of principle slip in the context of promoting the movie version of Mamma Mia!, in which his songs... get covered by Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan. And as any shrewd businessman knows, outsourcing is the way to go these days. More »

8:53 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
444 views, 3 comments

Latest by N/A: Didn't ABBA's drummer die recently by slipping and banging his head on a coffee table or some shit? more »

when will i be famous (again)

Let's Just Get It Over With: All Bands Must Reform Right Now


Late-'80s UK boy band Bros, who you might remember from—who I am kidding, odds are you don't remember Bros at all, unless you happened to see them open for Debbie Gibson during her Electric Youth tour. Well, they're getting back together if they can work out the logistics, according to Bro Matt Goss. Just so you're prepare, check out some of their career highlights after the cut. More »

12:30 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Dan Gibson
232 views, 7 comments

how this news will affect their ice cream is uncertain

Just Get Back Together Already, Phish

Long ago, I bought a copy of Billy Breathes, I think because it had a song called "Prince Caspian" on it. That being said, Phish for me is like recreational drug use: Not my sort of thing, but if you'd like to entertain yourself in that manner, just don't bring it around my kids. Now that its been a month since lead singer Trey Anastasio started floating rumors of a reunion, Page McConnell is starting in with the "closer with all of them now then I've ever been" nonsense. Just get back together and play some giant farm or abandoned Air Force base or whatever, OK? I can't take six months of speculative blog posts and mysterious band pronouncements. Give your fans some notice so they can fix up their vans and regrow their hair to pre-breakup lengths, and we can all move on with our lives. [Billboard]

2:00 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Dan Gibson
330 views, 7 comments

Latest by cheesebubble: As if they had truly broken up, never to reunite again. more »

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Are You At A Led Zeppelin Reunion Show? A Handy Guide


Hey, did you hear that Led Zeppelin reunited this weekend? Well, it was just John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, who took the stage with the Foo Fighters at Wembley Stadium for "Rock and Roll" and (as seen above) "Ramble On," but that's not stopping the NME from running with the headline "Led Zeppelin reunite at Foo Fighters show." To celebrate this momentous occasion, let's play a game of "Are You Really At A Led Zeppelin Reunion Show"! More »

12:30 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,000 views, 4 comments

Latest by valido: Maura, you're just jealous 'cause you weren't there. I was. And having seen Robert Plant solo some 5/6 years ago, I now have a perfect Led Zeppelin reunion in my mind ;) (last winter I preferred the Sunn o))) + Boris more »

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Alex James Certain Blur Will Eventually Grab That Reunion Loot

Alex James interrupted his anti-cocaine promotional activites to let Blur fans know that someday, someway, he and his bandmates will put get together and siphon all your cash with a big ol' vacuum cleaner. ""We're all pretty busy but I'd be surprised if [a reunion] never happens. But I would be terrified if it was happening on Monday." It's only been about five years since Think Tank, so there's no reason to interrupt solo careers and philanthropic ventures when the potential pay-off will increase every time a summer passes and they put this off. [Digital Spy]

12:00 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Anthony Miccio
126 views, 1 comment

Latest by N/A: My head would implode if this happened, but I think it'll be in 10 years when Damon's accomplished all he can on his own, and Alex, Graham, and Dave are broke enough to deal with Damon's ego. Coachella 2018 headlining more »

money money money

Ned's Atomic Dustbin Give Themselves The Christmas Present Of A '90s Nostalgia-Fueled Payday


Ned's Atomic Dustbin are the latest bygone band to announce a reunion, with a single show at London's Astoria this Dec. 6. Much as I love their double-bassed assault, aren't we running out of bands that can reunite during this decade? As far as I can see, the list is composed of The Smiths, Pavement, Uncle Tupelo, and... uh... I mean, I guess Milli Vanilli can't really count... [NME]

1:45 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
698 views, 18 comments

here i go again

Led Zeppelin Reunion Tour Rumors Re-Re-Re-Resurface

And this time, the person fanning the rumor flames is none other than former Robert Plant fill-in and self-proclaimed "long-time pal" of Jimmy Page David Coverdale, who told the UK's Mirror "I'm expecting a call from Jimmy any day asking my band Whitesnake to support them on their world tour. Am I on board? You bet. Probably worth billions!" Well, more like £250 million, according to the Mirror. The alleged tour, which is now rumored to start in late 2008 or early '09, will supposedly mark the band's 40th anniversary. And hey, if it doesn't work out, perhaps some forward-thinking promoter can book a tour of bands who have claimed to be the Led Zeppelin reunion tour's opening act? I count the Cult, Velvet Revolver, and Whitesnake—surely that could fill at least a thousand seats at an arena. (You could even have Lez Zeppelin open, just to confuse the NME all over again.) [Mirror]

9:30 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,186 views, 3 comments

Latest by N/A: "The world is such a mess, what's needed is a new Whitesnake album!" Methinks someone possesses an outsized sense of his own importance. I suppose Kingdom Come will be opening, as well.[blog.newsok.com] more »

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Son Of A Gun! Vaselines Playing Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Party?


First the Green River reunion gets announced for the Sub Pop 20th-anniversary festival this July, and now Line Out is claiming that none other than the Vaselines, the Scottish twee outfit beloved of (and covered by) Kurt Cobain, will be playing as well? I think our pals out in Seattle said it best when they said "ALKSJFHPEORTYIASKDJFHAWOIEUTYASDKLFJHASKLDJF HASOIDRY;WFLKMNSD;OTYAXKVMNSADGASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (Some anonymous Brooklyn Vegan reader is claiming that Eric's Trip is going to make an appearance as well, which will become a multiple-consonants-in-caps worthy rumor once someone steps up to claim it.) [Line Out / YouTube]

10:50 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Maura Johnston
253 views, 4 comments

Latest by mackro: This is likely going to be *the* festival of the year. more »

Forty Percent Of Original Guns N' Roses Lineup To Appear On Upcoming Album And it's my two favorite members! Let the conspiracy theories/reunion chatter/talk of Chinese Democracy being completely scrapped and recorded over the course of a bourbon-soaked weekend flower anew! [chopaway.com; HT Sleaze Roxx]

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My invite to the NME Awards USA apparently got lost in the mail, so the only bits of the for-real-this-time Jane's Addiction reunion that I've had a chance to see are the AP photos and this video interview with the band, in which Dave Navarro looks shiny and talks a lot and Perry Farrell looks kinda sad, until he says "As soft as grass may seem, it cracks the asphalt." [YouTube / Photo: AP]

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Swervedriver's long-planned reunion will kick off at the Coachella Festival on April 27, followed by a US tour in May and June. Says singer Adam Franklin: "We've actually only had the one get-together at this point in a cheap studio in North London but it sounded surprisingly tight and together—and also more punk rock and unhinged than ever before somehow." Once again, where is that reissue of Raise? [Billboard]

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Jane's Addiction To Reunite Again, But This Time It's Sort Of For Real

Original Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery—who's backed off from participating in his former band's reunion shows and tours because he (perhaps rightly) saw them as little more than cash grabs—has decided to play a few songs with his old mates at next week's invite-only, MySpace-streamed NME Awards USA. The band is picking up a "Godlike Genius Award" at the ceremony, no doubt in part because it new how to monetize that '90s-nostalgia mine when Weiland was still trying to figure out whether or not making an album with Guns N' Roses members was a good idea. Avery was, understandably, somewhat conflicted about even publicly mentioning that he was even considering doing the show, what with "maybe" meaning "yes" in the overheated gossipsphere that the NME helped create. More »

11:30 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
759 views, 10 comments

Latest by Chris Molanphy: @Ned Raggett: FTW. Lulz of the day. more »

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Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary Festival: Stop Me Before I Start Camping Out Now

As rumored back in October, the legendary Seattle band Green River, which featured future members of Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, and Love Battery during its too-short career, will reunite for the Sub Pop 20th anniversary party, scheduled for July 12 and 13 at Seattle's Marymoor Park. Not only will the show also feature hiatus-breaking performances by Red Red Meat, Seaweed, and the Fluid as well, it'll have sets by current acts like Low and No Age. And Mudhoney, obviously. Tickets go on sale April 26! I hope I can meet the guy who runs the grunge-history blog lamestain while I'm there, because I really owe that dude a drink. Full announced lineup after the jump. More »

4:50 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,360 views, 25 comments

Latest by N/A: Hazel anyone? I was specifically logging on to say "FUCK!! GET THE SPINANES!!!" but I am clearly behind the times. Velocity Girl only if they don't play "I Can't Stop Smiling" and of flipping course the Fastbacks. What about The more »

As previously reported in this space, the spaz-pop outfit the Feelies are reuniting for a few shows this summer, and one of those shows will take place on July 4. They're opening for Sonic Youth! At Battery Park! Which means that if you want to go to the show you should start lining up around midnight on June 30 or so. [Billboard]

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Stone Temple Pilots Perform In LA, Plan Album, And Why Not

The reunited Stone Temple Pilots performed for the first time since 2002 at the Harry Houdini Estate in LA on Monday night. The brief set consisted of three singles from Purple, three from Tiny Music...From The Vatican Gift Shop and Core's "Plush." I guess they're saving those deep album cuts from Shangri-La Dee Da for the big tents. Video peppered with off-camera snark after the jump. More »

9:45 AM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Anthony Miccio
763 views, 12 comments

The Specials are reportedly the latest band to be floating the idea of a reunion tour—U.K. only, if it happens—and/or a new album. Perhaps all that talk about a Mighty Mighty Bosstones reunion made the Brit two-town pioneers realize it was finally time to show today's kids what's what. [NME]

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