Brooklyn Vegan — The event is called "Flip These Houses" that celebrates "Protest Songs, Political Music, and Unity through Song" and the lineup also includes Lloyd Cole, Hamilton Leithauser, The Wrens' Charles Bissell, Nicole Atkins, Ted Leo, Syd Straw, and man... more info

Sweeping The Nation — The year of Live Aid, of course, and with it and We Are The World came the birth of the superstar, so much so that by September Michael Jackson could outbid Paul McCartney for the Beatles' publishing. Wham! went to China, Brothers In Arms popular... more info

Uncut — Lloyd Cole In New York arrives on March 17 Lloyd Cole In New York arrives on March 17 The post Lloyd Cole announces 1988 – 1996 box set appeared first on Uncut. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Death in Chicago in 2014 (more by James Richards IV) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... The Who, Joan Jett @ Forest Hills Stadium The Who are... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — A career-spanning box set of Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, titled Collected Recordings 1983-1989, is coming out June 29. It includes the band's three studio albums which have been remastered from the original tapes whenever possible, as Cole told... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Lloyd Cole's 2013 album, Standards, is finally getting a North American release on October 14 via Omnivore Recordings. The record, which features old pals Fred Maher, Matthew Sweet and Joan Wasser, finds him at his most rockin'... more info

Guardian Music — Even Lloyd Cole didn't need to fill a song this simple with too many words. Probably because he didn't have enough wordsPeople's recollections of Lloyd Cole tend to be that he was a bit clever: he and his Commotions formed at Glasgow University while... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole shares his love for David Bowie's Low album at Salon. I admit I was initially disappointed. But as a Bowie devotee, I necessarily listened to the album, nonstop, for several weeks. This was maybe my first attempt... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — (photo by Doug Seymour) In 1984, Lloyd Cole and his band the Commotions released Rattlesnakes, an album that for many could stand as one of the best debut albums of the era. With references to Jules and Jim, Simone de... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a British pop band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1982. Between 1984 and 1989, the band scored four Top 20 albums and five Top 40 singles in the UK. After breaking up in 1989, Cole embarked on a solo career bu... more info