Sweeping The Nation — So we start the final furlong of the feature and complete the 1970s with the year disco ate the world. Who could complain? Well, middle America and everyone involved with financing the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film thinking they were ... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Industrial Priests OvercoatsFrom: Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaIn April I introduced the bedroom/street gospel project of Splatsin Nation member TJM and friends, aka Industrial Priest Overcoats (New Music To Confuse Your Ears - Industrial Pries... more info

Sweeping The Nation — *The* 1975, because pop SEO has to work in STN's favour at some time. The year of Rollermania, Whispering Grass, Sailing and the UK's best selling album being The Best of the Stylistics. Disco took off with plentiful American number ones and ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Over forty years in the game and Pere Ubu is still a work in progress. When Aquarium Drunkard spoke with founding member David Thomas this past week, that much was clear. “I work ten years ahead of time,” Thomas says at one point during our talk,... more info

Detroit Free Press — In front of Marble Bar show, leader David Thomas talks about looking back, literate rock, MC5 and Stooges influences, and more             more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Cleveland guitarist/singer/songwriter/scenemaker Peter Laughner, best known for co-founding Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu, died at far too young an age in 1977. But he managed to pack an astonishing amount of activity into his short life — inc... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Pere Ubu are bringing their 'Coed Jail!' tour to North America, where they'll play setlists drawn exclusively from the recordings of 1975-1982. The tour is promoting their new box set Architecture Of Language 1979-1982 which features v... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Rocket From the Tombs at The Bell House in 2011 (more by Greg Cristman) Proto-punk pioneers Rocket From the Tombs, whose members splintered off into the legendary bands Pere Ubu and Dead Boys, are set to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Cover art to new Pagans' LP While Pere Ubu and other Ohio cousins were offering only cerebral dissonance, the 1977 punk explosion visited Cleveland in the form of the Pagans. Picking up where the departed (for NYC) Dead Boys left... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — One hell of a night in Cleveland. Television played its first out-of-town shows deep in the heart of Ohio in the summer of ’75. The opening band was Rocket From The Tombs, a band that would soon splinter into Pere Ubu and Dead Boys (You can hear th... more info