Echo & The Bunnymen
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Bobby Gillespie, Will Sergeant Books to Be Published by Third Man
New memoirs will explore musicians' careers in Primal Scream, Echo & the Bunnymen
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Violent Femmes, Echo and the Bunnymen Plot Co-Headlining Tour
Milwaukee folk-punks prepping follow-up to 2016 comeback LP, 'We Can Do Anything'
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Watch Arcade Fire Cover Creedence Clearwater Revival in California
Group adds to their list of geographically specific tributes with massive rendition of "Hey Tonight"
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Meteorites
In the Eighties, Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch battled the Cure's Robert Smith for goth-doll dominance. But nobody could touch the Buns for glowering guitar grandeur. On their 12th LP, trademark psychedelic swirls and red-sunset strings sound like they're soundtracking a Western about a gunslinger in a Joy Division T-shirt, as McCulloch moans about […]
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Left of the Dial: The Best of Eighties College Rock
They came from places like Athens, Georgia, and Manchester, England: Bookish (and often brooding) alt-rock savants whose snarling attitude and sharp wits soon found a home among cool-kid radio stations across the land.
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Live In Liverpool
Sometimes it's OK to settle for second best. Echo and the Bunnymen were not the U.K.'s best indie band of the Eighties (see the Smiths); they were not the most successful overseas (see the Cure), and they were certainly not their hometown's favorite sons (see the Beatles). In 1997, after a decade-long break, the above […]
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Flowers
Never as pretty as the Smiths, as anthemic or grand as their rival U2 or as suicidal as Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen fell between the U.K. post-punk cracks at the dawn of the Eighties. But the band's proto-Brit-pop sound resonates today in bands ranging from the Stone Roses through Radiohead and Oasis. Frontman […]
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