Pere Ubu Band

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Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow: An Oral History of Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger

Spin 08 Oct 2021

“That’s probably one of the most tumultuous times in the band’s career,” the group’s guitarist, Kim Thayil, admitted ... Yamamoto departed shortly after the release of the band’s second full-length record Louder Than Love two years earlier ... I went to a Pere Ubu concert. Kim told me that Hiro left the band ... That was sort of internal band stuff.

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Soundgarden on 30 years of 'Badmotorfinger,' the 'weird science project' that became a grunge classic

Finger Lakes Times 27 Sep 2021

"It has weird elements that rock bands at that time, that were popular on MTV or on the radio, didn't really incorporate in their overall sound," Cameron says ... We really liked Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu and all these post-punk or nontraditional rock elements in these bands." ... Back then, Shepherd was just stoked to be in the band.

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Singer-guitarist Mdou Moctar delivered an intense performance at Ace of Cups

The Columbus Dispatch 16 Sep 2021

On top of an already short set, the band came back for an encore sans Moctar ... in the band ... If bands such as Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth, and the Fall could be heard as influences, the augmented duo of Bianca Abarca and Jeremy Snyder sounded like a band still trying to find itself.

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A music detective story: Unearthed recordings by the Jacks feature Replacements, Husker Du members

Killeen Daily Herald 21 May 2021

Before that, the group had relocated to Cleveland, where Griffin (singer/drummer) and chief collaborator Walter Kleinecke (singer/guitarist) frequently gigged with pioneering bands like Pere Ubu and the Pagans ... "The Suicide Commandos were actually the much bigger band at the time.".

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Black Country, New Road live stream review – frantic and celebratory

The Observer 14 Feb 2021

The reason this group can get away with such an assured jazz band manoeuvre as an improvised gig is that BC, NR are meandering, free-form and restless ... To all the comparisons that they have earned – Slint, the Fall, Albert Ayler and Pere Ubu – this improv gig draws forth another ... But then most bands aren’t Black Country, New Road.

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Black Country, New Road live stream review – young, free and singular

The Guardian 13 Feb 2021

The reason this group can get away with such an assured jazz band manoeuvre as an improvised gig is that BC, NR are meandering, free-form and restless ... To all the comparisons that they have earned – Slint , the Fall , Albert Ayler and Pere Ubu – this improv gig draws forth another.

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The Strange World Of... Pere Ubu

The Quietus 26 Jan 2021

On paper at least, the definition of Pere Ubu as a garage rock band with musique concrète elements, makes them sound potentially similar to Cologne-based experimentalists Can ... Pere Ubu’s ability to consistently put on a great live show, and also to continually refresh the band ...

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Why I’ve been thinking about 4-decades-old Minneapolis theater production for the last four years

MinnPost 04 Dec 2020

Born at the dawn of punk rock (with which “Ubu” shares a certain freewheeling and purposeful va te faire foutre to the rich and bloated, and not for nothing is the pioneering punk-art band Pere Ubu named for Ubu), the short-but-spunky production struck me and stuck with me as ...

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Scene at 50: Remembering the heyday of Cleveland’s music-loving alternative newspaper during anniversary year

Cleveland 01 Jul 2020

And, of course, Dave Thomas (later of Pere Ubu fame), who called himself Crocus Behemoth ... Pere Ubu frontman Dave Thomas is at center in overalls, performing his first-ever public gig under the name Crocus Behemoth ... Crocus hired new musicians and his band became Pere Ubu.

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Low Culture 1: The Velvet Underground Live In 1969

The Quietus 02 Apr 2020

The Velvet Underground rebrand themselves as a good ol' rock & roll band, Polydor ... A heavy sulphate rager, which can be heard on Still; ignore the daft vocals, it’s northern post punk powered as much by lowgrade acid as it was by cheap amphetamines; as much in debt to Hawkwind and the Stooges as it was to the Sex Pistols and Pere Ubu.

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Yuvee Rays

Eugine Weekly 12 Mar 2020

In their spare time, they hung out in Eugene playing music as Yuvees, a trio heavily influenced by no-wave music from New York and post-punk bands from Ohio such as Pere Ubu and DEVO. Eventually the Broome brothers moved to Portland, expanding the band lineup to a quintet and releasing their debut EP, Seething in Whisper Town, in 2018.

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Channel 4 news boss Dorothy Byrne: Public in danger of losing trust in democracy

Belfast Telegraph 01 Mar 2020

Channel 4 head of news Dorothy Byrne has said the public are in danger of losing their “trust and faith in democracy”. The veteran journalist said she was concerned by the public’s “low opinion” of politicians ... Byrne selected tracks including US punk band Pere Ubu’s Non-Alignment Pact, Handel’s Messiah and Fela Kuti’s Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense.

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The Numbers Band at 50: Maybe Bob Kidney and friends rose from obscurity, but they’re nowhere near oblivion

Cleveland 28 Feb 2020

After all, Devo co-founder Gerald Casale and the Waitresses’ Chris Butler are former Numbers Band members, and he’s a longtime friend of Pere Ubu’s David Thomas, who wrote the liner notes for the band’s most celebrated album, “Jimmy Bell’s Still in Town .”.

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After ups and downs, singer Cynthia Sley and legendary band Bush Tetras going strong 40 ...

AM New York 28 Jan 2020

But, after 40 years, the band that guitarist Pat Place “coerced” her into joining –� the Bush Tetras –� is still going strong.�. Sley grew up in Cleveland, taking in the wild musical scene that produced Pere Ubu and Devo but never thinking that she’d ever be in a band ... “She brought life back into the band.”�.

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Local man helps commemorate late Cleveland rocker

The Athens News 12 Dec 2019

Andrew Russ bought his first records by Pere Ubu, the groundbreaking Cleveland new wave band, while attending Ohio University in the early 1980s ... In the space of about a dozen years starting in Bay Village Junior High, he bounced in and out of a slew of bands, ranging from blues to glam-rock, none lasting long.