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Focus Wales 2022: A Preview

Welsh showcase event kicks off on Wednesday with stellar line-up

May 03, 2022

Under the Radar heads to Wrexham later this week for the 11th edition of Focus Wales More

Cruel World Festival Offers Dream Bill of New Wave/Goth Icons: Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, and More

Los Angeles Event Also Features Devo, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs, Violent Femmes, Public Image LTD., Gary Numan, The Church, and Others

Feb 11, 2020

Goldenvoice, the company who puts on Coachella, has announced a new Los Angeles festival named Cruel World and it features a dream lineup for fans of 1980s New Wave and goth music, including: Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs, Violent Femmes, Public Image LTD., Gary Numan, The Church, Berlin, Missing Persons, Marc Almond, and others. More

May 01, 2014

Nobody puts Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch in the corner! More

Listen: Echo & the Bunnymen – “Holy Moses”

Meteorites Is Out June 3 on 429 Records

Mar 26, 2014

Finally, our first taste of Echo & the Bunnymen’s upcoming album Meteorites. More

Feb 24, 2014

Echo & the Bunnymen have announced the release of their new album, Meteorites. More

Mar 22, 2013

Post-punk veterans Echo & the Bunnymen have announced the arrival of their latest studio album, The Garden of Meedin’ later this year. More

Photos of Will Sergeant in Los Angeles, CA

My Own Worst Enemy Runs May 18 – June 16

May 18, 2012

Echo & the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant is multi-faceted talent. In addition to making music with the Bunnymen and as a solo artist, he’s an accomplished multimedia visual artist. It’s a passion that—over the past few years—has accumulated in his first gallery showing. More

Round-up of Recent Interviews: Florence and the Machine, Jónsi, Vampire Weekend, Doves, and more

So Many Interviews, So Little Time: Phoenix, Matt and Kim, Beach House, Camera Obscura, Local Natives, and others

May 07, 2010

For the past couple weeks, our writers (namely Laura Studarus, Frank Valish, and Hays Davis) have been working hard to bring you website-exclusive interviews. We’ve posted a total of 12 interviews since late April, 10 of which were conducted at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Making it easy to keep up, we’ve complied an alphabetical list of our most recent interviews. Find links to our interviews with Doves, Jónsi, Vampire Weekend, Beach House, Camera Obscura, Phoenix, Matt and Kim, Florence and the Machine, Local Natives, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Big Pink, and more. More

Ian McCulloch of Echo & the Bunnymen Discusses His Band’s Legacy

"For Me It's The Inception of The Song That is the Most Exciting"

Apr 24, 2010

After 32 years and 11 studio albums, Echo & the Bunnymen have become rock mainstays, influencing a new generation of synth-worshiping, post-rockers both at home in the U.K. and abroad. Under the Radar sat down with lead Bunnymen Ian McCulloch at Coachella to discuss the band’s legacy, creative process, and taking the show on the road. More

Echo & The Bunnymen Announce New Album And Tour

The Fountain out October 13th.

Jul 30, 2009

Perennial mopers Echo & The Bunnymen have announced the completion of their newest studio album, The Fountain, out October 13th. More



Interviews

Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant

An Artist Slays His Own Worst Enemy

May 22, 2012

When historians record his contributions to society, Will Sergeant is well aware that his role as a member of Echo & The Bunnymen will probably always be part of the headline. Now 54, the musician/artist finds himself eager to speak about his new endeavor: life as a mixed-media visual artist. More

Apr 23, 2010

After 32 years and 11 studio albums, Echo & the Bunnymen have become rock mainstays, influencing a new generation of synth-worshiping, post-rockers both at home in the U.K. and abroad. Under the Radar sat down with lead Bunnymen Ian McCulloch at Coachella to discuss the band’s legacy, creative process, and taking the show on the road. More


Reviews

Dec 23, 2022

When a band reforms or comes out of retirement to make a record, their fans grit their teeth and hope that the car crash isn’t too severe. For every one worthwhile addition to the back catalogue, there are three or four examples of phoned in, lackluster cash grabs. Echo & the Bunnymen’s Evergreen definitely falls into column A. More

May 20, 2022

Focus Wales delivered on every level, proving once again why it’s the pinnacle of UK showcase events More

Jun 04, 2014

Echo and the Bunnymen have never been the most dynamic of bands. There’s no standout feature that makes them particularly remarkable, aside from their consistency. They’ve stayed modestly relevant in the decades since their post-punk heyday without straying too far from the atmospheric proto-indie foundation they built in the ‘80s. More

Apr 17, 2010

Coachella 2010 began under the cloud of an erupting volcano. Several of the European artists playing this year had to cancel their Coachella appearances due to the Icelandic volcano eruption grounding all flights from the U.K. and other parts of Europe. So day one of Coachella was greeted with the news that we wouldn’t be seeing Frightened Rabbit, Delphic, The Cribs (with Johnny Marr), or Gary Numan after all. And only a few days earlier Mew had already cancelled due to illness. So this year’s festival was already starting with some losses, Mew and Delphic probably being the most unfortunate ones. But while there were few artists playing Coachella 2010 who I both hadn’t seen before and was dying to see (Pavement being one of them), the lineup was still rigged with enough great artists so that I had little time to eat and take breaks between bands. Here’s what I saw during day one. More

Mar 18, 2009

Echo and the Bunnymen’s first of three SXSW shows wrapped up an odd bill at Emo’s main room, featuring Cali punks Circle Jerks and Juliette Lewis’s latest band, The New Romantiques–her attempts to channel Janis Joplin and their hard blues rock by numbers bored most of us to tears. More