LLPU FAQ Page Added
Now that the interviews have begun, it's time for the "Long Live Pere Ubu!" Frequently Asked Questions page to be added to the wilderness that is the Ubu Projex web site.
View ArticlePre-order "Long Live Pere Ubu" in North America.
The new Pere Ubu album is available for pre-release ordering in North America.
View ArticleCharlie Dontsurf freaks out...
"I cannot, I dare not listen too often to this album. I fear that it will make me crazy. It is incredible. I cannot accept it. It is stunning, quite simply a masterpiece. The sound is a pure wonder. It...
View Article"A Punk Menace"
Mark Rowland, pennyblackmusic, says of LLPU, "Menacing and visceral combination of punk energy and drama, comedy and art... The music mixes glitchy ambient electronics, spidery post rock guitar,...
View ArticleLLPU is Lumpy Gravy
Mick Houghton, Uncut October 2009 says, "Jarry explored the notion of a "horrible beauty" - conveyed amply here by dark humour and discordant music, reminiscent of Beefheart or Zappa's early sound...
View ArticleNight Before Xmas as written by William Burroughs
Ric Rawlins, Artrocker, October 2009, says of LLPU, "The closest thing I could compare it to is the soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas, with lyrics by William Burroughs... yet another case of...
View ArticleSong Of The Grocery Police
The Quay Brothers animation for "Song Of The Grocery Police" from Pere Ubu's new album, "Long Live Pere Ubu!", is up on YouTube.
View ArticleTrippy, twisted genius
Along with the signature electronic dissonance and stabbing, post-punk guitar, there's a touch of the gallows theatricality of The Birthday Party and the dust bowl holler of Tom Waits at his...
View ArticleDatapanik Redux
Cooking Vinyl will re-issue the box set October 5. They have license rights in territories outside North America. The booklet and packaging have been redesigned by John Thompson. It is now a 4-cd set,...
View ArticleCreepily Fascinating
Lurching and angular, as well as being creepily fascinating, this latest studio album... is refreshingly ambitious. There's a slow-building feel which matches the arduous methods used by Thomas and co,...
View ArticleIncredible Achievement
Make no mistake, this is an album that requires an awful lot of investment of time and understanding from the listener to fully appreciate the scale of what has been achieved. But it is more than worth...
View ArticleLLPU is here!
"Long Live Pere Ubu!", the new album from Pere Ubu, is on sale as a download at hearpen.com.
View ArticleRoald Dahl come to life
"Long Live..." is an intellectual piece, musically and due to its subject matter. But it's also bizarre and freakish, classically grotesque and downright silly at times. Like a Roald Dahl book come to...
View ArticleAudacious Sweet Spot
The political spectrum is a horseshoe, where extreme left-wing behavior and extreme right-wing behavior manifest in essentially the same ways, indistinguishable from each other to the victims suffering...
View ArticleInterview in LA Times
Sam Adams interviews David Thomas about "Long Live Pere Ubu in the LA Times.
View ArticleHome And Garden
Scott Krauss and Tony Maimone bring their Home And Garden band to New York City on October 24 at The Charleston (174 Bedford Av, Brooklyn, New York 11211) as part of the Exit Stencil CMJ Showcase....
View ArticleLondon Texas
Chris Cutler's RERMegacorp label released a live Pere Ubu cd of tracks selected from the hearpen.com download audio releases Waltz Across Texas and Waltz By The Sea. The cd is called London Texas (ReR...
View ArticleEnd Of Summer Sales
Selected items are on sale at Ubutique for North American addresses ONLY.
View ArticleGet your own Inward City
For advance copies of Inward City go to http://www.ubuprojex.net/hearpen/inwardcity.html and do the obvious thing. Or better yet buy from Bob!
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