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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.

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Pre-order "Long Live Pere Ubu" in North America.

The new Pere Ubu album is available for pre-release ordering in North America.

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Charlie 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...

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"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,...

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LLPU 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...

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Night 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...

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Song 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.

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Trippy, 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...

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Datapanik 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,...

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Creepily 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,...

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Incredible 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...

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LLPU is here!

"Long Live Pere Ubu!", the new album from Pere Ubu, is on sale as a download at hearpen.com.

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Roald 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...

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Audacious 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...

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Interview in LA Times

Sam Adams interviews David Thomas about "Long Live Pere Ubu in the LA Times.

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Home 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....

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London 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...

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Ubu to Reims (F)

Pere Ubu will perform "Long Live Pere Ubu!" in Reims (F) on Dec. 16.

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End Of Summer Sales

Selected items are on sale at Ubutique for North American addresses ONLY.

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Get 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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