Pere Ubu leader David Thomas remixed two of his favorite Ubu albums, 1998's Pennsylvania and 2002's St. Arkansas, saying that the remixes are so substantial, they amount to being two new albums.

Pere Ubu’s only chart success came in 1989, when the band’s single “Waiting for Mary” from the Cloudland album reached No. 6 on Billboard’s Modern Rock chart.

Pere Ubu’s combination of post-punk, art-rock, new wave, and even industrial music has had a long-lasting influence on acts like R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Pixies, Sisters of Mercy, and more.

Pere Ubu disbanded again in 1982 but not before releasing what was considered their final album, Song of the Bailing Man. They staged a comeback in 1987 and recorded The Tenement Year in 1988.

Pere Ubu, the long-running band fronted by singer David Thomas, will be making the US debut of their "Long Live Pére Ubu--The Spectacle" show at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday, March 28th ...

A live performance and interview by seminal American art-punks Pere Ubu will air on NPR's World Cafe program Thursday March 1. World Cafe can be heard on over 200 radio stations nationwide. The ...

It took 30 years for Pere Ubu to embrace its destiny. Born out of the industrial wastes of Cleveland, the protean avant-rock ensemble has tried its hand at apocalyptic drones, brittle minimalism ...

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Pere Ubu. Lady From Shanghai. PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2013. Since their formation in the mid-'70s, Pere Ubu have been completely uncompromising musically, and even when they flirted with commercialis ...

PERE UBU: (Singing) Another crazy jukebox is playing at the bottom of a hole in the holy. That's not good, my soul and my soul's out. I could sleep for a thousand years.

Pere Ubu was as essential to Ohio’s ever-formative rock scene as Devo, Michael Stanley Band, and the Raspberries.If Eric Carmen was the city’s ticket to the mainstream, then Thomas was its ...

There’s always something special about a Pere Ubu concert. The Cleveland-bred, “avant-garage” band has created a body of work that’s like no one else’s. Led by its rotund, animated ...