“The 50th Chaplin award — past honorees Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor, Fellini, even the Three Stooges would know Pedro ...

Late Pretty Things singer Phil May was mates with Hendrix and Page, a rival of the Stones and an accidental drinking buddy of ...

He met guitarist Peter Laughner, another rock critic — Laughner was into Dylan and the Velvets, Thomas was more into Beefheart and Hawkwind and the MC5, but both were obsessed with the Stooges ...

But you can make an argument that he achieved a lifetime’s worth of greatness in the first three years of Pere Ubu ... especially the trilogy of The Modern Dance, Dub Housing, and Terminal ...

David Thomas, a cofounder of Pere Ubu and the only member to perform on all their albums, has died. The singer was 71. The ...

Influenced by Detroit bands like the Stooges and the MC5 ... and it sounded like nothing else. Pere Ubu’s three guitarists came up with a piercing, buzzing groove that worked as mechanical ...

They released nearly 20 albums over their four-decade recording career, starting with 1978's classic The Modern Dance. Thomas' distinctive ... Underground and the Stooges, as well as performance ...

When I think of my favourite of their shows, it’s almost like I’m recalling three different bands. There’s the pure pop Americana of a show like Bush Hall in 2013, with Thomas at the top of his game, ...

Three years later, the band put out its first studio album, “The Modern Dance.” The record was ... by the hard-edged sound of MC5 and the Stooges. He also found inspiration in the region ...