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 ...

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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 fixes things – that’s what we do,” says Pere Ubu vocalist David Thomas on a video broadcast uploaded to their Ubu Projex website. “The English prog rock scene was truncated by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.