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News '80s Classics on 4AD, Beggars Banquet Reissued on Vinyl Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:38 PM Heart-warming news for your pre-Thanksgiving consideration: Vinyl 180 will be reissuing LPs by Bauhaus, Lisa Gerrard,...

In this article: Lisa Gerrard, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Cult, The Mirror Pool, and Bauhaus

...Banquet itself) were folded up on to the 4AD label. Bands like Stereolab and The National were signed to 4AD as a part of this merger. While 4AD didn't handle any distribution outside the United Kingdom for many years, it had many willing...

In this article: Cocteau Twins, Beggars Banquet, Peter Kent, Ivo Watts-Russell, Red House Painters, This Mortal Coil, Pixies, TV On The Radio, and Beggars Group

...have a little pause for thought about the people who made those records and more besides possible for public consumption. The label 4AD, an offshoot of Beggars Group (nee Beggars Banquet) may be shortly entering its fifth decade of...

In this article: Bauhaus, In the Flat Field, Peter Murphy, Mask, Daniel Ash, Go Away White, Dark Entries, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Ziggy Stardust, and Kevin Haskins

...Use of Soap's frayed and forlorn slower numbers put one in mind of late Big Star (a solo Devoto later covered two Alex Chilton songs on the 1987 4AD compilation It'll End in Tears). For their third album, Magazine drafted in producer Martin...

In this article: Howard Devoto, Magazine, The Correct Use of Soap, Martin Hannett, Bad Seeds, and Buzzcocks

...of course they hated it. That's a fucking secretary? Please." They got their break when they came to the attention of obscure UK label 4AD. Set to work with cult producer Steve Albini, the quartet produced a stunning full-length debut,...

In this article: Pixies, Kim Deal, Doolittle, The Breeders, Sounds, Fool the World, Boston, and Surfer Rosa

...folk singing: in 1986, Ivo Watts-Russell, encouraged by Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, issued the Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares album on the 4AD label. But it's a timely rediscovery. Prior to BSP, the LBC belt out a set of their own, all...

In this article: British Sea Power, London, Yan, Henry Allingham, Hamilton, Bauhaus, Phil Sumner, History Boys, and First World War

...as thrillingly otherworldly now as it did then. They also contributed the extraordinary cover of Tim Buckley's Song To The Siren on the 4AD collective This Mortal Coil's debut It'll End In Tears, which also contained bewitching version of...

In this article: Reckoning, Grant McLennan, Lloyd Cole, Paddy McAloon, Rattlesnakes, Olympia, The Blue Nile, Sandie Shaw, and Peter Buck

...from addiction to mixtapes to Battlestar Galactica, her mind never slows, and my only recourse is to try and keep up. Being off 4AD and self-releasing Fate to Fatal, are you feeling a sense of artistic freedom that you hadn't felt...

In this article: Kim Deal, Pixies, All Tomorrow's Parties, God, Minehead, War Pigs, and Saints

...20,000 tracks from Beggars' significant catalogue. Beggars Group represents the labels XL Recordings, Rough Trade, Matador, and 4AD and whose acts include a diverse selection of award-winning artists such as Grammy award winner...

In this article: Kerchoonz, Beggars Group, XL Recordings, The Strokes, Rough Trade Records, Dizzee Rascal, and Atlas Sound

Livonia is the debut LP by His Name Is Alive, originally released on 4AD in the UK in 1990, and in 1992 on 4AD/Rykodisc in the USA. Livonia is the debut LP by Livonia, Michigan's His Name Is Alive (HNIA). HNIA frontman Warren Defever began...

In this article: Livonia, Warren Defever, His Name Is Alive, Ivo Watts-Russell, This Mortal Coil, John Fryer, Karin Oliver, and USA