Ultravox - The Collection (Deluxe Edition) Out Today On Chrysalis Records

 

 

 

 

 

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Ultravox - The Collection (Deluxe Edition) Out Today

"An overwhelmingly exceptional box set if ever there was one."

God Is In The TV

 

"...if you have the original compilation and want to upgrade it, there’s no finer way to get all the highlights of the band’s most successful era in one place. For the general listener, it’s a powerful retrospective that brings one of the 1980s’ more underrated bands sharply into focus."

Louder Than War

 

 "The Collection translates the cold, atmospheric soundscapes of the early 80s perfectly to modern listeners; I can definitely see generation Alpha finding tracks like Dancing With Tears in My Eyes or Reap The Wild Wind to include on their new Tiktoks."

NeuFutur Magazine

 

"The Ure-era married the band’s art-rock ambitions to lush synthesizers and Ure’s more accessible songwriting, creating a sound that was both emotionally resonant and danceable."

New Noise Magazine

 

"It’s not surprising that they don’t have a massive following, but it’s tragic that they don’t have a larger following. With any luck, this will unlock some minds. Muse fans, seriously, it’s time to kick this door down. This is your next favorite band."

Popdose

 

 

December 5, 2025 -  New York, NY:  Following the success in recent years of deluxe editions of Ultravox’s Vienna, Rage In Eden, Quartet and Lament albums, today, Chrysalis Records releases a Deluxe Edition box set of The Collection, the band’s hugely successful 1984 compilation. 

The Collection features the 14 singles Ultravox released between 1980 and 1984. Upon its release it sold over two million copies worldwide and went triple platinum in the UK. 

The most notable tracks featured on The Collection include the iconic ‘Vienna’, the anti-nuclear war anthem ‘Dancing With Tears In My Eyes’, new wave synth driven classics like ‘All Stood Still’, ‘Hymn’ and ‘The Voice’, and the single that was recorded specifically for the original compilation, ‘Love’s Great Adventure’.

Listen to ‘Dancing With Tears In My Eyes’ on YouTube:

 

 

This newly remastered compilation has been expanded to a 4CD/ two blu-ray Deluxe Edition. The set includes a new Collection II with a further 14 singles, alternative and unreleased versions from 1986 to 2024, 10 newly created 80s style 12” Extended Versions which the Ultravox were known for, mixed by Midge Ure, Steven Wilson, and Blank & Jones amongst others, as well as all the band’s B-sides collected together for the first time, and two Blu-ray discs with over four hours of footage featuring all the band’s groundbreaking promotional videos, alternative versions and a collection of their appearances on BBC TV from Top of The Pops and live performances.

 

The Collection is a limited Edition pressing of 5,000 units worldwide, housed in a 12” sized box set with six Discs (4CD/two Blu-ray) housed in a rigid slipcase, and two 20-page booklets, featuring previously unseen photos and images and lyrics. It will also be available to stream and on digital services. 

 

 

 

2 LP black vinyl: The album has been newly remastered and cut at half-speed by AIR Mastering. This edition of the album has been made into a double album (the original was a single LP) to make the audio sound its best. It is housed in a dye-cut sleeve with interchangeable front image with a four-page insert.

4 LP clear vinyl box set: This newly remastered and expanded 4LP clear vinyl Deluxe Edition includes the original compilation and a second volume of The Collection II with a further 14 singles, alternative and unreleased versions of releases from 1986 to 2024. It is housed in a dye-cut sleeves with interchangeable images with a four-page inserts.

The Collection is also available on a standard CD, expanded from the original 14 to 19 tracks. 

 

Buy Link:  https://ultravox.lnk.to/TCD

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Photo credit: Chris Duffy

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TRACY BONHAM Wants To “Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas”... New holiday single out now!

TRACY BONHAM Wants To “Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas” New Festive Single Out Now!

“Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas” Link/Embed: https://youtu.be/K_W2f1SQ2mk

DECEMBER 5, 2025 [New York, NY] -- As we get ready to shut the lid on the dumpster fire that defined 2025, celebrated alternative multi-genre’d artist TRACY BONHAM is ready to pour accelerant on the flames with her festive holiday song “Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas.” The cheekily-titled holiday track serves as a single-finger salute to a politically crummy year. “This year I’m calling out the chaos, naming the nonsense, hopefully making people laugh along the way,” she says. Released today, December 5, 2025, “Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas” is a festive jaunty song filled with holiday cheer. “It's bound to be a f*kt up Christmas / Let's hope it's all a dream / A ruse or a hoax, a trick or a joke / Or one obnoxious meme,” she sings, smirking all the way. While we discovered this year that the bottom of the barrel wasn’t, in fact, the bottom, it proved to be a banner year for Tracy’s creativity. Her album Sky Too Wide (which was released on June 6, 2025) was greeted with overwhelmingly universal and critical acclaim. American Songwriter characterized her “Beatles-melodic” songs as "impassioned messages of perseverance.” Hipster-leaning tome Bearded Gentlemen Music praised that “Sky Too Wide proves Tracy Bonham is an artist’s artist… The lyrics are catchy, the production is clear and rich, and the instrumentation is world-class.” Among other publications lavishing praise include People Magazine, New York Times, Brooklyn Vegan, Boston Herald, Village Voice, Aquarian Weekly, All Music, Riff Magazine, JammerZine, Illinois Entertainer, Vanyaland, among many others. Tracy’s smashing live shows this year included a NYC event hosted by close friend/comedian/actor Fred Armisen at the legendary Joe’s Pub and a very special performance in Oregon where her music was conceptualized by Eugene Ballet. “I am feeling more creative than ever,” Tracy beams, looking back at all she has accomplished. “The momentum from 2024 / 2025 propels me as I crave getting out in front of audiences more.” Continuing to satiate that live performance need, Tracy has a handful of upcoming shows, including a special guest appearance at Joe’s Pub with BETTY (where she will perform “Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas” for the first time live), a unique show with strings in New York City at The Iridium, a special tribute to her close friend Jill Sobule for Jillith Fair at NYC’s City Winery and at The Fallser Club in Philadelphia, and two shows in Madison, WI for Joey's Song, Freezing Man Concerts - a benefit with multiple artists for raising money and awareness for people with epilepsy. “Real life can be scary,” she explains. “The stage is my safe place. I feel like the stage is one of the most comfortable places I have to exist in this world, and it’s the safest place for me to share my voice.”

TRACY BONHAM Photo credit: Shervin Lainez

TOUR DATES Dec 7 New York NY Joe’s Pub as a special guest of BETTY (TICKETS) Jan 9-10 Madison, WI The Sylvee (TICKETS) Jan 16 New York, NY City Winery / Jillith Fair – Loving Jill Sobule (TICKETS) Jan 23 Philadelphia, PA The Fallser Club / Jillith Fair - Loving Jill Sobule (TICKETS) Jan 31 New York, NY Iridium / Tracy Bonham & Strings (TICKETS)

Tracy’s breakthrough debut album The Burdens of Being Upright (1996, Island Records) spawned the massive #1 alternative chart-topping single "Mother Mother." A classically trained violinist and pianist, and twice GRAMMY® nominated, she spent the following 27 years evolving as an artist through her albums and live performances. That debut album catapulted her into the spotlight with MTV fame, major radio play, and more, continuing relevance until even recently, when “Mother Mother” was featured in Showtime’s Yellow Jackets (Season 1 Episode 2). In addition, she was one of the celebrated performers on Lilith Fair (which was recently chronicled on the 2025 documentary Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery - The Untold Story, currently streaming on Hulu). As she looks forward to the New Year, she says, “2026 is going to be an exciting year for me as I celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Burdens of Being Upright. I have so much in store for this year including a new release in honor of the 30th along with a newly developed concept for a rock show with strings,” she hints. Aside from unf*king Christmas, what are Tracy’s wants and hopes for Christmas and the New Year? “I don’t want anything for Christmas for myself,” she replies thoughtfully. “I want my 15-year-old son to feel good about himself. I also want kids to have better role models in higher positions. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore. Anything I need to change needs to be implemented in a realistic way, not just one grand gesture or declaration. The way to real lasting change is micro steps.” “Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas” is released today, December 5, 2025 via A Woody Hollow.

Un-F*k This F*kt Up Christmas Music and Lyrics by Tracy Bonham

Gregory Corso & Marianne Faithfull Share "No Arrangement Was Made" Re-Release via Brooklyn Vegan | 'DIE ON ME' LP Out Now

Shimmy-Disc Shares Gregory Corso & Marianne Faithfull  "No Arrangement Was Made" Re-Release Video  via Brooklyn Vegan  DIE ON ME (ft. Marianne Faithfull + Allen Ginsberg  Out Now via Shimmy-Disc

WATCH & SHARE: Gregory Corso & Marianne Faithfull - "No Arrangement Was Made"  Watch SAVE: Gregory Corso - DIE ON ME Save LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Gregory Corso - "As Rome Burned (with Marianne Faithfull)" Stream | Watch LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Gregory Corso - "A Bed's Lament" Stream | Watch LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Gregory Corso - "For Homer" Stream | Watch PRAISE FOR SHIMMY-DISC & DIE ON ME "the poem [For Homer] unspools with a touching – and frankly, unmatched – candor that almost feels foreign when heard inside our current world’s daily, decidedly unpoetic, noise, and as such presents like a balm spoken by a mere immortal come to visit us and ground us once again in the messy purity of human existence." -Stereo Embers Magazine "intimate and raw spoken word recordings" -Psychedelic Baby Magazine "...an essential acquisition for anyone who loves the elevated thought spillage of prime Beat poetics." -The Vinyl District "DIE ON ME offers a rare and luminous insight into the mind of a poet facing the end." -V13 "Enjoy the twisted and turns of the dark poem: “now I stand in a dank room with shaky legs a bony back.” -Americana Highways Last month,  Shimmy-Disc, the cult-favorite label founded by legendary producer, multi-instrumentalist, and archival visionary Kramer, re-introduced the world to DIE ON ME, the rare and intimate collection of Gregory Corso's final spoken word recordings.  Corso—both the youngest and one of the most influential members of the Beat Generation—stood alongside literary icons like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as a defining voice in American poetry.  Originally released on CD in 2002, DIE ON ME is now available for the first time ever on vinyl. Newly remastered and edited by Kramer, the collection spans archival recordings from 1959 and culminates in Corso’s final sessions, recorded by the late Hal Willner between January 7–10, 2001— just days before Corso’s death.  Today, Shimmy-Disc unveils a new installment of ambient-cinema to accompany “No Arrangement Was Made,” the piece that features Marianne Faithfull more prominently than any other track on the LP. Written by Corso and recited by the late icon, the recording brings renewed vitality to his words—even though Faithfull delivered her reading at Corso’s bedside. Kramer pairs the audio with a slideshow of photographs of Faithfull and the circle of loved ones who surrounded Corso during his last days, offering an intimate visual dimension to an otherwise strictly auditory experience. The recording closes with Faithfull exclaiming, “Oh, that’s lovely!” followed by Corso’s soft chuckle and the remark, “Isn’t that funny.” Kramer reflects, "Corso at his best, as he is here, cannot be matched. As Ginsberg so often said, "He is the greatest of us all." Within this deeply personal and revealing document are the last known voice recordings of Corso. Conversational, reflective, and raw, DIE ON ME captures Corso in dialogue with close friends and fellow legends—including Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Faithfull, and Chicago writer Studs Terkel—as he recounts stories, revisits formative memories, and reads aloud some of his most beloved poems. The result is an unfiltered self-portrait of an undersung literary giant. Marianne Faithfull, in one of the album’s most striking moments, urges Corso to share stories—and, at his request, recites several of his own poems. The sessions showcase not only Corso’s voice and verse but his thoughts on mortality, love, and the poetic form itself. Produced by Hal Willner and lovingly reassembled by Kramer, DIE ON ME offers a rare and luminous insight into the mind of a poet facing the end. Corso passed away on January 17, 2001, at the age of 70—just days after completing many of the recordings featured on DIE ON ME. On May 5, 2001, his ashes were laid to rest in Rome at the Cimitero Acattolico, at the foot of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s grave. John Keats lies nearby. As Allen Ginsberg once said of his closest friend: “People say that I’m the greatest American poet of the 20th Century. I tell them they’re wrong. GREGORY CORSO is a far greater poet.” The "No Arrangement Was Made" video and DIE ON ME  the LP are out now via Shimmy-Disc.  GREGORY CORSO & MARIANNE FAITHFULL -"NO ARRANGEMENT WAS MADE" (Official Shimmy-Disc Video) DIE ON ME TRACK LISTING:  Side A 1. For Homer (recorded January 5, 2001) 2. Ode to Coit Tower (recorded February 7, 1959) 3. Inner Outer Rhyme (recorded January 5, 2001)  4. Ode to The West Wind (recorded June 13, 1975) 5. A Bed’s Lament (recorded January 5, 2001) 6. Hair (recorded January 29, 1959) w/ Studs Terkel, Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky 7. Mythology (recorded January 5, 2001) w/ Marianne Faithfull Side B 1. Bomb (recorded February 7, 1959) 2. The Truth (recorded September 13, 1994) w/ Allen Ginsberg 3. Don’t Shoot the Warthog (recorded January 6, 2001)  4. Prophecy (recorded January 7, 2001)  5. No Arrangement Was Made (recorded January 5, 2001) reading by Marianne Faithfull 6. As Rome Burned (recorded January 6, 2001) w/ Marianne Faithfull 7. Last Night I Drove a Car (recorded January 6, 2001)  8. Getting To The Poem (recorded January 6, 2001) reading by Marianne Faithfull

Clock DVA's Reissue Of Debut Album 'White Souls in Black Suits' Is Out Now On The Grey Area Of Mute

CLOCK DVA LONG-AWAITED REMASTERED REISSUE OF THEIR DEBUT  WHITE SOULS IN BLACK SUITS OUT NOW ON THE GREY AREA OF MUTE LISTEN TO “ANTI-CHANCE” FEATURING CABARET VOLTAIRE

“… cuts across boundaries” - MOJO “… still sounds powerful, a glimpse of the early industrial sound before the movement became codified into a genre” - UNCUT “… an avant-garde exhibition of atonal electronics, skronking saxophone and jagged guitars interspersed with Adi Newton’s malevolent whispers” – ELECTRONIC SOUND “…testament to an era of experimentation that paved the way for so much that followed” - BLITZED “…an important document” – CLASSIC POP “a vital rediscovery—an album that helped define the early intersections of industrial, post-punk, and proto-EBM” - IGLOO MAG   CLOCK DVA have released the long-awaited remastered reissue of their debut album, White Souls in Black Suits, available for the first time in 35 years. Originally released in 1980 as a limited cassette on Industrial Records, White Souls in Black Suits is out now, with four bonus tracks, on grey vinyl and CD via The Grey Area of Mute. “We set out to form a new sound combination,” says Clock DVA’s Adi Newton. “To combine acoustics and electronics, merging the German electronic wave with the edge of The Stooges, the avant-garde of the French GRM Musique Concrète, and the pioneering audio-visual creativity of The Velvet Underground. To create a harder form of electronic music with real energy.”  Listen to “Anti-Chance” HERE, a direct collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire that saw two of Sheffield’s most innovative outfits join forces. “On ‘Anti-Chance’ we used random tapes from both DVA and Cabaret Voltaire,” explains Newton. “It was a direct William Burroughs / Brion Gysin [inspired] audio cut up piece.” Chance is fundamental to change. Clock DVA, who formed in Sheffield in 1978, quickly proved to do just that. Also inspired by science fiction, Russian constructivism and beat literature, Clock DVA soon created a unique sonic alchemy that for the best part of the last half century has proven to be an endlessly influential reference point across everything from post-punk to EBM via industrial and techno.  This singular audio-visual assault quickly saw people take notice. Fellow Sheffield pioneers Cabaret Voltaire soon became friends and collaborators, as did Throbbing Gristle who released the debut on their imprint, Industrial Records.  Experimentation can be heard all over their debut album which was, astonishingly, recorded in just a single day. “There is a cultivated myth that it was culled from 16 hours of improvisation but I'd venture the true figure is closer to 8 hours,” says drummer Roger Quail. It’s a record that is dark, eerie and brooding with a tense atmosphere as screeching guitars nestle up alongside toots of sax and electronic sci-fi-like soundscape explorations. It was a sound befitting of a group of people who were hell-bent on exploring new terrain. “Adi used to talk about being kinetic a lot around this time,” recalls Quail. “Keep moving, don't stand still – and I think this restlessness informs much of the music around this time.” And, for Quail, he’s been knocked sideways revisiting the work ahead of its re-release. “I hadn't heard White Souls… since the early 90s,” he says. “I'm blown away by the sound of this new master. There's a bit where we actually appear to invent Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden - to my ears anyway.”  The group built up a fierce reputation as one of Sheffield’s most ferocious live outfits who could melt minds and charge the atmosphere of a room like few others. “We did have a reputation as being wild and unpredictable,” explains Newton. “But that was good because it gave us an edge.” The stage was also a means for the group to explore with their burgeoning visual presence, which has since become a staple part of their identity and is something they are considered as pioneering for as their sonics. “For me it was always a staging, like theatre,” Newton explains. “We have developed visuals throughout the DVA history, from using 8mm film and 35mm film slides in the early days and via the earliest digital computer graphics back in 1987 with the Amiga B2000 to the present day with visual artists we have worked with, along with our own creations.”  The album features Newton (voice, synth, clarinet, bowed electric guitar, and tape treatment), founding member Steven James Turner (bass treatment), David J. Hammond (guitar treatment), Charlie Collins (saxophone, flute & percussion), Roger Quail (percussion) and Simon M. Elliott-Kemp (synth). It was recorded at Cabaret Voltaire’s Western Works studio. White Souls in Black Suits is out now on The Grey Area of Mute. Purchase or stream the album HERE.

Track listing: 1. Consent 2. Discontentment 3. Discontentment 2 4. Still/Silent 5. Non 6. Relentless 7. Contradict 8. Film Soundtrack (Keyboards Assemble Themselves At Dawn) 9. Anti-Chance (feat. Cabaret Voltaire) 10. Brigade 11. Cage 12. No. 2 13. You’re Without Sound   CONNECT WITH CLOCK DVA:  FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM CONNECT WITH MUTE: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | BLUESKY | INSTAGRAM | TIK TOK | WEB