Pere Ubu’s 18th album, Carnival Of Souls, inspired by and derived from the band’s live soundtracking of Herk Harvey’s classic 1962 B-movie of the same name, is out on Fire Records next Monday, ...

Early in their career, the members of Cleveland avant-garage band Pere Ubu got some advice that sealed their fate. It came after the release of the band’s influential debut “The Modern Dance” in 1978, ...

On Wednesday, December 2nd (tonight), Pere Ubu’s David Thomas will be appearing at at New School’s Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall (66 West 12th St, room 510; 6:30-8pm). The event will be part ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Along with fellow Ohio-based contemporaries Devo, iconic Cleveland "avant-garage" band Pere Ubu arguably pushed the creative envelope more than another other American group ...

David Thomas, lead singer of Pere Ubu, has died. He was 71. Thomas died on Wednesday, April 23, at his home in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England, the band wrote in a Facebook post. His death ...

I get a weird pleasure of watching supporters of the obscure arts, whose fans lean overwhelmingly liberal-prog-commie, get increasingly bewildered as their heroes obdurately refuse to ratify their ...

On a warm summer night in 2005, Pere Ubu provided a raucous live soundtrack for a screening of Roger Corman’s 1963 wonderment X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. As a huge fan ...

On Friday, proto-synth innovator Allen Ravenstine will release his new album, Waiting for the Bomb, on fellow Pere Ubu alumni (and Henry Cow founder) Chris Cutler’s label Recommended Records. The ...

When did you first see Carnival Of Souls? David Thomas: There was a TV monster movie host named Ghoulardi and every Friday night he would have films on. It was a time-filler. He bought in packages of ...

David Thomas making a donation at the Rock Hall with former Rock Hall curator and local musician Meredith Rutledge-Borger. Credit: Scene Archives Yesterday, Cleveland lost one of its most creative ...