Gang of Four's New Album 'What Happens Next' out this Month

Following the release of 'Content' and some line up changes from few years ago. Gang of Four will release their eighth studio album entitled What Happens Next this month. The album features a number of guest vocalists and instrumentalists, including Big Pink’s Robbie Furze, Japanese guitarist Hotei, and German singer Herbert Grönemeyer. The most notable guest, however, is Alison Mosshart, who appears on several album tracks, including lead single “Broken Talk”. 'What Happens Next' will be out on February 24th via Metropolis Records. 

Gang of Four Deluxe Can

The long awaited new album by Gang Of Four is set to be released on January 24th 2011. The album will be available in three standard formats as well as a limited edition special package. The standard formats are a CD release, gatefold vinyl, as well as a digital format. It will also be available in a limited edition 'Ultimate Content Can' which contains six booklets, the new album booklet and the second featuring an art piece Jon and Andy have created to depict the last 40 years of world history. There is also a free MP3 from the new album available via Gang of four official.

Get the album here
Gang of Four- You'll Never Pay for The Farm (Music Video)

Gang Of Four- 13 Date Tour To Support 'Content' Release

Gang of Four have announced the release date of the long awaited album 'Content' which is due out on Janunary 25, 2011. This will be their first studio album in 15 years which will be released through 'Yep Roc Records'. Its release will be supported by with a 13 date North American headlining tour in early-to-mid February opening its trek on February 4 in Toronto.

Gang of Four tour dates:

Feb. 4: Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON Feb. 5: Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA Feb. 7: Paradise, Boston, MA Feb. 8: Webster Hall, New York, NY Feb. 9: 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C. Feb. 11: Metro, Chicago, IL Feb. 12: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN Feb. 15: Venue, Vancouver, BC Feb. 16: Showbox @ the Market, Seattle, WA Feb. 17: Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR Feb. 19: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA Feb. 20: House of Blues, Anaheim, CA Feb. 21: Music Box, Los Angeles, CA

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Gang of Four 'Content' Fund

The post punk veterans Gang of Four are preparing a new album which will be entitled 'Content'. This time the band are asking for donations to aid the process of their newest record. The album will be funding through Pledgemusic.com - where users can contribute cash to the process and be rewarded with album-related products, including the vials of blood, in return.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/gangoffour

Gang Of Four's Entertainment Anniversary

Gang Of Four will celebrate the thirty year Anniversary of 'Entertainment'. 'Entertainment' is the debut album by Gang of Four which was released in 1979. In 2003, the album was ranked number 490 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was reissued in 1995 and included bonus tracks.

Through September, Gang of Four will play Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leamington Spa and London. They have also announced few festival dates including the Lovebox and Benicassim Festival.

Tour Dates
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Gang of Four's Second Life

The new line up of Gang of Four has released a new song after 13 years. Earlier this year the band announced that they will go separate ways and that singer Jon King and guitar-player Andy Gill would continue as Gang of Four then. This is the first result of their writing and recording together, the new song "Second Life"(released in June) which is available digitally via itunes and as a 7" vinyl from Rough Trade.

Gang Of Four - Second Life

Gang Of Four Minus Two

The original and best-loved line-up of famed post-punk icons Gang of Four reunited in 2005 to great acclaim and success - unfortunately all good things must come to an end. Bassist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham are moving on, although singer Jon King and guitar-player Andy Gill will continue, focusing on writing and recording new music as Gang of Four. Burnham last performed with the band at All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK in December 2006, while Allen played a few shows alongside drummer Mark Heaney in 2007, and recently worked on new material with King and Gill.

Retrovosion: Gang Of Four- I Love A Man In A Uniform

Gang Of Four

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Formed in 1977 by Leeds University students Jon King (vocals), Andy Gill (guitar), Dave Allen (bass), and Hugo Burnham (drums). Along with the Fall, Mekons, and Liliput they produced some of the most exhilarating and lasting music of the early English post-punk era of 1978-1983. They re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill. In 2004, the original line-up reunited.

In fact the term "Gang of Four" refers to the "big four" Structuralist theorists: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Lacan, not to be confused with the Maoist Gang of Four in China. They play a stripped-down mix of punk rock, with strong elements of funk music, minimalism and dub reggae and an emphasis on the social and political ills in society. Song titles sounded like the titles of radical political essays: "At Home He's a Tourist", "Damaged Goods", "It's Her Factory", "Love Like Anthrax," "To Hell With Poverty," all of it openly challenging the audience's preconceived notions about rock music, performance, the cult of celebrity, and the nature of politics.

Their musical work was heavily influenced by a university-funded trip to New York, where they saw Television and the Ramones at CBGB. The Gang's debut single, "Damaged Goods" b/w "Love Like Anthrax" and "Armalite Rifle", was recorded in June 1978 and released on 10 December 1978, on Edinburgh's Fast Product label. It was produced by the Gang and Fast Product honcho Bob Last. It was a #1 indie chart hit and John Peel radio show favourite. Later, they were then signed by EMI records. The group's debut single with this label, "At Home He's a Tourist", charted in the British Top 40 in 1979.After three consecutive sensational albums, as well as a handful of EPs and singles including "I Love a Man in Uniform" and "Call Me Up" , Allen left in 1982 to form the more danceable and less overtly political Shriekback, while Gill, King, and Burnham recorded the misguided "radical soul/R&B" record Hard with veteran American producers Ron and Howard Albert.

Gang of Four experienced a mini-renaissance in the early '90s with the release of two excellent collections (A Brief History of the Twentieth Century and The Peel Sessions Album). King and Gill put together a new Gang of Four and released the tepid but not disgraceful Mall in 1991. The original lineup reconvened in 2004 to tour extensively and release 2005's Return the Gift, featuring re-recordings of their early material. They have always remained, to the ears of those opened wide by punk rock, an extremely important band.
Great news is that the guys are working on a new album which is scheduled to be released in June this year. They will also be playing few gigs in Europe. Belgrade and Zagreb are already confirmed for the 9.-10. of May 2008.