Mission of Burma Announces Essentials Compilation, Tour
Following on the heels of this year’s Unsound, Mission of Burma will release a two disc, best-of compilation album titled Learn How: The Essential Mission of Burma, which comes out Dec. 3.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCatching Up With Mission of Burma's Peter Prescott
Drummer Peter Prescott wants you to know that Mission of Burma is not a reunion band. After all, most reunion bands hope to reawaken something from the past, to live glory days that are long gone. Mission of Burma just picked up right where they left off.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesEight Great Comeback Albums
Most reunion albums are mediocre—just what you expect out of a group of graying, past-prime legends grasping at one final ride. But occasionally a breakup or a disparaging hiatus lead to something worthwhile. So here are eight comeback albums that beat the odds, one way or another. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayMission of Burma: Unsound
We all know the story by now, but it bears repeating now that we’re on album number four in Mission of Burma’s impressive second act. Taking a 20-year hiatus would be enough to upend most bands—or, at the very least, render them former shells of themselves—but Mission of Burma continues to make some truly glorious noise on Unsound. By today’s standards this new collection might not come off as particularly groundbreaking, but it doesn’t mean it’s not a big and ferocious ball of ear candy. And there aren’t many bands out there so ably using their gray matter to make... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsWatch Yo La Tengo Cover Lou Reed and Jonathan Richman With Nels Cline and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
For the sixth night of Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah stay in Hoboken, N.J., the gang invited Mission of Burma and Bob Weston to join them for the fifth night. For the seventh night during the festival of lights, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nels Cline and the Cairo Gang hopped on the bill.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPitchfork Fest '08 Day One: Looking Back On 'Don't Look Back'
(FLAVA FAV!)It took a field of hipsters to hold back reality t.v.’s favorite half of Public Enemy last night in Chicago’s Union Park, as Chuck D shot the gun on Pitchfork’s third effort in the festival realm with the opening diatribes of hip-hop’s seminal album, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, sans his counterpart. Chuck D upon Flavor’s belated entrance: “Where the fuck were you on “Bring The Noise?”Flavor Fav: “I don’t know Chuck, I was with the family.”... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusMission of Burma - ONoffON
Though they’ve been gone for 22 years, having broken up in 1983 after guitarist Roger Miller’s tinnitus grew so severe he could no longer wield the six-string responsible for his band’s signature sound... read more
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