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Activision unveils Guitar Hero: World Tour line-up

For months now, Guitar Hero diehards have been hanging on...  read more

The Police announce final tour, bring Elvis Costello along

The Police are here to teach us all a lesson. What to do after your reunion tour is named the highest-grossing of 2007? Run that sucker into the ground! To honor the news that the trio will circle North America one final time, with Elvis Costello and the Imposters in tow, Paste offers the imagined by-laws of The Police: Keep that castle-money comin'. With tickets priced at $50, $90 and $225, it's gonna take a Zenyatta of Mondatta to attend the upcoming concerts. The dates are being billed as the band's "final area appearances," but it wasn't so long ago...  read more

Police guitarist's memoirs set to become documentary

As far as publicity stunts go, this whole Police reunion sure seems like a smashing success. Despite the proven fact that everyone hates his lyrics, Sting now gets to talk about them as if he were some modern-day Yeats. The group has achieved knighthood in France. And now, guitarist Andy Summers hopes to translate his autobiography into a documentary film. Summers' One Train Later: A Memoir came out this May, and its release date shockingly coincided with the onset of his band's grand reunion tour. The doc would trace Summers' entire life and career, using the guitarist's 25,000-strong photo collection...  read more

The Police may record new album

When bands reunite to record a new album, fear is usually in the air. The stakes are high when cool, groundbreaking artists to try to rehash their edge, and the results can be disastrous. Of course, if your band wasn’t that cool or groundbreaking to begin with, then you have less to worry about. We mean no disrespect to The Police, and to prove it, we will proudly declare that we are excited for a new album from Sting and Co. But will it actually happen? Funny you should ask. Speaking during a recent book signing, Andy Summers, the band’s...  read more

The Police: Friendly Ghosts in the Machine

As rock reunions go, few have been more anticipated or gradually realized than this year’s Police tour. For twenty-odd years, a fair number of interviews with Sting and pretty much any interview with Stewart Copeland or Andy Summers eventually descended upon the question. The Police have three living (and frankly age-defying) members, plus a catalog of amazing songs that have seeped their way into the post-New Wave consciousness without spawning horrific legions of carbon-copy imitators. Having initially quit not far from the zenith of their career, there has always been a sense that a Police reunion would have some meat...  read more