After much drama, Morrissey has settled on a U.S. label. (But really, what in Morrissey's life doesn't involve drama?)Lost Highway, the primarily Americana label known for artists such as Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson, will release Morrissey's forthcoming album Years of Refusal in conjunction with Morrissey's own A...

Years of Refusal, the forthcoming solo LP from onetime Smiths frontman (and world's best babysitter) Morrissey, will be released in the UK on February 16 from Decca/Polydor. Moz will sneak out a single for "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" on February 9, joined by the B-sides "Because of My Poor Education" and "Shame Is the Name". "Shame", as ...

The Pretenders have announced their first US tour since 2003, kicking off January 29 in Albany, NY.

Bloc Party, The Pretenders, CSS and Black Kids will headline a holiday celebration in downtown Los Angeles next month.

Chrissie and the Pretenders got a warm intro from Mr. Letterman last night, moments before the band performed the rockabilly and ramshackle "Boots Of Chinese Plastic" from their just released (today!) ninth album Breaking Up The Concrete. I tried not to type "by the way Chrissie looks fantastic in her boots of Chinese plastic" but whoops there i...