Love And Rockets Tribute Album Coming

The Flaming Lips, Black Francis (a.k.a. Frank Black), Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer project, A Place To Bury Strangers and The Dandy Warhols are among those who will appear on New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets when it's released this summer.

The tribute album will be digitally available through Justice Records on July 28 and will hit stores on Aug. 18. It will be available with special bonus tracks and on limited edition blue and red vinyl. New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets was produced by Christopher The Minister and Phil Jaurigui (Concrete Blonde, Audioslave), and its album artwork was done by Shepherd Fairey.

Love And Rockets took their name from a comic book series by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez when they formed in England in 1985. Daniel Ash (guitar, saxophone, vocals), David J (bass, vocals) and Kevin Haskins (drums, synthesizers) had been in Bauhaus with Peter Murphy until that band split in 1983.

Love And Rockets' sound was more pop-based than Bauhaus' goth rock, and the band's Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven was released the year they formed. It was followed by six more albums before the band split in 1999. Love And Rockets reformed in 2007 and performed at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and Lollapalooza last year.

In case you forgot about Love And Rockets, here are the videos for two of their biggest hits:

"So Alive":

"Ball Of Confusion":

Here are the artists and songs on New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets:

Black Francis — "All In My Mind"
Puscifer — "Holiday On The Moon"
War Tapes — "Love Me"
Blaqk Audio — "No New Tale To Tell"
Dubfire — "I Feel Speed"
The Dandy Warhols — "Inside The Outside"
The Flaming Lips — "Kundalini Express"
Film School — "An American Dream"
A Place To Bury Strangers — "The Light"
Monster Magnet vs. Adrian Young — "Mirror People"
The Stone Foxes — "Fever"
Frankenstein 3000 — "No Big Deal"
VEX — "It Could Be Sunshine"
Better Than Ezra — "So Alive"
Chantal Claret vs. Adrian Young — "Lazy"
Ian Moore — "Sweet F.A."
Snowden — "No Words No More"