The Cruel World Festival featuring 1980s new wave mainstays as well as newer acts has been set for May 11 at Pasadena’s Brookside at the Rose Bowl venue, with Duran Duran as the headline performer.

Among the many other artists on the bill are The Alarm, General Public, Heaven 17, Interpol, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Ministry, The Mission UK, The Motels, Gary Numan, Placebo, Soft Cell, and The ...

Simple Minds is coming to play Ball Arena on Tuesday, May 27 – a show that won’t be threatened by Nuggets playoff basketball. (Sorry, Katy Perry.) As part of the ...

This weekend’s geomagnetic flares provided some astounding sights across the world, but in Los Angeles, we had a different kind of electric storm and it was just as spectacular. The Cruel World ...

Simple Minds is still very much an active band. In fact, its 20th studio album is in motion, according to frontman Jim Kerr. But this year, the Scottish group is enjoying the 40th anniversary of an ...

When the Scottish band Simple Minds made their live debut on stage at the Satellite City club in the city center of Glasgow on January 17, 1978, it’s fair to wonder just how big the four teenagers in ...