{"id":974077,"date":"2019-12-16T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=927816"},"modified":"2019-12-16T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:50:34","slug":"failure-celebrate-first-three-albums-with-live-residencies-box-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/failure-celebrate-first-three-albums-with-live-residencies-box-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure Celebrate First Three Albums With Live Residencies, Box Set"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reunited alt-rockers Failure<\/a> will celebrate their three Nineties albums with a trio of three-night residencies as well as a box set collecting the newly remastered LPs and unreleased tracks from the era.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July 2020, Failure will host three-night residencies in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, with each night featuring a full-album performance of one of their first three LPs: 1992\u2019s Steve Albini-produced Comfort<\/em>, 1994\u2019s Magnified<\/em> and their 1996 space rock epic Fantastic Planet<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, Failure will also release the four-LP box set Failure 1992 to 1996<\/i>, featuring the three remastered and out-of-print albums alongside a fourth vinyl packed with unreleased songs from their initial era together; following a nearly two-decade dormancy that began in 1997, the cult Los Angeles rockers reunited in 2014 and have since released two more albums, 2015\u2019s The Heart Is a Monster<\/em><\/a> and 2018\u2019s In the Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing From Your Mind<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost everything people have heard from these albums has been sourced from 16bit digital files made in the Nineties, which was state of the art at the time,\u201d singer Ken Andrews said in a statement. <\/span>\u201cBut when we found out we were getting our hands on the original analog master tapes, and with all the confusion and lack of quality control on several of the previous iterations, we set out to create the definitive versions of Comfort<\/i>, Magnified<\/i> and Fantastic Planet<\/i>. Everything has been sourced directly from first generation multitrack and stereo master tapes. This is us finally getting to present our early work the way we\u2019ve always wanted to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Guitarist Greg Edwards added of the bonus disc of rarities:<\/span> \u201cListening to the B-sides and outtakes from that first year of being a band takes me right back to playing the tiny stage at Jabberjaw in Los Angeles. It\u2019s always surprising to me how much of the expansiveness and atmosphere of the later records exist in embryonic form on those earliest stripped-down recordings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Failure 1992 to 1996<\/i>, out April 7th, is available to preorder now through the band\u2019s Hello Merch<\/a>. Tickets for the three-night residencies at Chicago\u2019s Thalia Hall, Los Angeles\u2019 Echoplex and New York\u2019s Bowery Ballroom go on sale Friday, December 20th.<\/span><\/p>\n

Failure Tour Dates<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

July 9 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ <\/i>Thalia Hall (Comfort)
<\/i><\/span>July 10 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ <\/i>Thalia Hall (Magnified)
<\/i><\/span>July 11 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall (Fantastic Planet)
<\/i><\/span>July 16 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ <\/i>The Echoplex (Comfort)
<\/i><\/span>July 17 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ <\/i>The Echoplex (Magnified)
<\/i><\/span>July 18 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ <\/i>The Echoplex (Fantastic Planet)
<\/i><\/span>July 23 \u2013 New York, NY @ <\/i>Bowery Ballroom (Comfort)
<\/i><\/span>July 24 \u2013 New York, NY @ <\/i>Bowery Ballroom (Magnified)
<\/i><\/span>July 25 \u2013 New York, NY @ <\/i>Bowery Ballroom (Fantastic Planet)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Reunited alt-rockers Failure will celebrate their three Nineties albums with a trio of three-night residencies as well as a box set collecting the newly remastered LPs and unreleased tracks from the era. In July 2020, Failure will host three-night residencies in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, with each night featuring a full-album performance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 20:14:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}