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This is FRESH AIR. David Thomas, lead singer and principal songwriter for the band Pere Ubu, died on April 23 at age 71. Thomas and Pere Ubu emerged from the Cleveland punk rock scene in the late ...

It took 30 years for Pere Ubu to embrace its destiny. Born out of the industrial wastes of Cleveland, the protean avant-rock ensemble has tried its hand at apocalyptic drones, brittle minimalism and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - David Thomas' "Monkey Bizness,'' which opens Pere Ubu's newest album, consists of three verses, each boasting three terse lines. But those three verses are as enigmatic, complex and ...

Pere Ubu co-founder Peter Laughner died of chronic pancreatitis, brought on by alcoholism, on June 22, 1977. The golden boy of the fertile Cleveland underground was 24. The response from the band’s ...

When a very large man in black who once called himself “Crocus Behemoth” leans over you and declares, “The worse it gets, the more I understand. . . . Something weird is coming this way,” you’re ...

David Thomas, lead singer of Pere Ubu, has died. He was 71. Thomas died on Wednesday, April 23, at his home in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England, the band wrote in a Facebook post. His death ...

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