Jun 14, 2022 By Mark Redfern Photography by Dean Chalkley. Lest you forget about them, ’80s New Wave icons Simple Minds have announced a new album, Direction of the Heart, and shared its first single, ...

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds on the group's latest studio album, their 19th, ... The new album’s cover art features the juxtaposition of a gas mask set against flowers, ...

Concert Preview: Interview with Simple Minds co-founder Jim Kerr as the 1980s band brings its Alive & Kicking tour to Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park on June 7.

Simple Minds celebrate a transcendent career with uplifting art-rock The Scottish alternative rockers’ fortunes rocketed in 1985 with three major events that are commemorated on the Alive and ...

By 1983, though the groups remained essentially very different propositions, the gap was narrowing. Simple Minds were an experimental art-pop group moving towards the mainstream, playing bigger ...

Kelly Clarkson covered Simple Minds' 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' on the latest 'Kellyoke' segment on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show.' ...

Simple Minds will be accompanied on this road show by fellow ’80s new wave/modern rock champs Soft Cell and Modern English. The trek hits the Bay Area on May 20 for a show at Toyota Pavilion at ...

Simple Minds’ first records starting in 1979 drew on elements of post-punk, synthpop and New Wave; the band’s profile heightened with the release of their fifth and sixth albums, New Gold ...

Simple Minds and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark will join forces on their upcoming tour to cover the Kraftwerk track ‘Neon Lights’. The two bands, who have each covered the track from Kraftwerk’s ...