Photo: The Alarm 2000,10/15/2000

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In support of its recently-released nine-CD box set, The Alarm 2000 Collection, the Alarm is launching a U.S. tour on Oct. 12 at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif. During The Alarm 2000 tour, fans who buy the box set, which was released on the band’s Web site, thealarm.com, on Aug. 29, will be able to have their favorite Alarm song dedicated to them at the concert they attend. [read more]

When he began working on an Alarm box set, the last thing singer Mike Peters expected to find were R.E.M. live recordings, studio masters, and outtakes. But that’s exactly what he came across, says Peters, along with recordings for his own band and Lords of the New Church. And it was all just three days away from the trash bin. It was his obsession with finding the original master tapes [read more]