{"id":8043,"date":"2022-09-16T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2022-09-16T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:31:05","slug":"ruts-dc-announce-new-album-counterculture-and-release-title-track-as-first-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=8043","title":{"rendered":"Ruts DC announce new album Counterculture? and release title track as first single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Punky-reggae legends Ruts DC<\/strong> have today announced a new album, Counterculture?<\/em>, and unveiled its title track as the lead single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The 11-track album – the band’s fifth studio effort – will be released on November 11 via their own Sosumi Recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also announced details of a 12-date UK tour promoting the album in November and December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few bands can have made such an impact on their second coming as Ruts DC. Formed as The Ruts in London in 1977, the band released a string of now-iconic singles including In A Rut<\/em>, Babylon’s Burning<\/em> and Staring At The Rude Boys<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Their superb debut album, The Crack<\/em> (reappraised here<\/a><\/strong>), came out in 1979, and they appeared to be on the verge of great things when tragedy struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singer Malcolm Owen died of a heroin overdose in July 1980, but after changing their name to Ruts DC the remaining band members soldiered on, before splitting in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reconvening in 2007 to play a benefit gig for guitarist Paul Fox, following his diagnosis with lung cancer, they found they had unfinished business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recruiting Leigh Heggarty on guitar, original bassist John ‘Segs’ Jennings and drummer Dave Ruffy began to gig regularly, releasing a widely-acclaimed album of all-new material, Music Must Destroy<\/em>, in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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