You don’t hear the terms “dada,” “avant-garde” and “punk” combined as much as you used to, but back in the day, Cleveland’s ultra-arty renegade Pere Ubu made non-commercial music intriguing by upending the rules of the game. With David Thomas, an eccentric, oversized lead singer who warbled and bleated his obtuse poetics over a squall … Continue reading Essential New Music: Pere Ubu’s “The Architecture Of Language 1979-1982”