The Bangles Return With a New Album Of Old Recordings

The Bangles have a new album of vintage rarities and live tracks coming out on Thanksgiving Day, but there’s also something more on “Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!” The record features a new track, “The Real World,” which debuted online yesterday.

“We haven't really changed that much in some ways, and that music is still really, really fun to play," frontwoman Susanna Hoffs tells Billboard. "I think it's as representative of who we really are and as authentic as anything the Bangles have ever done. There's a kind of architecture to those songs -- three-part harmonies, guitar-driven, jangly over a kind of garage rock rhythm is who we are now, still, as much as we were back then."

“Ladies and Gentlemen...” features 16 tracks including a cover of Warren Zevon's "Outside Chance" and Paul Revere & the Raiders' "Steppin' Out.” It also includes the five-song “The Bangles EP” which has been out of print since its release on vinyl in 1982.

Hoffs told Huffington Post that there's a misconception that the band emerged as an overnight sensation.

"We were a band that performed a lot, opened for a lot of people, we opened for The English Beat, we opened for Cyndi Lauper...That's what the eighties were for us. We were just a hardworking band. It was a very compressed decade, when I think about how much we did and how many places we went."

Listen to a clip of the song "The Real World" at Billboard.com.