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The Brit List: Five Great XTC Songs Every Anglophenia This not only represents the band at the height of their (only slightly calmer) new wave pomp, but also plants a hefty crown atop the songwriting contribution of bass player Colin Moulding, the McCartney to Andy Partridge's Lennon.
A little becomes Alottle Examiner.com Imagine if the Beach Boys, XTC, Melvins and Big Dipper got together for a jam session? Well, sometimes the spirits that inhabit the Holyoke, MA-based band, Alottle, channel those bands and what happens in the recording process is genius.
Fudging The Numbers With Last.Fm Riverfront Times (blog) I believe It Takes A Nation Of Millions... by Public Enemy was number one with XTC's Skylarking as runner up. The list was labor intensive and unnecessarily indulgent, and it was compiled completely by his memory. There were surely mistakes in ...
An oral history of Die Kreuzen, part 1 A.V. Club From its blazing hardcore roots through multiple phases of fruitful experimentation, the group had all the brains, work ethic, and tunes needed to make it big, but when the underground scene it helped foster broke through to the mainstream in the early ...
Philly Rock Legend Todd Rundgren to Play Happy Valley State College News In addition to his solo and group work, Rundgren also became a well-known record producer working with artists such as Grand Funk Railroad, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, Meatloaf, Hall and Oates and XTC. In the late 70s, Rundgren had already begun ...
Blur celebrate 21 years with a boxset Shields Gazette Twenty-one years after the release of their debut album Leisure in 1991, Blur's body of work has been personally compiled by the band and gathered together in one box, due for release by Parlophone on July 30. All seven studio albums are collected, ...
New Music Winnipeg Free Press PS I LOVE YOU Death Dreams (PAPER BAG) THE stellar debut record from the Kingston duo of Paul Saulnier (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards) and Benjamin Nelson (drums), Meet Me at the Muster Station, set the bar high for the band's followup.
Carrie Benton, What Are You Listening To? Phoenix New Times (blog) The all-girl band includes Carrie Brownstein from my favorite show, Portlandia. Preferred format: CD, vinyl, cassette, 8-Track or digital? Vinyl is preferred, but as busy as I am, it's usually my phone. Cassettes are very good for making things.
On The Road With The 3 Johns Sabotage Times To me, acquiring a favourite rock band was akin to the tribalism attributed to football fans. Generally you only display eager devotion towards one group. But on occasion, with a bit of passionate justification, you are allowed two.
White boy blues, or what I learned from funk, soul and Al Green National Post One of the great things about these musicians was their complete unawareness of anything other than funk or soul or jazz, so whenever we played something that sounded like XTC or Talking Heads, they'd lay Average White Band or Tower of Power lines on ...
