EXTC makes effective use of the power trio format. Guitarist Steve Hampton and bassist Terry Lines both sing, and the trio ...

Every night, Chambers, singer-guitarist Steve Hampton and singing bassist Terry Lines faithfully perform two hours of songs by the classic British pop-rock band XTC. “We’re not young guys ...

XTC have spoken about the possibility of reuniting the band at some point in the future, with each member offering different perspectives about the prospect. The Swindon post-punk four-piece ...

Suddenly, XTC mattered. Changes came before the band started recording the album in London that spring. Keyboardist Barry Andrews was no longer a member, and guitarist Dave Gregory joined frontman ...

[Laughs.] Possibly the first time [future XTC bandmate] Colin Moulding saw my band, we were either called Clark Kent—way before the Police drummer fella, Stewart Copeland—or Star Park.

Forty years ago this month, the English band XTC brought its live career to a crashing halt. They were onstage in Paris when frontman Andy Partridge suffered a severe panic attack, causing him to ...

Dad is in a rock’n’roll band. Since meeting in their teens 20 years ago, XTC have scribbled cartoons over arty rock miniatures and clunked metal against English manor music haunted by the ...

XTC tended to operate under the radar for much of their recording career. Now and again, however, the British band would drop a picture-perfect pop song that would work its way out of the relative ...

This week, we’re looking at XTC’s ninth studio album, which would help usher in a beloved, new era for a band on the brink of implosion or worse, total irrelevance. As Partridge and his ...

Recently, while reflecting on how nice a Kate Bush-style viral comeback would be, XTC’s Andy Partridge said ... Patridge has a new band called the 3 Clubmen, and their debut single is out ...

Even groups like XTC, that were clearly cut from something, well, more as early as "Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)," from its second 1978 Virgin Records album, GO2—despite rehearsing an instrumental ...

The band had been oblivious to the online phenomenon ... the tape mostly featured songs from popular bands like XTC and The Cure, as well as one particular song that remained a mystery ...