Their 1979 commercial breakthrough benefits from Wilson’s finesse, while Steve Lillywhite’s original mix remains daisy-fresh ...

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 ...

Both forces of the second British invasion, we tally up who from XTC and Adam and the Ants sold the most records. Read more ...

This story has been corrected since it was originally published. From the late ’70s and on through the ’80s and ’90s, Swindon, U.K., pop chameleons XTC produced album after album brimming with ...

OAKLAND -- The original drummer from influential British rock group XTC Terry Chambers brings his current tribute project EXTC to Yoshi's in Oakland Monday, giving fans a rare chance to experience the ...

“The really annoying thing is, the second I die off, people are going to go, ‘Hey, do you know, they were quite good!’ ” That’s Andy Partridge, the principal singer and songwriter of the late, great, ...

The XTC co-founder is armed with tools: an array of web links (a photo of John Lennon sitting in front of some Beefheart stickers), deep-dive factoids (details about wacky album-art photo shoots)—even ...

In 1977, XTC vocalist/guitarist Andy Partridge caught a video of the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the U.K.” at an HMV in his hometown of Swindon, England. At the time, John Lydon and co. were the next-big ...

We had a gig in Liverpool the night he was shot… well, the night we heard the news,” says XTC’s Andy Partridge, plunging immediately into the two topics I was warned he might not want to talk ...

New Atmos And 5.1 Surround Mixes Reinvent XTC’s Smash 1986 hit Skylarking and 1984’s The Big Express. In 2016, a wonderful CD+Blu-ray release celebrated XTC’s 1986 masterpiece, Skylarking, with a lush ...

Don’t call The Vagabond Saints’ Society a tribute band. The niche the Winston-Salem trio occupies is far more rarified. “When bands are sitting around having a beer late at night, saying wouldn’t it ...