You can read through coverage of Protomartyr's past albums and you'll see thematic references which meet expectations - unabated anger, nightmarish visions, awful truth - the kind of stimuli the band's singer Joe Casey and guitarist Greg Ahee have been unrepentant in channeling. To their credit this pushing back against the erosion of what was left of America's dream has made them one of the country's alternative national treasures, but still, this shit is real.

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The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

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Bassist and songwriter Colin Moulding joins Blur’s Dave Rowntree, MP Rupa Huq and presenter Samira Ahmed to talk about XTC's Skylarking

39-disc box set captures all professionally recorded shows from the 1976 second leg of the legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour, all from original tape sources. The box includes 381 tracks, 371 of whi...

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Last time, we took a look at 1983’s Mummer album. And if you have been following this series of XTC anniversary posts from the start, or even if this is your first visit, thank you! We’re now in the p...

XTC’s Virgin years 45s on vinyl for the first time since 1982

Britain’s best indie-rockers hold fast to their defiantly old-school sound, slipping wry sideways looks at despair in among hooky melodies that always sound like a good time

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Fifty years ago Parker was hailed as rock’s next big thing, but he picked a different path: cult records, a Hollywood diversion, an aversion to stardom. Ahead of a UK tour, he looks back at his strang...

Previously, we mused about the tracks from the 1979 album, Drums and Wires as part of this year-long XTC album anniversary blog series. You can find that article here. Popping into the TARDIS, we now ...

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