Episode • 1 Hr 2 Mins • 09 AUG • ABC to XTC with John Connolly ...

XTC had long toiled in unfair obscurity. They got as high as the U.K. Top 5 with 1982's English Settlement after just missing the Billboard Top 40 with 1980's Black Sea. But then XTC stopped ...

Led by two of the era’s more distinctive songwriters (guitarist Andy Partridge and bassist Colin Moulding), XTC released a string of classic singles as the British rock scene shifted its attention ...

But it’s much more difficult to locate songs that talk about the realities of relationships, realities that might not be all that romantic. XTC offered some peppy music on their 1986 song “Earn Enough ...

XTC co-founder Andy Partridge looked back at the moment he knew he played his final show and said, “My dream had died.” The British new wave band was just about to start a North American tour in 1982 ...

The lofty comparison is no hyperbole: Lush instrumentation, fanciful arrangements and a dense tapestry of sound effects—magical toy shop-like clicks and whirrs on "The Meeting Place," or serene nature ...

Sometimes a little added TLC can make a good album great. I'll admit it: a self-proclaimed prog and jazzhead in the '70s, the emergence of first Punk and then New Wave was the closest I'd come to ...

Former XTC drummer Terry Chambers is touring with his new band EXTC, playing songs from the XTC catalog. Chambers left XTC in 1982 primarily because guitarist Andy Partridge decided the band would no ...