Best Christmas songs of all time. 40 holiday classics, ranked

As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s ...
loudersound

“Recorded at a time when progressive music was anathema, it deserves recognition alongside some of the more leftfield heroes of the genre”: Why The Only Ones’ Even ...

Vocalist Peter Perrett used his voice to disorientate, just like Peter Gabriel, while the band felt like XTC, produced by Joe Meek, steeped in Van der Graaf Generator When you purchase through links ...
Baltimore Brew

A former bandmate playing here on Frank Zappa Day

While the music of Baltimore native Frank Zappa is arguably the greatest cross-fertilization of highbrow and lowbrow influences the world has ever heard, the event organizers and Zappa Family Trust ...
Classical-music

1978 was a new dawn in pop. And it gave us these 15 astonishing debut albums

1978 sits at a crossroads. Punk had exploded just enough to blow a hole in rock’s old structures, but it hadn’t yet settled into cliché. What followed wasn’t collapse – it was creative expansion.
BroadwayWorld

XTC: The Electronic Musical Featured On ADE's Arts And Culture Program

XTC: The Electronic Musical will have its opening show featured on the official program of Amsterdam Dance Event, the world's leading electronic music event. The production is an original immersive ...
Yahoo

XTC drummer who left the band at its peak can't let the music go. Here's why

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 ...
AZ Central

XTC drummer who left the band at its peak can't let the music go. Here's why

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 ...
Radio X

The 25 best indie songs of 1982

Big tracks from 1982: Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, OMD, Tears For Fears. The Jam and more... Picture: Press 1982: while the charts was embracing the New Romantic style and synth sounds, the ...
Mountain Xpress

EXTC retools XTC’s music for 21st-century audiences

ARE YOU RECEIVING ME? More than four decades after XTC ceased touring, original drummer Terry Chambers leads EXTC, a trio that celebrates the music of his old band. Pictured, from left, are Steve ...
The Advocate

Terry Chambers’ EXTC rekindles the music of classic British pop-rock band XTC

When EXTC tours, the trio led by original XTC drummer Terry Chambers doesn’t go easy. EXTC’s fifth North American tour is a 56-date marathon rolling through June 15. Every night, Chambers, ...
ET Auto

France's Orano to set up two JVs with China's XTC

The plan calls for the creation of a Cathode Active Materials (CAM) manufacturing plant and a Precursor Cathode Active Material (PCAM) production plant, under the project name Neomat, with a public ...