Andy Partridge reflects on Skylarking, a change of direction for XTC that was the most difficult of births under producer ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Led by two of the era’s more distinctive songwriters (guitarist Andy Partridge and bassist Colin Moulding), XTC released a string ...

The producer said he had an album-length vision for the 1986 LP, which included XTC's first-ever Top 20 hit on Billboard's rock tracks chart, "Dear God." The band's co-founder, Andy Partridge, never ...

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 ...

Colin Moulding, Terry Chambers, Dave Gregory and Andy Partridge of XTC on 11/22/80 in Chicago, Il (CREDIT: Paul Natkin/WireImage) XTC have spoken about the possibility of reuniting the band at some ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

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 ...