How XTC battled the “rottweiler” Todd Rundgren –and their record label – to make their breakthrough

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

30 Years Ago: XTC’s Struggles Continue on Lush, Ignored ‘Nonsuch’

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 ...
Yahoo

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

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 ...
Stereogum

The Alternative Number Ones: XTC’s “Mayor Of Simpleton”

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 ...
Ultimate Classic Rock

40 Years Ago: XTC Find Their Rhythm on ‘Drums and Wires’

There were a few songs before XTC's third album that hinted at something more than the workmanlike post-punk and New Wave that marked their earliest records. Like the 1978 single version of "This Is ...
The Guardian

XTC: 'Is there a place in rock'n'roll for a Princess Anne lookalike?' – a classic feature from the vaults

I tell you no word of a lie. This table was at least the length of my sitting room at home, if it wasn't actually half as long again. And it must have been four inches thick if it wasn't six. It ...
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 ...