Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The XTC co-founder is armed with tools: an array of web links (a photo of John Lennon sitting in front of some Beefheart stickers) ...

“Feel free if you wanna have a drink,” says Andy Partridge over Zoom, lounging on his couch with an unplugged electric guitar and a glass of evening wine. “I know it’s early in the day [for you], but ...

Other than a 2013 collaboration with Slapp Happy's Peter Blegvad, XTC mastermind Andy Partridge hasn't put out a record since 2010's Powers, a sci-fi-inspired set released under the name A.J.

The last record of new songs by XTC came out in 2000, about 22 years after the first one. In the intervening decade and a half, cofounder Andy Partridge has acted as a steward of his band’s ...

XTC‘s Andy Partridge has a new musical project, 3 Clubmen, which is a collaboration with Jen Olive and Stu Rowe that they describe as “a three-headed Frankenstein’s monster dancing at a neurodivergent ...

Not every successful sports team loves their coach, and not every great band loves their producer. Just like Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls with New England Patriots teams that largely didn’t ...

The 3 Clubmen, the “three-headed Frankenstein’s monster dancing at a neurodivergent singles club” featuring XTC‘s Andy Partridge, have released their self-titled debut EP. You can hear elements of XTC ...

Former Mission Bay High School marching band member Frank Zappa died in 1993, 13 years before San Diego guitar wizard and composer Mike Keneally and the famously reclusive English art-rock legend Andy ...

Right from the time they were first dreamed up, superheroes have always been utilized as metaphors for some aspect of human life. Why not use one to allude to the kind of poor treatment one might ...

We had a gig in Liverpool the night he was shot… well, the night we heard the news,” says XTC’s Andy Partridge, plunging immediately into the two topics I was warned he might not want to talk ...

Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...