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 ...

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 ...

Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at XTC’s ninth studio ...

Forty years ago this month, the English band XTC brought its live career to a crashing halt. They were onstage in Paris when frontman Andy Partridge suffered a severe panic attack, causing him to ...

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 ...

OAKLAND -- The original drummer from influential British rock group XTC Terry Chambers brings his current tribute project EXTC to Yoshi's in Oakland Monday, giving fans a rare chance to experience the ...

A thrilling marriage of ‘What happens if we push this?’-style experimentation and itchy, envelope-pushing pop, XTC’s third LP saw them going through changes. But Making Plans was an odd if brilliant ...

There’s always been an air of mystery and mythology to XTC, the British band that emerged during the late 70s punk and New Wave movements. The group was certainly prolific, releasing 12 albums between ...

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, ...

New Atmos And 5.1 Surround Mixes Reinvent XTC’s Smash 1986 hit Skylarking and 1984’s The Big Express. In 2016, a wonderful CD+Blu-ray release celebrated XTC’s 1986 masterpiece, Skylarking, with a lush ...

urika’s bedroom is a Los Angeles-based indie rock project who emerged last summer with their debut single “Junkie.” Ahead of their upcoming tour dates supporting Nourished By Time this month (plus a ...

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), deep-dive factoids (details about wacky album-art photo shoots)—even ...