XTC wanted to name their debut LP Black Music. The punk-adjacent band from Swindon, England weren’t thinking in terms of skin color, they just thought the description was appropriate for their sound. ...
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 ...
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 ...
This story has been corrected since it was originally published. From the late ’70s and on through the ’80s and ’90s, Swindon, U.K., pop chameleons XTC produced album after album brimming with ...
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 ...
“The really annoying thing is, the second I die off, people are going to go, ‘Hey, do you know, they were quite good!’ ” That’s Andy Partridge, the principal singer and songwriter of the late, great, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A lot of people think that life on the road would be a dream, but that's not the case for everybody, which is why XTC stopped ...