XLR8R — Phrex is a DJ-producer from Switzerland and part of Bons Vivants crew. He's soon set to release a new 12" on re:st, titled Spacial. It arrives in the shape of a four-tracker with nods to dubstep, house and bass music. Tracklisting A1. Quadrant ... more info

Popdose — In an era full of quirky bands, XTC may have been the quirkiest. Their debut album featured primary singer/songwriter Andy Partridge leering at the Statue of Liberty amid musical settings designed to simultaneously build upon and satirize pop and pun... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 1980 has gone down as the year of unusual numbers of rock deaths - Lennon, John Bonham, Ian Curtis, Bon Scott, Malcolm Owen of the Ruts, Tim Hardin - which tends to overshadow that the improbable pace of development and diversification around these y... more info

Core News — “Davido ft Rae Sremmurd and Young Thug is Jam Hot. Plus Kemet FM finish their Sixty Minutes takeover with a drum and bass mix from XTC, Dan Terraform and Nebulla2.” Check out other MistaJam shows here and subscribe to the feed to get good music i... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Does anyone read these spiels? Maybe we should just save them for the book version that'll never happen. Here's forty top songs (39 of which are on Spotify) from the magnificent pop year of 1982, and no, Dollar's inclusion is not a mistak... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Data FuryFrom: Bergshamra, SwedenWithout google translate I'd struggle to understand what Ã…r Noll (Zero) from mysterious Swedish band Data Fury is about. However music is a universal language and despite my lack of comprehension I like it, a... more info

KEXP Seattle — I feel like bands with intimidating catalogs come up pretty often here in Review Revue-land – or maybe it’s just a recurring theme in my own head. Sometimes a band has a ton of releases and you don’t know which are the good ones, or the importa... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Los Angeles band The Jigsaw Seen have been making chiming, crunchy power pop for nearly 30 years. If you dig XTC's later, Beatlesque records but wish they had a little more kick, you should really check these guys out... Continue reading… more info

Obscure Sound — “Lesser Evil” caught my attention from the get-go, especially with a chorus whose vocal approach (the grandiose backing vocal exuberance) reminds strongly of XTC, a personal favorite and act whose songwriting is full of distinctive charm to the p... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Uranium Club make the kind of hyperactive, angsty guitar music that's like Devo, XTC, The Fall, The Wipers, The Feelies and My Dad is Dead whizzed up in a blender. Continue reading… more info