Guardian Music — (InsideOut)Were it not for an almost accidental affiliation with the modern prog rock scene, Knifeworld would surely have been embraced by the indie mainstream years ago. Bottled Out of Eden arrives as the band begin to make inroads in that domain, b... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, we learned that ’60s pop relics the Monkees were making a new album and that they were working with songwriters like Noel Gallagher, Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, and XTC’s Andy Partridge. The first single has just made ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Vulture interviewed George Saunders about his debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Browbeat reviewed Andy Partridge's new book, Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC. Publishers Weekly previewed summer's best new books. Julianna Barwick discussed he... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Composer Harold Budd has worked with a veritable Who's Who of ambient music, most notably Brian Eno, Cocteau Twins, but also folks like XTC's Andy Partridge and more. Turning 80 next year, Budd is still going strong. This year... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NPR Books shared an excerpt from James Ellroy's new novel Perfidia. Slate examined the demise of the fade-out in popular music. Stereogum ranked XTC albums from worst to best. The A.V. Club and Electric Literature interviewed John Darnielle about his... more info

Stereogum — Of all the bands that emerged from the British post-punk scene, XTC has been one of the hardest to pin down. You could peg them as an ’80s dinosaur whose most recognizable tracks pop up on cut-rate compilations of new wave or classic alternative ro... more info

KEXP Seattle — Have I really been doing this series for almost seven years, and this is the first album I’ve covered by alt-pop royalty XTC? Is it just that it took me that long to really start digging around in the XYZ section of the stacks? Whatever the reason,... more info

NME — Members of The Smiths, Oasis, Primal Scream, XTC and more appeared at The Roadhouse for a charity party more info

Sweeping The Nation — The start of a very occasional series takes as its key point the obvious and undeniable fact that the list of NME covers on Wikipedia is the very best page on the internet. But why stop there? Why can't we chart the whole of pop culture by rise a... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Holy OrdersFrom: Hull, United KingdomHull quartet The Holy Orders are here to rescue rock from the fakes, the phonies and the frauds. Deviants sounds like a lecture in how to write a pop song from And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. Retina... more info