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

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — TraamsFrom: Chichester, United KingdomJack from art rock trio Traams sounds like XTC smashing into The Young Knives in the Large Hadron Collider. Go TryGo VisitTraams - Facebook more info

Totally Fuzzy — Dutch Uncles are an indie rock band from Marple, England. They are known for their use of atypical time signatures within a pop context. Their influences includes several bands such as The Smiths, King Crimson, Steve Reich, XTC and Talking Heads. R... more info

Popdose — Let's take a look back at the 10 finest moments from XTC's catalog as written by Colin Moulding more info