New releases: Electronic, XTC, Green Day, Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute, Duran Duran
This week’s new releases include reissues from Electronic, XTC, Green Day and Duran Duran, plus a new installment of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute series.
Tag: XTC
The 3 Clubmen — featuring XTC’s Andy Partridge — premiere lyric video for “Aviatrix”
The 3 Clubmen, the new act that finds XTC founder Andy Partridge teaming up with Jen Olive and Stu Rowe, debuted its first song, “Aviatrix,” back in April.
Out this week: Lemonheads, XTC, Ministry, Duran Duran, John Robb’s goth book — and more
This week’s new releases include reissues from The Lemonheads, Duran Duran, XTC, Ministry and They Might Be Giants, plus John Robb’s book on the history of goth.
XTC’s 1978 album “Go2” to be reissued on 200-gram vinyl with “Go+” dub EP
The long-running XTC audiophile reissue series continues this month with the first vinyl release in decades of the band’s second album Go2.
XTC’s Andy Partridge debuts new trio The 3 Clubmen — hear first single “Aviatrix”
XTC founder Andy Partridge has a new musical project, a trio called The 3 Clubmen that debuted its first single this week, a song called “Aviatrix.”
Danny Elfman traces his taste in music for Amoeba’s “What’s In My Bag?” series
The latest installment in Amoeba Music’s “What’s In My Bag?” video series finds Danny Elfman offering a tour through the evolution of his musical tastes.
Andy Partridge releasing new EP, reissuing XTC’s “Mummer” with original sleeve art
Andy Partridge’s Ape House record label is prepping both a new four-song EP from the XTC founder as well as a vinyl reissue of Mummer with its original artwork.
XTC’s Andy Partridge to launch ‘My Failed Songwriting Career’ series with 4-song EP
XTC’s Andy Partridge next month will release the debut installment of his new My Failed Songwriting Career series, collections of songs he wrote for other artists in the wake of the band’s dissolution following the Apple Venus albums more than 20 years ago. Full details right here.
XTC’s ‘Oranges & Lemons’ to be reissued on 200-gram audiophile vinyl
XTC next month will reissue its 11th album — 1989’s Oranges & Lemons, featuring “The Mayor of Simpleton” and “King for a Day” — on 200-gram audiophile vinyl with remastered sound and a reworked sleeve “to present the front color image in all its psychedelic glory.” Full details right here.
Andy Partridge gives away new song ‘Cavegirl’ from ‘aborted bubblegum sampler album’
In a move meant “to help lift spirits during lockdown,” XTC’s Andy Partridge has released a free digital track called “Cavegirl” — a demo for a song intended for an “aborted bubblegum sampler album” that was to have been a best-of compiling tracks from “the mythical American bubblegum label Hercules.”
Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge working on new LP that’ll be ‘a cheese fondue for the slag heaps’
On the heels of their just-released Planet England EP, master songwriters Andy Partridge of XTC and Robyn Hitchcock are back at work on new music, according to a post by Hitchcock on Instagram, and are hoping this project won’t take a dozen years like the last one. Details right here.
XTC’s Dukes of Stratosphear albums freshly remixed for new ‘Psurroundabout Ride’ set
The complete works of The Dukes of Stratosphear — XTC’s short-lived psychedelic side project — have been remixed in stereo and 5.1 Surround by Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson and will be reissued in October as a CD/Blu-ray set called Psurroundabout Ride. Get the full details right here.
Robyn Hitchcock and XTC’s Andy Partridge to release EP that’s 13 years in the making
Songwriting greats Andy Partridge of XTC and Robyn Hitchcock next month will release a four-song EP that Hitchcock says “began in his shed in Swindon in 2006” and is now finished after the two re-teamed last year to write one final song. Full details on the project right here.
