Bands like XTC. The excellent 2017 documentary XTC: This Is Pop chronicles the British group’s improbable ride through the music industry and is currently available for streaming on Showtime.

The Showtime network has released a six-minute trailer for the upcoming XTC documentary This Is Pop, following the launch of a 30-second clip last year. The show airs on Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Beloved UK band XTC, who went from hyper post-punk new wavers to pastor orch-pop perfectionists, are the subject of a new documentary, XTC: This Is Pop, which just premiered on Showtime.

A journey into the world of one of Britain's best-loved and most influential bands of modern times, XTC. Through a mixture of animation, archive and specially-shot sequences, the film explores the ...

In its revolving set list, EXTC performs songs from the entirety of XTC’s chameleonic career from the nervous new wave of “Making Plans For Nigel” to the power pop of “Senses Working ...

(Another XTC theme: “Making Plans For Nigel” and “Respectable Street” are songs chastising souls pursuit of the almighty pound.) Pop-popularity was fine, even profit was no problem ...

That’s Andy Partridge, the principal singer and songwriter of the late, great, quintessentially British pop band XTC, sounding off in his comprehensive new book Complicated Game: Inside the ...

"Life Begins at the Hop" is a peppy piece of ska-pop (reportedly featuring Sting on "lead handclaps"), and one of the last times XTC could claim to be addressing the "boys and girls" on record.

Every night, Chambers, singer-guitarist Steve Hampton and singing bassist Terry Lines faithfully perform two hours of songs by the classic British pop-rock band XTC. “We’re not young guys ...

XTC tended to operate under the radar for much of their recording career. Now and again, however, the British band would drop a picture-perfect pop song that would work its way out of the relative ...

Like many of XTC’s best ideas, it’s used extensively on one album and then ditched forever. Dipping into his pockets for English ephemera, Partridge recites the strapline of a popular brand of matches ...