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Monday, November 15 2010

The Soft Boys: A Can of Bees / Underwater Moonlight

In a parallel universe, a late '70s British Invasion might sound like the Beatles totally whacked out of their gourds.


Friday, April 2 2010

Robyn Hitchcock: 5 March 2010 - Chicago

Flavoring cadences with irresistible falsetto, Hitchcock’s performance created an aura of eerie intimacy.


Wednesday, May 20 2009

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: 18 April 2009 - Chicago

It’s no wonder people go to great lengths to see Robyn Hitchcock in concert.


Monday, March 23 2009

The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love

Beware! Here there be shape-shifters, amoral rakes, an ill-tempered Queen, and a hell of a well-executed rock opera.


Friday, February 13 2009

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: Goodnight Oslo

For his second outing with the Venus 3, Robyn Hitchcock both tightens up his songs and adds to his arrangements with vocal harmonies and horns. The result is another winner.


Friday, August 1 2008

Robyn Hitchcock, Lykke Li, Lee “Scratch” Perry…


Tuesday, March 25 2008

Robyn Hitchcock: Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects [DVD]

An interesting, if brief (at 59 minutes), look at Hitchcock's craft that goes off in a couple of intriguing directions.


Monday, February 11 2008

20 Questions: Robyn Hitchcock

PopMatters debuts "20 Questions", a weekly feature of short, sassy questions aimed to encourage playful responses that reveal the gist of the artist. We couldn't think of a better person to start with than the witty and clever Robyn Hitchcock.


Friday, November 30 2007

Robyn Hitchcock: I Wanna Go Backwards

This glorious five-CD box set contains remastered editions of three of Robyn Hitchcock's very best solo albums, plus two discs of mostly great non-LP cuts.


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