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The BBC got pretty much every surviving Stiff vet - The Damned, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, Devo, Madness, The Pogues plu...

Before the Impostors, the Attractions and even Clover, Elvis Costello had another, more mysterious backing band named Flip City. Back in the...

While I have never forgiven Goodbye Cruel World (even E.C. disdains it), it's far from my Costello cut-off. In fact right up till the e...

(Thanks to the Elvis Costello Wiki for the images herein.) This performance from an FM radio broadcast of a show from the Agora Theatre in C...

When did you first hear Elvis Costello? Well I'd surely heard him as a child in the seventies but my first adolescent exposure to Elvis ...

"Sex,Drugs, Rock n' Roll and Chaos" is the (bastardized) title of the final track on this L.P , featuring Elvis Costello, Nick...

"Straight to Hell" is the Clash's apex. True, London Calling and The Clash remain the band's most crucial works. How...