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The Charlatans and Ride Announce New North American Co-Headlining Tour Dates for January

The Charlatans Will Perform Between 10th and 11th and Ride Will Perform Nowhere

Sep 25, 2023

At the start of this year The Charlatans and Ride teamed up for some co-headlining North American tour dates and next January they are doing it again. As with the previous tour, Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans will be performing their 1992-released sophomore album, Between 10th and 11th, and shoegazing icons Ride will perform their 1990-released debut album, Nowhere. More

Tim Burgess – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast

The Sixth Episode of Season 3 of Under the Radar with Celine Teo-Blockey Is Out Now on Major Podcasting Platforms

Feb 09, 2023

Author, solo artist, and Charlatans frontman, Tim Burgess is our latest guest on Season 3 of our Under the Radar with Celine Teo-Blockey podcast, talking about his sixth solo album Typical Music, his childhood, Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties, the late, great Rob Collins, and much more. More

Sep 23, 2022

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has released a new album, Typical Music, today via Bella Union. Burgess has also shared a video for the album track “Flamingo.” More

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans Shares Video for New Solo Song “Sure Enough”

Typical Music Due Out September 23 via Bella Union

Aug 23, 2022

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is releasing his new solo album, Typical Music, on September 23 via Bella Union. Now he has shared another song from it, “Sure Enough,” via an animated video for the single. More

11 Best Songs of the Week: Metric, Laura Veirs, Gaz Coombes, Katie Alice Greer, and More

Plus Spacemoth, Tim Burgess, Cass McCombs, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Jun 10, 2022

Welcome to the 23rd Songs of the Week of 2022. We settled on a Top 11 this week, in a list more populated with veteran artists than newcomers, including two solo songs from artists who became stars as the frontmen of ’90s Britpop bands. More

Jun 06, 2022

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has announced the release of his sixth solo album, Typical Music, which will be out on September 23 via Bella Union. Burgess has also shared a video for the album’s title track. More

10 Best Songs of the Week: Jockstrap, Phoebe Bridgers, Tess Parks, Wild Pink, and More

Plus Tim Burgess, Faye Webster, TRAAMS, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Apr 15, 2022

Welcome to the fifteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. This week our new favorite band, Wet Leg, hit #1 on the British album charts with their debut album. It was a solid week for new tracks, but none that screamed #1 Song of the Week, so this week’s order should be considered less strict than some weeks. More

Apr 15, 2022

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has shared a video for his new song, “Here Comes the Weekend.” It is the first release from Burgess’ forthcoming solo album, which is expected to come out later this year via Bella Union/[PIAS]. More

The Charlatans Share The Go! Team Remix of “Tellin’ Stories” and Announce Free NHS Show

A Head Full of Ideas Vinyl Career-Spanning Box Set Due Out October 15 via Republic of Music

Aug 11, 2021

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans have shared a remix of their 1997 song “Tellin’ Stories” by The Go! Team and have announced a free show in Manchester, England for NHS (National Health Service) workers on November 15 at Gorilla. More

Tim Burgess Announces New Book Inspired By His Twitter Listening Parties

The Listening Party Due Out September 2 via DK; Burgess Will Donate Royalties to Music Venue Trust

Mar 23, 2021

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has announced that he will be releasing a new book. The announcement coincides with the one-year anniversary of Burgess’ #TimsTwitterListeningParty series, where artists and fans alike would tweet about and have listening parties for their favorite albums. The book, entitled The Listening Party, will be out on September 2 via DK and it collects tweets and stories from 100 of Burgess’ listening parties, including featuring rare photos from the artists behind the albums. More

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans – COVID-19 Quarantine Artist Check In

“Nothing will be the same after this, some for the better, some for the worse.”

Apr 10, 2020

We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Tim Burgess of England’s The Charlatans. More

Feb 17, 2020

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has announced a new solo album, I Love the New Sky, and shared its first single, “Empathy for the Devil,” via a video for the track. More

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans Shares Video for “Nik V”

I Was Now Features Members of The Horrors, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Klaxons, and Ladyhawke

Oct 12, 2018

On Record Store Day Tim Burgess of The Charlatans released I Was Now, a 10-year-old unreleased album featuring Burgess on vocals, along with an all-star lineup that includes Ladyhawke, Josh Hayward (The Horrors), Martin Duffy (Felt/ Primal Scream), Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine), and Steffan Halperin (The Chavs/Klaxons). More

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans Shares Video for “Clutching Insignificance”

I Was Now Features Members of The Horrors, My Bloody Valentine Primal Scream, Klaxons, and Ladyhawke

May 31, 2018

On Record Store Day Tim Burgess of The Charlatans released I Was Now, a 10-year-old unreleased album featuring Burgess on vocals, along with an all-star lineup that includes Ladyhawke, Josh Hayward (The Horrors), Martin Duffy (Felt/ Primal Scream), Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine), and Steffan Halperin (The Chavs/Klaxons). Now he has shared a video for the album’s “Clutching Insignificance.” More

The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess Releasing Album with The Horrors and My Bloody Valentine Members

As I Was Now Featuring Members of Primal Scream, Klaxons, and Ladyhawke Due Out April 21; Listen to "Inspired Again"

Mar 07, 2018

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has announced, As I Was Now, a 10-year-old unreleased album featuring Burgess on vocals, along with an all-star lineup that includes Ladyhawke, Josh Hayward (The Horrors), Martin Duffy (Felt/ Primal Scream), Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine), and Steffan Halperin (The Chavs/Klaxons). More

Full List of Record Store Day Releases Revealed - Arcade Fire, Courtney Barnett, and More

Plus Kevin Shields and Brian Eno, Mac DeMarco, The National, The Cure, Fleet Foxes, and Others

Mar 06, 2018

The full list of 2018 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on April 21 and just in case you don’t already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

May 01, 2017

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans are releasing a new album, Different Days, on May 26 via BMG. More



Interviews

Aug 11, 2022

As part of our 20th anniversary coverage we thought it would be interesting to conduct brand new interviews with some of the artists interviewed in our very first issue way back in December 2001. More

Jan 15, 2021

COVID-19 may have put paid to most of 2020’s live music events, but one of the surprise hits of the lockdown has been Tim Burgess, frontman of The Charlatans, and his Twitter listening parties. More

Oct 23, 2020

Despite 30 years in the game with The Charlatans and as a solo artist, Tim Burgess’ sense of wonder and enthusiasm for making and discovering new music remains undiminished. More

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans – COVID-19 Quarantine Artist Check In

“Nothing will be the same after this, some for the better, some for the worse.”

Apr 10, 2020

We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Tim Burgess of England’s The Charlatans. More

2016 Artist Survey: Tim Burgess of The Charlatans

Burgess on Trump, Brexit, Scary Movies, Memorable Fan Encounters, Time Travel, and Stranger Things

Feb 20, 2017

For Under the Radar‘s 14th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2016. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2016 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Tim Burgess of The Charlatans. More


Reviews

Dec 24, 2021

Tim’s Twitter Listening Party was one of the few bright parts of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when the world was in full lockdown in early to mid 2020. Tim Burgess, frontman for the Madchester/Britpop band The Charlatans, came up with the simple idea—having musicians live tweet while fans collectively all listen to one of their albums at a preset time—after seeing actor Riz Ahmed spontaneously tweet along in 2011 to his film Four Lions. More

Aug 12, 2021

Get Together is our first festival since January 2020, and more than lives up to expectations. More