Nov 29, 2022 By Joey Arnone

The Charlatans and Ride have announced a North American co-headline tour for 2023. Tickets are set to go on sale this Friday (Dec. 2) at 10 a.m. local time. More

Sep 23, 2022 By Joey Arnone

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

Aug 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

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

Jun 06, 2022 By Joey Arnone

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

Apr 15, 2022 By Joey Arnone

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

Dec 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is our special 20th Anniversary Issue. It’s a double issue celebrating two decades of the magazine (our first issue came out in December 2001). The issue has shipped out to subscribers and stores and can now be bought from us directly here. The issue features two special covers, each featuring a different group of musicians together. More

Sep 09, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans have shared “C’mon C’mon,” a previously unreleased song originally recorded for the band’s 2001 album Wonderland. It is featured on A Head Full of Ideas, a new career-spanning vinyl box set. More

Aug 11, 2021 By Mark Redfern

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

Mar 23, 2021 By Joey Arnone

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

Apr 10, 2020 By Mark Redfern

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 By Christopher Roberts

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

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

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

Jun 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans released a new album, Different Days, last year via BMG. Now they have shared a video for a new song, “Standing Alone.” Frontman Tim Burgess says the track is “a song of defiance, apology, and smashed phones.” More

May 31, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

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

May 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans released a new album, Different Days, last year via BMG. Now they have announced some fall North American tour dates. They go down this October and include shows on both coasts, as well as one show in Mexico and two in Canada (their first shows north of the border in over a decade). More

Mar 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

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

Mar 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

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

Jul 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans released a new album, Different Days, back in May via BMG. The band have previously shared the album’s first single, “Plastic Machinery,” which features the legendary guitarist of The Smiths, Johnny Marr, along with Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe, as well as a video for the song and a remix of the song by fellow countrymen Sleaford Mods. More

May 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

To help you sort through the multitude of new songs released in the last seven days, we have picked the five best. Below that we have also highlighted other notable new tracks shared this week. This week was light on exciting new songs, likely due to the impending long Memorial Day holiday weekend, but there were still pleasures to be found. More

May 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans released a new album, Different Days, today via BMG. The band have previously shared the album’s first single, “Plastic Machinery,” which features the legendary guitarist of The Smiths, Johnny Marr, along with Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe, as well as a video for the song. More

May 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

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

Apr 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans are releasing a new album, Different Days, on May 26 via BMG. Now the band has shared the album’s first single, “Plastic Machinery.” More

Sep 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans have announced some new U.S. tour dates. They are in support of their well-received recent new album, Modern Nature, which is out now. More

Apr 27, 2015 By Katie LaBranche

British ‘90s veterans The Charlatans (or The Charlatans UK in America, if you must) have shared the music video for their newest single “Let The Good Times Be Never Ending” from their album Modern Nature… More

Aug 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Jon Brookes, founding member and drummer of The Charlatans, has died aged 44. More

Sep 16, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last night, at a gig in Philadelphia, The Charlatans’ drummer Jon Brookes collapsed on stage. Thankfully there was a doctor in the audience and paramedics responded quickly. Doctors are optimistic there will be not be any long-term effects on Brookes health. More

May 27, 2009 By Michele Yamamoto

Our News Roundup briefly reports on various entertainment news stories that are circulating the web: Glastonbury lineup announced, Beastie Boys name new album, They Might Be Giants sponor little league teams, Meg White gets married, Gonzales breaks a world record, The Charlatans announce a U.S. tour, Ewan McGregor is against a Trainspotting sequel, Michael Moore’s new documentary on the economic crisis gets a release date, Buffy the Vampire Slayer might be rebooted as a new movie without Joss Whedon or the TV cast, and Doctor Who‘s David Tennant is set to play The Doctor two more bonus times. More

Jan 15, 2021 By Andy Von Pip

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 By Andy Von Pip

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

Apr 10, 2020 By Mark Redfern

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 20, 2017 By Mark Redfern

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

May 26, 2017 By Lily Moayeri

North American audiences—if they’re old enough—might respond hesitantly with “The Only One I Know” if the U.K.‘s The Charlatans are brought up. That song from 1990 is arguably the group’s high point on these shores. But on their native soil, The Charlatans are not only current and relevant but held in the highest esteem. More

May 19, 2015 By Lily Moayeri

The Charlatans tend to come back strongly in the face of tragedy. The death of original keyboard player, Rob Collins, brought the group’s immensely popular (in the U.K. anyway) Tellin’ Stories. The still-fresh death of drummer Jon Brookes has evoked, Modern Nature, 12th album with the strongest songwriting in recent memory for the group, whose first release was 25 years ago. More