Feb 09, 2023 By Celine Teo-Blockey

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 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 10, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

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 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 Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Aug 12, 2021 By Dom Gourlay

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