robyn hitchcock Archive
07 Aug 2026
Robyn Hitchcock: Confusion Says
Born in London and a longtime resident of Nashville, singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock enjoys an influential and critically-acclaimed career. With his late ‘70s band the Soft Boys, Hitchcock channeled ‘60s psychedelia […]
01 Jun 2026
30 Days Out, June 2026 #1: Samara Jade, Kiefer Sutherland, Robyn Hitchcock, Sunny War
Folk. Folk-punk. Dada-esque wordplay and jangle. And Americana from a Canadian-born personality best known as an actor. Those are among the highlights in live music in and around Asheville in […]
26 Sep 2025
That Thing You (Didn’t) Do, Part 2 of 2
The search for a movie’s theme song: Director Tom Hanks’ love letter to ‘60s rock drew upon top songwriters Continued from Part One… The Verve Pipe – “That Thing You […]
25 Sep 2025
That Thing You (Didn’t) Do, Part 1 of 2
The search for a movie’s theme song: Director Tom Hanks’ love letter to ‘60s rock drew upon top songwriters A shorter edit of this feature appeared previously in SPIN. Tom […]
27 Feb 2020
Robyn Hitchcock: Give it to the (Former) Soft Boy
Cambridge, England singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock first came to prominence with the Soft Boys, a group that combined the prickly, angular sounds of new wave with a lysergic worldview redolent of […]
12 May 2009
Album Review: Robyn Hitchcock — I Wanna Go Backwards
Quirky Cambridge England singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has always followed his own twisted muse. Like some bastard son of Bob Dylan and Syd Barrett, Hitchcock has made a career of memorable […]
19 Jan 2008
Robyn Hitchcock: Vinyl is Forever
The droll (even by English standards) singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock came on the scene in the late 1970s with The Soft Boys, a Cambridge psych-rock group that — depending on one’s […]