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July 30, 2004

Hitchcock Gets "Spooked"

Singer collaborates with Gillian Welch, David Rawlings on new CD
September 25, 2003

Bottom Line Granted Reprieve

Club still trying to land deal to prevent eviction
April 11, 2002

Robyn Hitchcock Sings Dylan

New Soft Boys album also due in September
August 18, 1999

Robyn Hitchcock: Same Wit, Different Day

Robyn Hitchcock: Same Wit, Different Day

Ole! Tarantula

The Venus 3 -- guitarist Peter Buck, drummer Bill Rieflin and Scott McCaughey on bass and other stuff -- are most of the Minus 5. They are also the best electric band British singer-fabulist Robyn Hitchcock has had since the Soft Boys. Hitchcock has a knockout gift for Beatlesque melodicism, and the...

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One of rock & roll's most gifted eccentrics, Soft Boy frontman Robyn Hitchcock at his best evokes much of the same benign insanity that marked John Lennon's whimsicality -- at times, his songs even evoke a similar sense of melody. His first solo album, Black Snake Diamond Role, picks up pretty much where his work with the Soft Boys left off, even to the point of employing most of his former...

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