Elvis Costello is making the rounds, virtually, promoting his new album, Hey Clockface, which is out Friday. He appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night, where he chatted as ...
Elvis Costello released a lyric video for his new song “No Flag,” which he recorded alone in February. Explaining his motivation, he reported that he’d travelled to Finland and spent three days in a ...
English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello will no longer perform his 1979 hit single “Oliver’s Army” and urges radio stations to stop playing it too. The song’s lyrics — which comment on the Troubles, ...
It’s common for critics and fans to praise the lyrics of Elvis Costello, but that only tells half the story really. It gives short shrift to the dynamic music he has produced throughout his career.
When Elvis Costello put out the raucous “No Flag” back in June of this benighted year of 2020, its rip-snorting yowl of alienation, disillusionment, and defiance was perhaps understandably pegged as ...
Elvis Costello collects songs he co-wrote with Paul McCartney and Burt Bacharach and tracks featuring lyrics by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash on the rocker’s new EP Purse, which arrived digitally Friday ...
Elvis Costello has given his 1979 hit "Oliver's Army" a dishonorable discharge from the ranks of songs he will play in concert. The song, which is about the military and imperialism and reached No. 2 ...
In addition to gearing up to release new album Hey Clockface, Elvis Costello has launched “50 Songs For 50 Days,” which is “a-song-a-day rollout of 50 songs and couplets (mostly) from his catalog ...
Sept. 13 (UPI) --Elvis Costello announced on Friday that he will release King of America & Other Realms, a six-disc box set, in November. The collection, which is now available for pre-order, spans 97 ...
One of the recurring themes found in Elvis Costello’s work is the deterioration of romantic ideals. You won’t ever find Costello sacrificing brutal truths, to use one of his own pointed phrases, in ...