long out of print seminal releases from the soft boys complete with bonus download material and original artwork. swarming hymns of 2nd generation psychedelic pop mastery, the soft boys' two most ...

“It’s taken a long time to recover from being young,” singer-guitarist Robyn Hitchcock wryly informed the Knitting Factory crowd on Tuesday, the end of a reunion tour with his early band the Soft Boys ...

Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but as David Bennun recounts, their superb swan song, Underwater Moonlight, made them a Velvet Underground for new generations of jangle and ...

The much-anticipated Soft Boys reunion tour kicked off during last month’s SXSW, Austin’s mammoth film and music industry conference, and hit the Paradise in Boston March 26. The British band played a ...

You'd think Robyn Hitchcock, 48, would be happy with the fervent cult following his solo work has attracted over the past two decades with hits like "Balloon Man" and "So You Think You're in Love." ...

Like countless others, the Soft Boys were the wrong band at the wrong time. They were mop-top popsters at the height of punk, psychedelic warriors playing a style of music that hadn’t been popular for ...

There were lewd ad-libs about pumpkins, a song about a man with a light-bulb head, gleaming guitar hooks, soaring harmonies and Studio 54 rhythms, plus renditions of songs by Syd Barrett and the Byrds ...

Robyn Hitchcock is an artist I discovered by accident. I was going through back issues of Rolling Stone reading "Fricke's Picks" trying to find the one that discussed Nick Cave. I couldn't find it ...

The comeback album from the Soft Boys — 22 years after their classic LP “Underwater Moonlight” — reveals the quartet as sardonic, romantic and multilayered as ever. This should come as no surprise to ...

The Soft Boys show at last year’s South by Southwest was so surprisingly enjoyable it weakened somewhat my instinctive distrust of rock reunions. Twenty years after the band’s breakup, guitarists ...