The critical success of My Aim Is True also gave Costello more confidence as a songwriter. At 23, he was one of the best young writers of the era, pulling from earlier artists as much as he was riding ...

In the liner notes accompanying Wise Up Ghost (and Other Songs), the new collaboration between Elvis Costello and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon house band The Roots, Roots leader Ahmir “Questlove” ...

Elvis Costello ran hot, cold, and lukewarm at his almost maddeningly uneven San Diego concert Wednesday night at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. Appearing before a near-capacity audience of 4,500 at ...

'A punk point of view reduced to a dead stare': Elvis Costello in 1979 - Redferns The matter was settled one evening in the flat in a tower block he shared with his young wife and their toddler son.

Being an Elvis Costello fan has been like being a Bob Dylan fan, or a Neil Young fan. There is too much to keep up with. Too many alternate takes. Too many collaborations. Too many lyrics. Too many ...

He enjoyed commercial success with his first albums, but had trouble landing hit singles from 1981's Almost Blue and 1982's Imperial Bedroom. So Costello figured it was time to turn his attention back ...

The post Elvis Costello Extends 2025 Tour of Early Classics with The Imposters appeared first on Consequence. “You can expect the unexpected and the faithful in equal measure,” Costello said about the ...

British rocker Elvis Costello’s interest in country music began in 1968, when he was a teenager. To me, country music is another form of American soul music. Initially, the country songs that I heard, ...

Invisible Hits is a column in which Tyler Wilcox scours the internet for the best (and strangest) bootlegs, rarities, outtakes, and live clips. After Costello’s seemingly irreparable bust-up with the ...

The most remarkable thing about Elvis Costello’s hefty new memoir, “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink,” is how much he left out. “There are albums not even mentioned by name,” the 61-year-old ...

They say to be careful what you wish for. Elvis Costello could probably relate. Frustrated by the mainstream audience’s indifference to material that many critics and discerning listeners found ...

“I was asked to write an autobiography when I was 24,” says Elvis Costello, 61, on the day he receives his first hard-bound copy of his revelatory, evocatively crafted, highly entertaining new memoir, ...