Of all the material Sony Music could have reissued of Prefab Sprout, the ever-evolving pop project led by singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon, it seemed unlikely the label would have directed their ...

“My relationship with prog is a complex thing, which has to do with my feelings about the 70s,” muses Paddy McAloon. “That period was very, very interesting. I reject the whole typical BBC documentary ...

Since debuting in 1982 with the dreamy single “Lions In My Own Garden,” English singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon and his band Prefab Sprout have distinguished themselves from their UK contemporaries by ...

Australian iconoclast Kirin J Callinan has a predilection for ‘80s music and recently released an album of covers titled Return to Center. He picked Let’s Change the World with Music by Prefab Sprout ...

ATRIBUTE night in celebration of the life and works of Durham based singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon and his band Prefab Sprout, will come to Newcastle later this month in support of St Oswald’s ...

Plenty of artists would be thrilled about being feted on a 2-CD anthology, but Paddy McAloon, songwriter for elusive English ensemble Prefab Sprout, is as effervescent as tap water concerning Prefab ...

The new Prefab Sprout album sounds stubbornly, gloriously out of step with the times, because it’s not “new” at all. After recording the classic Jordan: The Comeback in 1990, Prefab Sprout frontman ...

Fergal Kinney traces Steve McQueen's two very different masterminds, its influence on Arthur Russell and Caroline Polachek, and the path not taken to a British indie both sensual and modern Patrick ...

Canada's best pop group -- Stars -- makes its Milwaukee debut this week and to honor the occasion, we asked Amy Millan five questions about the band she co-fronts with Torquil Campbell.