Green Gartside's transformation from underground favorite to pop superstar was one of the most welcome success stories of the '80s. Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche 85 remains one of that decade's ...

Enlisting a round table of contemporary hipsters such as Me’Shell Ndegeocello, Wendy Melvoin (of Wendy & Lisa), and rapper Mos Def, Scritti Politti 2000 is far more guitar-driven and hip-hop ...

degli Scritti Politti (derivato dalla storpiatura ironica degli "Scritti Politici" di Gramsci). Musicista dotato di voce inconfondibile e notevoli capacità compositive, Gartside ha sempre trovato ...

Seven years after ‘Anomie and Bonhomie’, the album that boasted star turns from Mos Def and Jimahl and proved that Welshmen can make their mark in hip hop circles long before, er, Goldie Looking Chain ...

U.K. alternative pop act Scritti Politti returns this summer after a seven-year hiatus with its fifth album, “White Bread, Black Beer” (Rough Trade). For most of its career, Scritti Politti has been ...

Green Gartside and Scritti Politii were a post-punk success in the 1980s. Born in Cardiff in 1956, Gartside attended Leeds Polytechnic and experienced The Sex Pistols' Anarchy tour in 1977. Like so ...

Green Gartside has had one of the weirdest careers of any pop star, ever. Scritti Politti began as a gang of communist punks living in a London squat -- their early recordings are intentionally ...

Dal 1977 ad oggi sono trascorsi ben 34 anni ed anche per gli Scritti Politti (il cui nome è una sorta di versione pop degli “Scritti politici” di Antonio Gramsci) è giunta l'ora della prima raccolta.

Attending a Scritti Politti gig hasn’t been much of a going concern since 1980. Chronic anxiety attacks have kept Green Gartside off the stage since then – and you have to marvel at how he’s got over ...

If there’s something worth salvaging from the cultural atrocity exhibition of the early-’80s, it’s the memory of the theorists getting to grips with the charts: the bogus if fascinating concept of ...

Bill’s Indie Basement (8/13): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more Bill’s Indie Basement (8/13): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more This week in Indie Basement: reviews of ...