Elvis Costello needed a band to help him tour his solo debut My Aim Is True. Auditions led to the hiring of bassist Bruce Thomas, drummer Dave Thomas (no relation to Bruce), and keyboardist Steve ...

Elvis Costello’s All This Useless Beauty turns 30 as fans revisit the final Attractions album and one of the defining transition records of his career.

For his fourth album, Get Happy!! – released on Feb. 15, 1980, a little more than a year after Armed Forces – he kept the Attractions and once again worked with Lowe. This time, however, he also ...

A two-decade run as a rock band is nothing to sneeze at, especially considering the volatility of such enterprises. The Attractions’ longevity as the backing band to Elvis Costello stands out as ...

Leave it to Elvis Costello, long-known for surprising, confusing, and challenging his fanbase, and his collaborator/producer Sebastian Krys, to take another left turn in a career full of them, this ...

The iconic 1979 album is getting a reissue on November 6 and will include demos, B-sides and seven notebooks with new linear notes from Costello. As well as this, the boxset will include handwritten ...

Elvis Costello & The Attractions score their first top 10 success in their first visit to any of Billboard’s Latin albums chart as Spanish Model arrives at No. 6 on the Latin Pop Albums chart dated… ...

Elvis Costello's new hour-long program — think Inside the Actors Studio meets Fishing with John with a dollop of Storytellers thrown in — features Costello peppering guests such as Bill Clinton, Lou ...

“I don’t wanna kiss you, I don’t wanna touch,” Costello whispered into my ear, “I don’t wanna see you ‘cause I don’t miss you that much.” The monks were out selling peace, I was on my way to get my ...