This undated publicity film image released by Universal Pictures shows Graham Parker, center, in a scene from the Universal Pictures film, "This is 40," written, co-produced and directed by Judd ...

"I did have a mission to wipe out progressive music," says Graham Parker, who set the rock world on its ear in 1976. "Even though I'd been into it two years before, it suddenly became redundant. Then ...

Arriving on the mid-’70s London scene as a rough’n’ready product of the pub-rock era — an R&B- loving Nick Lowe with a sharper, more ambitious pen, as it were — Parker predated Elvis Costello and Joe ...

We here at Ultimate Classic Rock have been thrilled that Graham Parker, one of rock's most underrated songwriters, reunited with his old backing band the Rumour. Their mixture of biting lyrics against ...

Graham Parker and the Rumour have just released 'Three Chords Good,' their first new album together in over 30 years, and Ultimate Classic Rock is happy to bring you the exclusive album stream.

When Elvis Costello made waves in the ‘70s as an angry punk rocker, an even angrier Graham Parker and his band, The Rumour, spewed witty vitriol of their own with a hybrid punk-rockabilly-folk sound ...

Graham Parker and the Rumour were one of the great English rock acts of the late 1970s and the very beginning of the ’80s. Parker’s songs have a biting, class-conscious wit not unlike those of his ...

Christmas came early to many young musicians — thanks to radio’s WQXR. The most listened-to classical music station in the nation appealed to its listeners to drop off their gently used but ...

About fifty pages into the two hundred forty-seven total of Jay Nachman's Graham Parker's Howlin' Wind, the narrative turns distinctly cinematic, right in keeping with a kinetic cover painting by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about media, technology, conferences and festivals globally. Popping his head ahead above the nascent punk scene in ...

At 56, Graham Parker has lost little of the caustic bile that informed so much of his best work of the mid- to late ’70s. Always mislabeled as “angry,” Parker’s songs can better be described as surly ...