“Is This The Life” was not only the band’s only modest hit but also the band’s most radio-friendly song by a mile — it’s sort of a Cure-ish blend of new wave and post-punk and the only song on this ...

Yesterday came the very sad news that Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith passed away on Tuesday night (7/21), following a 12-year battle with a “complex and poorly understood” health condition. Cardiacs were ...

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The cult-beloved British band Cardiacs released Guns, their most recent album, in 1999. For a very, very long time, they've been planning a new double LP called LSD. The lead single was supposed to be ...

If you know who Cardiacs are, your response to them generally falls into two camps - those who think they’re the best band in the history of music, and those who wish they had never existed. By all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We’d got a bunch of songs that we wanted to do,” says Torabi. “Tim didn’t make demos, but what he did do was block out how the ...

Here’s something I’ve always appreciated about Cardiacs – they are as advertised. If you read about them you will encounter a number of sweeping and clichéd generalisations. "You either love them or ...

Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right – and his boundless enthusiasm was so infectious it created an army of followers If Tim Smith ...

Tim Smith has reportedly died at the age of 59. It comes after the musician suffered a heart attack and two strokes in 2008. Tributes have been pouring in for the Cardiac band member following the ...

Smith, who fronted unique prog-punk group, had long-term health difficulties after a heart attack and stroke in 2008 Tim Smith, frontman with cult British band Cardiacs, has died aged 59. The news was ...

Tim Smith, lead singer of British cult band The Cardiacs, has died at age 59. By Gil Kaufman Tim Smith, the lead singer and guitarist of cult British rock band The Cardiacs, died on Tuesday (July 22) ...

I was first exposed to Cardiacs’ oddly compelling world when the video to ‘Tarred And Feathered’ aired on The Tube on April 17 1987. Six musicians wearing old-fashioned vaguely military-style uniforms ...