“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tim Smith, frontman of the influential British cult rock band Cardiacs, has died at the age of 59. Smith started the cult rock band Cardiacs in about 1980 as the lead guitarist and vocalist with his ...

In June 2008, Cardiacs singer Tim Smith attended the last night of My Bloody Valentine's five-night comeback residency at the Roundhouse in London. After the gig, he went for a drink with a long-time ...

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, 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 ...