Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Admit it, you just sang those lines to yourself, didn’t you? It’s OK. I did, too, when I jotted them down. Such is the power of ...
Chumbawamba’s ”Tubthumping” has had a surprisingly enduring life since it first emerged in 1997, flooding the airwaves with its “I get knocked down, but I get up again” sing-along refrain. It became ...
Everyone remembers where they were when they learned that Chumbawamba was more than a ‘90s one-hit-wonder and actually a long-running anarcho-communist punk band with a loyal following in jolly ol’ ...
The British collective responsible for the '90s hit "Tubthumping" posts a lengthy goodbye letter to fans: "Thirty years of being snotty, eclectic, funny, contrary and just plain weird. What a ...
In 1982, in the British town of Burnley, a bunch of former members of a band called Chimp Eats Banana formed an anarchist collective named Chumbawamba. They lived together in a squat in Leeds, and ...
Sometimes a song that reaches the top of the charts will become obscure within a year or so. The publication Far Out spotlighted some once-relevant tunes that haven't exactly remained timeless by ...
Yard Act, Nish Kumar and Phill Jupitus. CREDIT: Simone Padovani, Ken Jack and Sam McMahon/Getty Images Yard Act took to the stage in their Leeds hometown last night (May 9), and were joined by the ...
Why do populists so often use the work of artists who despise them? Because they don’t have any good songs of their own The beauty of writing a song that revolves around a universal idea is that ...
When New Zealand’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters strode out to address a political convention in the city of Palmerston North in March, the sound of British punk band Chumbawamba’s ...