In his autobiography, Elvis Costello wrote that the popular idea of him early on as an angry man was just a trick of physiology. He wrote: “It seems that the space between my two front teeth, which ...

Elvis Costello has always been open about his expansive range of influences, and Van Morrison has always been ever-present ...

Seeing Elvis Costello share a bill with Nick Lowe is always a special occasion for anyone at all familiar with Costello’s storied past, holding out the promise of the two old friends sharing the ...

Elvis Costello knows a thing or two about "Peace, Love and Understanding." On July 5, he delivered exactly that to a raucous Ryman Auditorium crowd on a silver platter — with a big side of rock 'n' ...

Elvis Costello assembled a cast of thousands for his 1989 album Spike. It gained a lot of attention at the time for containing his songwriting collaborations with Paul McCartney, but those are just a ...

Night Three of Elvis Costello’s 10-night stand at New York’s Gramercy Theater focused on his darkest themes yet, dominated by songs of murder, violence, war, capital punishment, terrorism, fascism, ...

Due to his interest in and ease with a wide variety of music genres, you never know quite what you’re going to get when you plop the needle down on an Elvis Costello record. But it’s a pretty safe ...

Asking permission to cover another artist's song is one thing; asking permission from Prince is another. In 1997, Elvis Costello approached Prince and asked if he could record his 1985 hit "Pop Life" ...