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Todd Rundgren

October 2022

  • Todd Rundgren performing last year in Los Angeles.

    Todd Rundgren: ‘It’s hard to find sincerely musical artists nowadays. The music is just mediocre’

    As the cult musician and producer releases a new collaborative album, he reflects on 50 years of experimentation – including his forays into psychedelics – his obsession with the new, and the recent Rundgrenaissance

April 2021

  • Jim Steinman performing with Meat Loaf at the Tower theatre in Philadelphia, 1978

    Jim Steinman obituary

  • Alexis Petridis

    Jim Steinman, master of the power ballad, gave pop an operatic energy

    Alexis Petridis

April 2019

  • Todd Rundgren at Yestival at DTE Energy Music Theater on 17 August 2017 in Clarkston, Michigan.

    Todd Rundgren review – nostalgic tour from the Zelig of rock

    From Philly soul to avant-jazz, no genre is left untouched as Rundgren guides us through his musical career

October 2018

  • from left, Thom Yorke, Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks

    Radiohead, Stevie Nicks and the Cure among 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees

    The Ohio institution will select its 2019 cohort at a ceremony in Brooklyn next March

February 2017

  • Clockwise from top left: Marvin Gaye, Siouxsie and the Banshees, George Michael, Electronic, Carly Simon and Rod Stewart.

    My first love song: musicians remember the soundtracks to their teenage crushes

    A shaggy Texan, a firebreathing dancer, Liz Taylor … stars relive their first loves – and the tunes that bring them back

January 2017

  • Kairon: IRSE!

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Kairon; IRSE! (No 137) – Nordic funk, freakout jazz and shoegaze

    Finnish prog band whose dexterous music ranges from dreamy pastoral passages to angular metallic surges

May 2015

  • Andreya Triana press photograph

    Listen up
    Five albums to try this week: Django Django, Andreya Triana and more

    From Palma Violets’ indie to My Morning Jacket’s rock, hear new albums out this week and tell us what you’ll be listening to

April 2015

  • Experimentalist … Todd Rundgren

    Todd Rundgren/Emil Nikolaisen/Hans Peter Lindstrom: Rundanns review – trippy and transcendental pop

    Veteran pop-rock experimentalist Todd Rudgren returns with a trippy, transcendental collaborative album that’s not easily comparable to anything else

February 2015

  • Big Star

    10 of the best
    Powerpop: 10 of the best

    In the 1970s, US powerpop musicians turned away from jamming and noodling in favour of concise, 60s-inspired songcraft – here are 10 classics

July 2014

  • Todd Rundgren

    Cult music heroes: artists on their unsung idols

    Who inspires Faris Badwan, New Order and Jake Bugg? From a north London rapper to a Turkish protest singer, these are the musicians who influence the stars

November 2013

  • Robert Moog

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs with odd noises and instruments – results

    Battles over bagpipes, to autoharps and axes? Whale song and washboards to saws and seagulls? It's all been electrifying, says Peter Kimpton

May 2013

  • Todd Rundgren

    30 minutes with …
    Todd Rundgren: 'Every once in a while I took a trip and never came back'

    The American rocker, producer, director and songwriter is a man of legend, and legendary habits. But he's still afraid of the dentist

March 2013

  • Todd Rundgren in 1973

    From Rock's Backpages
    Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults

    It's 40 years since Todd Rundgren released A Wizard, A True Star. We visit vintage music journalism archive Rock's Backpages to relive the making of it, through this 1973 piece for Phonograph Record

August 2011

  • Pretty Woman

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about a change of mind – results

    Jon Dennis: It was make-up or break-up time and you refused to walk away like Pretty Woman. Here are your favourite reversals of direction

February 2010

  • Todd Rundgren

    Todd Rundgren

    Hammersmith Apollo, London
    Todd Rundgren was in London to perform live his 1973 cult masterpiece album, A Wizard, a True Star, and he and his musicians did not fail to deliver an exhilarating, absurd, yet moving show, writes Paul Lester

June 2009

  • The Horrors

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly: The Horrors and White Denim

    It's a second-album special this week as both the Horrors and White Denim enter our podcast studio

November 2008

  • Todd Rundgren

    Playlist
    Playlist: Todd Rundgren

    The 60-year-old singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer picks his favourite tunes and reveals the experiences that opened up his third ear

September 2008

  • Rock review: Todd Rundgren, Aren

    Inside another in a long line of awful sleeves lies another paradoxical Rundgren album

July 2008

  • hot chip in conversation with todd rundgren

    That's one potent hot toddy

    Hot Chip gave Todd Rundgren his first hit in 35 years. Rundgren talks to the band's Alexis Taylor - and almost causes an international incident. Paul Lester mediates

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