Jarvis Cocker (Sheffield, 1963) is sitting in the sun on the terrace of the NH Ventas hotel in Madrid and, without warning, before starting this interview, he gets up and disappears. He sways down the ...

Pulp‘s “This is What We Do For an Encore” tour is full of theatrical moments: props appeared at various points throughout the show, including a disco ball, a chandelier and lounge chair, video intros, ...

Thursday night was Jarvis Cocker’s 61st birthday, and he celebrated, in part, by playing a show with his band, Pulp, at Hollywood Palladium, which was their second night in a row at the venue. After ...

Jarvis Cocker formed Pulp in Sheffield in 1978, and kept the band going for about 15 years before anybody else cared about it. Over the course of Pulp’s early albums for Fire Records, though, Cocker ...

When I was a kid in upstate New York, I’d hear Petula Clark’s “Downtown” on the radio — a song about the promise of glittering lights, “movie shows,” and all the excitement and dazzle adult life had ...

If there are casual Pulp fans, they don't make themselves known. The ambitious Britpop-and-then-some band emerged in the late-'70s in Sheffield, England, artistic outsiders with a penchant for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a recent Friday afternoon in London, Jarvis Cocker, 62, is musing over the suit he’s just picked up from the Portobello Road ...

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When Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker hears that the backstage area of Red Rocks Amphitheatre is like a cave in the side of a mountain, he gets even more excited for his band’s upcoming show there. The ...

NEW YORK — Pulp has returned with a new album, their first in 24 years. Who could've predicted that? Not even the band, it turns out. “It took us by surprise as well,” dynamic frontman Jarvis Cocker ...