“Our albums have always had elements of melancholy,” says Neil Finn, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Crowded House. “And some of the best songs I’ve written have been on the melancholy side ...

From the other side of the world, Crowded House frontman Neil Finn flashes a relaxed smile. He’s on a video chat from Melbourne, Australia, to discuss the band’s eighth studio album, Gravity Stairs, ...

It would be easy for Crowded House to fly on autopilot, playing one hit after another as they tour the globe. With lush and exquisitely rendered songs such as “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” “Something So ...

In the years before his untimely death in July, The Chills frontman Martin Phillipps talked of how he was going back through his archive of early unrecorded songs and finally putting them to tape for ...

For many years, Crowded House had singer-guitarist Neil Finn and bassist Nick Seymour as its only permanent members, with hired guns coming and going as needed for tours and recording sessions. But in ...

Australian singer-songwriters Neil Finn and Paul Kelly have known each other since the early 1980s, when Finn's group Split Enz and Kelly's band the Dots recorded for the same label. Later in that ...

Before Neil Finn led Crowded House to blockbuster status — and long before he briefly joined Fleetwood Mac — the Kiwi national treasure first came to fame as a member of Split Enz. Finn wouldn't join ...

If that voice belting out hits by Crowded House like “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and “Something So Strong” sounded somewhat familiar to you in the late 80s, it could be because you’d heard it before from ...

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