Not every artist falls in love with the song that makes them famous. When the Pretenders released "Brass in Pocket" in 1979, the infectious blend of new wave, rock and pop quickly became the band's ...

The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde and James Walbourne recorded an atmospheric version of Bob Dylan‘s “Standing in the Doorway” for the latest installment of their Dylan Lockdown Series. Like the original ...

The legendary rock band the Pretenders was going through a time of rebuilding and reflection in 1982 when a song that would ...

Robbie McIntosh has reflected on his trial by fire when officially joined the Pretenders in the 1980s. McIntosh big shoes to ...

The Pretenders have just dropped their twelfth studio album, Relentless, today. The new LP currently available to stream on many popular streaming services including Spotify and Apple Music, and all ...

After the original lineup of the Pretenders had been destroyed by drugs and death, Hynde continued to trudge on, finding herself further and further from what made her band so good in the first place.

The Pretenders were preparing to mount a new tour of the U.K. and mainland Europe in the coming weeks, but the band has been forced to postpone the shows because of an injury to frontwoman Chrissie ...

In some ways, little had changed for the Pretenders as they gathered to record their second album. The lineup of Chrissie Hynde, Pete Farndon, Martin Chambers and James Honeyman-Scott remained. In ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Flea co-founded the Silverlake Conservatory Of Music, a nonprofit educational organization, a couple decades back. The endeavor continues today, and now some students have ...

Chrissie Hynde’s voice has always curled with contempt and sorrow, curt dismissal and self-critique. An ache is inbuilt, adding patented, wry hurt to the brisk, chiming pop of the Pretenders’ ’70s and ...