Pretenders
The Best Of/ Break Up The Concrete

Oldies + “old” new album =brass in pocket Even if you’re Chrissie Hynde, packaging your new album with a hits compilation takes a bit of neck. Giv...

Alright, I?m going to be honest and admit that I?ve never purchased any *Pretenders*? albums, or singles, or even been tempted to, despite their house...

This is odd: our review copy of the new album by The Pretenders comes in a double CD with a Best Of. What’s more, the hits compilation is Disc 1 of th...

Playing with a new Pretenders (on album at least), Chrissie Hynde is in fiery, fiery form on this, the group’s ninth album. Released in the US late la...

With a line-up revolving around natural-born-superstar Chrissie Hynde, while their commercial impact has varied The Pretenders have been consistently ...

This is one of those strange releases, with the band not seemingly confident enough in last year's Break Up The Concrete to release it without the bac...

This is The Pretenders’ first release since 2002’s Loose Screw, and the band’s second for an indie. Chrissie Hynde recruited a new b...

These days, Chrissie Hynde flippantly calls herself a “victim of the ‘80’s,” as if she ever had to worry about the synthesized decade ridiculed for ov...

Nearly a quarter-century after she sang about it, Chrissie Hynde has gone back to Ohio — literally and figuratively. Rock's most famous Akronite-turne...

As an American ex-pat living among London punks in the late 1970s, Akron native Chrissie Hynde wanted desperately to start her own band and be part of...