As Essential Logic release their second album 43 years after their first, their founder talks squats, scary gigs and her tempestuous relationship with her X-Ray Spex bandmate It was the summer of 1977 ...
Post-punk was kinder to women than any previous rock era; the Delta 5, Slits, Bush Tetras and countless others blossomed, providing endless amounts of quirky, inventive, visceral material. In the ...
Punk promised that you could become a new person. You could live a new life in a new world - and to live in it you needed a new name. It was late 1976 in London when 15-year-old schoolgirl saxophonist ...
Susan Whitby's life story is about as complicated and original as her musical history. In both, she has somehow managed to eschew mainstream popularity and remain under the radar for years, probably ...
Children's Minister David Johnston on Kinship Care; Victoria Mary Clarke, widow of The Pogue's Shane MacGowan; Nazrin Choudhury on Red White and Blue; and Lora Logic of X-Ray Spex. Show more The ...
Those who remember the early '80s may still more vaguely remember poet Ted Milton, he of the shrieking vocals, absurdist song titles and extreme aversion to sideburns. His wailing saxophone wasn't ...
As long as there’s been a punk scene, its denizens have argued as to which city invented it — New York or London? Truth be told, it was neither because history’s first proper punk band was the Stooges ...
"Punk promised that you could become a new person," according to Greil Marcus' praise-laden liner notes to this collection. Sure ... Save this story Save this story "Punk promised that you could ...