Smash It Up: Exploring The Riot City Blues
On the 15th May 1981, an audience thronged the stage at the Ritz in New York City awaiting their first sight of John Lydon’s Public Image Ltd. Instead, already an hour [...]
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Scum Down Heavy: The Melvins interviewed
With Sonic Youth gone, The Melvins are just about the last band standing from the Eighties heyday of wild twists on the punk formula. But becoming a legend means more than [...]
A Ghost In This House: Barry Hutchinson interviewed
While the library shelves creak with all manner of punk-related biographies and photo books, there’s only one book about The Damned: the late Carol Clerk’s Light [...]
My Kind of Town: Manchester with False Advertising
In the first of an ongoing series in which we ask musicians and artists to give us the skinny on their town or city, Jen Hingley offers up some risk-free options in her [...]
No Passouts: REM & 10,000 Maniacs – September 1987
“I think that’s sold out…” We were 18, barely. We’d travelled down from Stoke on the National Express to snag tickets because nobody had thought [...]
Do you remember the last time?: Sleater-Kinney and the limits of memory
If you follow a football club, especially online, you will soon encounter the phenomenon of perfect recall – fans who seem to have an almost photographic memory for [...]
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