The Sex Pistols are four months old...
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, April 1976
THE SEX PISTOLS are four months old, so tuned in to the present that it's hard to find a place to play. Yet they already have ...

The Titanic Sails at Dawn
Essay by Mick Farren, NME, June 1976
AS YOU CAN all quite well-imagine, the letters that get themselves printed in Gasbag (or Dogbag or Ratbag or Scumbag or whatever jiveass name we've dredged ...

The Ramones: Ramones (Sire Import)
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1976
PHEW, WHAT A scorcher! From the opening call to action of 'Blitzkrieg Bop' to the last strung-out powerchord of 'Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World', this ...

Flamin' Groovies/The Ramones/The Stranglers: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Max Bell, NME, July 1976
MAYBE IT WAS no accident that the hottest, steamiest, dirtiest night of the year was reserved for July 4. It's not every day that we get ...

Sex Pistols/Buzzcocks/Slaughter and the Dogs: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, July 1976
ABOVE MANCHESTER'S Free Trade Hall is a little known auditorium, capable of holding some 400, cunningly named the Lesser Hall. Until the Sex Pistols discovered it ...

The Kursaal Flyers/Crazy Cavan/Clash: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, September 1976
JOE STRUMMER'S Clash--the best new band of the year? Well, some would claim as much. At least you can guarantee that any band formed ...

Parade Of The Punks
Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, October 1976
THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, was ...

The Stranglers
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1976
AMONG THE hordes of bands currently playing London's pub and club circuit, the Stranglers are leading contenders to break out and hit unsuspecting mass audiences and ...

The Clash: Barbarellas, Birmingham
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, November 1976
WEDNESDAY HAD been booked as Punk Night at Barbarellas, an excuse, if nothing else, for the club deejay to fall in love with the sound of ...

The Clash: Down And Out And Proud
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, November 1976
THREE WEEKS AGO at London's ICA, Jane and Shane, regulars on the new-wave punk rock scene, were sprawled at the edge of the stage. Blood covered ...

Sex Pistols: Rotten To The Core
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, November 1976
"I had absolutely no interest in singing. I was more interested in being obnoxious." ...

Generation X: Central London College of Art and Design
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, December 1976
WITH SIOUXSIE and the Banshees not playing because "they couldn't get it together" and the remaining support act, Eater, being a band that I wouldn't soil ...

Pistols, Clash etc.: What Did You Do On The Punk Tour, Daddy?
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, December 1976
The Sex Pistols/The Clash/The Heartbreakers /The Buzzcocks: Electric Circus, Manchester ...

1976
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, 1977
THE SEX PISTOLS made their debut at St Martins School of Art on Friday 6th of November 1975. The irate social secretary cut the power after ...

Other Punk Bands
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, 1977
"I want more bands like us. I want people to go out and start something, to see us and start something, or else I'm just wasting ...

The First European Punk Rock Festival
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', (Omnibus), 1977
VERY LITTLE ABOUT the festival turned out as planned. Initially the Heartdrops (now the Clash), Richard Hell, the Sex Pistols and Graham Parker and the Rumour ...

The Clash
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
WHEN I FIRST interviewed the Clash in their barrack like studio in Chalk Farm, they had yet to sign a record contract, although they were already ...

The Damned
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
IN OCTOBER 1976 Nick Lowe produced the single 'New Rose' in an eight-track recording studio. It was the first U.K. punk sound on vinyl, preceeding the ...

The 100 Club Punk Rock Festival
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
Monday, September 20th: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Tuesday, September 21st: The Damned, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, the Buzzcocks, ...

The Sex Pistols
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
THE RECORD INDUSTRY is waking up. In October there were rumours about huge deals on the horizon, and Polydor look set to be the first major ...

The Stranglers
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
THE STRANGLERS slogged through over four hundred gigs in two years building up an ever-increasing following. They did not jump on the punk bandwagon but they ...

U.K. Report: Sex Pistols And Beyond
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, January 1977
LONDON – So this is how legends are born. Not with a song, or even a death, but with an expletive. ...

Buzzcocks: Teen Rebel Scores £250 From Dad
Profile by Paul Morley, NME, February 1977
This feature bears the New Wave Seal of Quality ...

The Clash/Buzzcocks/Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, March 1977
NICK KENT comes out of hiding to offer himself as a 'punk' sacrifice to the ritualistic 'beat' of THE CLASH, THE BUZZCOCKS, THE SUBWAY SECT and ...

The Clash etc: Harlesden's Burning
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, March 1977
The Clash/The Buzzcocks/The Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London ...

NY Punk
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977
Well, we got through to the second issue despite opposition from the hippies. Anyway, here we are...and it's about time we went Over The Top again? ...

The Clash: Konkrete Klockwork
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977
AT THE MOMENT there isn't a group in the New Wave that comes within spitting distance of The Clash, live or on record. Within a year ...

Punk Rock
Comment by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, April 1977
'STAY TUNED for further developments,' John Ingham said at the end of his 'Rock Special' in SOUNDS October 9, 1976. As he forward-thinkingly observed even then, ...

Generation X: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, April 1977
THE QUEUE outside looked promising. Over two months since Gen-X had played a London date (barring the infamous Noreik fiasco). As soon as you forced your ...

The Stranglers: IV Rattus Norvegicus (United Artists)****
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, April 1977
I THINK this album will surprise a lot of people. After all (by chance, coincidence and a spot of media manipulation, no less) the Stranglers have ...

Buzzcocks/X-Ray Spex/Wire etc.: Running with the Ratpack
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, April 1977
ROXY RATPACK, Saturday nite. Find a friend and stick close: sink or swim. Tony and Julie were right: a club full of 'Wild Boys' outtakes and ...

The Stranglers/The Jam/Cherry Vanilla: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, April 1977
THE JAM WERE scarcely halfway through their set at half past six when the geezer at the door of the Roundhouse told the 300-plus still stranded ...

The Damned/The Adverts/Motorhead: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, April 1977
I FIRST saw the Damned at the Roundhouse last November. Shortly after the release of 'New Rose'. Although the 45 had been successful the set wasn't ...

The Stranglers: IV Rattus Norvegicus
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1977
HERE COME the Stranglers with forty minutes of brain-rapingly original spewings like you ain't gonna hear anywhere else. ...

The Clash: Palais des Glaces, Paris
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, May 1977
THE AUDIENCE at the Palais des Glaces, a sleazy 30's flea-pit with odd nooks where Parisians indulged in the bourgeois old-wave habit of getting high on ...

X-Ray Spex: Man In The Moon, Chelsea
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, May 1977
A SMALLISH basement room, low-ceilinged, with a bar along one wall, and quite plush – tonite healthily full with about 100 people, A stopgap scene – ...

The Ramones: Gabba Gabba Hey In The UK
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, May 1977
The Ramones/Talking Heads: Eric's, Liverpool ...

The Stranglers: IV Rattus Norvegicus (United Artists)
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, June 1977
THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT that while the first batch of British new wave albums were by the more outrageous elements, and somehow seemed to rely on volume ...

Sex Pistols: Silver Jubilation
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, June 1977
A Jubilee special from the ever-patriotic Zigzag team in the form of an almost-exclusive interview with those lovable crop-tops from Shepherd's Bush, The Sex Pistols. ...

Gloria Mundi: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Profile and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, June 1977
AND WHAT did Gloria Mundi's Eddie Maelov get for the courage of his, convictions? ...

The Sex Pistols: Rotten Is Mum's Boy Shock
Report by Tony Stewart, NME, June 1977
NO MATTER how much criticism a young boy incites by his allegedly outrageous behaviour there's always somebody who will lovingly stand by him. His mum. ...

The Vibrators: Pure Mania
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, June 1977
MMM. PSYCHO daisies. Hid her wid de axe/you better relax. More zoop bop cartoon funnies – this time the movie's speeded up. Laugh this one off, ...

Various: The Roxy London WC2 (Jan-Apr 77) (Harvest)
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, June 1977
AN APPROXIMATE Warhol dictum: ‘In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.’ We never had a proper Warhol scene over here, did we? So ...

Richard Hell: Hold Off
Essay by Alan Betrock, ZigZag, July 1977
2:39 Richard Hell and the Voidoids glide into take one of 'The Plan', a quirky composition, supported by subtle mood changes. At 2:43 it's finished.
...

Generation X: We're Not Into The Mindless Drone
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1977
GENERATION X are half way through their soundcheck, and there's a "what shall we play next?" lull in the proceedings. ...

Generation X Put The Boot In
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, July 1977
GENERATION X. In the 60's: a book wherein 'youth speaks about itself'. In the 70's: a 'new wave' band which does the same, on the way ...

Alternative TV: Sniffin' Glue…
Report and Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, July 1977
NOW: THE ROXY these days is not what it was – whatever shrill camera-lens sense of event there was in the Andy Czezowski days has totally ...

The Lurkers: Attack Of The Distortion People
Profile and Interview by Jeremy Gluck, Sounds, July 1977
ALLOW ME TO present The Lurkers, whose enlightened adherence to the golden rule of "Three Chords, Three Verses, Three Minutes" definitely fingers them as the British ...

Manchester: They Mean It Maaanchester
Overview by Paul Morley, NME, July 1977
MANCHESTER as a Rock and Roll town just didn't use to exist. It fed dutifully off London, and there were frequent visits from groups to the ...

Generation X/The Lurkers: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, July 1977
YOU KNOW THAT immense sense of relief that hits you when you get through the one album in every twenty or so that you might score ...

The Slits
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, August 1977
THERE ARE FEW groups I'd rather go and see at the moment than The Slits. They've only been going a few months in their present form ...

The Vibrators: Marquee, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, NME, August 1977
THE TWO-FINGER salute put in a surprise appearance at The Vibrators' gig on Sunday. Whether the dozen pairs of arms frantically waving V signs were symptomatic ...

Wayne County: Electric Circus, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, August 1977
UPSTAIRS IN THE tiny Electric Circus dressing room Wayne County fussily fumbles and fidgets; he's got to look just right. He's wearing a crisp fawn overall ...

The Social Rehabilitation of the Sex Pistols
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1977
THE PROSPEROUS CYBORGS at the next table in the backroom of this expensive Stockholm eating-place are sloshing down their coffee as fast as they possibly can, ...

Reading The Adverts
Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, August 1977
THE NEW WAVE scythe has brought about a dual personality in programming for a lot of the more established clubs. ...

The Boomtown Rats (Ensign)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, August 1977
OH CHRIST, what will we label them? Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Pop/New Wave? All tags apply. But no one alone totally fits the bill ...

The Dead Boys: Pretty Vicious
Profile and Interview by Mary Harron, Sounds, August 1977
THE DEAD BOYS are part of anew generation at CBGB's, a generation that has finally succeeded in erasing that fine line that divides the cool from ...

Sham 69
Interview by Danny Baker, ZigZag, September 1977
THE ROXY CLUB. Week one. The band bottom of the three playing that night played the night's most exciting set to about 20 ...

The Rich Kids: Back With A Bullet
Profile and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, September 1977
COMING DOWN from the Harrow Road by bus, Steve New's getting the rise taken out of him by a bunch of kids because he's wearing carpet ...

Whatever Happened To The Buzzcocks?
Interview by Caroline Coon, Sounds, September 1977
Now there's nothing behind me
And I'm already a has-been
My future ain't what it was
I think I know the words that I mean

You know me – I'm ...

The Stranglers
Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, September 1977
TW STUDIOS are tucked away behind a drab shopfront off London's Fulham Palace Road. To gain entry you have to go round the side, through a ...

The Jam: The Nashville, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, September 1977
THE NEW WAVE scene is arguably more interesting now than ever, as the big five or six bands are being forced to consolidate their first impressive ...

The Vibrators: The Punks Who Came In From The Cold
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, September 1977
"I think I ought to make it clear", says Knox, arms waving like flags in a stiff breeze, "that when we first started we were a ...

The New Wave Washes Out
Overview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, October 1977
After A Glorious Year, British Punks Are Now Absorbed Into The Music Biz ...

The Heartbreakers: LAMF
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, October 1977
THE HEARBREAKERS are one of my fave live bands. For sheer ecstatic raunch you can't beat 'em. This album has been a long time coming. I ...

UK New Wave
Essay by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, October 1977
IT MAY COME as a bit of a shock, especially if you were just getting used to the idea, but Britain's new wave movement is over. ...

The Strangles Do The Pose
Comment by Peter Silverton, Trouser Press, October 1977
EXTREME REACTIONS to the Stranglers are not unusual. Take the case of a mate (well, acquaintance) of mine, Dick O'Dell, tour/road manager for Alex Harvey. Since ...

Sham 69 Shake Down 77
Report by Chris Salewicz, NME, October 1977
AFTER A WEEK of cloud-sealed gloom the sun shone down on London on Friday pushing the lunchtime temperature to 63 degrees. The vibes seemed auspicious for ...

Billy, Walter and Johnny: The Heartbreakers
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, October 1977
INTERVIEW TAKES place on a second floor flat, a stone’s throw away from the Thames. Present are: Walter Lure and Billy Rath, singer/guitarist and bassist with ...

The Boys: Boys In Bondage
Profile and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, October 1977
IF I'D KNOWN what I was letting myself in for when I went to see John Cale at the Roundhouse this Easter, I think I'd have ...

The Stranglers: Brunel University, Middlesex
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, October 1977
OF COURSE, what with all those bad reviews the Stranglers have picked up since the release of the new album No More Heroes, you might expect ...

Generation X: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, October 1977
ROCK ON Indeed.
I've finally figured out, after all this time, why, despite the fact that lots of people whose opinions I respect hate them, I really ...

X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, October 1977
"IF SOMEBODY said I was a sex symbol, I'd shave me'ead tomorrer," cackled Poly Styrene. "'Oh Bondage Up Yours' ain't about sex particularly. In fact I ...

The Clash in Belfast
Report by Caroline Coon, Sounds, October 1977
AT FIRST the band were reluctant to have their photo taken anywhere near the soldiers. "They'll think we're here to entertain the troops," said Strummer. They ...

Sex Pistols: Spunk Rock
Report by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, October 1977
FOR A MOMENT there I thought I'd stumbled into a dream I just wasn't equipped to handle. All change for Edge City. The punk behind the ...

Sham 69: Sham 1969/1977
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, October 1977
"I'M NOT stupid. I know, however successful I get to be right now, that in two, three, maybe four if I'm lucky, years' time, I'll get ...

The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1977
THE TITLE SAYS it all really. Ignore the press hysteria, dopey articles in Rolling Stone and cross-country panic/fear/loathing over "those foul-mouthed Sex Pistols". This album transcends ...

The Jam: Environmental Music
Profile and Interview by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, November 1977
LAST MONTH the Jam travelled to America for a short promotional tour, playing dates in established new wave centers, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and New ...

Sham 69: Don't Follow Leaders
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, November 1977
JIMMY PURSEY bursts upon you. He is a natural. A natural natural. Distortion in the media can colour reputations wrongly, especially the reputation of fulsome extroverts ...

The Hollywood Binliner: L.A. Punk
Report by Mick Farren, NME, November 1977
THERE ARE 70 PUNKS IN L.A. – HERE'S MOST OF 'EM ...

Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Siouxsie & The Banshees: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, NME, November 1977
THERE IS something about the Music Machine in Camden Town that severely dulls one's capacity for enjoyment of an evening of live ...

The Damned: Music For Pleasure
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, November 1977
CATCHING SIGHT of the title in a news column, I wondered. 'Music For Pleasure'? Have the dervish-like Damned decided to junk all this credibility rubbish, go ...

The Clash: Clash City Rockers On Tour
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1977
DERBY KINGS HALL. The thickset geezer with the appearance of a frustrated rugby player – too short to make the scrum but just as tough if ...

The Stranglers: No More Heroes
Comment by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1977
IT'S SO HARD to decode the Stranglers. After you've gone through the easy observations about Dave Greenfield's keyboard sound and its relationship to Ray Manzarek, all ...

The Ramones: Rocket to Russia
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1977
WHO DOESN'T LIKE the Ramones? Nobody, that's who – unless they're dead or M. Black of Norwich or something. I've had this LP for three days ...

ATV: Is As Wonderful
Profile and Interview by Danny Baker, ZigZag, December 1977
I WAS AT ONE of Steve Mick's bi-annual parties, (baffling, rambling affairs – you want to find your long-lost aunt? Come in and prowl around, you ...

The Sid Vicious Guide To London Hotels
Report by Nick Kent, NME, December 1977
IT WAS AT THE A&M Sex Pistols press conference, convened early this year, that newly appointed group bassist Sid Vicious gave his brusque views on the ...

Various Artists: Live At The Vortex
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, December 1977
HA. ANOTHER sledge-hammer blow pulping revolt into style...

At least might someone have the good grace and honesty to stick 'Punk (a/k/a 'New/Wave') Sampler' on the sleeve ...

Penetration: The Future Is Female
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, December 1977
ACCELERATION DON'T go to my head...London – a module, self-contained, trapped in an ever-accelerating time/style warp: a week seems like a month in our brave new ...

Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here Comes The Wrath Of Sid!
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, December 1977
IT WAS the last day in November when the whole ugly mess finally exploded. Sid Vicious, the bass player of The Sex Pistols, had once more ...

The Nuns: Whisky a Go Go, L.A.
Live Review by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, 1978
SOMEHOW THE NUNS manage to transcend the traditionally (like in "traditionally moronic") rivalry between San Francisco and LA. Perhaps that’s because the Nuns are as much ...

Sex Pistols: Few Waves Made During Tour Of U.S.
Report by Susan Compo, Santa Ana Register, January 1978
IT'S NOT SURPRISING that Britain's punk rockers, the Sex Pistols, found San Francisco "boring". The city that was to be the last stop on the four-man ...

The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1978
HO HUM, ANOTHER album from the Pistols. No, seriously, this is it. After all the controversy, bannings, bullshit and speculation, the Pistols finally have something tangible ...

The Slits: Holland Park School, London
Live Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1978
I BURBLED MY feelings about The Slits for four pages in ZZ75 last July, and happily that resulted in crazed Radio One producer and Zigzag society ...

Sex Pistols in Memphis
Report by Dave Schulps, Sounds, January 1978
ITEM: Officers of the Memphis, Tennessee Vice Squad attended the Sex Pistols' American debut performance in Atlanta on Thursday just to make certain that the band ...

The Torments of The Damned
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1978
(a somewhat sobering cautionary tale of our time)
Charles Shaar Murray asks, is that a light at the end of the tunnel – or another oncoming ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: A World Domination By 1984 Special
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, January 1978
This is Siouxsie and the Banshees/They are patient/They will win/In the end. ...

The Viletones: The Four Viletones Of The Apocalypse
Profile by Jeremy Gluck, Sounds, January 1978
FORGET NEW York, Give London a pass. Come instead to Toronto, Canada's fun city. Join the revellers at David's where, on certain choice nights, you can ...

Sex Pistols: This Could Be The Last Time
Report by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, January 1978
HYSTERIA! Disgust! Bemusement! Perplexity! The hip, FM radio dj still can't believe it. The Sex Pistols in San Francisco – heavee, man! Back in Hollywood, two ...

Sex Pistols: Tour Notes
Report by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, February 1978
In case you were incommunicado for the last month, the much-ballyhooed Sex Pistols American tour has come and gone. ...

An Evening with Sid and Nancy – The Odd Couple Behind Closed Doors.
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, February 1978
SWAYING CRAZILY, Sid Vicious clambers up off the bed. He manages the three or four steps to where, obeying live-in-lover Nancy's instructions, he removes the "God ...

The Worst
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, February 1978
THE WORST THEN. The name? Aha an apt trap. Illustrating at once the extreme that they are, yet at the same time to say ...

John Lydon: Man A Warrior – The Interview part 1
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, March 1978
There's only one place to be late at night in Jamaica – tuned in to radio JBC, the man Michael Campbell, the man they call Dread ...

John Lydon: Man A Warrior, part 2
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, March 1978
CYNICS AMONG the SOUNDS readership may have been wondering why/how our Johnny Rotten underwent such a speedy transformation into this new-fangled character called Johnny Cool, as ...

The Poolside Pronouncements Of Johnny 'No-Tan' Rotten
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, March 1978
JOHN ROTTEN likes dressing up. Seeing him stuck away under a parasol by the side of the Olympic-sized pool of the Kingston Sheraton at eleven in ...

Generation X: X Cert For A Teenage Opera
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1978
GENERATION X ARE pissed. Legless. Tony James is sprawled in a dressing room armchair, cradling his bass with a glazed-silly grin spread across the face you ...

Angelic Upstarts: What's Going On 'Ere, Then?
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, April 1978
"WHO KILLED Liddle?" On stage a tall young man wearing a police hat, white shirt, trousers and jackboots is down on his hands and knees. Necks ...

Johnny Moped
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, April 1978
"DID YA hear that bit on the news about Charlie Chaplin's body. The IRA claim they took it and now they want ransom for it." ...

999: Briefing For Direct Action
Report and Interview by Jeremy Gluck, Sounds, April 1978
I WOULD HAVE LAUGHED at you for saying as much to me before, but Liverpool, with all its cool, uninspiring streets and grey sky has an ...

The Boys Can Do It
Report by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, April 1978
...take it from Sue and Sandra ...

Generation X: Generation Rock & Roll Soul
Profile and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, April 1978
MIDNIGHT IN THE basement console room at Advision Studios, London W1. As Generation X bassist Tony James avidly demands of producer Martin Rushent that he explain ...

Wayne County: County Counsel
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, April 1978
WHEN WAYNE COUNTY left his native state of Georgia, "because it was icky, and I got shot at", he meant to take a trip down to ...

The Damned: Final Spotlight On The Damned
Report by Peter Silverton, Sounds, April 1978
"OOOOOOOOO CAPTAIN," says Helen from Headingley, "you're so cool these days. That jacket" – indicating his sombre black tuxedo affair and matching multi-colour polka-dotted tie – ...

Generation X: 'You Can't Help Selling Out'
Report and Interview by Jeremy Gluck, Sounds, April 1978
"MY FRIEND was bawling her eyes out. She asked Billy to kiss her and he did. She just about fainted!" ...

Sham 69: Son Of Sham
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, April 1978
SO THERE I was with photographer Harry Murlowski, dozing and half-listening to his interminable, politically-orienated conversation with a couple of hard-core Sham 69 followers in the ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, May 1978
SWEET SIOUXSIE and her boys in black play loud, angular, claustrophobic. Batter batter into submission: make you want to do bad things... ...

X-Ray Spex: Poly Styrene Is Still Strictly Roots
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1978
SUNDAY NIGHT in Croydon, and Poly Styrene's voice is shot. Flu goes for the throat like a cornered rat: when the victim's a singer, the midrange ...

Sham 69: Tell Us the Truth
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1978
THERE HAVE BEEN quite a few new wave bands who have a strong relationship with their audience, but not a one can compete with Sham 69 ...

Generation X: Generation X
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1978
FROM THE VERY start of their recording career, it was obvious that Generation X had some rather unparochial ideas about their role as a punk band. ...

Sham 69: If The Kids Are United…
Report and Interview by Caroline Coon, Sounds, June 1978
JIMMY PURSEY'S very baggy grey flannels are held up by a brand new pair of white braces. His striped shirt is as clean as five consecutive ...

The Sex Pistols Shoot To The Top
Report by Susan Compo, Santa Ana Register, June 1978
WHEN 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN', a song by British punk-rockers the Sex Pistols, hit the top of the English charts several months ago, it was reason ...

The Clash: The 'Serious In-Depth Interview' You've Been Waiting For!
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, June 1978
"AAAWOOOEEEUUUOOO, PETE...'ear you bin to the States...how wazzit?" ...

Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Unacceptable Face Of '78
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, June 1978
'Overground – from abnormality
Overboard – for identity
Overground – for normality
Overboard – on identity'
– 'Overground' ...

Alternative TV: The World At Once…Dateline: Stonehenge
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, June 1978
I FOUND myself re-reading Colin Wilsons' prodigal slice of philosophical mythmaking The Outsider the other week. During the time I spent submerging myself gleefully into its ...

Alternative TV: The Image Has Cracked
Review by Danny Baker, ZigZag, July 1978
YOU KNOW them "artists" and "reviewers", they ain't never gonna stop. ...

Siouxsie And The Banshees
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1978
"I CAN'T WAIT to get into Polydor and run wild 'round the secretaries and throw all their typewriting paper and get their ribbons twisted. They hate ...

The Undertones: Queen's University, Belfast
Live Review by Gavin Martin, NME, July 1978
ON A NIGHT when one of the world's top bands, Ireland's favourite sons Thin Lizzy, were packing them in at the Ulster Hall, it was no ...

The Clash/The Specials: Friar's, Aylesbury
Live Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, July 1978
FOR PEOPLE who like to put things in neat little pecking orders – and because of our conditioning there's a lot of them – the Clash ...

The Clash: Clash On Tour
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, July 1978
IT'S AS IF THE Clash's 'Police And Thieves' stage backdrop has suddenly transmogrified into moving 3-D. ...

Sham 69: Pursey's Down The Dogtrack
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, NME, August 1978
Sham 69's leader blows his wages, ponders his role, and has a few larfs. DANNY BAKER goes to see an old mate about a dog. ...

The Adverts: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Miles, NME, August 1978
Gobba Gobba On Gaye ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Bansheed! What's In An Image?
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, August 1978
JOHN MCKAY, the Banshees' guitarist, has a pale, ashen look constantly playing about his features and talks in measured, serious tones. ...

The Buzzcocks
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, September 1978
LOVE BITES can be: The vice-like heart-grasp of new love: Embarrassing marks on the neck; Romance with a sting in the tail; THE NEW BUZZCOCKS ALBUM. ...

New Wave Goodbye? Some Thoughts On The Economic State Of The New Wave Industry In America
Overview by Greg Shaw, New York Rocker, September 1978
LET ME BEGIN by saying that I’ve written many articles on New Wave, most of which have dealt with the exciting possibilities of making permanent changes ...

The Stranglers
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, September 1978
"BUT WHY," asks the New York groupie journalist, "do The Stranglers make such inflammatory remarks about Americans? I really don't understand it," she concludes, glancing over ...

Buzzcocks: Love Bites
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, September 1978
VULNERABILITY MEANS never having to say you're sorry... ...

The Buzzcocks: Love Bites
Review by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, September 1978
UMMMMM, ON THE cover of their new album the Buzzcocks look yummy enough to wrap up and take home. Love Bites, it's called, but no gnashing, ...

The Ramones: A Blitz At The Speed Of Light
Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, September 1978
The Ramones: Ulster Hall, Belfast ...

The Buzzcocks
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, September 1978
A LISTLESS GREY shroud hangs gloomily over Manchester as I arrive on this lazy Friday afternoon. From Piccadilly Station, it's a 15-minute walk through the city ...

Stiff Little Fingers
Profile and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, October 1978
IF MY FIRST sight of Jake Burns had been while keeping myself occupied on a bus by speculating on the lives of the other passengers, I'd ...

Penetration: Moving Targets (Virgin)****
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, October 1978
WE'RE NOT the same, you're not the same, they're not the same. ...

999: Separates
Review by Ian Penman, NME, October 1978
AND YES, this unfortunately is where it separates. 999's second album – always a fateful thing – and the illusory packaging hides a ...

Sid Vicious: Max's Kansas City, NYC
Live Review by Ira Robbins, NME, October 1978
ON AN unusually busy New York rock night, the attraction of an ex-Pistol was apparently sufficient to pack Max's out for a couple of sets by ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Scream
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, October 1978
NO MATTER what anyone may say or think, the success of 'Hong Kong Garden' was neither predicted nor predictable. Despite its obvious instantness (primarily, of course, ...

Penetration: Moving Targets (Virgin)
Review by Paul Morley, NME, October 1978
THIS YEAR A LINE formed. At one end Penetration, and from there through Joy Division, The Mekons, The Slits, The Fall, The Passage, The Pop Group, ...

Sex Pistols Bootlegs
Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, October 1978
Sex Pistols: Indecent Exposure (It's A Dirty Business) (Rotten Records – bootleg album)
'Anarchy In The U.S.A.'/'Belsen Was A Gas' (Rotten Role – bootleg ...

The Rich Kids: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, October 1978
UNTIL THE RICH KIDS get a few things into perspective – the rather misbegotten and amusing attitude, for instance, that their music goes above the heads ...

The Lurkers: Strange Daze In Sheffield (Or Maybe Halifax)
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, October 1978
SOMEONE MUST have been spreading lies about me, for without doing anything wrong I was told to write a feature about The Lurkers. The Man did ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1978
FIRST DAY I got it I stunned a full room with this magnificent record...and you should have seen me three hours and four more plays later! ...

The Clash: Black'n White Drop Outasite
Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, November 1978
The Clash: Roxy Theatre, Harlesden ...

Penetration
Report and Interview by Ian Penman, NME, November 1978
"Every night before I go to sleep/Find a ticket, win a lottery/Scoop the pearls up from the sea/Cash them in and..." ...

Sham 69 & The Cimarons: The West Country Invasion Starts Here
Report and Interview by Penny Reel, NME, November 1978
IT WOULD appear that someone's got it in for Jimmy Pursey and Sham 69. You see they're planting stories in the press to the effect that ...

Boomtown Rats: This Feature Is Guaranteed Free From Bob Geldof
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, November 1978
...THAT'S THE PETE SILVERTON PLEDGE ...

The Sex Pistols: Bootleg Albums
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, November 1978
The Sex Pistols: Gun Control/Live at the Rodeo ...

X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, November 1978
"I WANNA BE A FROZEN PEA!" Does Poly Styrene finally make it? Will she really dehydrate? Does she turn into a Teasmade? Will she... ...

Just Another Bunch Of Middle Class Kids With Silly Names And Spiky Haircuts: Pure Hell
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, November 1978
"H-E-E-EYY..." Pure Hell drummer Spider Blaze tousles his Rita Hayworth red crop and slaps his right palm down on mine, giving me one of those Yanqui ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Most Elitist Band In The World
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, November 1978
'A gig is often an exaggeration of what we feel every day and therefore it can probably seem a bit ridiculous at times maybe. It might ...

The Clash: Town Hall, Middlesbrough
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, November 1978
PERSPECTIVE. THE Clash are heroes (but not mine). ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1978
AND YOU ALL thought, or have been led to believe, that Siouxsie and the Banshees were nothing but grim-faced, black-clad warriors of doom and disorder, sour ...

The Clash/The Slits: Village Bowl, Bournemouth
Live Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1978
IT'S 5.30 in the morning and for some reason I'm stuck on a ledge halfway down a several hundred foot cliff overhanging Bournemouth beach... And I ...

Public Image Ltd: Public Image (Virgin)
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, December 1978
AND THE BOY looked at Johnny. And he shouted: "Look, ma, the Emperor's got no ...

Snatch Says: "Morons Are Running The Media!"
Interview by Jon Savage, Search & Destroy, Spring 1978
JON SAVAGE interviewed PAT PALLADIN in London a while ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1979
THE CLASH HAVE been through a lot since they last released an album, almost 19 months ago, and so has the scene that they emerged from ...

The Sex Pistols: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, February 1979
"WHAT NEEDS UNDERSTANDING is the state of paralysis everyone is ...

The Clash: The Fillmore, San Francisco
Live Review by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, March 1979
EXCEPT FOR THE fact that they're probably the best performing band around, there's something almost superfluous to Clashness about the band's shows. Wait a minute – ...

Generation X: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, March 1979
MEDALS FOR bravery should be struck for Billy Idol and his mates in Generation X. Would you, dear reader, like to stand on a stage, blinded ...

Alternative TV: Vibing Up The Senile Man (Deptford Fun City Records)
Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, March 1979
WHEN MARK Perry gave up editing Sniffin' Glue, he started a band that has turned out to be a logical extension of the famous punkzine. Just ...

The Slits
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1979
THE SLITS AND me in an Interview Situation, eh? Well, hardly. We just chat away (it was better when the cassette was off but I wouldn't ...

Jimmy Pursey: The People's Champ
Interview by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, April 1979
JIM POPS down the betting shop to bung twenty quid on a 10-1 shot in the 3.10 at Newbury, so I give his records the once-over. ...

The Buzzcocks: Inside The Hit Factory
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, April 1979
"It's really amazing. I can just sit there and go dee-da-dee-da-dee, da-dee-da-dee, put some words to it, teach the other three how to play it, go ...

The Members: At The Chelsea Nightclub (Virgin)*****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, April 1979
BEFORE WE start let something be said: if lesser papers want to slag off Sounds they're quite welcome to try, but per-lease don't use the Members ...

The Damned/UK Subs/The Specials: The Lyceum, London
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, April 1979
WITH ENOUGH police grouped manacingly outside in coaches, in squad cars and standing around to supervise a couple of Manchester United away fixtures, I suppose some ...

Angelic Upstarts: Gonna Be A Prison Break-In
Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, April 1979
THE BAND THE POLICE LOVE TO HATE INVITED TO DO A PRISON GIG? ...

Generation X: Valley Of The Dolls (Chrysalis)
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, April 1979
MOST NEW-WAVE bands decry the jet-set life styles of established rock stars, but it's a safe bet to assume many were attracted to rock by the ...

The Buzzcocks: The Other One Speaks!
Interview by Michael Gray, ZigZag, May 1979
WHEN YOU GO and see Buzzcocks, there are four of them. Up at the back, as high on his rostrum as an Old Bailey judge, there's ...

999: Feelin' Alright With the Crew
Profile and Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, June 1979
ANYONE WHO SEES more than one rock show a year knows that a lot of the glitter wears off after the first few times. Which doesn't ...

The Ruts Bleed For You
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, June 1979
IT WAS ALL going so well too, that was the point. So everyone assumed it was part of the act. I must admit I was a ...

Goodbye Sham 69
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, July 1979
"WE WANT SHUM! WE WANT SHUM! WE WANT SHUM!" Friday night in Glasgow The Apollo is packed to capacity and if you want understatements the atmosphere ...

The Ramones: Rock'n'Roll High School (Sire Import) ****
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, July 1979
THE ERA of the compilation is upon us, and this soundtrack album of smarties and arties is another rapid fire job, featuring the next best 70's ...

Penetration: The Whisky, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, July 1979
I'D SEEN the name around several times, but I'd never seen the band until tonight. Strange how your luck can change. ...

UK Subs: No Change For UK Subs
Interview by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, August 1979
Finding that tribal punk is still alive...and kicking ...

The Resurrection of Stiv Bators
Report and Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, September 1979
STIV BATORS is just about the easiest interviewee I've ever met. Just push "Record" and he'll talk for hours about anything that might make good ...

Siouxsie And The Banshees: Join Hands
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, September 1979
WHADDA YA MEAN, is it extreme? Can you honestly imagine the Banshees doing anything —whether it be throwing shapes for a camera, getting dressed for a ...

Buzzcocks/Gang Of Four: Club 57, New York, NY
Live Review by Van Gosse, Melody Maker, September 1979
THIS IS the year that the New Wave, or at least its more retrograde element, has finally hit the U.S. charts. Everybody English and short-haired, from ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: In Aberdeen...No-one Can Hear You Scream
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, September 1979
THE GEEZER standing next to me in the urinal said "Hey, have you heard the rumour? Two of the Banshees have run off. They're not going ...

Penetration: Coming Up For Air (Virgin) ****
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, September 1979
UP! THAT'S what Penetration are. Such stimulation. A Japanese masseuse on speciality-of-the-house rates could hardly have tickled more of a tingle into every nerve-end from the ...

Slaughter and the Dogs: The Boot Boys Are Back In Town
Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, September 1979
"PUNK IS BACK, PUNK IS BACK, WO-AH, WO-AH!" ...

"Humourless? Us?" - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, September 1979
"...Thy Kingdom come / They will be done / In Earth as it is in Heaven / Amen... Knock, knocking on Heaven’s door / Let me ...

The Clash: London Calling (CBS) **
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, December 1979
"THE HELL with it! Let chaos reign, louder music, more wine, the hell with the standings, the top rungs are up for grabs. All the old ...

UK Subs: Live Kicks (Stiff) **
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, February 1980
POGO? I thought I'd never start. ...

The Clash: Six Days On The Road And 16 Tons Of Fun…
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980
THE QUEST GOES ON, HIT THE DECK! ...

Stiff Little Fingers: The Voice Squad
Interview by Mick Middles, Sounds, March 1980
'WE'RE GONNA BLOW UP IN THEIR FACE' ...

Penetration: Going Underground
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, April 1980
SO YOU'RE learning to write music, Pauline – how's it done then? ...

UK Subs: Brand New Age (GEM)*****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, April 1980
WHEN I was at school we used to have a big fat Scottish Geography teacher who was forever clotting you round the head and saying 'I ...

Fatal Microbes: Femme Fatale
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, April 1980
A BOOZER IN beautiful down-town Stepney is the rendezvous and despite London Transport I manage to arrive at the right time on the right day and ...

The Members: 1980 — The Choice Is Yours (Virgin)****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, April 1980
Members 'not has-beens' debate ...

The Dils Disband
Report by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, May 1980
THE DILS, ONE of California's premier new wave bands, have broken up for keeps after three years ...

UK Subs: The Masters Of Pure Pogomatic Power Pound On (Part 86).
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, June 1980
NO DISRESPECT to Dave 'half-a-shandy' McCullough but, myself, I get no pleasure from records that sound like tin baths falling down coal chutes. Witless soul that ...

UK Subs: Subsistence Level
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, June 1980
NO DISRESPECT to Dave 'half-a-shandy' McCullough but, myself, I get no pleasure from records that sound like tin baths falling down coal chutes. Witless soul that ...

X: Beyond the Valley of the Doors
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, June 1980
HOLLYWOOD PUNK. Sounds about as real and desirable as cocktail-lounge muzak. If there's anything genuine or worthwhile in there it certainly isn't easy to find. Which ...

Cockney Rejects: Have They Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew?
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, July 1980
"THIS IS A once in a generation band. The sort of band who'll either be massive in eighteen months or dead or both." ...

The Exploited: I Still Believe In Anarchy
Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, August 1980
SOMETIMES I wish my mind and body were under the same management. Anyone with half an eye on the dictates of fashion and media double-think would ...

Tenpole Tudor: Pole Axed
Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, August 1980
AT THE risk of getting into a this week's big thing situation, I've got this feeling in my bones that Tenpole Tudor are gonna be massive. ...

The Professionals: Diary Of A Man Who Likes To Stay In
Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, August 1980
THE PROFESSIONALS' debut single 'Just Another Dream' is about twenty bus stops down the road from 'Anarchy In The UK' if you're using words like meaning, ...

Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables; UK Subs: Crash Course
Review by Andy Gill, NME, September 1980
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
Study these two pictures carefully. At first sight they may seem identical, but there are at least twelve small but significant differences between them. ...

Image Publique S.A.: Paris Au Printemps (Virgin)
Review by Vivien Goldman, NME, November 1980
Lydon says he hates live albums. Paris Au Printemps – PAP – the best of two nights recorded in Paris this spring, is a consumer service ...

Jimmy Pursey: The Cockney Kid Is Innocent
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, December 1980
So who are you gonna be today then, Jim? The new Messiah or the little boy lost? Robespierre or the Urban Spaceman? An all-round good bloke ...

The Clash: Sandinista! (CBS)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, December 1980
OK, OK, they're a jolly prolific bunch always about to give their audience more than their money's worth, but – Christ, let's not mince words here ...

The Clash: Joe Strummer Answers The Call-Up
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, December 1980
WORKING ON THE theory that if you give him enough rope he'll either hang or save himself, the following pages are left basically for the words ...

The Clash: Sandinista!
Review by Van Gosse, Village Voice, January 1981
CONFRONTING THE Clash's epic monstrosity Sandinista! is like being a teacher (which I once was) and having one of your favorite little buggers show up one ...

The Clash: Home On The Range
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, February 1981
PAUL SIMONON lives in a modest two-room Notting Hill basement flat just north of Ladbroke Grove tube station. ...

The Jam: Sound Affects (Polydor)
Review by Don Snowden, New York Rocker, March 1981
SOUND AFFECTS finds the Jam stretching out, once again successfully staying off the (seemingly) inherent limitations of a three-piece lineup. ...

LA Punk
Report by Mick Farren, NME, April 1981
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is always preceded by its own legend. There is no way you can avoid that legend if you grew up with the price of ...

The Clash
Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, June 1981
STANDING BY the toilet door, the kid recognised him instantly. The hair piled up in a scraggy mess. The white leather jacket. The beautiful punkette slouched ...

The Clash: The Return of Native Paranoia
Report by Chris Salewicz, The Face, August 1981
IN HOT humid New York City, the eight Clash dates at Bonds discotheque had their number doubled following a first night raid by the Fire Dept ...

Everybody Needs Somebody To Hate: A History Of L.A. Punk Rock
Overview by Gene Sculatti, Creem, October 1981
"For God's sake, is that all you people in L.A. want to hear: aggressive lyrics and a raging guitar?!"
— Chris Stein ...

Punk Five Years On
Overview by Jon Savage, The Face, November 1981
I’ve been waiting for this one ever since the Black Arabs: a classic rip-off single to finally mop up any punk detritus and put it where ...

Fear: The Record
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1982
QUITE WHY Fear have created such a stir on the L.A. punk scene is far from apparent from this Record. Smarter they may be than you ...

Dreaming Of A Punk Christmas
Report by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, January 1982
"COME HERE," cried an excited Captain Sensible from the corner of the backstage lounge. "I've just discovered what this is like! It's like the Generation ...

Black Flag: Damaged (SST Import)
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, January 1982
"THE RUNAWAYS on angel dust," was how my pal Jimmy 'Bubbles' Skinner summed up this awesome Yank Punk broadside. The Stooges on bad sulphate is what ...

GBH: The Dustbin Men
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, March 1982
"Oi has spoilt punk. I really hate the idea of the Oi thing even if some of the music's alright...if Oi and punk are the same ...

Chelsea: Spring Time for October
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, April 1982
I DON'T know why it had to happen to Chelsea. Clawed by the press, mauled by the dim-witted forces of fashion, the four-man disaster team served ...

Chron Gen: Chronic Generation (Secret)
Review by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, April 1982
WELCOME TO the chronic generation, and a glimpse into the past, present and future of Chron-Gen on their debut album. ...

Angelic Upstarts: Still From The Heart (Zono)
Review by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, April 1982
EXTRAORDINARY. Quite extraordinary. This has got to be the most astonishing thing I've heard in months; a shock so devastating that I'm shaking still. ...

Flipper: Album Generic Flipper (Subterranean)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, May 1982
A FIRST song, 'The Way Of The World', opens like Hawkwind's 'Silver Machine', and Album G.F. never really lets go from there on in. Flipper are ...

Anti-Nowhere League: We Are…The League (WXYZ)*****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, May 1982
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, I give in. Let's face it, this just ain't the sort of music (?) to lend itself to sensitive in-depth philosophical probings. ...

Angelic Upstarts: Mensi's Marauders
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, May 1982
"COME HERE you!" bellowed Mensi across a crowded and quite respectable lounge bar. The reverberations thundered over the heads of the lunchtime clientele, their salads and ...

Anti-Nowhere League: We Are…The League
Review by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, May 1982
THERE'S ONLY one League in my life. It's not the Human League, for sure. It's not the Ivy League either, or the League of Gentlemen. Gentlemen?! ...

The Clash: Up The Hill Backwards
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1982
HALF PAST ONE on Portobello Road. Past the chippy, opposite the bookshop, within earshot of a man with an amplified mouth-harp honking and scything through Little ...

Peter and the Test Tube Babies: More Bottle Than Brains
Report and Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, June 1982
Carol Clerk cracks a tube with PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES ...

The Business: Heaven Can Wait
Profile and Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, June 1982
IT SEEMED like a good idea at the time. Meet The Business, knock back a pint or two, set off on a disco crawl...and find out ...

The Exploited: Troops Of Tomorrow
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, June 1982
APART FROM its marvellous cover, which depicts "an Escape From New York vision of a desolated city where punk can express its essential nature of youth ...

The Lurkers: The Lurk Of Love
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, July 1982
THE BLOKE who spends his life writing things like 'Let's Lurk' and 'Lewisham Lurkers' over every available wall on my estate, and who's probably single-handedly doubled ...

Erazerhead: Teenagers In Lust
Profile and Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, July 1982
IT WAS in the winter of 1978 that vocalist Lee Drury had his first traumatic encounter with the cruel forces of fate. At the time, he ...

The Fits
Profile and Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, August 1982
Carol Clerk collars confident Blackpool punksters The Fits in a fact-packed foray ...

The Damned: Strawberries (Polydor)
Review by Leyla Sanai, NME, September 1982
YOU DIDN'T really think they'd gone, did you? After all, it's only four years since their 'farewell' gig, and looking at Jimmy Pursey's Hams 69 who ...

Blitz: Voice Of A Generation (No Future) *****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, October 1982
THIS REALLY is the big one, final proof if any were needed that the punk renewal of the last two years is more than just a ...

Cock Sparrer: Strictly For The Birds
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, November 1982
COCK SPARRER'S come-back couldn't have been better timed. Just as the street rock scene was getting staler than a Marie Celeste bread roll, the original East ...

The Clash: Revolution Rock
Profile and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Downbeat, December 1982
IT'S AN UGLY voice. Gruff, guttural, uncouth, barbaric at times. Joe Strummer can't sing, not like an Al Jarreau or a Joni Mitchell, anyway. Lyrics are ...

Anarchy in the UK
Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, The History of Rock, 1983
A nation watched aghast as punk reared its spiky head ...

The Bowery Beat
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
FROM 1970 ONWARDS, the US rock mainstream grew increasingly staid, predictable and unimaginative. On the surface, the American scene appeared to offer nothing but sleepy West ...

Punk: 1977 - Two Sevens Clash
Essay by Chris Salewicz, The History of Rock, 1983
AS A REBEL MUSIC, punk rock had close affinities with reggae. When the punk movement found a focal point and place of worship in the Roxy ...

L.A. Punk
Book Excerpt by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, 'Hardcore California', 1983
IN 1978 THE suburbs of Los Angeles (Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Redondo Beach etc.) were still a home for Disneyland, Movieland Wax Museum and ...

Peter Shelley
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, August 1983
Back when the much-saluted bywords of British punk were "rebellion," "relevance" and "gritty realism," Manchester's Buzzcocks brought something fresh, pithy and even humorous to their thoughts ...

Teenage Head, Diodes, Segarini: Toronto Punk Albums
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, New York Rocker, January 1984
Teenage Head: Frantic City
Diodes: Action/Reaction
Segarini: On The Radio ...

X: Guitars Against The Golden State
Profile and Interview by Robin Eggar, The Face, April 1984
They've been called The Last American Rock Band. It's a tag they hate. ...

Black Flag: My War
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, July 1984
WHAT HAPPENS to hardcore bands when they get old? They turn into Hawkwinds, that's what. Redondo Beach's finest have let their skinheads grow out and slowed ...

Richard Hell: RIP (Rior)****
Review by Bill Black, Sounds, December 1984
"RICHARD HELL HAS been the most emotionally compelling, brilliant, innovative and influential rock 'n' roll performer of the past ten years. Unfortunately, these qualities are evident ...

Black Flag: 9.30 Club, Washington DC
Live Review by Simon Witter, NME, July 1985
THE INTENSE energy with which they maliciously rioted across the grooves of Damaged inevitably doomed them to an early burn out, and tonight's show was a ...

Punk: I Fought The Biz And The Biz Won (How We Got Here From There)
Overview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, February 1986
PUNK: IT MADE OUR DAY...It's been ten bleak winters since...well, we look back in hunger at the years youth reclaimed rock and for a while made ...

Punk and Reggae: Rip Bam Bam Bye Yeah
Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, NME, February 1986
"Black and white, unite and fight" was the call; The Clash sang of 'Police And Thieves', Johnny Rotten found he was 'Born For A Purpose'. SEAN ...

Punk in Manchester: Oh, How We Laughed
Essay by Paul Morley, NME, February 1986
BE OFF with you! Little Red, it is said, is not happy at the hollow allegations that suggest he has 'sold out' by leaping from his ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Howling
Retrospective by Don Watson, NME, February 1986
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES: "a great whirlpool of noise, pulling the future down." Many moons later DON WATSON recalls the dawn of the great Sioux rising. ...

Black Flag: My War (Continued)
Report and Interview by Richard Grabel, NME, July 1986
FRIDAY NIGHT at New York's Irving Plaza, filled to the rafters with punks letting their freak flags fly. Tattered, dazed and confused kids line the corridor ...

Stupidity Maketh The Men
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, May 1987
Not dumb, maybe a little deaf by now...UK thrash stylists The Stupids step off their skatin’ wheels and entertain Cynthia Rose with tales of ordinary ...

The Stranglers: Fey Bikers On Azur
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, NME, October 1987
THE PHONE RANG. It was the chief. "Be at the airport tomorrow morning. The Stranglers. Marseilles. Bikers' convention. JJ Burnel burning up the track on a ...

Joe Strummer
Interview by Jon Savage, unpublished, May 1988
I'D LIKE to start with the busking tour – can you tell me what the point of that was? ...

Jonathan Richman: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, 1989
BESERKLEY HAVE re-issued their entire catalogue of Jonathan Richman albums but they should have stopped with this one, a brilliant piece of East Coast proto-punk from ...

Clash: The Clash; Give 'Em Enough Rope; London Calling; Sandinista!; Combat Rock; Cut The Crap
Review by Mat Snow, Q, June 1989
UNLIKE THE Sex Pistols, the other great London punk-rock group had ambitions beyond delivering the short, sharp shock to the system suggested by the sudden impact ...

Malcolm McLaren: Pernicious? Moi?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, August 1989
IN THE "PIANO BAR" of a Mayfair hotel, portion of club sandwich in one hand, glass of fine red wine in the other, Malcolm McLaren waves ...

The Pogues: Peace & Love
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, August 1989
BY RIGHTS, The Pogues should surely be dead by now, overcome by the drink or the enthusiasm of their fans. Yet somehow they've survived the endless ...

The Buzzcocks: Product
Review by Martin Aston, Q, December 1989
LIKE MOST punk escapades, Buzzcocks started with Johnny Rotten, whose "We're not into music, we're into chaos" motto drew Bolton students Peter Shelley and Howard Devoto ...

Crass: Where Are They Now?
Profile by Martin Aston, Q, October 1990
CRASS WERE BRITAIN'S seminal anarcho-punk band, whose communal life and own Crass label epitomised the movement's DIY ethic. Handling everything from mail order, promoting gigs and ...

Crass: Re-issues
Review by Martin Aston, Q, October 1990
IF ANY GROUP seem wholly inappropriate for CD repackaging, then Crass are it, being eight admitted non-musicians who used snarl-toothed punk music as a vehicle for ...

Sid Vicious crashed my 21st
Essay by Peter Silverton, The Observer, 1991
At this distance, all I can remember for certain is the gangle of his legs and the pinch of his cheeks. ‘This is John,’ said my ...

Sham 69: Where Are They Now?
Profile by Martin Aston, Q, May 1991
FAMOUS – OR SHOULD that be infamous? – for their punk-era, terrace-anthem hits 'If The Kids Were United (They Would Never be Divided)' and 'Hurry Up ...

Bob Mould and Jello Biafra: Two Faces of Punk
Interview by Mark Kemp, Option, July 1991
CLAWING THEIR WAY INTO THE '90S, BOB MOULD & JELLO BIAFRA EXPLORE THE PERSONAL & THE POLITICAL ...

Jon Savage: England's Dreaming
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, November 1991
EVEN THOUGH 15 YEARS have passed since the release of 'Anarchy In The UK', there has never been a book which has satisfactorily documented Britain's punk ...

John Lydon
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, March 1992
THE MAN IN THE ETHNIC-TEA-COSY-STYLED headwear and the unsightly puce satin ski pants lies back on my sofa, swigs lustily from a bottle of strong beer, ...

If Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Is Green Day Today’s Beatles?
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, BAM, May 1992
IF YOU BUY one album this coming year buy this one: Green Day’s ...

The Sex Pistols: Kiss This
Review by Mat Snow, Q, November 1992
NEARLY 15 YEARS after John Lydon quit the Sex Pistols, effectively ending them bar a few final pranks, his subsequent band, PiL, find themselves no longer ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss in the DreamHouse
Book Excerpt by Lucy O'Brien, 'Love is the Drug' (Penguin), 1994
ALTHOUGH SHE'D been one of punk's founding fathers, as it were, Siouxsie Sioux never really looked like she could last the distance. She's still here of ...

Clash/Subway Sect/Slits/Prefects: Chancellor Hall, Chelmsford
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, NME, October 1994
BORED TEENAGERS – SUBURBAN HICKS with soap-stiffened Sid Vicious barnets and bleeding earlobes gape in awestruck, whey-faced wonder. Chelmsford, anonymous epicentre of NOWHERE is playing host ...

Green Day: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
BY MATCHING the cheeky insouciance of the early Beatles with the amphetamine hooks of the Ramones in the late ‘80s, Green Day graduated rock and roll ...

AUDIO: Green Day (1995)
Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1995
The young pups of punk nouveau phone in about their humungous success, vast wealth, and what it means to be a punk, twenty years after the ...

Gabba Gabba Sniffle: The Ramones at Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, February 1996
PUNK MAY not be dead, but the Ramones, it would seem, have finally bitten the dust – like the spaghetti western mercenaries to whom they pay ...

Crass' Penny Rimbaud
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, December 1996
THE SPIN Alternative Record Guide wrote that Crass were "probably the first rock band whose liner notes are not only indispensable, but often better reading than ...

G Sus of Crass
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, December 1996
THE SPIN Alternative Record Guide wrote that Crass were "probably the first rock band whose liner notes are not only indispensable, but often better reading than ...

Talking Heads: 77
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 1997
NEXT TO CBGBS peers like the Ramones and the Voidoids, Talking Heads barely sounded like a punk band. After the startlingly non-conformist ‘Love Building on Fire,’ ...

The Adverts: Bored Teenagers
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, September 1997
ANYONE PAYING attention to the British music scene in recent years cannot help but have noticed T.V. Smith. Across three superlative albums, 1991's RIP: Everything Must ...

Robert Quine
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, November 1997
WHO IS ROBERT Quine? According to him, he 'remains one of the most compelling, appalling and universally hated figures in music history.' ...

Sod Awf! The Sex Pistols And Other Pleasantries Of Punk
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, February 1998
A Short History of the NOW!

ROCK EXISTS in the humming; now, an all-enveloping bubble of sound, energy and ecstasy. Like being at the flashpoint of ...

The Buzzcocks
Interview by Ian Fortnam, music365.com, 1999
SINCE THEIR initial formation, way back in 1976, Manchester’s Buzzcocks have attained a genuinely legendary status in the hearts and minds of both aficionados of the ...

The Sex Pistols
Retrospective by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 1999
ON DECEMBER 1, 1976, Londoners tuned in to Thames TV's Today show, expecting the usual bland mix of metropolitan news and views appropriate for a 'family' ...

Nils Stevenson
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
YOU'VE PROBABLY heard this before, but this time it's true. The best Punk book yet has just hit the streets, written by someone who were there, ...

Joe Strummer: Definitely Not Admitting Defeat Yet
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, September 1999
"I THINK GOOD manners will come back. In America, kids saw punk rock as a licence to be as rude as possible. I didn't like that." ...

The Clash: From Here to Eternity
Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, October 1999
ON PAPER, the October 1982 pairing of the Clash and the Who at Shea Stadium in New York should have been historic. And maybe it was. ...

The Richard Hell Interview
Interview by Ian Fortnam, music365.com, 2000
RICHARD MEYERS, AKA Richard Hell, has more than made his mark on many areas of the media. Musically, he formed Television with Tom Verlaine, the Heartbreakers ...

The Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2000
THE EARLY SEVENTIES have been a golden age for the homegrown British pop single. The pan-stick and yob fraternity, which includes T-Rex, Sweet, Slade, Mott The ...

Marc Spitz with Brendan Mullen: We Got the Neutron Bomb - The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Village Voice, 2001
IT'S KINDA IRONIC that the untold story of the Los Angeles punk scene should be officially told (tolled?) at a time when New York City – ...

America’s Dreaming: California Punk, 1978
Book Excerpt by Jon Savage, England's Dreaming, 2001
25.8.78: This is my first visit to the U.S., let alone the West Coast, and I know that I’m on another planet, especially when, at the ...

The Dictators: Go Girl Crazy
Review by Jeremy Gluck, Mojo, 2001
THESE OLD-SCHOOL rockers put punk on the musical map, opening the way, for better or worse, for two decades of divergent tunes and dissonant noise. Iggy ...

The Slits: Cutting Edge
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, February 2001
I AM A LITTLE nervous as I approach Viv Albertine's house. She was a Slit. For anybody of a certain age who has a penis and ...

Joey Ramone's 50th Birthday Bash: Hammerstein Ballroom, New York
Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Boston Phoenix, May 2001
IT'S FUNNY HOW memorials often take on the character of the person they honor. The sold-out "Life's a Gas – Joey Ramone's 50th Birthday Bash" May ...

The Germs: Germicide/The Dead Boys: All This And More/Various: What? Stuff (Bomp! Records)
Review by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, July 2001
OK CLASS, READY? It's time to remember exactly WHAT (real) Punk Rock is (was). ...

What Fresh Hell Is This?
Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2002
RICHARD HELL was the primal Punk, the ur-Punk: the spiky-haired one. The torn t-shirts, the safety pins, the era-defining ‘Blank Generation’–much of the incunabula ...

The Biggest Punk Rock Band in the World: Green Day
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, unpublished, 2002
THE FACTS speak for themselves. With worldwide album sales currently in excess of 23 million, their Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum Dookie debut boasting an almost unprecedented ...

Richard Hell: Hell Is Other People
Interview by Ben Myers, Careless Talk Costs Lives, March 2002
IN HOT And Cold, Richard Hell's new collection of three decades of writing, there's a photo of a young obscure poet called Theresa Stern. She looks ...

Ian MacKaye: Inventing Hardcore
Profile and Interview by Ben Myers, Careless Talk Costs Lives, March 2002
"These are our demands:
we want control of our bodies.
decisions will now be ours.
you can carry out your noble actions,
we will carry our ...

Part-time Punks: The Buzzcocks
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, March 2002
The Buzzcocks were one of punk's most influential bands. Now, 25 years on, Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto are recording together again. Paul Lester meets the ...

Dee Dee Ramone
Obituary by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, July 2002
WITH THE DEATH of yet another Ramone, perhaps little really needs to be added at this point on how Dee Dee and his honorary brethren reshaped ...

The Stranglers: Come and Join the Unruly Escapades
Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, Mojo, August 2002
HANS WARMLING was fed up of life in the ice cream van. He'd come to England from his homeland of Sweden to play guitar and write ...

The Sex Pistols: Crystal Palace Sports Centre, London
Live Review by Steven Wells, NME, August 2002
We Might As Well Be Proud Of Them ...

Less Rotten Than Reasonable: Joe Strummer and My Punk Damascus
Memoir by Simon Warner, popmatters.com, December 2002
ALTHOUGH I saw Joe Strummer in action many times, I only met him once and, embarrassingly, confused him with someone else. ...

American Candyass, or: Why Good Charlotte Must Die
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, Rock's Backpages, September 2003
ARE YOU PEOPLE not understanding? Doesn't anyone learn anything from the lessons of the past? The tail end of poof metal's monstrous commercial run ...

Sid Vicious: Threw a Glass Darkly
Book Excerpt by Mark Paytress, 'Vicious: The Art of Dying Young', Sanctuary Books, 2004
SID did it. Didn’t ...

Television: Marquee Moon (Expanded); Adventure (Expanded) (Rhino)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2004
BEFORE THE Sex Pistols there was New York's Lower East Side: trash aesthetes with short hair, kinky vixens in B-movie stilettos. Kids with minor drug habits ...

Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious: Death and Glory
Essay by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, February 2004
"Thank you all from the pit of my burning nauseous stomach."
– Extract from Kurt Cobain's suicide note ...

The Clash: London Calling 25th Anniversary
Retrospective by Ben Myers, Record Collector, October 2004
BY EARLY 1979, to the outside world The Clash were coasting. In their three short years of existence they had signed to Sony for a reported ...

Paul Simonon: London's Most Handsome Man
Interview by Ben Myers, 3ammagazine.com, November 2004
IT'S ALL ABOUT poise. If you don't have poise – definition "balance; a dignified and self-assured manner" – in rock 'n' roll, you're nothing. Paul Simonon ...

Citizen Punk
Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Q, 2005
APRIL 1976 - For me it began at the El Paradise strip club, where the Sex Pistols filled a tiny room with three-chord beat and Rotten ...

AUDIO: Sex Pistol Glen Matlock (2005)
Interview by Nina Antonia, Rock's Backpages Audio, January 2005
From shop boy to Sex Pistol: the Pistols' key songwriter talks about the genesis of the band, the role of McLaren, goin' down the Roxy and ...

The Slits: Girls Together Outrageously
Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, March 2005
"You haven't said yet how good I look on my Web site!" ...

The First Punk: Johnny Thunders
Retrospective by Nina Antonia, Mojo, March 2005
FOR THE GENERATION of kids who became punks, the New York Dolls' appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in November 1973 was an ...

Ten Reasons Why The Sex Pistols Didn't (or Couldn't) Save Rock And Roll
Comment by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, August 2005
In honor of Julien Temple's great new film The Filth And The Fury Gary Pig Gold humbly submits to both punks and non-punks, old and new, ...

We're The Pits, or Punk Comes to LA
Retrospective by John Mendelsohn, Mojo, Spring 2005
THREE YEARS AFTER my group Christopher Milk -- signed to Warner Bros. and produced, rather poorly, by a famous English producer -- agreed that we'd delighted ...

Where the Debris Meets the Sea: Iggy Pop and James Williamson in Kill City
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, September 2006
IGGY POP remains rock’s ultimate protopunk – the "world’s forgotten boy" who took the menace of the MC5 and the demonic danger of the Rolling Stones ...

Blackpool Rocks!
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, March 2007
BACKPOOL ROX II, issue 9, price £2, came out at the end of last year. You won't find it referred to in Babylon's Burning, the mammoth ...

Joe Strummer
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 2007
JOE STRUMMER was a fascinating bunch of guys. The former Clash frontman was both romantic idealist and career opportunist, anarchist rebel and proud patriot, hippie libertarian ...

How I Took On The New York Dolls
Memoir by Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, June 2007
As a new exhibition marks the 30th anniversary of punk, Mark Hudson, lead singer in a college band, recalls the once-in-a-lifetime feeling of the summer of ...

Black Flag and All That
Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, Winter 2007
THE RECENT PUBLICATION of Joe Carducci's moving and fascinating Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... (Wyoming: Redoubt Press) takes me back 25 years to the ...

Suicide: How the Godfathers of Punk Kept The Faith
Interview by Paul Lester, Jewish Journal, October 2008
New Yorkers Alan Vega and Marty Rev were punks before punk was invented, known in the '70s for their violent gigs and raging synth rock. Now ...