The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...

In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex—her daughter, Celeste Bell, finally received the ...

Although the face of punk rock is often represented by white males and their rage and nihilistic attitudes, it was actually a black woman at the forefront of shaping punk’s political consciousness—and ...

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As federal officials investigate the leak of styrene from a rail car near Cleves, one University of Cincinnati expert says such toxic chemical leaks are likely to happen more often. That's because oil ...

Ten years after his run helped define a generation’s summer, Fetty Wap returns with Zavier, a more reflective, evolved sound and a chance to tap back into something people have been wanting to feel ...

“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard/But I think "oh bondage, up yours!” Those are the opening lyrics to the 1977 song “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” by the British punk rock group ...

A new documentary surrounding the life of X-Ray Spex’s Poly Styrene has been announced. Titled Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, director Paul Sng has set up an IndieGoGo campaign for the film, which is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you make a documentary about your own mother? And how do you tell that story when you grew up in an unstable environment, ...

Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at England’s Roxy Club in 1977. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns The first eleven seconds of X-Ray Spex’s debut single, from 1977, rank among the most memorable punk ...