His controversial art is known all across the globe – from piercing the late Queen’s lip with a safety pin to Nazifying Donald Trump with...

Pennie Smith was standing less than six feet away when Paul Simonon, bass-player with the Clash, smashed his guitar to pieces on stage at...

Punk’s DIY philosophy urged all would-be punks just to get up and do it, regardless of ability. Yet, despite the notoriety, many of its...

The voice is quavery and hesitant, the sound of a frightened, exhausted young man. The trebly nature of the recording - on a cassette,...

Onstage, they were the personification of unity – even family. The four men dressed the same –in leather motorcycle jackets, weathered...

“No future for me/No future for you,” roared the Sex Pistols on their 1977 U.K. smash “God Save the Queen,” and the legendary British...

Designer David Storey recounts how he helped create the visual identity of one of the most socially strident labels of the late ’70s and...

“The Clash were for me, at that time, pound for pound the best rock ‘n’ roll band that I knew of,” declares Kosmo Vinyl, thinking back on...

The Specials’ magnificent recording career came to an explosive end when the ska wizards' guitarist, Roddy “Radiation” Byers, was unable...

This interview with ‘London Calling’ producer Guy Stevens is sourced from Charles Shaar Murray’s book of collected reviews and interviews...

“Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?” The now legendary June 4th, 1976 gig at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall spawned the...

The Sex Pistols‘ 1978 U.S. tour was a fucking fiasco. Legendary punk Sid Vicious was seriously addicted to heroin, and Johnny Rotten was...

Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious was found dead in New York City on 2 February 1979, 41 years ago. It was less than four months after the...

The original Sex Pistols line-up - Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones and Glen Matlock - caused outraged when they swore on a Thames...

"The most powerful players in punk rock were female...there was Patty Smith, there was Debbie Harry, there was Siouxsie Sioux" Thurston...

“When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.” — Nick Lowe (songwriter, producer) “The popularity of...