Sex Pistols star Johnny Rotten has asked Los Angeles police officials to help him keep homeless vagrants from his Venice Beach home which they target as a party pad. The Anarchy in the U.K. singer told Newsweek thugs have started ripping the bars from the windows of his home, breaking windows and turning the home […]

Loudwire has made a list of 16 UK bands defining UK's rock'n'roll. It's: Brighton proggers Black Peaks, pop-punkers Boston Manor, metal-core band Bring Me the Horizon, pop-rock by Don Broco, power-rock band Dream State, post-hardcore band Enter Shikari, punk-rockers Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes, post-hardcore band Holding Absence, punk-rockers Jamie Lenman, math-rockers Marmozets, punk-rockers Milk […]

“It was all against the systemic control of the music system. This idea of provocation in the streets, the field of punk was a social protest, elements of that still exist" - the curator, Andrew Blauvelt, says to Guardian, about new exhibition Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 about graphic […]

Guardian has a funny article about band's names of festival posters. It's about who comes first, and who has a bigger font. According to insiders, it’s the music world’s touchiest topic.

Dark ambient artist and painter Tor Lundvall made a list for PopMatters of five albums that shaped him, as a musician. It's albums by Peter Gabriel, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Durutti Column, Harold Budd & Brian Eno project, and Slowdive.

Uncompromising. Independent. Prolific. Bloody-minded. Off the radar of the influential booking agents. Unable to play any sort of game. Totally honest - the Quietus writes about Mike Vest, British guitarist who burned a bunch of his old guitars in an act the musician himself describes as "better than just putting them in a skip". Vest […]

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