‘People of all ages get very emotional at our gigs’: how ‘trad punk’ folk band the Mary Wallopers became a live sensation
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‘Then a woman with a bullwhip walked into the lift’: my 17 years painting the demimonde of New York’s Chelsea hotel
Soft Play: Heavy Jelly review – songs of love, loss and leaking bin bags
LA punk legends X: ‘The violence didn’t bother me as much as the spitting!’
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The Breeders review – effortless pop gems from the grunge era
Banksy launches inflatable migrant boat artwork during Idles’ Glastonbury set
How an 80s punk lyric became the rallying cry of French protests against the far right
Patti Smith review – utterly transformed by the power of music
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James Chance, key figure in New York’s no wave music scene, dies aged 71
Bowie and Spice Girls PR Alan Edwards: ‘Through punk I found another family’
Multiple bands pull out of Download festival over Barclays’ Israel ties
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May 2024
Thou: Umbilical review – one of the finest metal albums of the past decade
Huge riffs, guttural vocals and fearsome intent create a formidable wall of sound in the US band’s maximalist, in-your-face sixth album
Stoneage Romeos at 40: no other Australian album brings a smile like the Hoodoo Gurus’ legendary debut
The LP turned junk culture into high art – but the band could only capture that innocence and purity once
The reader interview
Billy Idol: ‘I stole the master tapes for Rebel Yell – and gave them to my heroin dealer’
The Generation X punk turned arena rocker answers your questions on near-misses in Hollywood, his overlooked electronic period and how Marc Bolan helped launch his career
