Gina Birch, Hollie Cook, Lora Logic, and Paul Dean will perform together at a London punk festival next month ...

There’s a phrase that goes “the first one through the wall gets bloody” and, according to filmmaker William Badgley, this is a pretty accurate way of describing the story of The Slits—the 70s British ...

It’s Friday lunchtime at London’s May Fair Hotel, and the subdued atmosphere has just been punctured by a small yell. It’s Tessa Pollitt, bass player of the 1970s punk band The Slits, who has just ...

Nearly three decades after its release, Cut, the 1979 record from pioneering female punk band the Slits, is finally available on CD in the States. The reissue just may usher in a revival, as new ...

Ari Up, leader of the pioneering post-punk band The Slits, would have turned 49 on Jan. 17. She died of cancer last October (read All Songs Considered contributor Carrie Brownstein's remembrance here) ...

Do you ever just feel like you're tired of people dying? Your friends die and your heroes die and it's just a sh** reminder that one day we're all going to die. Last night we learned that Arianna ...

There were female musicians and rock bands before The Slits, but the British punk four-piece (and later post-punk six-piece) was a force of one. Never before had female musicians upended expectations, ...

In the annals of rock'n'roll, the Clash and the Slits are portrayed in vastly different ways. The Clash are musical geniuses who authored a unique hybrid of punk and reggae. The Slits - who did much ...

The Slits guitarist Viv Albertine has appealed to the record label Rough Trade for financial help. Albertine claims that their former record label Island, has never paid them any royalties for their ...

The event will celebrate 50 years of She-Punk with artwork, photography, fashion, and archival material from pioneers ...