All About Jazz — Influential artists sometimes click in the public consciousness only after the rise of the movements they have influenced. A school of creative work emerges--seemingly spontaneously, its origins obscure at first. Then, with attention to the artists i... more info

Guardian Music — When pop stars bite back, they only end up looking as stupid as we always suspected they were, reckons Rob FitzpatrickLast week N-Dubz's famously happy chappy Dappy made a fabulously unconvincing apology to a woman he sent threatening messages to aft... more info

Guardian Music — Fans were quick to turn their back on Dr Feelgood et al once punk hit, but they weren't so different reallyIn the autumn of 1976, a poll was ­published in our school's self-styled "underground" magazine, in which more than 300 of us had voted for ... more info

Live Daily — After returning to the stage last month for their first shows in 17 years, veteran UK punk rockers Public Image Ltd. [ tickets ] have made plans to return to the US this spring. The group has signed on for an April 16 performance at this year's Co... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Back in June 1995, Edwyn Collins enjoyed a huge hit in the UK with A Girl Like You. It climbed as high as #4, but it spent what seemed like the whole summer hanging around in the charts. More importantly, there was similar success in many European c... more info

Guardian Music — For years I've towed the punk party line: love Syd Barrett, hate the rest of the band. But hey! Flaming Lips proved me wrongA T-shirt almost brought down Pink Floyd. Everyone knows the Sex Pistols legend; John Lydon was spotted by Malcolm McClaren wa... more info

Guardian Music — In 1980 they were the scourge of Thatcher, alienated punks fighting to be heard in a land that had rejected them. Thirty years later the three Asian members of Alien Kulture are well-off businessmen. Did they sell out… or was it our society tha... more info

Guardian Music — Islington Academy, LondonRich Kids are mainly remembered as a staging post for new wave stars on their way to, or from, bigger things. Former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock, Ultravox frontman-to-be Midge Ure and future Visage drummer Rusty Egan stayed toget... more info

Guardian Music — Last December, the UK's angriest band were dropped by Warner Music. But in taking the money and recording a brutal second album, the hardcore punks from Hertfordshire had the last laugh"We are the British music industry's biggest mistake," Gallows fr... more info

Undercover, Australia — John Lydon has declared punk to be dead... again and The Sex Pistols are done and dusted. more info