Stereogum — Copenhagen, Denmark quartet When Saints Go Machine has been crafting and honing as a proper band since 2007, though they are just now releasing a proper debut LP, Konkylie. It may have taken all those years to reconcile the quartet’s various, indiv... more info

Guardian Music — From riding a donkey to the best-dressed chicken in town, here are your favourite creature comfortsAnimals are like people. We look at the creatures around us and recognise ourselves. This being the case, as many RR regulars noted, most songs ostensi... more info

ContactMusic — The Slits star Viv Albertine and rocker John Robb have added their tributes to punk icon Poly Styrene, who died on Monday (25Apr11). The former X-Ray Spex frontwoman, real name Marianne Elliott-Said, lost her battle with breast cancer earlier this... more info

Gigwise — X Ray Spex star died earlier this week... more info

Guardian Music — Heartbreaking revelation, mesmerising vacuity, and even a song containing the word 'orthodontist' – it's a lyrical jungle out therePsst! Want to know how harmful gossip can be? Get a load of this week's playlist. Whether it's innocent couples being... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ekko said... E.L.O. covers, plus the Decemberists cover REM http://www.berkeleyplaceblog.com gregor said... nme's c81 jeff tweedy/jay bennett at old towne school of folk music richard buckner and alejandro escovedo live at mccabe’s 1.21.00 why? l... more info

Guardian Music — Punk may have got all the headlines, but reggae proved vital in ending the rift between black and white teenagers and introducing cross-pollination to the chartsIt was punk's "summer of hate", 1977, and the required pose was a sneer, a leather jacket... more info

Guardian Music — Punk veteran to write and tour with Public Image Limited once more – and hints at Sex Pistols reunionPublic Image Ltd are set to tour and record a new album in 2011, John Lydon has revealed. Three months after the death of his stepdaughter, the Sli... more info

The Culture Of Me — Filtering the violence, crassness, fire, fervor and directness of punk rock and thrash music through a sieve that only an all-Japanese (no less all-female) approach can do, now-Brooklyn-based four-piece Hard Nips sound not unlike a mixture of the bes... more info

Guardian Music — X-Ray Spex singer – a cult figure revered by Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon and Karen O – is making an timely comebackBack in 1978, if you were into punk, you wore safety pins, bondage trousers and a snarl. Or at least, you did – unless you were Po... more info