Artist: the Slits

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We talk alot about how great the music scene was in the late seventies, but that only scratches the surface. This week, we delve into the lost gems of the punk explosion. There...

New bands rarely come on stronger than this. And with their debut LP Silence Yourself , the London post-punk quartet Savages show us that they’re not pussyfooting around. The band’s guitarist, Gemma Thompson, started developing the idea for the all-female group almost a year before it was formed, and if this album is anything to go by, the time and effort gone into the project has certainly not gone to waste. The album starts with an excerpt from John Cassavetes’s film Opening Night , with some [...]

A friend of mine just messaged me asking if I'd heard Savages yet. I had heard the single "Husbands" the other day on Sirius XMU and almost had to pull over. Savages is an all-female quartet from London, channeling Siouxsie, The Slits, some no wave, and the requisite amount of Joy Division for a bracing, jarring stripe of post-punk that no one else is playing right now. My friend said the band was heavily buzzed last week at SXSW and with good reason. Just watch this video. The debut full-length, Silence Yourself , is being released in [...]

"TV screen says we'll buy a Lincoln" screech PRIESTS on Radiation, the latest visceral jab from the Washington D.C.  no-surf  four-piece. A damning indictment of the increasingly ubiquitous corporate branding to which we're exposed daily lyrically (the girls also take to lambasting the "screen in the back of the passenger seat" first pioneered by the ever grotesque Ford Galaxy), musically this one's a gritty, guttural squirt of minimal, if still sweaty post-punk riff and thunderous drum. Though it's the brainwash mantra they so vehemently snarl: "Now I'm worried about radiation... Now I'm worried about radiation... Now I'm radiation... Now [...]

Viv Albertine, Keith Levine, Mick Jones. 1976.

Tuesday usually means a new Stupefied playlist , and today is no different! I'm completely honored to present a playlist of favorites from Viv Albertine ...her new album, The Vermillion Border, (one of my faves of 2012) has been out for a few months now, and I HIGHLY suggest checking it out. In case you don't know, Viv grew up amongst the scene leaders of the UK punk scene, was [...]

As we noted on Wednesday when we discussed Black Friday and its associated Record Store Day releases , we're not such big fans of the whole getting-up-early-to-battle-oth er-shoppers-for-discounted-fla t-screen-TVs idea that comes with the day after Thanksgiving. In fact, we're much more in favor of the inverse Buy Nothing Day concept, and not just because we loathe shopping at the best of times and thus buying nothing isn't exactly a stretch for us. As such, we thought we'd get into the non-spirit of the day with some of our favorite anti-consumerist anthems. [...]

Back in early September, we featured a review of She Does is Magic's debut LP My Height in Heels . Yesterday, the band released a video for one of the album's four instrumental tracks. The video for " Slit His Throat " features a brawny Prison Bro with a blond coif that we can safely assume is the source of a bit of jealousy from his fellow inmates. Upon returning to his cell, Prison Bro discovers a new boombox. After a brief inspection, the knob is turned and in a moment of pure [...]

Back in early September, we featured a review of She Does is Magic's debut LP My Height in Heels . Yesterday, the band released a video for one of the album's four instrumental tracks. The video for " Slit His Throat " features a brawny Prison Bro with a blond coif that we can safely assume is the source of a bit of jealousy from his fellow inmates. Upon returning to his cell, Prison Bro discovers a new boombox. After a brief inspection, the knob is turned and in a moment of pure [...]

Don Letts and Ari Up, 1977

The Slits & Sham 69, London, 1977 via

Son günlerde Rusya'da yaşanan bir olay müzik camiasının en çok konuşulan olaylarından biri haline geldi. Yaşam felsefeleri ve yaptıkları müziğe bakınca her hallerinden Riot Grrrl akımından etkilendikleri belli olan Rus feminist punk grubu Pussy Riot üyeleri şubat ayında tutuklanmıştı. Grubun tutuklanmasına sebep olay ise, Rus Ortodoks Kilisesi'nin kutsal mekanı Kurtarıcı İsa Katedreli'nde Rusya Devlet Başkanı Putin ve kilise aleyhinde söyledikleri şarkılar. Grup gösterilerine ilk olarak Putin'in kadınlara yönelik politikalarını protesto etmek amacıyla Moskova metrosunda başlamıştı. Ocak ayında Kızıl Meydan'da Putin karşıtı izinsiz bir gösteride yer alan grup üyelerinden 8'i tutuklanmış ve [...]

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House of Wallenberg feat. Ari Up - Sunshine Taboo (Marcos Cabral Remix) out August 10 on Permanent Vacation. Get the 73 with MK's mix and dub here .

Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene and Pauline Black.

Neneh Cherry lives her life like it’s on shuffle. As a child, she hopped between Sweden, New York and London with her family—her stepfather is jazz legend Don Cherry—before making her musical debut at the ... read more �

The VPME Ok it's new favourite band alert time !!! Yes,yes we know music bloggers can often come across as shallow capricious creatures, existing in a musical bubble filled with the oxygen of instant gratification, whilst excitedly scribbling away about "the next big thing" and then barely mentioning them again. This may be for a variety of reasons, such as  other commitments, the onset of early dementia and in some cases a misguided attempt to be hip and 'down with the kids', but lets make no bones about [...]

Like your Flavorpill editors, Ari Up was a big fan of Patti Smith. But when the late Slits frontwoman got to meet her idol, at the tender age of 14, things didn't exactly go as planned. There was no sisterly advice, no heart-to-heart about women in rock, no exchange of phone numbers or addresses. As Up tells it in an interview unearthed by Dangerous Minds , she turned up backstage at one of Smith's shows "with my hair out to there, with my underwear over my pants, my torn-up sweaters, and my crazy Sex Vivienne Westwood shoes." To put [...]

Asıl ününü Marvin Gaye'in sesinden alan efsane söz yazarları Norman Whitfield ve Barrett Strong tarafından 1966 yılında yazılmış en büyük Motown hitlerinden biri olan I Heard It Through The Grapevine parçası; Ve bu parçaya uzlaşmaz, huysuz, agresif ve meydan okuyucu tavırlarıyla punk'ın en çiğ halini sunan feminist punk grubu The Slits 'in nefis yorumu. The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine The Slits - Typical Girls

• The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

70'ler feminist punk gruplarının en önemlisi The Slits'in kurucusu Ari Up 48 yaşında amansız bir hastalığın pençesinde geçtiğimiz yıl hayata gözlerini yumdu. Ari Up The Slits 'i kurduğunda 14, punk'ın kilometre taşlarından biri olan Cut albümünü yaptığında 17 yaşındaydı. Asıl ismi Arianne Daniele Forster olan Ari Up 1962 yılında Münih'te müzisyen bir anne olan Nora'nın kızı olarak dünyaya geldi. Annesinin İngiltere'ye taşınması ve burada Sex Pistols'tan John Lydon 'la evlenmesi Ari'nin punk sevgisine zemin hazırlamış oldu. Joe Strummer 'dan alınan gitar dersleri ve The Raincoats grubunun kurucusu Palmolive ile [...]

• The Raincoats - Lola (The Kinks Cover)
• The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
• The Slits - Typical Girls