The Slits
Viv Albertine Has Used Her Rage to Write Herself into Punk History
The Slits’ guitarist has released a second memoir, 'To Throw Away Unopened', and talks to us about how it tackles class, anger and family.
Hollie Cook's New Album Will Warm Your Cold, Dead Heart
'Vessel of Love,' due January 26 on Merge, is a collection of abstract, reggae-leaning love songs, born from a period of anxiety and depression.
The Slits Are Refusing to Be Written Out of Music History
A new documentary retells the story of punk from the perspective of its most unapologetic band.
The First Official Trailer for The Slits Documentary Is Here, and We Interviewed the Director
As he finishes up piecing together their story, William Badgley gives us a better idea about what it will look, sound and feel like.
There's a Kickstarter for the World's First Documentary About The Slits
'Here to be Heard: The Story of The Slits' will finally tell the story of a band that was not willing to be contained within a gender, musical style, time period, or art form.
In Romanticizing Riot Grrrl, We’ve Forgotten the Women of UK Punk That Paved the Way
Bands like Bikini Kill have been credited for inspiring a new generation of creative women, but X-Ray Spex and The Slits provided me with an outlet for all the frustrations I felt as a girl growing up in Britain.
Listen to The Splits' New Album 'The Splits II' and Dump Everyone You've Ever Met
The Helsinki band's second LP is about bad, bad babies, rotten friends, and broken hearts. Stream it now.
Komplaint Dept. - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Anna Wintour
"Pink is punk" reveals that the New York fashion industry and its sometime institutional handmaiden, the Costume Institute at the Met, its curators and the tacit captain of both ships, Anna Wintour, wouldn't know what punk is or was if it bit them on...
Hey Ladies
In 1976, fourteen-year-old Ari Up ran into her friend Palmolive at a Patti Smith gig. That night the two girls, inspired by the punk scene exploding around them, decided to form a band.