The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...

In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex—her daughter, Celeste Bell, finally received the ...

Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at England’s Roxy Club in 1977. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns The first eleven seconds of X-Ray Spex’s debut single, from 1977, rank among the most memorable punk ...

Although the face of punk rock is often represented by white males and their rage and nihilistic attitudes, it was actually a black woman at the forefront of shaping punk’s political consciousness—and ...

Poly Styrene stood out in British punk. Female in a male world, heavy in a skinny world, half-African in a white world, flaunting braces that looked like they could dent a lorry, she's linked in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents are returning to their homes after a styrene leak at a Cleves railyard Tuesday afternoon. As the evacuation ends, here's ...

“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard/But I think "oh bondage, up yours!” Those are the opening lyrics to the 1977 song “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” by the British punk rock group ...

Residents near Cleves are being urged to leave their homes Tuesday afternoon due to a rail car chemical leak, according to the Hamilton County Emergency Management Agency. An agency spokesperson said ...

Vancouver, Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global styrene market size was USD 54.02 Billion in 2022 and is expected to register a rapid revenue CAGR of 5.1% during the forecast period The global ...