Anya Phillips: the forgotten hero of New York’s no-wave movement
Her clothing designs defined an era of underground expression.
Punk Archives: 09/2023
‘The Girl With the Hungry Eyes’: Pure Hell’s ode to Nancy Spungen
The band declared Nancy’s death the end of punk.
How Julien Temple personified UK punk with ‘The Filth and the Fury’
A searing portrait of a cultural revolution.
Pete Townshend discusses the “most significant” punk band
A somewhat surprising pick given his status.
The album John Lydon called “so ahead of its time”
An album that shaped the course of electronic and pop music.
Wire’s Colin Newman on the band that had “the biggest effect” on him
“You don’t know whether to be petrified or burst out laughing.”
Anne Pigalle: becoming a bohemian chanteuse in France’s punk scene
Anne Pigalle formed a friendship with Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock.
John Lydon lists his first musical influences: “New York punk is where it all comes from? Oh, go f–k yourselves!”
“That was a dead end for me.”