I’m so happy that Rachael, Elizabeth and Stephen are bringing my books to the screen. Right from the start they were sensitive to the extremely personal nature of the work and I knew the books were in ...

After decades of being underappreciated, despite breaking music and gender barriers, the Slits -- the '70s British all-female punk band -- are finally given their due, this time on the big screen. By ...

Quietus: What do you think it was about the recording environment that turned Cut into such a great record? Ari Up: The Slits developed the Slits sound. To this day, no one sounds like us, no one.

The singer Ari Up, who has died after an unspecified illness aged 48, was the idiosyncratic frontwoman of the Slits, the British punk band formed in 1976. With her bird's-nest hair, gutsy attitude and ...

In 1979, a fearless punk song challenging gender expectations arrived with a voice unlike anything listeners had heard before. "Typical Girls" by The Slits was later ranked by Rolling Stone among the ...

William E Badgley’s new crowdfunded film aims to give punk pioneers The Slits the credit they deserve. NME’s Laura Snapes talks to the director about why the quartet’s legacy is so important. The punk ...

Ari Up, the front woman for the British band The Slits, has died at the age of 48. Stepfather John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols, broke the news on his official blog. “John ...

Had it not been for the 1970s British punk bands the Raincoats and the Slits, the 1990s Riot Grrrl movement in America might have not been possible. Under-appreciated at the time, the Raincoats and ...