British guitarist Viv Albertine is proof that anybody can reinvent themselves and start over late in life. In the mid-'70s, she was once a member of The Slits, one of the first predominantly female ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do you ever just feel like you're tired of people dying? Your friends die and your heroes die and it's just a sh** reminder that one day we're all going to die. Last night we learned that Arianna ...
This baggy documentary charts the career of the tough-talking all-female rockers who redefined the concept of ‘girl bands’ Here is a well-intentioned but baggy, unfocused and unsatisfying documentary ...
Nearly three decades after its release, Cut, the 1979 record from pioneering female punk band the Slits, is finally available on CD in the States. The reissue just may usher in a revival, as new ...
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 ...