X-Ray Spex News

What's the Deal : Fun Fun Fun Fest is always a yearly fix for punk lovers from Austin and beyond.

A short list of tweaks turns Gossip into a pop band on its album "Music for Men." Concentrate a little more on melody.

TROUBLED pop star Boy George was left 'upset' after he was blocked from becoming a fully fledged member of the Hare Krishna movement due to his sexuality, according to a friend.

Formed in the Southwestern England city of Bristol in 1978, Vice Squad took its early cues from X-Ray Spex and gigged sporadically before signing with EMI and releasing its debut album, "No Cause for Concern," in 1981.

Nothing says '80s punk and new wave like a sax solo: X-Ray Spex , Adam & the Ants, Siouxsie.

FOR a man with a producer's credit on the record known to history as the first buzzsaw howl of British punk, Nick Lowe has a pretty surprising take on music these days.

If Mika Miko wanted to make the perfect SoCal punk album, they just might have succeeded with We Be Xuxa .

PR: Classic Punk and Reggae Films From Director Wolfgang Buld German film maker Wolfgang Buld is known for his early work covering the Sex Pistols, Stranglers, the Clash, X-Ray Spex, Boomtown Rats, Adverts, Rough Trade, Killjoys, Jolt, Jam, Lurkers, Anonymous Chaos, Electric Chairs, Subway Sect, and more.

Ray Spex were, in my mind, the very best of the one-album-wonder punk bands. Germfree Adolescents is very nearly a perfect album, and then Poly Styrene got religion and quit.