In an age when the compact disc has been pushed aside by downloads and streaming, the time, effort, and expense of putting together a CD box set might seem like an exercise in futility, of blind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian James reads the listings in a music paper at the Roxy Club in Covent Garden in 1977 - Erica Echenberg/Redferns Brian James, ...

It's 50 years since The Damned released 'New Rose', the first ever UK punk single. Cleopatra Records are marking the ...

If “post-punk” seems an all-too-literal name for a musical movement, maybe that is because it wasn’t a musical movement at all. Even as a time frame, “post-punk” can be a misleading term. Much of the ...

Proof of the five-CD set To the Outside of Everything's issues grappling with this amorphousness is acknowledged by its non-precise sub-title A Story Of UK Post Punk 1977–1981. There is no one story ...

The new 4CD set Burning Britain: A Story of Independent UK Punk 1980–1983 tackles head-on what came a few years after 1977 by collecting 114 tracks in a casebound package markedly contrasting with how ...