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Box-set collection as musically unruly as the period it documents

How drawing from the past made the garage-psych-punk-surf rockers pioneers. Review by Kieron Tyler

Compilation self-billed as ‘a five-decade alternative to the macho hegemony of rock’. Review by Kieron Tyler

As Essential Logic release their second album 43 years after their first, their founder talks squats, scary gigs and her tempestuous relationship with her X-Ray Spex bandmate

Highlights and trippy lights from this weekend's four-day festival.

A new documentary film, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, clears up some of the mystery around the remarkable biracial woman born Marian Elliott. The film, directed by Paul Sng and Celeste Bell, Poly’s daughter, is also a welcome reminder of the power of X Ray Spex and London punk scene to shape cultural conversations. It arrives soon after the appearance of Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story, co-authored by Bell and Zoë Howe. Neither portrait flinches from the darker aspects of Poly Styrene’s stru...

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